http://www.nydailynews.co...0071c.html


That mixture of old and new guard, an Ehrlichtrademark, has kept the audience for the CBS broadcast trending younger, even as the show itself has lost viewers overall. Ehrlich credits the revised nomination procedures with part of that, for making the nominees more vital overall, but also with the Grammys' reach and clout among several generations of artists.

"We all want to be contemporary," he said. "We all want to feel as current as we are timeless."

That's why, two years ago, Prince and Beyoncé stopped the show with their incendiary duet - a performance one of them was very reluctant to agree to.

"I had to persuade [Beyoncé] to do that," Ehrlich said. "It wasn't that she didn't like Prince. She just didn't quite understand how important that would be, putting that in a musical and a historical context."

"I had to persuade [Beyoncé] to do that," Ehrlich said. "It wasn't that she didn't like Prince. She just didn't quite understand how important that would be, putting that in a musical and a historical context."[/i][/quote]





"Speechless"


Ms. Knowles thinks that she is SOMEBODY huh...

LoveAlive said:

Nah. It could have been that she was plain nervous at the prospect of performing alongside a living legend. That would be enough to give anybody the heeby jeebies.

Handel said:

I have to agree with you Handel. I've seen a few interviews before they did that performance she was speaking very highly of him and how cool and inspirational she always thought he was.

which is smarter?...Beyonce'?

or...

Handel said:

very true...it'd be a lot like peeing and creaming your pants at the same time, i imagine.

purplerein said:

Depends. Does the bread have raisins in it?

I recall seeing a clip of Beyonce talking about how she used to be scared of Prince when she was little. She also talked about how beautiful his eyes were when she met him in person. I think she was still a teen at the time and it was on one of VH1's "I Love The 80's" type shows where they have B- and C-List celebs make comments about things from that decade.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

or, y'know....singing and creaming your pants at the same time.

P is mentioned on Beyonce's website.

http://welovebeyonce.com/

theghostoftonym said:

her drawerz must've been overflowing the entire time then.

She thinks Prince is a creepy old man, and she is right to think that. lol

theghostoftonym said:

I think it's gotta be intimidating to sing someone elses song, let alone songs that are CLASSICS & you perform WITH the person. AND the person is P She's done a lot but she hadn't done THAT, P is intimidating as it is...

HoneymoonXpress said:

Bitch, Please!

luv4all7 said:

I have to agree with you here!

"She didn't quite understand how important that would be."

BITCH, Please!!

SexyBeautifulOne said:

Yeah i gotta admit that's kinda rubbin me wrong too. he isn't saying she was nervous or humbled at the opportunity it's kinda like she wasn't musically smart enough to realize what that performance was going to mean. i really don't think young artists or whatever u wanna call them, realize what Prince is to music. they feel they can just carry the torch off because they come out, have huge publicity machines, thus they have instant hits, but they don't respect the ones that have come before them in terms of content, not just image. Of course Beyonce had heard of Prince and knew a few of his songs, she's an 80's baby! But I bet its not until after that performance that she realized he runs alot deeper than Purple Rain. Because nowadays its all about the image not the real content. No matter how big P's ego grows, no one can deny that he not only studied the image of his predecessors but he really studied their musical content to show himself approved. that's whats missing today.

SexyBeautifulOne said:

yeah...i dont see how folks are thinking that she was scurred of performing...reads to me like she different feel she benefited from doing it.

sosgemini said:

Right! Prince could have made that performance with a rabies infested Pit Bull Terrier and the entire breed would have benefitted from it! It reads more to me like she didn't want to do it because she thought she would be doing him a favor.

For the 3rd time, it must be said...

BITCH, Please!!

Better to perform wit Jay Z, huh?

luv4all7 said:

In today's...no sense of the concepts...substance, originality or longevity market...unfortunately...the answer is...yeah.
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PurpleRighteous1 said:

Exactly! These aren't quotes coming from her mouth.
[Edited 6/25/06 13:37pm]

I can kind of see how she would be afraid of Prince...

Did someone say Beyonce wasn't musically smart enough? I have not said this in a while but "No Duh."

pkidwell said:

yeah but you know something sad? there are plenty of acts out there who are way less ambitious than her who would have pissed their pants if offered the opportunity.

PurpleRighteous1 said:

oh put your eyes back in your sockets.

beyonce comes off likes she's as dumb as a doorknob...so IMHO, she could totally mean what is Ehrlich is suggesting...

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let me just say that Beyonce could easily be praising Prince simply because she knows she should respect her elders...then when it came down to her being asked to perform with him her natural reflex was to say, "like oh my god..ewww...he's so old why would i want to perform with him..."





just saying...

Of course, y'all, there's a flip side: That performance STARTED the resurgence he's ridden for the past 2 1/2 years.

To his hardcore fans, Prince hadn't fallen off.

But, to the rest of the world? C'mon now...

Beyonce did do him a favor. She was the culturally relevant and popular half of that duet. Let's be real.

ThreadBare said:

no one's denying that.

ThreadBare said:

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"Beyonce did do him a favor."

The whole show was mixing the old with the new so if she did not perform with him. They would have found someone else.
I guess Pharrel did Sting a favor when the performed together. Please stop the madness.