Beyoncé Hit With $7 Million Suit By Background Singer Claiming She Stole 'XO'
A background singer has slapped 17-time Grammy award winner Beyoncé Knowles with a $7 million suit charging she stole his music for her hit tune "XO."
According to Radar, the Queen Bey recently explained to the court herself how the two songs in question don't sound the least bit alike, all the while making certain to express to listeners she feels her reputation for being able to produce hit music now kind of speaks for itself given her 118 million records sold.
Ahmad Lane filed the federal lawsuit in 2014, naming Knowles, her music company Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records as defendants. His suit further alleges he once worked as a background singer with Knowles' current background crooner Chrissy Collins for another artist. During his time working with Collins, he claims he gave her a copy of his song "XOXO" to listen to and believes she passed it on to Beyoncé.
"The two works at issue are entirely different songs that share no lyrical or musical similarity, other than perhaps the letters 'X' and 'O,'" attorneys for Knowles countered in court documents. Their response also points out that Lane never filed a "copyright registration" for his song.
Knowles' attorney also requests that the court listen to the songs and compare them, arguing that they don't share any "melodic content and there is no meaningful similarity in pitch series, rhythm or rhythmic patterns, melodic development or structure."
Back in December 2014, TMZ reported Beyoncé and husband Jay Z were both named as defendants in a suit filed by a Hungarian woman charging they stole the basis for the hit "Drunk in Love" from a song she first recorded in 1995.
Monika Miczura claimed not only did she never give the couple permission to use her music but suggested Beyoncé recklessly used it "to evoke foreign eroticism alongside the sexually intense lyrics."
She claimed she originally meant the song to be about a sense of hopelessness.
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