Des’ree created that song and sings it like it means something to her, there’s a special quality in her voice. That’s why Beyonce wanted to challenge herself to remake it. But Beyonce just doesn’t have the maturity and wisdom in her voice to sing that song as well as Des’ree. Also there is no excuse for using something of someone else’s without permission. All you stans taking up for Beyonce probably steal money from your momma’s purse and think there’s nothing wrong with it.

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Can some one tell me how to put my pic on the Avitar?

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Go to “Update Profile”, select “Your Avatar” and then browse to locate your photo, then upload it.

#6 - you ask who Des’Ree is??? SMH. She’s put out great music with content that is awesome and lyrics that are poetic and beautiful. In my opinion, she sung it better as it IS her song…ALSO, the song was featured on the film adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” starring Claire Daines and Leonardo DiCaprio. Check it out…beautiful song and sung beautifully by the one who wrote it, Des’Ree.

Back in the day, Biz Markie never got permission to use a sample, and a judge make his record company pull back all his albums off the shelf.

Plain and simple, Bey never got permission, so she should have left the song alone.

@ #66….The song was called “I’m Kissing You” now it’s called “Still in Love(Kissing You)” and the video is on the B-Day Anthology…….

Angel La, Brian, and Tianna………….

Can you all PLEASE go back to using SUPLOAD?????
Just curious as to why you dont use it all the time?
Let a sista know..

I bought the romeo and juliet soundtrack just for desiree’s version, I had no clue who she was and saw the movie and heard the song and I had to have it, the emotion is so raw and pure. I still play the cassette (yep cassette) to this day-

I heard beyonce’s version as well, I think that they both bring their own individual sound and emotion to it-to me you either like one or the other depending on your personal preference-I loooove beyonce without a doubt and like her version, but I prefer desiree’s version-two totally different singers and two different styles-does one necessarily have to be better why can’t we appreciate both versions?

Hmmmm. Well To be honest I really cant decide. Simply because they sound like 2 different songs to me. I mean I know the music is exactly alike. But each women brings sumthin different to the song. SO i like both of them. If beyonce had done it the EXACT same way then perhaps i could judge then on who was better.

AS I TAKE another Listen (just found Des’Ree full version) I can honestly say that I’m SO STRAIGHT on the song PERIOD! As for who sounds better I’m still sticking w/ Sasha b/c Des’ and her baritone rasp just doesn’t do it 4me~

**CORRECTION** ANGEL….my bad..

I dont know about only hearing 30secs of Des’ree’s version. I was able to hear it all…..and I still rock my vote for Des!

I REMEMBER THIS SONG FROM THE FILM ROMEO AND JULIET, AND DESREE WINS THIS ONE HANDS DOWN.

THIS DOLPHIN TOOTHED BITCH HAS GONE TOO FAR THIS TIME. SHE’S EITHER PASSING OF SONGWRITING CREDITS AS HER OWN, OR COPYING PEOPLES MUSIC.

B DOLPH CAN SANG BUT BITCH HAS NO EMOTION IN WHAT SHE SANGS ABOUT.

Oh, for the record, I own all of Des’Ree’s albums

Why does Beyonce think she can blow off the law. If she broke the law, she needs to pay, and we all know she can afford it.

and what the hell is up with that ugly ass outfit she got on in that photo. She looks 40 in the face and the house of ass should stop making clothes all together.

Beyonce..duh

Deseree could never sing to me.

A lot of people have heard the song before and Beyonce said she got it from Romeo + Juliet. I don’t know why folks is on that brand new ish.

def gotta roll with bey on this one…

@Megan People NEED a reason to be mad at her.

new lil kim

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Beyonce never even claimed this to be her song. Buy the CD and read the credits. She does not take writing credits. She simply covered the song. DAMN!! people cover others songs all the time…People just love to put down this woman. Then when there are no black in the lime light we wanna complain and say where is our black talent. Well here it is, here she is! Her name is BEYONCE’ Acknowledge greatness

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TOTALLY agree with JSCENE:
and its also obvious that its not about gaining money with Desree, its just about prinicpality…
I just looked on the credits of Beyonce’s re-released album and saw that her name is listed FIRST under writers of this song….

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SOMEBODY”S LYYYIIIINNNG

93. Yea, I can see through all that.

They make more comments about some lil sh*t about this about Beyonce. Can see through it all. They ain’t fooling anyone but themselves.

SHUT UP WILLIM H, JUST BECUZ I IZ DUM DON’T MEAN AT I IZ IGNORANT. U IZ SOOOO UNFAIR

Oh here we go. ComptonChick, if you are out there get ready for a bumpy ride.

@Megan Exactly! Like she the first person to get sued over something like this and like she didn’t give ol’ girl credit. They crack me up trying to prove something to EACH OTHER!

DES’REE!

