If any of you saw the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, the image of Beyonce Knowles’ cringe-inducing beat poet intro to Tina Turner’s performance is still burned into your memory. As you’ll recall, Beyonce name-dropped several notable female singers in this intro including Aretha Franklin, finally focusing on Tina Turner. “There is one legend who has the essence of all of those things: the glamour, the soul, the passion, the strength, the talent,” said Knowles, strutting in hot pants. “Ladies and gentlemen. Stand on your feet and give it up for the queen.” This did not sit well with Aretha Franklin, Queen of Douchebags, er, I mean Soul.“I am not sure of whose toes I may have stepped on or whose ego I may have bruised between the Grammy writers and Beyonce,” Franklin said in a statement issued by her publicist. “However, I dismissed it as a cheap shot for controversy.” Franklin ended her brief criticism on a gracious note, thanking the Grammys and the voting academy and saying, “love to Beyonce anyway.”Queen Aretha needs to take it down a notch.

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