Beyoncé: So, You Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’

December 10th, 2008

Beyonce

Is Beyoncé getting too big for her britches?  In OK! Magazine, she slighted the mighty Jacksons family when comparing her own middle-class upbringing, suggesting that her parents, Matthew and Tina Knowles, didn’t use her as a cash cow like Joe Jackson did his children.

“I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar,” Beyonce told OK! Magazine. “We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.”

Well hooray to you for not growing up poor in a small, modest home in Gary, Ind filled with talented siblings. And I give your parents kudos for sending you to a private school if the public ones were subpar. But didn’t they teach you scruples? And was it necessary to bring up the Jacksons to suggest that you weren’t exploited, even though they seem to have a stronghold on your career?

So folks, was it just a slipped of the tongue or a cocky remark? Also, do you think that Beyoncé needs an interview coach?

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sanquice Said on

Beyonce needs to quit. She is so boring now and if her parents had more than 2 children in the 60’s than they would have lived the same life style as the Jackson’s did WORKING CLASS BLACK FOLK TRYING TO MAKE ENDS MEET. She needs to focus on her future because her act is wack!



Baby Brooklyn Said on

ok, this is word! I’m not a fan of Beyonce at all, Never!! but she’s young. And she should have thought about what she said. The Jackson’s grew up in different times. It can’t be compared. I believe that Janet and Beyonce ride the same train, they are both very talented. Beyonce has the voice, that is ture.

I’m sad that she made that comment. It was stupid, but she ’s intitle to her opinion. which I think is crazy to say about The Jackson, but she did!

It’s call Hollywood!!!!



Mrs D Said on

Beyonce is crazy, I don’t know if she is feeling her self too much or what, but she sounds a little bit arrogant. If she had all this money, why is her mother her hair stylist, and she does her wardrobe. She be looking a hot ass mess, and she is always sporting those big ass hairdo’s, no wonder her ass haven’t fell over yet I know it has to be heavy, and looking back at the jackson’s performance I have never seen any of the Jackson’s fall on stage they we’re all on point. I can’t say that for miss pritsy her ass was doing a concert walking down the steps and trip over the big dress her mother probably put her in,she got up so quick, I know she was embarrassed, and they had her on YOU TUBE. I played that video over and over again. She needs to find a new hair stylist and wardrobe personal and stop being cheap and saving money. As a matter ao fact didn’t her father mess around on her mother, just as Joe Jackson did she asn’t said anything about that though , because they had something in common there.



esha Said on

Everybody family has issues and in some way shape or form is disfunctional some more than others. She acts as if her family is picture perfect. Thats why people like keyshia cole and mary j. blidge are so well liked and humble. They keep it very real they put it out their that just because their rich and famous they still have the same problems as the next person has walking down the street.



chin Said on

bey dont try to compare yourself with the jacksons they are foundation you are not , just remember girl that you just come if you dont have good to say shut you mouth



mayo Said on

go to hell beyonce who the f””””’ you think you are you cant fit in the jackson shoes no time



shannell Said on

first of all jus becuz you grew up wit money dnt mean shyt and janet came from the gutta its like that sum tymes far as money go u was gettin payed more than the others, and you was gettin more spotlight jus becuz he’s your father you ain’t no differ from nobody else wit ur fake ass dnt get me wrong i like sum of ur songs but you didnt haf 2 put janet on front street like that. some people start like that from the gutta so get it right



TONYA Said on

BEYONCE IS A LIL GIRL SEE NEED TO GROW UP



KIRAH Said on

I THINK IT RIGHT WAT BEYOUNCE SAID



Kyanna Said on

OMg she needs an extreme wake up call…talented yes arrogant extremely…everyone had to struggle kudos to you that you didn’t struggle,but for the working class,we aren’t handed success on a silver platter…hence the name working class……that changes my mind set of her…honestly I don’t care to much about her.



