Beyonce denies interpolating Right Said Fred track without permission

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Beyonce has hit back at Right Said Fred, after they were quoted in The Sun as claiming that she had not sought permission to interpolate their song ‘I’m Too Sexy’ on ‘Alien Superstar’, a track from her current album ‘Renaissance’.‘Alien Superstar’ is the latest addition to a slightly weird trend of superstar artists using the 1991 Right Said Fred hit.

Beyonce’s use follows Taylor Swift borrowing it for her 2017 single ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ and Drake using it in 2021’s ‘Way 2 Sexy’.

Sugababes also reworked it for their 2009 single ‘Get Sexy’.The Sun last week quoted Right Said Fred – aka Richard and Fred Fairbrass – as saying: “Normally the artist approaches us but Beyonce didn’t because she is such an arrogant person she just … probably thought ‘come and get me’, so we heard about it after the fact, when you did.

But everyone else, Drake and Taylor Swift, they came to us”.“To use our melody they need our permission, so they send us the demo and we approve it, and if so we get a co-write credit”, they went on. “With this Beyonce thing, there are 22 writers, it’s ridiculous, so we would get about 40p.