Skrillex Tells White Hinterland: "SORRY But We Didn't Steal 'Sorry'"

Allegations that Skrillex and Justin Bieber illegally sampled indie musician Casey Dienel, who performs as White Hinterland, came to surface this week. The sample in question, Dienel alleged in a lawsuit, was taken from her track "Ring the Bell," and appears as an ascending vocal throughout Bieber's hit "Sorry." Now Skrillex, who produced the track, posted a video showing how he created the sample independently of Dienel's work.

Skrillex tweeted "SORRY but we didnt steal this," posting a video in which he explained how he sampled co-writer Julia Michaels' a cappella vocals for the "Sorry" writing session, pitch shifting the vocals down 4 then up 12 steps to produce the desired effect. Watch it below.

SORRY but we didnt steal this — SKRILLEX (@Skrillex)May 27, 2016

Justin Bieber has since retweeted Skrillex's tweet adding the hashtag #wedontsteal.

A day earlier on May 26, Dienel had addressed the situation on Facebook, stating that she was left with no other option then to bring about a lawsuit after she was ignored by Bieber's team after she addressed the issue to them in December.

Dienel may have a sympathetic ear in Diplo, who told TMZ that he thought White Hinterland was "pretty dope." He then explained, under the caveat that he was familiar with the details of the situation, that: "I thought they sampled it, but I thought they cleared it. There must have been four, five, ten writers. There must have been an oversight," and that "somebody added it and then didn't tell anybody. I'm sure they'll work out a deal with her. They don't want to go to court with it."