Etta James: “Beyonce Comments Were A Joke!”
Etta James says she was joking when she threatened to whoop Beyonce’s ass at a concert in Seattle last weekend.
“I didn’t really mean anything. Even as a little child, I’ve always had that comedian kind of attitude. …That’s probably what went into it,” the legendary soul songstress said in an interview with the New York’s Daily News on Thursday.
Etta admits that she was hurt about not being invited to perform her trademark ballad, “At Last,” for the President and First Lady’s inauguration night First Dance.
“I feeling left out of something that was basically mine, that I had done every time you look around,” she said. When asked if she thought she could have done a better job performing the song than Beyonce, Etta replied, “I think so. That’s a shame to say that.”
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On February 6th 2009, Jrzsfnst609 wrote:
Please Matthew paid Etta to “apologize” we all know the deal, the same way he paid for her to sing at the Inaguraton.
On February 15th 2009, loveless family wrote:
you can’t go back and change it. what it was is what it was and thats life.