JoJo Siwa confirmed she doesn’t write her own music after claiming her latest single, Karma, was “stolen.”
After denying ‘posting’ the track, which was released in April TMZthe Dance Moms star turned pop star, 21, took to it TikTok to ‘confirm’ that she is not responsible for coming up with her lyrics.
‘I don’t WRITE my songs. I SING them. I have a great team of songwriters who write songs and pitch them to me to see if [they] wanna make the song mine!!’ she explained in her post.
She continued, “It’s kind of like when you buy clothes… you don’t make it, but it’s yours after you buy it! They ALWAYS get their credit and of course their check.’
“I enjoy the writing process, but for me as an artist that’s not my specialty, so I like working with different songwriters to sing their lyrics, add feeling to them and ultimately bring the song to life!” the Dancing with the Stars contestant concluded.
JoJo Siwa confirmed she doesn’t write her own music after claiming her latest single, Karma, was ‘stolen’ from Miley Cyrus (seen in 2024)
In the video, the Boomerang hitmaker was seen dancing and lip-syncing to her upcoming song Choose Your Fighter, while rocking rainbow face paint over her eyes.
“The video featured the Boomerang hitmaker dancing and lip-syncing to her upcoming song Choose Your Fighter,” she captioned the footage.
This comes after Siwa emphatically denied ‘posting’ her song Karma, which was originally recorded by performer Brit Smith.
“Honestly, it’s an old song,” the reality star explained. ‘It was presented to me. I loved it, was obsessed with it, so I grabbed it.”
Siwa added: “That is very normal. What happens is that people write songs and then don’t do anything with them. And then, a few years later, it makes more sense for another artist.”
“I just knew that song was a special song, I knew it was a work of art, and I knew it fit exactly with the vision I wanted to create for the world,” Siwa said.
Smith recorded the song and video for “Karma’s a B**ch” with Rock Mafia and Timbaland in 2012 as her scrapped debut single, after Miley Cyrus passed on the track for her third album Can’t Be Tamed in 2010.
Label execs encouraged her to go with another song, titled Provocative, as her debut in 2013, but the single ultimately underperformed and Smith left the industry.
After denying to TMZ that she “coined” the song, which was released in April, the 21-year-old Dance Moms star turned pop star took to TikTok to “confirm” that she is not responsible for her texts (seen on April 1, 2024)
‘I don’t WRITE my songs. I SING them. I have a great team of songwriters who write songs and pitch them to me to see if [they] wanna make the song mine!!’ she explained in her post
“I enjoy the writing process, but for me as an artist that’s not my specialty, so I like working with different songwriters to sing their lyrics, add feeling to them and ultimately bring the song to life!” concluded the Dancing with the Stars contestant (seen in 2024)
Smith’s version has since resurfaced on social media, with the video goes viral and the song peaking at number 8 on the US iTunes charts, surpassing Siwa’s version at number 89.
In April, Smith defended Siwa when she filmed a video that “set the record straight once and for all” about the plagiarism allegations surrounding Karma.
“JoJo didn’t steal my song,” she said in a TikTok video. “There’s been a lot of talk and a lot of commentary and they just keep going, so I thought I’d come over here and hopefully put an end to it.”
Smith continued, “She had every right to record her version, and I hate to see anyone think I was part of any kind of bullying or anything like that.”
“I was bullied in high school and I know what that feels like, and I would never want to be a part of that,” she added. “I just want to make it clear that JoJo did nothing wrong to me,” she concluded.
Meanwhile, Siwa insisted she didn’t “know who Brit Smith is” to TMZ.