Beyonce
love the song by the way It makes me appreciate what I have at home.

@ 97

How old are you? I thought you would get tired of your silly games after a couple weeks but obviously I was wrong. I’m so sick of that damn issue. If people disagree with my views on “bleaching” then that is up to them but all this signing on under my name and causing trouble is just plain childish. What is wrong in your life? Does anyone know how I can get a picture by my name? Perhaps that will stop this mess. I will NOT stop using my real name.

@RNB*MJ

Just pull up a chair and watch the fighting start. It will just get funnier and funnier. I’m sure even Beyonce and Des’ree would laugh if they read some of the comments.

I have the entire Des’Ree version and have listened to it a million. It’s one of my favorite songs in the world and she kills it. The type of emotion and soul she sings with could never be matched, definitely not by Bey. Don’t get me wrong: Bey can sing and she has a nice voice but with the exception of Dangerously In Love [the song], I’ve never really heard that type of passion emanate from her. Bey’s version is boring with some simplistic, overdone lyrics that make it so wack. As I said when she first released it, Des’Ree’s version is so beautiful and passionate and incredible from start to finish and it should have been left alone.

DID WE ALL MISS THE POINT..SHE STOLE THIS GIRL SONG AND RECORDED IT WITHOUT HER PERMISSION…WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WHO SUNG IT BETTER… IT DESIREE’S SONG..BOTTOM LINE…DAMMMM BEY..IF YOU ARE SO GREAT AS A ARTIST( WRITER AS YOU SAY) HOW COME YOU CAN’T COME UP WITH YOUR OWN SHIT… IF I WAS DESIREE I WOULD BE SUING BEY AND HER RECORD COMPANY FOR 1 MILLION DOLLARS…

I GLAD YOU GUY THINK THIS IS OK..I CAN’T WAIT FOR SOMEONE TO STEAL SOMETHING FROM YOU THAT YOU WORKED HARD AT; TO HAVE SOMEONE COPY IT WITHOUT YOU PERMISSION.

I SURE BEY WILL SAY I WROTE THIS FOR THE LADIES. HAHA

Oh please can people get off of B’s nut sack! I’m so mad she took this song and made it sound like shit. I wish she just tell Jay that he’s her soldier at home in bed not her telling us making our ears bleed. Unfortunately I’m old enough to remember this song and how sad it was in the movie. So I hope Des’ree gets hers! B stop stealing!!!

Lashonda just go get registered and put up your picture.

@106 Somebody made you listen to it?

I can not choose, I like both versions for different reasons. Whoever out there is asking “Who is Des’ree”, well it does not matter who she is, if it is her song, give her what she deserves. I mean think about it, if that was your material and it was copyrighted, wouldn’t you want what’s yours.

Bee is becoming like Walmart I see

I personally am a fan of the original version. I loved the movie Romeo and Juliet that Des’re’s song was featured in. HOWEVER….I love Bee’s version. Bee’s version has me falling in love all over again with my man! Take that how you want, I know you Beyonce haters will eat this comment up anyway!!!!!

Desree voice sounds a lil flaky to me…even that “Gotta Be” song. That’s one of my jams but her vocals ain’t all that.

I like both versions and God knows I love Beyonce to death, but its something about Desiree’s thats more passionate, like you listen to her sing it and you feel like picking up the phone you know what I’m saying!!!

it’s interesting how some folks are claiming that they love this song and how beyonce ruined it(the typical hating rants),yet no was talkin about this particular song or even knew who the hell Desiree was(is she even still a recording artist??).yet some folks(the gullible biased ones) on here are already passing judgements,when they don’t even know the facts of the situation.anyways back to the orginal question at hand……personally beyonce version is much better.she brings more depths and emotions to the song,with more control,range,emoting and tone.sure desiree version was passionate and all, but lacks the vocal prowess(beyonce got her beat on that),which makes her version sloppy

I love the original one more. I wonder what ever happened to Des’ree!

who care who sung it better it aint beys song, and she needs to stop touching other peeps shit. i like bey dont git me wrong, but dam y come she always think it her way or no way. she did the same shit wiff neyo. and she did the same wiff toni braxton on bonnie and camel o3. what the hell is up wiff her. i really liked this song i sed she admitted that jay was her hubby in the song now the dam song aint even hers NEXT

Compton, I got the popcorn.

B’s not a Writer she’s a bitter… think about it..
the MTV awards performance you know the one when she comes down from the ceiling with the long coat and her people said that it was suppose to look like Mr& Mrs Smith only problem with that lie was BRITNEY SPEARS had done the SAME exact entrance just 2 years prior I mean all the way down to the outfit
then there’s the alligator pictures she took that, I think it was J-LO or Pamela Anderson (somebody) had taken one with alligators JUST like that first this aint no suprise for her she aint original at all not to mention B has the same emotion for ALL her music so there’s nothing that sounds like “her own twist” like someone already she shouldn’t have thought she could just do that to that womans song and she should have to pay

If it’s true, i would sue for way more than that! Business is business and i’m sure B-day released is going to pull in the big dollars.

