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Beyonce accused of taking credit for others’ songs
Posted in Beyonce on the February 26, 2010
Beyonce has been called out for taking credit for songs where it isn’t due.
A former producer, who worked with the star in Destiny’s Child, says he came up with the riff for their hit Bootylicious and was stunned to hear Beyonce on television claiming it was hers.
Rob Fusari, an executive producer on Lady GaGa’s hit album The Fame, says he came up with the idea for Bootylicious while flicking through his record collection.
Fusari claimed: “I came up with the idea to build a track using the guitar riff from Stevie Nicks’ Edge of Seventeen. I really wanted to play the riff from Eye of the Tiger, but I was flipping through my CDs in the studio and I couldn’t find it. But I saw the Stevie Nicks CD and I remembered that the riff was similar.”
Fusari was so upset that Beyonce took credit for the song in a US TV special that he called her father Matthew Knowles.
“I remember watching Barbara Walters interview Beyoncé about Bootylicious, and she told Barbara about how she came up with the idea for the track.
“I was just like, “What?” I called Matthew – which was a big mistake; I got emotional, and I apologised after – but I called Matthew and said, “Matthew, like, why?”
“And he explained to me, in a nice way, he said, “People don’t want to hear about Rob Fusari, producer from Livingston, N.J. No offence, but that’s not what sells records. What sells records is people believing that the artist is everything.”
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