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zsana
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 Posted: Fri 06 Feb 2009 13:16 Post subject: Singer disses Obama, Beyonce |
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Singer disses Obama, Beyonce
Beyonce and James together at the Cadillac Records premiere.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/06/singer-disses-obama-beyonce-2/#more-38812
| Quote: | (CNN) — The entertainment world may be in a swoon over Barack Obama, but one legendary soul singer is fuming at the new president and the pop star who serenaded the first couple on inauguration night.
Etta James, famous for her rendition of the song “At Last,” is apparently miffed that pop star Beyonce was tapped to perform the ballad as the president and first lady slow-danced during the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball on January 20.
“You guys know your president, right?” the singer asked an audience in Canada last week, according to audio posted on TMZ.com. “You know the one with big ears? Yeah, wait a minute. He ain’t my president.”
She then went after Beyonce: “That woman singing for him, singing my song? She’s gonna get her ass whipped.”
James added that she “can’t stand Beyonce” and that the starlet “has no business up there singing, singing up there on a big old President day, singing my song that I been singing forever.”
But is James flip-flopping on Beyonce? She did not raise an objection when the singer portrayed her in the film “Cadillac Records” — and just recently, James’s son told a New York paper that his mother was moved by the inauguration night performance. |
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girlfromthenc
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| Posted: Fri 06 Feb 2009 21:30 Post subject: |
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| I think she was attempting to be funny! |
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onlyhuman77
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| Posted: Fri 06 Feb 2009 22:34 Post subject: |
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Etta James feels like she is being replaced. This is the song people have attached to her for how many decades since it was her signature song, and now Barack Obama has Beyonce singing to him and his wife and not Etta, she has a right to feel the way she does.
It's like Whitney Houston singing Every Woman for some big women's Event, while Chaka Khan can still perform the song as well, perhaps even better.
But I think Etta James is not considering Beyonce could have chosen a variety of slow songs not just that one. |
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Famu
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| Posted: Sat 07 Feb 2009 03:54 Post subject: |
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| I think she's just joking around. |
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