Somewhere, Queen Latifah Must Be Steaming Mad In Indignation
IS THERE ANYTHING FUNNIER THAN DIVAS
SQUABBLING OVER THE TITLE 'QUEEN?'
Chanteuse Beyonce had the nerve to introduce Tina
Turner at Sunday evening's Grammys as rock 'n roll's true royalty. "There is one legend who
has the essence of all those things: the glamour, the soul, the passion, the strength, the
talent. Ladies and gentlemen, stand on your feet and give it up for the queen." Not to mention
that figure and those legs, Beyonce. Crabby would die for those legs.
Aretha Franklin, the longtime holder of
the title "Queen of Soul" who is no slouch herself in the passion and soul department, was
insulted that Turner was called the "queen.'' So she released a statement posthaste
after the Grammy party calling Beyonce on the red carpet for bestowing the title to someone
else. "I am not sure of whose toes I may have stepped on or whose ego I may have bruised between
the Grammy writers and Beyonce,'' Aretha huffed figuratively (and probably literally). "However,
I dismissed it as a cheap shot for controversy." I guess being called "one of the giants of soul
music," isn't enough for Franklin, double entendre that it is. But we concur that
she has claimed the title "Queen of Soul''
for some time, and we all should curtsy in recognition that she was the first woman inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Beyonce’s father, who manages his daughter's career, dissed Franklin further when he dismissed
the controversy as a waste of his time. "I'm not even going
to take this to her,” Mathew Knowles told USA Today. “Something this ridiculous, it's childish,
it's unprofessional. And it's a sad day when egos get bruised because somebody used the word
king, queen, prince or princess.”
As they say, the queen is dead; long live the queen.
Posted February 14, 2008
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