Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Right Said Fred says ‘arrogant’ Beyoncé used ‘I’m Too Sexy’ without permission
nypost.comSun reported. The single was part of Knowles’ hit album “Renaissance,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in August after being leaked online two days ahead of its July release.“Normally the artist approaches us but Beyoncé didn’t because she is such an arrogant person,” Right Said Fred told the Sun of the alleged theft. “She just had probably thought ‘come and get me’ so we heard about it after the fact when you did.”They found the supposed song-sampling particularly perturbing as prior artists had reportedly asked permission to include the track. “Everyone else, Drake and Taylor Swift, they came to us,” the sibling pop sensations insisted.Indeed, Drake sampled the track for his 2021 hit “Way 2 Sexy” while Swift had employed the song in her 2017 Reputation lead single “Look What You Made Me Do.”“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,” RSF explained. “With this Beyoncé thing there are 22 writers it’s ridiculous so we would get about 40 [pounds].”The Brit pop stars said they believe that this surreptitious sampling occurs “because there is so little money now in the actual sales, people like friends, golfing partners, engineers, bookers and the guy who brings the coke, they all want a cut.”Either way, the Fairbrass brothers claim they feel powerless to “stop” the former Destiny’s Child frontwoman, who is reportedly worth a cool $500 million and boasts 28 Grammy awards, the most of any female performer in history.“There is nothing we can do.
It is s—t,” lamented RSF. “You are going to get into a conversation with someone who has a lot more presence and power and money than we do.
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