Sony/BMG/Beyonce has a compulsory liscense on the song. It works like this: someone finds a recording and can’t find the copyright owner so they pay a filing fee to the copyright office and are free to use or incorporate it into another work without it being an infringement, only paying royalities if the original composer comes forward with an infringement lawsuit, then only paying royalties from the time the copyright claim is made, legal fees exceeding royalties.

Record labels do it all the time. How do you think people sample so much music in rap? You get a compulsory liscense and make the track. Kanye West, everybody does it.

I like both versions. One has what the other one doesn’t.

I love B…but when I saw she remade the song I immediately went to Itunes and downloaded Des’ree’s version. The young bucks don’t know about her.

Anyway who cares…I am looking forward to seeing how many comments this post gets by COB tonight.

Let the drama begin!!!

I’m shocked that her record company would let something like this slide, there are entire departments dedicated to making sure the songs they put out are legally sound.

I can’t decide if “only” suing for $150,000 proves the case or not….One might say suing for such a small amount shows that they have nothing in favor, but then again one could say the small amount shows they aren’t suing just to get rich, they have an actual case.

Part of me thinks that Beyonce messed this up because she went into hiding recording this album and had no one check up on her (haha) since she said she had everything under control.

But for the record, Desiree’s version >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Beyonce’s.

So this is ONE side of the story.

Uhhh, it’s a no brainer.

And Comumbia nor Beyonce are that stupid to record a song w/o getting covering rights. That would just be ignorant to the max.

Not a hater but I think Beyonce uses other people’s songs all the time anyway and not give them credit. She makes people think that she writes all her songs when its not true. For example I remember seing her on ch.101 talkin bout she wrote “Irreplacable” to empower women and stuff when Ne-yo is the 1 who wrote the song. She gave him no credit at all.
I like Des’ree’s version better.(I downloaded it a while ago)

COME ON NOW..THERE IS NO DECISION TO REALLY MAKE OR THINK ABOUT…DESIREE…. BEYONCE FUCKED IT UP….

Beyonce

I heard the full version on youtube and to me, Des’ree song the song more opera like and I really wasn’t feelin it. I like Beyonce’s version much better, it sounded prettier.

Dang, some of yall commin at Beyonce like yall know her or something. For all yall know it’s just a rumor and none of yall were there so you don’t know what really happened. So some of yall just get over it!

didnt even get to hear much of des’ree. so why do people just say BEYONCE straight away?

RNB*MJ I got tha soda and the milk duds LoL…900 comments by friday!

Okay, well I’m in the industry and I have to say this was the stupidiest move on Beyonce’s part. Very stupid. First off, for those who think that Beyonce went ahead and recorded the song without permission already knowing how much she would have gotten sued for, it doesn’t work that way. Beyonce had no idea how much she would have gotten sued for. That figure came along after the fact. So let’s say Des’ree asked for more money…way more than what she is seeking. Would it really have been worth it? Aside from that, this makes Beyonce a figure that some may not want to work with in the future. Imagine if other artists just went ahead and recording material they didn’t receive permission or clearance on with the thought in the back of their mind that they could afford the lawsuit. It’s the dumbest thing an artist can do, because in the end it will hurt their reputation and ultimately their career.

Its funny that the same people who keep saying everybody is hating on Beyonce are the same people who hate on others. They are both talented black women. Beyonce is not breaking down all your doors thanking you for coming to her rescue on why “you” feel she sang it better. They are two different people with two different styles. Everytime I come to this site and there is a Beyonce against somebody post people cant give there opinion without somebody calling them a hater. If thats the case then everybody hatin. Why is the post in hear for her more than the post for the VA Tech victims?

@108 - No someone didn’t make me listen to it but I heard about her doing the song over and I wanted to hear how it sounded. It sucks!! I don’t hate on B, I just hate how she goes over the top sometimes, I’m sorry how Sasha goes over the top.

DES’REE KILLED THIS SONG HANDS DOWN AND BEYONCE IS MY FAVORITEEEEEEE ARTIST…BUT I REMEMBER THIS FROM ROMEO AND JULIET AND IM TELLING YOU THIS SONG WAS MADE FOR DES’REES VOICE…I HATED BEYONCES VERSION AND DONT EVEN KNOW WHY SHE DECIDED TO DO IT..HER VERSION COULD NEVER COMPARE TO DES’REE’S AND TRUST ME I AM OBSESSED WITH BEE…SORRY GIRL DES’REE BEEN HAVING THIS ON LOCK FROM YEARSSS AGO…STILL GOT LOVE FOR U BEE!!!

