A German singer on TikTok has been accused of ripping off Wilkinson’s hit song ‘Afterglow’ after posting a snippet of her latest (and only) song ‘Falling Deeper’.
People in the comments have been quick to accuse Shana of ripping off the legendary DnB artist.
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Here is the original song (like you haven't heard it already) so you can make your own decision on whether it’s a copy or not.
Shana, who has over 4 million followers across both TikTok and Instagram, also posted a clip of her new song to the gram.
The caption says 'This is my FIRST song!!' and includes the hashtag #originalsong.
Gram comments were along pretty similar lines to the ones on the TikTok.
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To be fair, there are only a certain amount of chords and chord progressions you can use in a song, so it can be pretty hard to be compleeetely original.
But if you were going to straight rip off a DnB song, Afterglow - being one of the most famous songs of the genre - would probably be the worst one to do.
Wilkinson is yet to say anything on the matter.