In March of last year, when it was announced that Beyoncé Knowles was going the part of Etta James in the R&B film “Cadillac Records” the 70-year-old singer sounded skeptical, but didn’t sound completely opposed to the casting news.
“I don’t think she looks like me, but that’s all right. They can fix that up,” she said.
Well a rant and raving James changed her tune very recently during a show at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre on January 28, pissed that President Barack Obama didn’t ask her to sing “At Last,” at the inauguration ball and instead chose the former Destiny’s Child star. The audio of the rant — of course — leaked.
“You guys know your president, right? You know the one with the big ears?” began her rant. “Wait a minute, he ain’t my president. He might be yours; he ain’t my president. But I tell you that woman he had singing for him, singing my song — she’s going to get her ass whipped. The great Beyoncé. Like I said, she ain’t mine. … I can’t stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol’ president day, gonna be singing my song that I’ve been singing forever,” James said via quotes transcribed by MTV.
You’re right Etta. A new black president gets inaugurated and you have to go use the opportunity to not only hate on your fellow sister, but your fellow black sister. Yeah, progress…
The rant is below. We didn’t care much for the paint-by-number boring biopic slog of “Cadillac Records,” but truthfully, Beyoncé was one of the best parts of the film. Oh well…