Posted on 02/15/2017 1:29:14 PM PST by drewh
"[Adele] doesn't bring all the dancers and props ... she just stood there and sang the song and that's it, and this is why she wins," guitarist said
Carlos Santana apologized after the guitarist said that Beyoncé is "not a singer" while explaining why Adele won the Album of the Year Grammy.
Carlos Santana issued an apology Tuesday after the guitarist said that Beyoncé is "not a singer" while explaining in an interview why Adele won the Album of the Year Grammy.
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"My intent was to congratulate Adele on her amazing night at the Grammys," Santana wrote on Facebook Tuesday, soon after his published remarks about the Grammys caused backlash. "My comment about Beyonce was regretfully taken out of context. I have the utmost respect for her as an artist and a person. She deserves all the accolades that come her way. I wish Beyonce and her family all the best."
In an interview with the Australian Associated Press prior to Santana's tour in Australia and New Zealand, Santana said that Adele's 25 was worthy of the Album of the Year Grammy. "I think that Adele won because she can sing sing," the guitarist said. "With all respect to our sister Beyoncé, Beyoncé is very beautiful to look at and it's more like modeling kind of music – music to model a dress – she's not a singer singer, with all respect to her."
Santana also suggested that Beyoncé relies too heavily on theatrics for her performances, which perhaps penalized her in the eyes of Grammy voters who opted for 25 over Lemonade.
"[Adele] doesn't bring all the dancers and props, she can just stand there and she just stood there and sang the song and that's it, and this is why she wins," Santana said, throwing subtle shade at Beyoncé's epic medley of "Love Drought" and "Sandcastles" from Sunday's ceremony.
The Recording Academy's Neil Portnow also defended the Grammy's Album of the Year pick of 25, even as Adele used her acceptance speech to proclaim Lemonade should have won.
"I don't think there's a race problem at all. Remember, this is a peer-voted award, it's not a corporate entity – it's the 14,000 members of the Academy," Portnow said. "It's always hard to create objectivity out of something that's inherently subjective, which is what art and music is about. We do the best we can."
That doesn't mean we have to take all these fake controversies seriously and take sides and join in and think what we're doing is politically significant.
That’s racist! /sarc
Sad, even someone of the stature of Santana gets browbeaten until he crawls to the PC police apologizing for his candid, ACCURATE remarks.
The “Beyonce” thing is a lewd, sultry entertainer of sorts, but certainly no great singer or musician by a long stretch. Santana knows this well, and said it, but now wilts at the pressure and retreats into the PC bubble.
Beyonce is an underware sex dancer. The music and singing is incidental.
She is what used to be called a burlesque dancer. Not a singer, and not much of a dancer. Her style of dancing use to generate rain, of coins. Not much else....
It takes a non-singer like Carlos to know a non-singer. I guess.
Adele was a stupid little coward for doing that.
I didn't know that Santana has no balls, but now I do.
Carlos wimped out. She can’t sing, neither can her husband.
The proud black queen that does everything humanly possible to hide her African features. Why is there a need for everyone to grovel before this woman?
A long time since Woodstock, eh Grandad.
A long time since Woodstock, eh Grandad.
He’s exactly right. She does vocal calisthenics and dances and dresses dramatically. Adele sings.
Adele is so much better than Beyond See and is why Beyond See didn’t have a chance. Even political correctness and affirmative action couldn’t have beat Adele. Santana was correct the first time.
Santana is a wimp and would apologize to a fruitcake that he doesn’t have a vagina or tits.
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