Beyonce Get Dissed By Etta JAmes REMIX

Story File: James must be taking lessons from Faye Dunaway in how to be a diva. Etta James came out swinging against Beyonce for daring to perform her signature song — "At Last" — as the first dance for Barack and Michelle Obama at an inaugural ball. At a Jan. 28 concert in Seattle, the veteran singer let rip: "I tell you, that woman he has singing for him, singing my song, she gonna get her ... whipped. I cant stand Beyonce, she had no business up there singing ... my song that Ive been singing forever."
However, that was not the first time Beyonce had sung "At Last." She played Etta James in the December release "Cadillac Records" and performed that tune among many others in the film. And at the premiere of the picture, Beyonce sang her predecessors praises: "Shes a living legend and I want her to love the movie, and I hope she does." Guess Beyonce now has her answer as to what James thought of her portrayal. Perhaps James is just jealous that she only has three Grammy Awards while Beyonce has already racked up 10 wins and is a nominee again this year?
The notion that a performer has a proprietary right to a song or role is absurd. Different interpretations can bring new audiences to old classics. While there are a small number of films so iconic that they are best left alone (remember "Return to Oz"), the vast majority of movies and music are ripe for remakes and remixes. Even "Over the Rainbow" — the AFI No. 1 movie song of all time — has been given excellent new spins by the likes of Patti LaBelle and Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.

Would Faye Dunaway have refused to play the part of the gun moll in 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde" had Dorothy Provine, star of the 1958 flick "The Bonnie Parker Story," objected? And by the same token, what of all the singers who sang "At Last" in the two decades before Etta James did? Indeed, four years before her recording, Nat King Cole included the tune on his No. 1 album "Love Is the Thing."