has swept in to defend from plagiarism claims.

released her festive song ‘take me home (4 christmas)’ last week, and it immediately sent the internet alight. Fans could hear echoes of The Waitresses’ evergreen smash ‘Christmas Wrapping’, while UK onlookers noted a similarity to the Robbie Williams hit ‘Candy’.

Nipping the debate in the bud, Robbie has offered his verdict – he couldn’t care less!

In a note he comments: “Artists deserve to be protected. But there’s a difference between protecting your work and treating every vaguely familiar sequence of notes as a winning lottery ticket. It sounds to me as though she may have accidentally stumbled across a musical echo of mine in one of her new songs. And do you know what? I couldn’t care less.”

“I don’t know whether there’s technically a publishing issue, a copyright issue, or no issue whatsoever. And I don’t want to know. I’m not going after her. Because I think at some point, some f**king sanity has to prevail […] We all stand on the shoulders of people who came before us. Sometimes consciously. Sometimes without even knowing it. That’s how music works. If we keep punishing people for accidentally arriving somewhere somebody else has already been, eventually we’re going to frighten the creativity out of everyone.”