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Aretha Franklin looking for a little respect from Beyonce
Aretha Franklin long known as the “Queen of Soul” wasn’t happy with Beyonce Knowles. In the first few seconds of Knowles’ intro to Tina Turner’s performance, Beyonce name-dropped Franklin and a long list of famed female singers. Then the “Crazy in Love” singer focused on Turner and referred to her, and not Franklin, as “the queen.”
“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.”
At a party later that night, Knowles called Turner her “ultimate icon.”
An offended Aretha Franklin did not mince her words:
 ”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.”
Still, Franklin ended her brief criticism on a gracious note, thanking the Grammys and the voting academy and saying, “love to Beyonce anyway.”
Aretha has been looking for respect all Grammy week. The icon reportedly refused to perform with Alicia Keys or Mary J. Blige at the MusiCares event in Los Angeles last week. Well she is the Queen!
She’s the only one who could behave like that and people won’t bat an eye. She IS the queen.