To Be Blunt -- You Effed Me

Posted Mar 7th 2008 2:48PM by TMZ Staff

The record producer who discovered James Blunt -- the "You're Beautiful" dude -- says she did all the work to make Blunt's multi-platinum "Back to Bedlam" album a huge success -- and Warner Music screwed her.

In court papers filed in New York, Linda Perry -- ex-singer for 4 Non Blondes, 'memba them? -- says she signed the whiner back in 2003, and did "tireless promotion" for "Back to Bedlam," even though Warner Music was lukewarm on it. Then the album exploded, grossing over $100 mil for Warner.

Perry says that's when things got ugly, claiming the big label reworked its deal with Blunt behind her back, and screwed her out of more than $5 mi.

A Warner rep said that Perry "has always been and will continue to be compensated in accordance with the terms of its contractual arrangement with Atlantic."

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1. FIRST!

Posted at 2:54PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Oscar

2. Linda Perry is awesome!!!

Posted at 2:57PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Tee

3. She is, she's a great writer and I hold her personally responsible for Pink's success, while Clive Davis, too. Didn't know she was a producer and promoter for the record co. as well.

Posted at 3:05PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Hell's Kitchen dogwalker

4. hey bojangles screw off with your watercooler virus

Posted at 3:05PM on Mar 7th 2008 by BillyBong

5. She was all like heeeey...heeeey...heeeey...uh huhhhh....what's goin' on ?????

Posted at 3:14PM on Mar 7th 2008 by NYone

6. They better pay this incredibly talented lady. Her voice is so cool. And she made Pink.

Posted at 3:27PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Vanity and Wax

7. I dont think Pink worked her in the beginning of her career, she started using LInda after she was famous already, after she dropped the r & b act and went punk

Posted at 3:32PM on Mar 7th 2008 by NYone

8. I always hate it when someone gets effed. I personally don't care to be effed either, as it can be rather annoying and even painful. Oh well. It is better to have effed and lost, than never to have effed at all. To eff his own.

Posted at 3:49PM on Mar 7th 2008 by SmokingJoe

9. #8 NYone--Not true. Linda wrote Pink's first song "Let's get this party started"

Posted at 3:59PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Kim

10. Well, if you read the terms of her contract as spelled out by the lawsuit, Perry's lawyer admits she gets a percentage of the net, not of the gross. So, right there, Linda needs to go to accounting classes.

They also agreed that if Blunt became successful they would regnotiate the deal, but she would get no less than 4%. She got 4.1%. Although, they don't HAVE to regnotiate (page 7) the deal if Warner doen't want to.

Looks like Linda signed a bad deal. She needs a better lawyer. This lawsuit is DOA.

Pretty slick deal on the part of the Warner guys.

Posted at 4:12PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Future Britney

11. That wasnt pink's first song but it was on her first album so your somewhat right

Posted at 4:16PM on Mar 7th 2008 by NYone

12. #11 Kim , you are wrong her first song was "There You Go" from the c.d. " There You Go"

Posted at 4:18PM on Mar 7th 2008 by BlaBlaBla

13. No, Pink's first cd was Can't Take Me Home. Not "There You Go" that was the first single off that album. And Keven "Shakesphere" Briggs and Kandi Burruss wrote it with Pink' help not Linda Perry. She did the first song from Mizunderstood which was "Get The Party Started".

Posted at 4:44PM on Mar 7th 2008 by anna

14. Yawn

Posted at 4:45PM on Mar 7th 2008 by desi

15. Don't you hate it when someone effs you? Effin crazy, man.

Thankyouverymuuush.

Posted at 4:47PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Elvis Effin Presley

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