'Jackie' due for release May 4

Singer's latest LP to come out on May 4

After the recent Pharrell/Robin Thicke ruling, similarities between songs will be scrutinized more than ever. In a new interview, R&B producer Jermaine Dupri points out that Ciara’s potentially career-reviving new single “I Bet” is “a complete rip-off” of Usher’s “U G...

Dupri co-produced the Usher single in 2001

In the video for her Future-side-eyeing new break-up single “I Bet,” Ciara turned herself into the quintessential music-box ballerina. If you grew up as a little girl in a certain era, then you probably had one of those little pink music boxes that ostensibly held your jewelry. The box was great, but the real treasure [&#...