Beyonce says tabloid is bootyvicious.Beyonce Knowles homophobic? The British tabloid The Sun suggested as much in an October interview titled "Beyonce: 'God Won't Let Me Kiss Girls.'" The story has the 22-year-old Grammy winner describing her religious beliefs ("God is the main person in my life, and I wouldn't do anything to offend him") and then saying "it was a shock" to see Madonna and Britney Spears kiss at the MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. Video Mimic Awards. "I couldn't do what Britney and Madonna did," Beyonce says in the story. "I have standards. There are things I will not do." Meanwhile, the story says, Beyonce sees nothing immoral about her own hetero-seductive image. "I honestly believe [God] wants people to celebrate their bodies," says the bootylicious bootylicious Adjective Slang sexually attractive, esp. with curvaceous buttocks star, "as long as you don't compromise your Christianity in the process." As bad press started to roll in after the story, the closenit Knowles family fought back. Beyonce's dad and Manager, Mathew Knowles
Mathew Knowles is an American record executive and manager. , complained to Newsday That The Sun's story was a "cut-and-paste job A cut-and-paste job is a form of attack on a perceived opponent in some public controversy. It consists of selectively quoting the opponent's words, out of context, and/or in misleading juxtaposition to each other in order to leave the impression that the subject has said something that " designed to paint his delighter as a homophobe. Regarding the Britney-Knowles insisted, Beyonce said only, "I would never do that, but I thought it was a great performance." Then Beyonce herself laid down the law. "I'd like to clarify any confusion over some quotes that were attributed to me totally out of context in a recent interview," she said in a statement. "I have never judged anyone based on his or her sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. and have no intention of starting now. I have a lot of gay and lesbian fans, and I love them no differently than my straight fans." You go, girl. But really, No Britney kiss? Dang dang interj. Used to express dissatisfaction or annoyance. adv. & adj. Damn. tr.v. danged, dang·ing, dangs To damn. n. ! |
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