The brothers who make up Right Said Fred are ticked off at Beyoncé, who they said didn’t ask permission before using the melody of their biggest hit, “I’m Too Sexy,” in her tune “Alien Superstar.”
“Normally the artist approaches us,” the duo told the Sun on Monday at the 2022 BMI London Awards, “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.”
Brothers Fred Fairbrass and Richard Fairbrass — who either spoke in tandem to the British news outlet or were indistinguishable from one another in the eyes of the reporter — said the likes of Drake and Taylor Swift came to them to ask for an OK ahead of sampling the song or interpolating (where the new artist rerecords the melody of the original artist’s song and uses that in the new composition).
