The former CNN host, who says he doesn't like it 'when entertainers go all political,' accuses Bey of using the mothers of police brutality victims to sell her music.
- Apr 27, 2016
AceShowbiz - Piers Morgan has some issues with Beyonce Knowles' latest surprise visual album "Lemonade". After the record was released over the weekend, the former CNN host let everyone know what he thought about it in an essay he wrote for Daily Mail.
"I never like it when entertainers go all political. The cynic in me believes it's rarely done for genuine reasons but for strictly commercial ones," he began the essay before accusing Bey of using the mothers of police brutality victims Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown to sell her music.
"I once spent a delightful day with her in London for CNN and she was bright, warm, funny, sharp and incredibly impressive," Morgan continued. "But I have to be honest, I preferred the old Beyonce. The less inflammatory, agitating one. The one who didn't use grieving mothers to shift records and further fill her already massively enriched purse. The one who didn't play the race card so deliberately and to my mind, unnecessarily."
Many Beyonce fans, including the famous ones like Matt McGorry, Don Cheadle and Questlove, quickly came to the diva's defense. "I don't believe that saying you have 'huge respect' for her (as an artist & businesswoman) doesn't mean you can't also be supporting racism (unbeknownst to you). It's no different than saying you have 'black friends' and therefore can't be racist. Do you agree with that?" McGorry tweeted.
Cheadle wrote in his own tweet, "When artists step away from the base that made them popular, that is threatening their $$$, not insuring it." Meanwhile, Questlove cheekily posted a GIF of Michael Jackson and captioned it, "Oh Piers...poor Piers."
@piersmorgan @marclamonthill When artists step away from the base that made them popular, that is threatening their $$$, not insuring it.
— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) 26 April 2016
Oh Piers...poor Piers https://t.co/mhJqZ9Mucy
— Questlove Gomez (@questlove) 26 April 2016
