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Bellamy Brothers Consider Legal Action Against Britney Spears

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The Bellamy Brothers are holding Britney Spears' new single against her ... in a potentially big way. Howard and David Bellamy are concerned that the lyrical content in the pop starlet's 'Hold It Against Me' is a little too close to their 1979 hit, 'If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body, Would You Hold It Against Me.' Thursday afternoon (January 13), the duo's publicist confirmed that the brothers have now decided to "weigh their legal options."

"If you listen to the lyrics of Britney Spears' new single, 'Hold It Against Me,' you'll find some major similarities," David Bellamy said in a statement released by the duo Tuesday (January 11), the same day Britney's single hit radio airwaves. "Howard and I have no personal beef with Britney. She's a talented gal, but professionally [and] in all honesty, we feel completely ripped off. Where's the originality?"

"It's not every day that you get into the middle of a brawl with Britney Spears," David notes. "When I did listen to her song, I thought 'Well this is rather unoriginal.'"

Seems that Yahoo! News Music blogger, Chris Willman, is on the Bellamys side, pointing out that 'Hold It Against Me' writers Dr. Luke and Max Martin seem to have a past history of snagging similar song titles of yesteryear for new music, specifically Katy Perry's 'California Gurls' and 'I Kissed a Girl.'

YouTube subscribers have also taken notice of the national buzz. Several users have already created their own "mashup" videos, which combine musical portions of each song, making it one.

Listen to both songs in the video players below, and tell us what you think in the comments section.





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Lorraine

The Bellamy Brothers aren't "never were's". They had a lot of great country songs and at least you could understand their music and words. I don't know if they have a legal case against Brittany or not. I don't care -- let them work that out. But don't degrade their music because they had a great country music sound.

May 15 2011 at 9:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
imagine69b

First let me say I am in no way a Brittney Spears fan, so there is no bias here. REALLY? They are planning to sue her? I believe this is simply a case of some old has been (never were), one hit wonders doing whatever they can to get their names in the press and people talking about them. Too bad they lack the musical talent to accomplish this and have to resort to this kind of garbage. Carrying on like this isn't going to help fill their fan roster. How sad!

February 21 2011 at 11:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TLB

I just lost respect for the Bellamy Bro. Soon we will all have to script what we say to be sure that anyone who thinks they have the right to certain word combo's won't be angry. If they actually take this on I will hold it against them.

January 19 2011 at 12:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mpete

This song contain the lyrics "hold it against me." As mention before, this is part of an old pick-up line. I looked at both the lyrics. First of all, the beat is completely different, the message is not the same at all and the only similarity of the two songs are the 4 lyrics mentioned above. This is a stupid waste of time and Britney's song is more catchy. Plus, who the hell knows that country song!?! Give it up Bladder Brothers

January 14 2011 at 12:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sirtom11

I agree. If you listen to the songs anyone with half a brain will see that they are completely different. The Bellamy Brothers are probably just trying to make a quick buck. They should take the publicity their getting and put it towards a new song.

January 14 2011 at 10:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michelle Smith

You are kidding me right? I like both songs and she had a couple of words in hers from theirs...Im sure it wasnt even a thought! They must be broke!

January 14 2011 at 10:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
matthew

the songs have one line the same. they need to just shut upppp

January 14 2011 at 8:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bj

HOW is that plagiarism.
It's like someone suing someone for using the phrase "are you from Jamaica. because you are ja-making me crazy"
Its an old punch line.
No ones even heard of their song.
They are just trying to make some money off Britney.
PATHETIC!!!

January 14 2011 at 8:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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sierraspellman

Nobody's ever heard of their song!?! Weren't you reading the article? The Bellamy Brothers had a hit song with that title back in the 80's. It was so popular it was one of the first country/pop crossover hits ever!

I've heard of it, and I wasn't even born when the song came out.


February 16 2011 at 2:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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