Britney Spears was walking on air when her single - "Hold it against me" - was released to media outlets around the country this past week.
According to Jive Records (her label) Ms. Spears broke all records for single-day spins in recent years on the radio!
If anything, the once-troubled pop star - who nearly slid into oblivion because of a monkey or two on her back a scant year or so ago - has proved one thing.
Uh-huh!
The blond bimbo bombshell is still a force to reckon with in the music industry.
Her handlers knew that when the Diva's star-turn on GLEE scored high in the overnight ratings race.
Fans are hungry for "anything Britney".
One act is crying foul, though!
The country pop duo - the Bellamy Brothers - couldn't believe their ears when a DJ flipped the platter and they heard what they thought were familiar strains of music on the single as it blasted over the airwaves.
"Didn't we already do that," they wondered aloud to all within earshot.
Indeed!
In 1979, the Country & Western dudes scored big on the charts with a catchy lyric that went something like this:
"If I said You had a Beautiful Body, Would you hold it Against me?"
Ooops!
Just a case of deja vu?
David Bellamy shook his head in disbelief.
"If you listen to the lyrics of Spears' single "Hold it Against me?" you'll find some major similarities.
"Our little song went No. 1 and has since become one of the defining songs of our career," he groused.
But, he stopped short of accusing the Pop Princess of plagiarising their hit.
Of course, folks familiar with show-biz legends, are keen to the fact that Groucho Marx once used a similar phrase for the punch line of a joke on the highly-rated TV quiz show "You Bet Your Life".
I guess, it is always "open season" on material that is in the public domain, eh?
Britney, you go girl!
And, how was your day?
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