One hit wonders Eamon and Frankee now – legal issues, fake exes and chart flops

Lots of celebrities go through break-ups in the public eye – but no split is more memorable than the apparent beef between Eamon and Frankee in 2003.

It all started when singer Eamon, now 40, released his song F*** It (I Don't Want You Back). His debut single caused controversy with its frequent use of swear words and aggressive language.

But what came back was an answer track from Frankee, now 40, who everyone believed was the ex-girlfriend Eamon's song was about. She released F.U.R.B. (F*** You Right Back) a few months later.

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Both songs hit the No1 spot in the UK and around the world. However there was actually a lot of controversy surrounding them.

Fake romance

New York native Eamon Doyle, known by just his first name, was an unknown singer when he released F*** It (I Don't Want You Back). It took aim at an unnamed ex, with angry and explicit lyrics such as "f*** you, you h*e, I don't want you back", "Ya played me, ya even gave him h**d" and "You're just another hag".

The song was released in November 2003, and in March 2004 came Frankee's response. Like Eamon, Frankee was an unknown singer and F.U.R.B. (F*** You Right Back) was her debut.

Born Nicole Francine Aiello, the fellow New Yorker claimed to be Eamon's ex that he was singing about. Her song was almost identical to Eamon's apart from the lyrics.

In her song she sang lyrics like "I don't know why you're cryin' like a bitch", "I had better sex all alone" and "f*** all those nights you thought you broke my back". But it eventually emerged that not only was Frankee not Eamon's ex, they'd actually never met.

Eamon originally claimed that he and his team had auditioned girls to create the response single. But in a 2004 statement, Eamon revealed he hadn't been involved in the song at all.

"I have never met Frankee and she is definitely not my girlfriend or ex-girlfriend," he said. Despite laughing off the song at first, it appears he then tried to distance himself from it completely.

Eamon admitted earlier this year that the entire song had been a lie. He told Billboard: "I was always on the other side of heartbreak – the kind of guy that I pray the Lord keeps far away from my daughters!

"Anyway, I flipped the script and wrote it from the heartbroken perspective. So technically it's not a true story."

Meanwhile, Frankee claimed she genuinely did believe the song was about her. She said: "After hearing the record, I started thinking that maybe it was about me and I actually have a friend at a record label, and I presented the idea to her, so we wrote the song together."

Eamon said in 2023: "The whole ordeal got really annoying … So many interviews had the question, ‘What is it like to have your ex make a rebuttal song?’

"That was frustrating, because I wanted to talk about music instead of a lie that had no foundation in truth whatsoever. It is what it is, though. I made money off of it, because it’s no different than Weird Al re-doing a song.”

Legal issues

In Eamon's statement in 2004, he revealed that there had been some legal issues with Frankee's song. Given it was basically the same song, it had to be cleared through licensing.

Eamon said: "The only way I was associated with it was when I was asked for licensing permission by Frankee's representatives, which makes me a writer on her song by copyright law. But I really didn't expect all this to come out of it.

"They are having fun with it, it's cool. But in the end they are paying me for their 15 minutes of fame and I welcome her to my world of ho-wop!"

Chart flops

After the success of his debut single, Eamon released three more in 2004, 2006 and 2017. The 2004 track I Love Them Ho's (Ho-Wop) reached No27 in the UK, the 2006 follow-up (How Could You) Bring Him Home charted at No61, and 2017's Be My Girl failed to chart.

He also released a number albums, but only 2004's I Don't Want You Back charted, reaching No6 in the UK. Despite his lack of success in the charts, Eamon has continued in the music scene.

A number of Eamon's songs have been used in television and movies, including Magnum PI, The Rookie, Queen Of The South and Red Notice. He's still releasing new music now, but it doesn't make much of an impression commercially.

Meanwhile, Frankee's career was even less successful. She released two more singles – How You Do, and Watch Me – but neither charted.

Frankee was dropped by her label after her series of chart flops, and her second album was cancelled. It's believed she then went into modelling instead.

Quiet life

While Eamon is still in the music scene, he's calmed down since his days of singing about New York "h*es" and cheating. He's now happily married with two children.

Frankee, on the other hand, has no social media presence. Basically nothing is known about what she got up to after she quit music almost 20 years ago in 2006.

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