This time last year UK music duo Right Said Fred was celebrating Rap superstar Drake for bringing their 90’s signature hit, ‘I’m Too Sexy,’ to a new generation via his ‘Certified Lover Boy’ #1 smash ‘Way 2 Sexy.’

That same elation wasn’t exactly extended to another one of music’s biggest names recently, however.

Look inside to see the criticism the twosome launched toward Beyoncé who also used interpolations of the 1991 tune in her 2022-released song ‘Alien Superstar’ (found aboard her latest history-making album ‘Renaissance’).

As Sun reported, the brotherly Pop pair – Fred and Richard Fairbrass – accused Bey of using their braggadocious classic on her LP without permission or their blessing.

“Normally the artist approaches us but Beyoncé didn’t because she is such an arrogant person,” Right Said Fred said of the alleged thievery. “She just had probably thought ‘come and get me’ so we heard about it after the fact when you did.”

Comparing her reported inaction to Drake and Taylor Swift, who used interpolations of the song in her 2017 chart-topper ‘Look What You Made Me Do,’ the siblings slammed Bey for not mentioning them on the ‘Superstar’ writing credits.

“Everyone else, Drake and Taylor Swift, they came to us,” the sibling pop sensations shared before later stating, “To use our melody they need our permission so they send us the demo and we approve it and if so we get a co-write credit. With this Beyoncé thing there are 22 writers it’s ridiculous so we would get about 40 [pounds].”

Ultimately, Right Said Fred suggested they won’t press the issue much and will just “let it go.”

“There is nothing we can do. It is s–t,” they relayed. “You are going to get into a conversation with someone who has a lot more presence and power and money than we do. And that won’t go well.”

Some critics argue Bey’s decision not to pursue a credit from Right Said Fred is due to the fact ‘I’m Too Sexy’ contains samples itself.

“I wasn’t aware that our guitarist, Rob Manzoli, had played the riff from Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Third Stone From the Sun’ on ‘I’m Too Sexy’ until much later [after its release],” Fred Fairbrass said in a 2017 interview. “I thought the guitar parts sounded like the theme from Coronation Street, but the Hendrix estate were very cool about it and just asked for a writing credit and a charitable donation.”

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The story comes just months after Kelis claimed Bey committed a similar act of “theft” to her signature songs ‘Milkshake’ and ‘Get Along with You.’

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