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Tina Turner says Beyonce Knowles will never be 'rock ‘n’ roll'

The ‘Simply the Best’ singer claims she was an inspiration for Beyonce, but although she is a great singer the former Destiny’s Child star will never match her for raw talent.

Tina said: "Beyonce was one of the ones that were sitting in front of her little television, her little self looking at the big screen when I was Tina in the ‘Ike and Tina Turner days’ and she took from all the stars at the time.

“Diana Ross influenced her, I influenced her. What I like about her is that she knows what she’s doing, she really did her homework and decided to stay elegant.

“She’s not rock ‘n’ roll -- she’s totally elegant. Unless your rock ‘n’ roll from the heart you can’t mimic that. The stance, the movements, it has to come from the inside."

Tina, 68, and Beyonce, 26, performed together at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards this February.

Meanwhile, Tina has announced plans to tour the UK - eight years after retiring from performing live.

The music legend will play four dates starting in March 2009 at London’s O2 arena.

Tina said: "After performing with Beyonce at the Grammys, the response was overwhelming.

"Everywhere I went people were asking me when I was going back on tour. So after a lot of thought and planning we announced an American tour.

"Now Europe beckons and I don't want to let down all my loyal fans over there."

Beyonce wasn't even alive in the "Ike and Tina Turner days"

R3V said:

I think Tina meant that Beyonce looked at some archival Tina performances on TV and emulated her after that.

Timmy84 said:

generous

NaughtyKitty said:

ok the title of your thread made it seem like Tina was putting her down.... she's just talking about her style
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Translation: "Bitch stepped on mah foot!!!"
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VoicesCarry said:

Yeah Tina gave her a look like... Bitch.!!! Get of my corn !

R3V said:

Very

I want to vomit when I think that our generation of "legends" is going to be Beyonce and crew Are we ever going to have new queens to replace the old ones?

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VoicesCarry said:

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

actually, i meant he's being generous to Tina in his interpretation of her remarks

R3V said:

If you put the real transcript up there it would probably look like the slaughter of a thousand Q-berts

*$@*(^&%^#_!



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R3V said:

That's exactly what I was doing. We know Beyonce was looking at "What's Love Got to Do With It?"

Timmy84 said:

Finally understanding Ike for slapping her ass down! Did I just say that?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

"EAT THE CAKE, ANNA MAE!"

I wonder what Jay-Z is doing to Beyonce...

VoicesCarry said:

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BlaqueKnight said:

2 pimps' faces for the same coin.

VoicesCarry said:

Timmy84 said:

beyonce prolly never watched no damn tina turner when she was growing up, the girl wasnt born until 1981, ike and tina was long gone. funny i never heard beyonce mention tina as a influence during her destiny child days, its only after the media declared tina to be a major influence that beyonce started to claim she's this big tina fan. the industry kills me with this, they basically pick and choose the hot young artists influences for them.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Oh, we will, if we let them. If we finally give the music industry the heave-ho; tell the suits to shape up or ship the fuck out, we can do it. It's all about letting the true talent shine instead of giving the spotlight to the pretenders.

NaughtyKitty said:

On what skank planet is Beyonce considered elegant?

lowkey said:

Ike was gone, but Tina was still kicking.

Dance said:

I'm GONE

Dance said:

she came out with private dancer in like 1985, beyonce was what, like 4? i guess a 50 year old black rock artists would capture the attention of lil 4 year old black girls everywhere.

lowkey said:

Have it your way. Tina turned into a big pile of dust after she left Ike. There were no people feeling her in the 80s. There were no little girls, teens, and grown women rocking some of her gear and wigs like they did with Whordonna. No one liked her music.

btw

I'm NOT a Bigonce fan.

Dance said:

who the hell bought all those Private Dancer records?
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Dance said:

I'mma fuck you up Dance!

banks said:

That's what I thought too.