The news hasn’t made the sort of waves she was likely hoping for, but you may have heard that LeAnn Rimes is plotting a career comeback.
Unfortunately, thus far, it’s going about as well as LeAnn’s efforts to make everyone forget she stole Brandi Glanville’s husband.
Earlier this week, LeAnn was slammed for using the Orlando nightclub shooting to promote her new album.
Now, she’s grappling with a much less severe controversy that could nonetheless seriously damage her sales and what’s left of her reputation.
The first single from the LeAnn’s 11th studio release is entitled “The Story,” which is also the name of the album itself.
Needless to say, it’s an important song for LeAnn, and she’s passing it off as sort of the signature number of her adult years.
So it’s very strange that she’s made no mention of the artist who originally recorded it.
As several media outlets have pointed out, “The Story” was first released by Brandi Carlile in 2007.
In her constant promotion of the song, LeAnn seems to have not mentioned Brandi by name once.
In fact, the only mention of Ms. Carlile from anyone in LeAnn’s camp came when her frequent co-writer and producer Darrell Brown was pressed for details by a fan.
“‘The Story’ is a song written by #PhilHanesworth and originally recorded by the fantastic #BrandiCarlile,” Brown tweeted when asked about the song’s origins.
“Remember every great singer has to own the song to make it their own. Make sense?”
Uh, yeah … but you can “own” a song and still give credit to the non-famous artist who “owned” it first.
Otherwise, you just look shady AF.