Julia Michaels responds to claims that Rebecca Black plagiarised her with new song Wasted Youth

Julia Michaels, singer of hit song Issues and writer of hugely successful singles for Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, has responded to claims that Rebecca Black plagiarised her with a new song.

Black, who found worldwide success with her viral hit Friday in 2011, recently released her new EP RE/BL, featuring a song called Wasted Youth.

Listeners were quick to pick up on the similarities between the track and Julia Michaels' recent single Uh-Huh, which Black had covered earlier this year. 

As noted by Stereogum, an early acoustic version of Black's song has a very different chorus to the official version, which was released last week. 

Picking up on the story, Michaels tweeted: 

Hahaha uh oh @MsRebeccaBlack https://t.co/wfGC4v3nqo

— Julia Michaels (@imjmichaels) September 19, 2017

Michaels later responded to a fan who accused Black of plagiarism, saying: "Please do your research before accusing someone of plagiarism and artist theft. Fake accusations hurt everyone."

People can write songs 3 years ago and get them reproduced. It happens all the time. I don't care. I'm flattered. Was an interesting article https://t.co/HMNJ4uF0if

— Julia Michaels (@imjmichaels) September 20, 2017

Michaels released Uh-Huh earlier this year as the second single from her Nervous System EP, while she's co-written Justin Bieber's Sorry and many of Selena Gomez's recent singles, including Hands To Myself and Bad Liar. Watch the Uh-Huh video below: 

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