Beyoncé Slams Right Said Fred’s Claim She Didn’t Ask for Sample Permission – Rolling Stone

Beyoncé has the dates and receipts. A number of days in the past, Nineties duo Proper Mentioned Fred claimed to The Solar that the Renaissance singer by no means requested for permission to make use of their track “I’m Too Attractive” as a pattern on “Alien Celebrity.” However now, Beyoncé is clearing the “faulty and extremely disparaging.” claims, saying her crew requested for publishing permission and paid for the composition’s utilization.

“Usually the artist approaches us however Beyoncé didn’t as a result of she is such an smug particular person she simply had in all probability thought ‘come and get me’ so we heard about it after the very fact if you did,” the duo informed the British tabloid. “However everybody else, Drake and Taylor Swift, they got here to us.”

In an announcement to E! Information, Beyoncé made issues clear: “Permission was not solely granted for its use, however they publicly spoke of their gratitude for being on the album.” She additionally listed the duo — Fred and Richard Fairbrass — as co-writers on the track.

“There was no sound recording use, solely the composition was utilized,” she added. “Permission was requested of their writer on Might 11, 2022 and the writer accredited the use on June 15, 2022. They had been paid for the utilization in August 2022.”

In a tweet from Proper Mentioned Fred that’s nonetheless up, the duo even thanked Beyonce. “It’s good to get a writing credit score on the brand new ‘Beyonce’ album,” they wrote, linking to a Stereogum article in regards to the piece’s credit.

This isn’t the primary Renaissance credit score controversy. Earlier this summer time, Kelis complained that Beyoncé interpolated her track “Milkshake” on “Power” with out credit score. Beyoncé ended up altering the track and eradicating the pattern from the observe altogether.

Milkshake alone is without doubt one of the most licensed data of our era,” Kelis wrote on Instagram. “I’ve finished greater than left my mark on an period of music and magnificence that can go down in historical past.” 

As for “Alien Celebrity,” which Proper Mentioned Fred complained about, sparked a dialog in regards to the artwork of collaboration after a tweet from songwriter Diane Warren that criticized the observe for having 24 writers on a single track.

“You imply [how] does our (Black) tradition have so many writers,” The-Dream wrote again. “Nicely it began as a result of we couldn’t afford sure issues beginning out, so we began sampling and it grew to become an Artform, a significant a part of the Black Tradition (hip hop) in America. Had that period not occur[ed], who is aware of. U good?”