I heard both versions before the day, and I have to say that Beyonce sang it better. No contest for me.

Please don’t get me wrong, I love Beyonce but Des’ree really sang the hell out of that song. I don’t feel B did that song much justice. Not to mention the damn video sucked. Looked like she got Jay to hold a camera and said “Just keep filming me as I roll around in the sand kinda like that Isaac guy”.

EVERYBODY IS ON BEYONCE’S DICK..SHE WAS WRONG FOR WHAT SHE DID..EVEN IF IT AINT TRUE..LEAVE SHIT ALONE.WHY DID SHE HAVE TO CHANGE THE WORDS AROUND….I LIKE HER MUSIC BUT I DONT LIKE HER BUT THAT IS NOT WHY I AM GOING FOR DESIREE…HER HAS SO MUCH SOUL, DEPTH…BEYONCE JUS SOUNDED LIKE SHE DIDNT REALLY WANT TO DO THE SONG BUT DID IT ANYWAY

Desree sang it soooo much better

Ar people deaf?? i know this site is full of bey stans but use your friggin ears, Des’rees version is a classic. It has soo much passion and emotion and her voice is incredible.

Beyonce ruined one of the best songs. Yea she can sing but this song wasnt for her. she keeps stealing other people’s music and claiming it as her own and some stupid people (stans) applaud this. she should have written an original song it would have saved her sooo much hassle

$150,000???? is that all? I mean this is Beyounce—i would be trying to sue for waaaaay mo than that!!!

This is Des’res version it is a great song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G0NHmGcY0M

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RNB*MJ I got tha soda and the milk duds LoL…900 comments by friday!

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GET BACK TO WORK BITCHES!

@ #23 Compton_Chick

You hit the nail on the head. Des’Ree. No contest.

like they say….. cnt nobody out do a song lik da person who made it!!! so u already no who it iz! lolz

I was wondering why that song sounded so familiar. I’m actually surprised Beyonce’s people did that. She probably thought it was taken care of. And Des’Ree is not a “nobody” she wrote the damn song and basically they tried to screw her out of her check.

I like both. But I like Des’Ree’s better because her voice always moved my soul.

What i’m confused about is that yall call people stans because they like her or her version better but someone calls you a hater and you claim its just your opinion. Doesn’t it work both ways? Yall mad cause she used the song and didn’t care about getting sued? Damn do yall have to pay the lawsuit?

THIS IS FROM WESTBURY MUSIC, THE COMPANY OVER DESREE

Beyonce Does A Cover Of “Im Kissing You”

The love theme from “Romeo & Juliet” finds favour with the US superstar - but legal problems abound…

The beautiful world superstar Beyonce is rapidly becoming one of the favourite Westbury artistes.
A couple of months ago, she put out a version of her “Ring The Alarm” single with samples from the Winston Riley/Tenor Saw track “Ring The Alarm”. This pleased us.

Now we are delighted. Because she has covered the tune “Im Kissing You”, written by Desree and Westbury writer Tim Atack.

The tune first came to attention as the Love Theme from the Baz Luhrmann 1996 version of “Romeo And Juliet” and, since then, has featured on more than 50 compilations and has become one of the best-known Desree tunes, even though it has never been released as a single.

But this new version has caused problems to do with the unlicensed adaptation (new lyrics inserted) and the fact her record company has sought to re-title her version. These might still bring the use to court. We would hope not but we have the rights of the writer to protect!

The new version has already been done on video, showing it may be being thought of as a future single.

We thought our tender reader might like to remind themselves of the original song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G0NHmGcY0M

before sampling the Beyonce video…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU5GGiFK5Bc

Date: April, 2007

PEOPLE NEED TO STOP ASSUMING AND KNOW BEFORE THEY SPEW OFF TRASH. BEYONCE DID NOT STEAL THE SONG, SHE CHANGED THE LYRICS AND TITLE!

POINT IS SHE STOLE THE GIRL SONG, CHANGED A FEW WORDS AND TOOK CREDIT FOR IT. A RECURRING THEME WITH THE BEYAKI CAMP.

BEYONCE IS NOT TALENTED. SHE CAN SING BUT SO CAN A LOT OF PEOPLE. THAT’S IT. NO ORIGINALITY, CREATIVITY NOTHING. JUST AZZ AND ONCE PEOPLE GET OVER IT as i see is the case now

I ONLY NEED 25 SECONDS TO DETERMINE THAT DES’REE RULES OVA BEY. THAT TRIK LEARNED ER’THANG FROM DES! BY THE WAY GIVE HER DES’REE’S PHONE NUMBER - SHE COULD USE A DECENT BACK-UP CHIK FOR HER NEW CD.

TELL HER TO PLEASE CALL 999-3838 AND SUBMIT A DEMO.

Desreee. Undoubtedly!
It would help if you guys put a poll with this post.