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Old 02-05-2009, 05:52 PM
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Etta vs Beyonce

LOS ANGELES - It’s a feud that spans a generation — music legend Etta James has put modern superstar Beyonce on blast for singing her signature song, “At Last,” at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball after Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration.

“I tell you, that woman he has singing for him, singing my song, she gonna get her ass whipped,” James told a crowd at a concert in Seattle on Jan. 28. “I can’t stand Beyonce, she had no business up there singing ... my song that I’ve been singing forever.”

But it seems the feud is one-sided. Beyonce recently portrayed the older singer in the film “Cadillac Records,” where she performed “At Last” among other songs, and the two had the chance to meet at the film’s L.A. premiere, where Beyonce sang her predecessor’s praises.




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I don't think she was happy with her performance....neither was I.
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Old 02-05-2009, 06:11 PM
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It's not like Etta owns the rights to the song, though. She wasn't even the first to perform it.

I'm not going to lie, though - her version is the best - it's just causing all this controversy over a song that you don't even own the rights to is a little pointless.
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Old 02-05-2009, 07:07 PM
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I can't believe she said that Obama wasn't her president.

Actually, people say all kinds of crazy things. Especially old people.
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Old 02-06-2009, 08:16 AM
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I just assumed that Etta James was dead and that's why Beyonce was singing it.
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Old 02-06-2009, 12:02 PM
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Well...Etta is certainly alive and kicking! I don't agree with everything she said, like the bit about Obama, but she said she was joking, so should it even be an issue anymore?

In any case, I thought Beyonce's version was 'aight.' She was out of tune for most of the song. It would have been nice to bring James, a living musical legend into the mix for the event. I mean everyone and their irrelevant mama was performing for the president. Will.I.Am...come on...
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Old 02-06-2009, 12:15 PM
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It's not like Etta owns the rights to the song, though. She wasn't even the first to perform it.

I'm not going to lie, though - her version is the best - it's just causing all this controversy over a song that you don't even own the rights to is a little pointless.
Etta may not own the rights to the song, but as far as I'm concerned, she "owns" that song, no questions asked. I don't want to hear anybody but her sing it, and when I do hear her sing it, I want my wife (whom, as you'll recall, alphagamzetagam, wins at life) really close by. Top of the romantic playlist, no contest.
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Old 02-06-2009, 12:20 PM
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I would agree with that but at the same time, as much as it's "her" song, it's not! So really she's creating a big stink over something that she has no right to or control over.

Honestly - if Beyonce needs an ass whooping from her, she needs Glenn Miller to come back from the dead to whoop hers. Which, by the way, his version tops hers on the charts.
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Old 02-06-2009, 12:37 PM
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I would agree with that but at the same time, as much as it's "her" song, it's not! So really she's creating a big stink over something that she has no right to or control over.
Oh, I get what you're saying. I'm just saying that, as far as I'm concerned, Etta James so rules with that song, she can get just as azycray about it as she wants to and she'll still get a pass from me.
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Old 02-06-2009, 01:07 PM
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Beyonce should get her ass kicked for singing any song.

I miss the Destiny's Child Beyonce, not this one. I can't stand her.
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Old 02-06-2009, 03:45 PM
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Beyonce should get her ass kicked for singing any song.

I miss the Destiny's Child Beyonce, not this one. I can't stand her.
I agree.

She was balanced in Destiny's Child. Now there's nothing to balance her out.
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Old 02-06-2009, 03:46 PM
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Oh, I get what you're saying. I'm just saying that, as far as I'm concerned, Etta James so rules with that song, she can get just as azycray about it as she wants to and she'll still get a pass from me.
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Old 02-06-2009, 03:52 PM
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Etta may not own the rights to the song, but as far as I'm concerned, she "owns" that song, no questions asked. I don't want to hear anybody but her sing it, and when I do hear her sing it, I want my wife (whom, as you'll recall, alphagamzetagam, wins at life) really close by. Top of the romantic playlist, no contest.
Ditto...but with my man and not your wife.

Glen Miller's original and Nat King Cole's remake are a a different vibe. Etta James made that into her signature to the point where you respect what came before it and dismiss what came after it (even Ben E. King's remake that came a year after). Dozens of singers have remade this song (some of them really good...others are oversung and undersoul like Beyonce's) and Beyonce is the first to really get a lot of attention and commercial success since Etta James.

I hate Beyonce's version and I did not enjoy listening to her sing it during inauguration ball so I turned down the volume. I have the Cadillac Records CDC and I always skip over Beyonce's At Last.
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Old 02-06-2009, 03:54 PM
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I just assumed that Etta James was dead and that's why Beyonce was singing it.
Really? Etta James is still performing.

I wanted to see her instead of Beyonce at the inaugration ball but Etta James was supposedly sick.
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Old 02-06-2009, 04:12 PM
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I just assumed that Etta James was dead...
Ahahaha..I thought the exact same thing.
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Old 02-06-2009, 04:50 PM
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I blame B's other personality, Sasha Fierce with her robo hand and strange eyebrows.
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