Talk:What a Girl Wants (Christina Aguilera song)

Ophélie Winter and Ce que je suis

I must say that I find it odd that I can't anything here in regards to the situation with Ophelie Winter. A song of her called 'Je que je suis' uses an identical melody to 'What a girl wants', and was first released in 1998 (not as a single, but merely on the album Privacy) and in 2000 (this time as a single, but after 'What a girl wants' had hit the charts in France).

I came to this page because I vaguely remember the situation; it was presented as if Aguilera et al had plagiarized the song from Winter and that the matter would be settled in court - I never learned what happened afterwards. And, after a glance at the English and French wikipedia pages, I'm sadly not alone in my ignorance.

The only press-related page I could find on Google thus far (in French) (http://www.actustar.com/Actualites/8243/l-affaire-ophe-winter-christina-aguilera), does mention it - but it is only one page and considering the amount of gossip rags among entertainment websites I can't deem it to be reliable to give me any conclusions about what happened in this case.

I hope that someone more knowledgeable reads this and is willing to give some clarification. In any case, I will try to dig up a bit more info in the upcoming week. Come January 7th 2011 - if nothing else has been added - I will add a section called 'Other versions' (as opposed to the usual title 'Cover versions' as that is not entirely clear to me) and shortly describe the situation in a couple of sentences with the available information. As it now stands, I will conclude with the notion that regardless of any possible claim both parties might have or have had, there is no apparent evidence that either party has challenged the other for the rights of the song.Hyperzoanoid (talk) 22:49, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Interesting. I found this in The complete book of the British charts: singles & albums by Neil Warwick, Jon Kutner, and Tony Brown: [1]. Apparently "What a Girl Wants" was originally recorded by Winter in 1998 as « Ce que je suis ». It doesn't mention anything about a lawsuit, though. Yves (talk) 22:57, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply Yves, and yes I misspelled the title :) (In fact, I thought I could sneak back and correct it, he.)...unfortunately I can't view the page right now, but at least there's a source. Hopefully there's more to come, otherwise we're just going to help ourselves with all that's available. Thanks again and best wishes for 2011.77.168.221.221 (talk) 01:32, 1 January 2011 (UTC)