'If you put them all in the same key, they'll sound the same.'
Sheeran said Shape of You was originally intended to be recorded by Little Mix or Rihanna
In court, he sang elements of Nina Simone's Feeling Good and Blackstreet's No Diggity to illustrate how the melody is commonplace in pop music.Sheeran denies having heard Chokri's song and has rejected the idea he might have been played it by friends or fellow musicians before writing Shape of You. "We thought it was a bit too close to a song called No Diggity by Blackstreet," the star told the court. "I said that was a bit close to the bone [and] we should change it."
"No," he replied, later adding that a "musicologist went over the song [Shape of You] and found similarities and we changed the similarities". "I thought this song clashed with Castle On The Hill. It doesn't fit with the rest of the album," he said. "I didn't want to put it out and I was subsequently proved wrong."
"That's a song I wrote last January. How did you get that?" he asked, glancing at his lawyers. "I want to know how you got that."