Shan Said on

If that is the case then your dad being your manager he did all that for free out of the kindness of his haart. You did not need to pay him a percentage of your income? He has not received a dime from you or any of the girls that were in the group? I am steaming I hope this is a rumor and not true I am hot about it and I am not even a Jackson



Isabella Yessi Said on

Dorothy Weaver How can you sit there and defend someone so cocky and
bi tchy..Maybe you are a NEED A reality check!!
Beyonce is a skank b***h who uses her a** shaking to get by, she is overated like no other before her. Janet never had to show her tail to get ahead, it was hard work and determination. To bad all of that private schooling did not pay off for Bey because she is one illiterate fool. Have you ever heard her speak? she can hardly put two sentences together, she is a joke and history will reveal her to be a joke. She should bow to Janet, if were not for people like Janet Jackson, that made being an Entertainer a great thing, beyonce would be no where because she is not a true singer or artist, she is an entertainer, when the people that follow her get into their 30’s her music will become a joke, they will learn to appreciate true artist and true music and (Freak um Dress) Put a ring on it, will be a distant memory, she should be ashamed of herself.

Beyonce, get a grip, You are showing no class just by the fact you are suggesting because Janet came from a different background the her family is a lower class of people than your family. A Jaguar does not represent a person or their soul. Just because you are of a mixed race with a big fat butt does not make you better than anyone else on earth. Everyone is the same, some just have more than others. Janet might not have had the finer things in life like you at an early age, but at least she has more class and is not dissing you and your shake a big booty, hoochie mama white girl want to be life style. Like you left your home girls (Destiny Child friends)alone,leave Janet alone.

Remember, your new music is not all that, and you will never reach the status of great singers like Mary J. Blidge, Tina, Diana Ross, etc. they did not have to shake they booty to make music, they have great voices, messages and talent.



edwina cole Said on

I dont think that she intentionally tried to offend janet jackson about her upbringing at all. I think she was just trying to make a point about her life and it cae across the wrong way in the media. there always overexaggerating what stars say.



tamera Said on

girl im your big big big big fan in i love all your song aspeically check up on it in ego halo in girl you so cool ahhhh!!!!!!!!! =]



kimmie Said on

I agree with Honey B. a little. Beyonce is usually humble in conversation with people. The magazine may have twisted some of her words as well. But, I do think she needs an interview coach. Some things you just don’t say because you risk your words being misinterpreted. I haven’t heard of Janet slashing anyone the entire time she’s been in her career. She to is a very humble person. But let’s face it, it’s two humble women with two very different styles of music and in my opinion there is no comparison to the two. They are both unique in their own way.



Susi Said on

I think it was pretty distasteful the way she expressed herself. She could make a point without throwing in somebodys economical classbackground.



Julie Vickrey Said on

Because of the negative public feed back,beyonce have learned a good lesson. she`s very young and also new to being a super star so she really still has a lot to learn about risky conversations.I love both janet and beyonce and i believe that Bee should give a public apology to Janet and maybe make a song together.



Ivan Said on

I think the words were twisted. I think what Bee meant was that she became a star because she had it easier than most, and that is a very humble and real thing to say. I don’t think she was attacking the Jacksons at all.

For example, that remark about not having parents who used her may have come after discussing Gary Coleman or Macullay Culkin, way later in the interview, when the Jacksons were no longer being discussed. But the magazine’s editor takes out what he doesn’t want and lumps some statements together that did not go together and voila! presto! You get a quote that looks like this:

“…people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.”

Now, there might have been a lot of non-Jackson discussion between the Jacksons and the sentence that began with the word “But”. However, a magazine editor needs only basic reading comprehension, and cutting and pasting skill to make the interview sound like something it wasn’t.

Bottom line? Let’s give Bee the benefit of the doubt. Any woman that fine who would go out with Jay-Z’s “yougly”, former dope-dealin’ ass (and don’t say it’s for money or power, b/c she is P-A-I-D) has to be very unselfish and very down-to-Earth.



Lateefa from t&t Said on

What Beyonce said about the Jacksons is true .No wonder micheal jackson was so messed up and you dont need to be judgemental to see that.I love beyonce, she is very talented,beautiful and is’nt afraid to speak her mind. Thank God america got Obama because some of all yuh real OFF!!!!!!



iove-bird Said on

beyonce you are a gud lady and shrewed dont take what they say about you when you tell the truth about the late jackson he got what he deserve.i like you !!!