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Aretha Franklin Slams Beyonce’s Grammy Intro

by dng on February 13th, 2008

Aretha Franklin took issue with Beyonce’s introduction of Tina Turner at Sunday night’s Grammys. During her introduction Beyonce said, “There is one legend who has the essence of all of those things: the glamour, the soul, the passion, the strength, the talent,” said Knowles, strutting in hot pants. “Ladies and gentlemen. Stand on your feet and give it up for the queen.”

Aretha feels she’s the only Queen, however. “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,” Franklin said in a statement issued by her publicist. “However, I dismissed it as a cheap shot for controversy.”

Sounds kind of petty to me. Though Aretha is known as the Queen of Soul, Tina Turner earned enough accolades to also be considered Rock ‘N Roll royalty. And if Aretha did have issues with it, why not discuss it with the people who wrote Beyonce’s script instead of taking it to the press? Maybe a cry for attention? The battle of the divas?

I think it’s all rather unnecessary.

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