NEWS : Florence + the Machine To Pay Royalties Over Track

Written by Kippa Brand on 24 Feb 2010

The Ginger is not so ‘ninja’ and owns up to ‘using’ someone else’s song…

A blush has appeared on the already red-enough face of Florence Welch as she has been made to pay royalties for ‘greatly honouring’ a track by American band Gang Gang Dance. Their track House Jam is claimed to be quite similar to the start of Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up).

Although this would be a great chance for a band battle, Flo has admitted to having taken influence from GGD, squashing any hopes we had at some sort of long drawn out bitch fight between the two.

“Yeah that’s true, it’s no secret,” Florence admits. “I’ve spoken about it in interviews before. I’m a massive fan of Gang Gang Dance and it was in homage to them.”

Check it out for yourself

Florence + The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)