Christina Aguilera: 'Hippy Skippy Moon Strut' Thief?
by Elizabeth Sexton
Christina Aguilera’s smash hit “Ain’t No Other Man” has boomeranged back to her with a lawsuit.
Aguilera has been listed as a codefendant in a lawsuit from TufAmerica, who declares they are the legal, rightful owner to a song that was sampled in “Ain’t No Other Man.”
Aguilera’s song samples the 1968 song “Hippy Skippy Moon Strut” (also referred to as “I’ll Be A Lucky Man”). As TMZ reports, Sony Music went through Codigo Music and the Clyde Otis Music Group to use the sample.
The song won the 2007 Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Four years later, TufAmerica’s lawsuit asks the court for rightful ownership to “Hippy Skippy Moon Strut” and to grant punitive damages.
Aguilera, who recently joined the NBC show “The Voice," has been through a string of bad events recently, including National Anthem bloopers at the Super Bowl, stumbling at The Grammys and a recent arrest for public intoxication.