As Britney Spears enjoys her No. 1 iTunes spot with her new single, 'Hold It Against Me,' one music group is crying foul, saying she ripped off the title hit song.
Country group The Bellamy Brothers released a hit song called "If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me" and singer David Bellamy is speaking out against Spears' new song, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Spear's latest hit has a chorus containing the line, "If I said I want your body now, would you hold it against me?'
"It's not every day you get in the middle of a Britney Spears brawl," Bellamy told the magazine.
The country crooner, who penned the group's 1979 hit, said his son first clued him in to Spears' single. While no legal action has been taken regarding the song's crossover title, Bellamy is looking into the situation.
"I just have to see what the intent was," he said. "I just kind of found it unoriginal, and I guess it makes us realize how old we are, because they're recycling our titles already."
Bellamy, who has not heard from Spears' camp regarding the songs' similarities, understands that the "beautiful body" line is often used, but not always so overtly as with this latest hit single.
"This particular title is kinda hard to disguise, because the title is the song," Bellamy said about Spears' song. "It's not like saying, 'I love you, baby'... I think there's just more original stuff out there to do than just rehashing old titles."
The Bellamy Brothers would know. The country band hits the road this year on a 180-show tour as they celebrate the 30th anniversary of their hit album, 'Let Your Love Flow.'
Spears' song, produced by Max Martin and Dr. Luke, hit the Internet on Monday and quickly shot up to the No. 1 spot on iTunes. Her new album is rumored to be released on March 15.
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