Overview
- Social media users and YouTube commenters circulated side‑by‑side clips over the past weekend that compared Lefty’s song “Misery” to “A Million Dreams” from The Greatest Showman.
- Streaming metadata lists “Misery” as written by Stella Lefty, Madi Yanofsky and Phil Cook and does not credit Justin Paul, Benj Pasek or Rob Mathes, who are credited on “A Million Dreams.”
- There have been no publicly reported legal claims or formal responses from the other songwriters or Atlantic Records about this specific comparison.
- This is the fourth widely noted listener comparison involving Lefty; earlier disputes led to Noah Kahan receiving a retroactive credit for “Boston” and to a corrected interpolation credit for The Chicks’ writers on “Summer You Were Mine.”
- Music‑rights outcomes range from informal negotiations and metadata fixes to lawsuits, so observers should watch for corrected credits, royalty adjustments or a formal claim in the coming weeks.