Beyoncé Producer Boots Explains Animal Collective Credit on "6 Inch"

When Beyoncé released her new album Lemonade, the full album credits revealed a few unlikely names, including Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, Father John Misty, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and more. On the Weeknd-featuring song “6 Inch,” the credits note that the track “embodies portions of” the Animal Collective single “My Girls.” Over on Genius, the track’s co-producer Boots explained that the connection between Beyoncé’s line (“She too smart to crave material things”) and Animal Collective’s (“I don’t mean to seem like I care about material things”) was initially “accidental.” He compared the songwriting process to George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord,” which was famously the subject of a lawsuit when the Beatle was accused of “subconsciously” lifting the melody from the Chiffons’ “He’s So Fine.” Boots wrote:

you write it and sing it and think “thats fucking great!!!” and everyone high fives and you’re all geniuses for fourteen seconds but it turns out its great because someone else already fucking wrote it. that song is a jam.

Boots also called the track the “spiritual sequel” to the Beyoncé track “Haunted.” Listen to “6 Inch” on Tidal. Here’s “My Girls”:

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