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TIL Beyoncé’s hit “If I were a boy” it’s not original and was released as a single without the author’s permission. The “terms” that Beyonce had come to with were to allow to do a duet together if BC Jean the author of the song were to get her own record deal. That has not happened yet for Jean.

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