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Britney Spears faces multi-million dollar lawsuit accused of 'ripping off' song lyrics for Hold It Against Me
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no one important
2011-02-21 10:21:34 UTC
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Her manager, Larry Rudolph, recently told MTV that he felt the video for the new
song is more than ‘just about the really two different Britneys.
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'There are really two different Britneys. There's a public Britney and there's a
private Britney, and they're very different,' he told MTV.
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'Maybe at some times the two Britneys are at odds with each other; most of the
time they're not.'
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no one important
2011-02-21 11:20:29 UTC
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The video for her new single Hold It Against Me debuted just last week bu=
I wondered about that when I heard the title but it also comes from a
corny old joke so I don't know if they can prove ownership.
Interesting, unless the song is identical, since one might say that the
Bellamy Brothers got it from Groucho Marx, and was it originally Groucho's
line or did it come from somewhere else?
Joe Snodgrass
2011-02-21 13:37:42 UTC
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1358803/Britney-Spears-f...
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Her manager, Larry Rudolph, recently told MTV that he felt the video for the new
song is more than just about the really two different Britneys.
snip
'There are really two different Britneys. There's a public Britney and there's a
private Britney, and they're very different,' he told MTV.
snip
'Maybe at some times the two Britneys are at odds with each other; most of the
time they're not.'
http://web.archive.org/web/20040906004416/www.geocities.com/bjs_dreams/
Both songs are on Frostwire. Try downloading them and see if you can
find any OTHER similarities besides that single phrase.

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