Hungarian Roma sues Beyonce over smash hit

2014/12/17 01:12:54 @Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

A Hungarian singer from the Roma community is suing Beyonce over the smash hit & quot;Drunk in Love, & quot; saying the superstar sampled a folk tune without permission. The song off Beyonce & #039;s Grammy-nominated self-titled album begins with an Eastern-sounding a cappella voice that gradually fades out after around 40 seconds as a pop beat, keyboards and Beyonce & #039;s voice come in. In a lawsuit filed in a New York court, Monika Juhasz Miczura -- who performs under the name Mitsou -- said that the snippet was a digitally altered version of her 1995 recording of & quot;Bajba, Bajba Pelem, & quot; a song that she learned from her grandmother. The suit said that the song was traditional to the Roma, also known as Gypsies, and was & quot;about hopelessness, when one can no longer trust anyone but her own mother and God. & quot; By contrast, & quot;Drunk In Love & quot; features Beyonce and her rapper husband Jay-Z as they sing of their marital bliss.
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