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Etta’s not impressed that Beyonce stole her song
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 6 February 2009
Etta James is not impressed that Beyonce Knowles, having portrayed her in the film ‘Cadillac Records’ (which was out in the US late last year and reaches cinemas here later this month), got to sing one of her signature songs at Obama’s inauguration ball last month.
As previously reported, Beyonce sang ‘At Last’, which James first recorded in 1960 and which Knowles sings as Etta in the new movie, for Obama’s first dance with his wife on inauguration day. The Prez proceeded to dance to other renditions of the song at nine other balls that night, apparently.
But James ain’t thrilled that the former Destiny’s Child girl has been grabbing the limelight with her song. Or at least that’s what an audio clip circulating online seems to suggest.
The clip seemingly features the 71 year old James chatting to her audience at a recent concert in Vancouver, and she says: “The great Beyonce … I can’t stand Beyonce. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol’ president day, gonna be singing my song that I’ve been singing forever”.
Neither James nor Knowles’ people have commented on the clip.
