Carrie Underwood sued, accused of stealing her new Sunday Night Football theme song

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Singer-songwriter Heidi Merrill has filed a lawsuit against Underwood over the country music star's new NBC Sunday Night Football theme song that premiered last year. Merrill alleges she wrote and recorded an identically-titled track in 2016 that she pitched to Underwood and her producer, Mark Bright, in 2017. Bright told Merrill through an assistant that he'd "have to pass." According to Billboard, Merrill argues in her lawsuit that Underwood's "Game On" is "substantially -- even strikingly -- similar, if not identical," to her song, in title as well as tempo, meter, time signature, hooks, chord progression and other specifics.