So, Beyoncé. I’m not much of a fan because everything about her seems so calculated and wind-machined.
But every so often she goers and does something so idiotic that I have to comment; like a few years back, when she and destiny’s Child recorded a Christmas album that included “Silent Night” and Queen B added a couple of words to the song and listed herself as co-writer.
Of “Silent Night.”
Now, with that new music that she dropped on us unexpectedly comes the story of a track called “XO” and the beginning of the track where you hear a short little audio clip of what sounds like NASA control talking to a space shuttle. Turns out, that’s exactly what it I; it’s an archival audio clip from the Challenger disaster from 1986 that Beyoncé is sampling.
Poor taste, Bey, and now everybody’s piling on.
June Scobee Rodgers, the widow of Dick Scobee, the shuttle commander on the ill-fated STS-51-L mission, is “disappointed” to hear of Beyoncé’s use of the clip:
“We have always chosen to focus not on how our loved ones were lost, but rather on how they lived and how their legacy lives on today.”
And so now Beyoncé’s walking it back:
“My heart goes out to the families of those lost in the Challenger disaster. The song ‘XO’ was recorded with the sincerest intention to help heal those who have lost loved ones and to remind us that unexpected things happen, so love and appreciate every minute that you have with those who mean the most to you.”
She used a nearly thirty-year-old audio clip as a healing message? Howsabout writing your own damned healing messages, B, instead of taking one that still hurts families today?
And plus, it’s not even a real apology, you know. Where’s the “I’m sorry”? It makes me think she had no idea what the audio clip was about but felt it fit her song so she’d damn well use it.
Cuz it’s all about Beyoncé, you know.
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