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Beyoncé Slammed for Sampling Shuttle Tragedy on New Album
yahoo.com/Good Morning America ^ | December 30, 2013 | CLAYTON SANDELL and GINA SUNSERI

Posted on 12/30/2013 12:39:44 PM PST by grundle

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To: OneWingedShark

Challenger exploded on the way up - Columbia came apart on the way back...


21 posted on 12/30/2013 1:35:50 PM PST by Plain Old American (Remember who said what; Remind those who don't Remember; Vote and take a friend to the polls)
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To: grundle
Here's a tune from back when the shuttle was something new and exciting, and the possibilities seemed limitless.
22 posted on 12/30/2013 1:53:49 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: tophat9000

That is very true. I don’t have a good opinion of either her or him, but they don’t need to please me. Somebody at least put an ounce of brainpower into writing out that statement for her. As Obama would tell her’ You didn’t write that! I’m more surprised the x-rated dialogue in her slbum is not getting more public discussion, unless profanity really has become so much like yesterdays Parkay Margarine, that most people (mainly the 47%) don’t even notice it.


23 posted on 12/30/2013 1:58:17 PM PST by lee martell
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To: SunkenCiv

Beyonce should have used the “Houston we have a problem” sound clip. At least that incident had a happy ending.


24 posted on 12/30/2013 2:22:06 PM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: nascarnation

Isn’t he smoking that cigar kinda backwards?


25 posted on 12/30/2013 2:38:01 PM PST by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: Libloather

LOL your typical Obama “bundler”


26 posted on 12/30/2013 3:36:14 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: grundle

It’s a piece of our history. I don’t see anything wrong with it.


27 posted on 12/30/2013 3:42:57 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Red Badger
"The heat shield problem was the Columbia disaster...................."

yeah Challenger was bad "o-rings" in the boosters IIRC...

28 posted on 12/30/2013 3:44:11 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Jonty30

Sorry. I don’t believe for one moment that this woman has ANY concern or grief for the crew or the American people who grieved on that day and for years afterward. She lives in a world that smirks, believes it’s okay as long as they spelled the name right—more sales—and then issues some kind of blather that is supposed to be an apology. This woman closed down an entire wing of a hospital maternity ward at the expense of other families who needed maternity services on the exact days she did so. Do you REALLY think that she has any apologetic intent in either situation?


29 posted on 12/30/2013 4:02:58 PM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: Jonty30
How many kids even know about the shuttle disaster now?

Do you think Beyoncé herself knows anything about the shuttle disaster?

30 posted on 12/30/2013 5:14:14 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: grundle
The Rush song Countdown from 1983 includes a sampling of STS-1, the first shuttle flight, which was the Columbia's first flight.

While I have a lot of bones to pick with space programs both publicly and privately funded, technology and flying both tug at my heartstrings; accordingly, so does any little audio clip of the shuttle.

Of course, what's really troublesome about both shuttle disasters is that they sprang from issues that were known before the flights and not fully looked into.

It really gets under my skin that those in the shuttle were in the situation of catastrophe that did not necessarily have to happen but for, IMHO, negligence. IMHO, when you're working with anything that flies, you dot all the i's and cross all the t's.

Personally, I'm not a listener of current music at all.

As I understand it, there is profanity on the album, and I find that concerning. IMHO, the audio clip brings back sobering yet the most hopeful and optimistic thoughts that have a special place in the hearts of many people. Perhaps the juxtaposition to profanity is what troubles some people, but since I didn't listen to the rest of the "song" and I love listening to shuttle radio chatter, I guess I'm just blissfully ignorant.

That being said, I pray that entertainers would clean up their acts, start out on a whole new course, for their sake and really everyone's. Art should, when considered in its entirety, be edifying and uplifting.
31 posted on 12/31/2013 8:14:12 AM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: Antihero101607
I’ve never heard of a disaster as such being sampled and used in the beginning of a song. I know Rob Zombie, Godsmack, Guns N’ Roses, and Metallica (among others) have sampled old movies and incorporated them into their music, but never something like a tragedy with a space shuttle.

I think there are supposed to be industrial bands that used bits of the Jim Jones tapes and other attrocities. But not such a "mainstream" artist.

This is akin to taking a selfie while the shuttle is going up in smoke.

32 posted on 12/31/2013 9:32:45 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: Revolting cat!
Ron McNair was her OG boi on the horn, knowhutimsayindawg?

Rest in peace

33 posted on 12/31/2013 9:33:57 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: lee martell; Revolting cat!

Barack Obama gave a shout out before the Ft. Hood terrorist attack press conference and nobody at OMGMABCDisney gave a &#^@.


34 posted on 12/31/2013 9:35:47 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: Disambiguator

I remember when the Space Shuttle was new we used to watch the launches at school - it was indeed considered a huge deal back then!


35 posted on 12/31/2013 12:49:55 PM PST by grundle
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To: a fool in paradise

Cool photo.


36 posted on 04/21/2014 4:45:45 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Well......Bye.)
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To: a fool in paradise

There is an Australian band named ‘Vic Morrow’s Head’. I kid you not.

Talk about sick and disrespectful. I am a big fan of his and it truly upsets me. Even if I wasn’t a fan it would still upset me.


37 posted on 04/21/2014 4:53:40 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Well......Bye.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

They were frozen. What’s worse is that NASA knew about it.


38 posted on 04/21/2014 4:55:46 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Well......Bye.)
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To: LowOiL
The difference here is that the clip is from NASA, paid for by taxpayers. I don't think the 30 second rule applies here. It's legal to use it regardless.

The rule applies when a group is sampling another group's copywrited lyrics or music.

Government announcements are public domain.

-PJ

39 posted on 04/21/2014 5:01:59 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Revolting cat!

Maybe the remix version will incorporate bits from the Jim Jones People’s Temple tape.


40 posted on 04/22/2014 11:46:22 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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