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| Kanye West Tweets 'I'mma Let You Finish' to Britney Spears - The Celebrity Cafe.com Posted: 16 Jan 2011 05:36 PM PST Tiffany Lew Maybe Kanye West hasn't learned from the Taylor Swift incident. On Friday, the rapper tweeted Britney Spears after her single, "Hold It Against Me," was released on Tuesday, reports Yahoo! Music. "Yo Britney, I'm really happy for you and I'mma let you be #1, but me and Jay-Z single is one of the best songs of all time!" tweeted Kanye. Many fans were not pleased with the tweet, and an outpour of responses came from both sides. Some West fans enjoyed the tweet's humor. Dexter Emah said on Twitter, "Nice to know you can make fun of yourself." However, others, such as Andrew "thekingofpop" Quintal, weren't as amused, saying on Twitter, "Did u really think u could touch Britney in sales?" West responded to the outcries with another tweet. "I thought LOL signified a joke," he replied on Friday. "I didn't get the 2011 LOL doesn't signify a joke anymore memo ... LOL or something else I guess." Britney's manager, Adam Leber, also replied to Kanye via Twitter. "Thanks for 'letting' us be #1. Much appreciated ..." he said. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Bellamy Brothers accuse Britney Spears of stealing song - AZCentral.com Posted: 13 Jan 2011 10:30 AM PST by Randy Lewis - Jan. 13, 2011 11:01 AM LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears is piling up impressive airplay stats for her new single, "Hold It Against Me," which broke records for single-day spins at both MediaBase and BDS, her label, Jive Records, reported Tuesday, a day after the song went to radio. But another pop music act is experiencing a sense of deja vu with the bouncy song written for Spears by Max Martin and Dr. Luke, with its chorus built around the lyric "If I said I want your body now/Would you hold it against me?" "Didn't we already do that?" asked the country-pop duo the Bellamy Brothers, who scored the biggest hit of their career in 1979 with their lilting, Jimmy Buffett-esque song "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me?" It spent three weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's country singles chart and made it into the Top 40 of the pop chart as well. "That little song went No. 1 and has since become one of the defining songs of our career," David Bellamy, the song's writer, said in a statement the brothers issued Tuesday. "If you listen to the lyrics of Britney Spears' new single, Hold It Against Me,' you'll find some major similarities." "Howard and I have no personal beef with Britney," Bellamy added. "She's a talented gal. But professionally, well, in all honesty, we feel completely ripped off. Where's the originality?" It's hard, however, for the Bellamys to get too charged up over the originality issue. Bellamy has previously credited the line to that master of the sharp one-liner, Groucho Marx, who used it while hosting his popular 1950s TV game show, "You Bet Your Life." "We had heard that line growing up, and our family always had a weird Southern sense of humor, and they'd use that line around a lot," Bellamy is quoted as saying in an interview at Songfacts.com web site. "So it just came one day that it'd be a great song title." A generation later, apparently Britney, Martin and Dr. Luke couldn't agree more. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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