Feb 13, 2008 • 1 min read

Aretha Franklin comments on Tina Turner 'Queen Of Soul' remark

Aretha Franklin has said she felt slighted when Beyonce introduced Tina Turner as the 'Queen Of Soul' at the Grammys.

Aretha Franklin has commented on the fact that Beyonce announced Tina Turner as the 'Queen Of Soul' at Sunday's Grammy ceremony, despite the fact that Franklin is usually the one to carry that nickname.

I expect some reporter asked her to say something - these comments don't often come from nowhere. And given that these 'queen of [insert genre]' type titles are generally pretty arbitrary and applied to more than one person at a time I doubt she was genuinely offended.

Or perhaps not. She does seem to think they did it on purpose to piss her off. Look, here's what she said: "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. However, I dismissed it as a cheap shot for controversy".

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