Beyoncé Addresses Controversy Surrounding BMA Performance

May 25, 2011 by Kellie Williams in Latest News with 4 Comments

After Beyonce hit the Billboard Music Awards stage belting out “Who Run the World (Girls)”, people began to make an obvious comparison with her performance to Italian singer Lorella Cuccarini. According to Beyoncé, she was inspired by Cuccarini and used the artists team for her performance. She told AOL Music, “My makeup artist showed me the performance of Lorella Cuccarini a year ago, and it inspired me so much. I then met with the talented people who worked on it. The technology and concept were so genius. Thank God for YouTube or I would have never been exposed to something so inspiring. I never worked so hard on anything in my life as that performance for the Billboard Awards.”

Authored by: Kellie Williams

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Allykat May 25, 2011 at 6:51 pm

we don’t believe you, you need more people Bey

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Thandi May 25, 2011 at 7:29 pm

First she steals southern african dances and now someone else’s performance, smh

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LMW May 26, 2011 at 2:37 am

Why cant she be inspired by someone else? We all do it every day;hair styles,fashion trends,slang. Why is there a different standard for Beyonce??? She is human…

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Neith08 May 27, 2011 at 10:45 am

And the African dance “stealing” is a stretch. All hip hop dance is derived from African dance. Period. That’s not stealing. That’s who we are.

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