[nascarnation]

[Wayne07]

[Jonty30]

I don’t have a problem with it, as long as it was reasonably respectful. How many kids even know about the shuttle disaster now?

At least they have an opportunity to hear some of the incident when they wouldn’t otherwise hear anything about it at all.

[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.

Stay Classy Beyonce. You wouldn’t by chance get butt-hurt if a white rapper or rocker samples George Zimmerman’s 911 call and uses it in a song would you?

[Red in Blue PA]

Classless.

[WayneS]

Tasteless, at best.

[Vince Ferrer]

I haven't heard the song, but hope it is respectful. Tragedy is a risky thing to bring into entertainment, especially when the victims and families are still alive, and the memory is fresh. Yet we can still laugh at Les Nesman parodying the Hindenburg disaster with turkeys.

[Mastador1]

Well at least it wasn’t racist since one of the astronauts was African American </S> What else would you expect from low class over paid “celebrities”.

[Joe 6-pack]

Kind of reminds me of the ‘Oh the huge manatee’ graphic that appears on every fourth or fifth thread here....

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks grundle.

[LowOiL]

Part used by her is under 30 seconds... law says you can use a sample under 30 seconds...

Grumble if they want, it is legal.

[Disambiguator]

Here's a tune from back when the shuttle was something new and exciting, and the possibilities seemed limitless.

[TigersEye]

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

[PieterCasparzen]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

Ron McNair was her OG boi on the horn, knowhutimsayindawg?

Rest in peace

[a fool in paradise]

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