NewJeans’ Danielle’s sister Olivia Marsh admits plagiarism in Backseat; plans to share credit

Singer-songwriter Olivia Marsh, the older sister of NewJeans (NJZ) member Danielle, has within the waste apologized after admitting to copying one other artist’s work. On February 24, 2025, her company, Mplify, released a press free up addressing the similarities between Olivia’s track Backseat and Isaac Dunbar’s Onion Boy. As half of the option, Isaac Dunbar has been formally credited as a songwriter for Backseat, alongside Olivia Marsh.

Mplify clarified, “We bear reached an amicable settlement with Isaac Dunbar. We are at this time facing all well-known procedures, including adjusting composition rights and correctly crediting the distinctive artist to develop particular his rights are exact.” The company also added, “We grab this as a lesson to spice up our within evaluate path of and develop particular identical factors don’t occur all once more.”

The 21-one year-venerable took to X (beforehand Twitter) to level out the similarities between the 2 tracks. Many listeners also observed that Backseat shares a identical tempo, chord progression, and background get with the 2019 track Onion Boy. Several fans criticized Olivia Marsh for the similarities. Per the backlash, Olivia Marsh apologized to her viewers and assured them that the matter would possibly presumably well per chance be completely scrutinized. “Howdy every person, right here is Olivia. I’m very sorry for everything that’s came about and for everyone caught within the course of this location. I grab corpulent accountability for now not checking extra completely sooner than releasing the song,” she wrote. Verify out the Backseat track, right here:

Isaac Dunbar is an American replace pop singer-songwriter from Barnstable, Massachusetts. At 9 years venerable, he came across inspiration in Lady Gaga and producer Madeon. Born on March 17, 2003, Dunbar has since gained recognition for his distinctive sound, music visuals, and skills to resonate with his viewers. Meanwhile, Olivia Marsh began composing music in 2023 below the name Livy. Later, she collaborated with correctly-identified Okay-pop artists, including Kep1er for Contented Ending (2023), Loossemble for Comely (2023), BoA for Emptiness (2024), and Kiss of Lifestyles for R.E.M (2024). These tracks gained huge exposure for the singer. At this time, Olivia Marsh has 208,000 followers on Instagram.