Since Kesha filled a lawsuit against Dr. Luke, people became more aware of his actions in the music industry, and Kesha wasn't the only artist who had problems with him. Here is a list of a few artists who had trouble with him and his actions and behaviours in the music industry.
In 2014, Kesha filled a lawsuit against her alleged abuser, Dr. Luke, in Los Angeles. Kesha says Dr. Luke manipulated her career over the years. Dr. Luke induced her of droping out of high school and leave her life behind at age 18. Kesha details how she signed up with Dr. Luke's music production company in 2005 and came under the thumb of a producer whose "despicable conduct" included bragging how he liked to get girls drunk and have sex with them and blackmailing his pregnant wife into getting an abortion by not speaking to her for six months and threatening to leave.
Kesha also says that Dr. Luke abused her, and forced her to snort illegal drugs and gave her "sober pills," which Kesha says were really a form of gamma-hydroxybutyrate, more commonly known as the date rape drug. On one occasion, the lawsuit reports that "Ms. Sebert took the pills and woke up the following afternoon, naked in Dr. Luke's bed, sore and sick, with no memory of how she got there. Ms. Sebert immediately called her mother and made a 'fresh complaint,' telling her that she was naked in Dr. Luke's hotel room, she did not know where the clothes were, that Dr. Luke had raped her, and that she needed to go to the emergency room."
On other ocasions, Dr. Luke made fun of Kesha's weight calling her a "fat fucking refrigerator" and made her develop bulimia, making Kesha think about ending her own life.
Dr. Luke has been sued multiple times on his career, but the one lawsuit that caught the public's eyes was copying one of the most famous and widely-used percussive beats in music history.
New Old Music Group sued Dr. Luke for the “breakbeat” in the Jessie J hit “Price Tag,” claiming it was directly lifted from the 1975 song “Zimba Ku.”
Court documents allege the similarities between Dr. Luke’s “Price Tag” and “Zimba Ku” come in the form of (via Scribd) “sixteen consecutive 16th notes on the hi-hat cymbal, a bass drum pattern consisting of two 8th notes on the first beat of the measure, followed by three syncopated notes on beats 2 and 3, snare drum attacks on beats 2 and 4 and a ‘buzz’ on the snare drum at the end of the measure.”
Dr. Luke’s attorneys have since argued that use of the individual aspects from the drum pattern from “Zimba Ku” is so widespread, there’s no definitive proof of copyright infringement.
Judge Ronnie Abrams, however, takes issue with this defense. He said, “The court disagrees. While many of the individual elements of Zimba Ku may be commonplace, Defendants have not shown that, as a matter of law, the combination of those elements in the drum part is so common as to preclude any reasonable inference of copying.”
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Dr. Luke is known for chopping parts of other songs and giving it to singers as something "new', Butch Walker, Pink's frequent producer, wrote a book where he said that Pink almost jumped at Dr. Luke at a party and how she refuses to work with him again for doing this. The story goes by: "Dr. Luke apparently is known for chopping up old songs on Pro Tools and changing the smallest part necessary to consider it a new song. So he chops up an old song he did with another artist. Gives it to Pink. Basically selling the same song twice. But she didn't know until after the song was out. And she was pissed. She confronted him about it and told him to F off she would never work with him again. He says she never liked him in the first place but was working with Max and this guy was brought it." The song in question was P!nk's 'U & Ur Hand', who sounded extremely familiar to The Veronicas '4ever'.
Becky G was signed to Dr. Luke's Kemosabe Records in 2011 after seeing her covers on Youtube. In 2015, a twitter user made fun of Becky G by eating donuts, and she responded saying that the user sounded like Dr. Luke.
U sound like @TheDoctorLuke😖 let me live. U can call me Tubs for all I care. I just love food. All kinds of food. https://t.co/2kMdz16PYL
— Becky G. (@iambeckyg) 9 julho 2015
Producer Dr. Luke would not give Charli XCX her the time of day because she wasn’t a big name and, but she came out with the smash hits “I Love It” and “Fancy”, he decided she was worth his time. In the song 'Sucker', Charli responds sarcastically with the ‘love it’ and ‘sick’, calling him a ‘Sucker’ because he missed his chance to work with her.
One of the lines in “Sucker” goes, “You joined my club/Luke loves your stuff.” Charli said that people would always come up to me and say, “Oh, Dr. Luke loves your stuff, well done”—as if that means, “You’ve made it.” That’s fucking weird to me.” The tweet below is allegedly directed to him.
"she better lose some weight if she wants to be a popstar" - gross/ugh/lol
— CHARLI XCX (@charli_xcx) 15 junho 2014
An inside source once said that Demi Lovato worked with Dr. Luke on a song called 'Break a Sweat' for her album Confident, he said that if Demi didn't make it as her lead single he wouldn't give it to her. They argued so much that Demi left the studio and Dr. Luke gave the song to Becky G. Many other artists reportedly experienced the same issues while working with him. Demi Lovato once talked about this issue, but didn't say the producer's name. Check it out here.
Kesha's mom, Pebe Sebert, claims that producer Dr. Luke is attempting to blackmail her. In a series of tweets, the singer's mom unloads her frustration. “Dr Luke is trying to BLACKMAIL ME, into taking my name off ‘Timber’ as a songwriter, by blocking all 16 writers from being paid,” Sebert writes. “NOW, 2 years since TIMBER was a hit, my punishment for ‘TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT HIM’, is to be responsible for everyone not being paid!”. Check the tweets below.
Dr Luke is trying to BLACKMAIL ME, into taking my name off "Timber" as a songwriter, by blocking all 16 writers from being paid.
— keshas mom (@grannywrapper) 2 fevereiro 2016
NOW, 2 years since TIMBER was a hit , my punishment for "TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT HIM", is to be responsible for everyone not being paid!
— keshas mom (@grannywrapper) 2 fevereiro 2016
Or, I can just agree to have my name removed as a songwriter, so he will pay the other 15 writers!
— keshas mom (@grannywrapper) 2 fevereiro 2016
I feel really bad for the other writers, but I am not going to keep being his victim!
— keshas mom (@grannywrapper) 2 fevereiro 2016
The truth is all I have.
— keshas mom (@grannywrapper) 2 fevereiro 2016
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