Beyoncé responds to Right Said Fred’s “disparaging” comments

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Beyoncé has forcefully denied Right Said Fred’s claim that she interpolated their 1992 smash hit “I’m Too Sexy” on her Renaissance track “Alien Superstar” without their permission, Pitchfork reports.

The English dance-pop duo of Fred and Richard Fairbass, as well as ex-Right Said Fred member Rob Manzoli, are credited as writers on the newer song.

But the Fairbass brothers recently aired their grievances with Beyoncé’s use of their original cut to The Sun in an interview published this past Tuesday (October 4). “Normally the artist approaches us but Beyoncé didn’t because she is such an arrogant person she just had probably thought ‘come and get me’ so we heard about it after the fact when you did,” they told the British tabloid. “But everyone else, Drake and Taylor Swift, they came to us.” (“I’m Too Sexy” has been a fertile source of top-40 hits in recent years, including Drake’s 2021 track “Way 2 Sexy” feat.

Future and Young Thug, and Swift’s 2017 song “Look What You Made Me Do.” Read Next: Right Said Fred Are “Very Pleased” With Taylor Swift’s Interpolation Of “I’m Too Sexy” Beyoncé shared the following statement with Pitchfork in response to the allegation:.