Whatever your opinion is of Beyonce stay true to it. The so-called great Etta James (I only know her for that one song and quiet frankly thought she’d passed away some time ago.) is another older person who hasn’t grasped the concept that everything you say nowadays end up on youtube or is recorded on someone’s camera phone. Anyway, she laid the smackdown on Beyonce by saying in concert:

“You guys know your president, right? You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain’t my president. He might be yours; he ain’t my president. But I tell you that woman he had singing for him, singing my song — she’s going to get her a– whipped.

“The great Beyoncé,” James went on. “Like I said, she ain’t mine. … I can’t stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol’ president day, gonna be singing my song that I’ve been singing forever.”

Now as you see in the picture above or perhaps you saw her hugging all over Beyonce at last year’s Fashion Rocks. She’s smiling, cheesing-loving the fact that someone has made her relevant again. Etta didn’t write AT LAST nor was she first to sing it-she did, however, make it famous. And Beyonce has made it popular again. She was all happy when Beyonce was cast to portray her in Cadallac Records. I suspect that Etta is pissed that Beyonce and not her performed the song on a historical night-Aretha had her chance, right?. Sounds like there’s more than one definition of a Diva, Bey. But bitter never looks good on anyone. Plus I don’t take too kindly that Ms. Etta is dissing on MY president. Frankly, I thought Beyonce did a great job that night.

My respect for Ms. James goes down the tube because with age supposedly comes wisdom and this smiling in someone’s face and then slinking off to talk shit when you think its safe was so high school. At the Cadallac Records premeire she gushed about Beyonce portrayal. This is what I mean about fake ass people. Betcha five to ten Beyonce won’t take the bait. One thing Beyonce does have on lock is how to keep her mouth shut. Etta, just make your chomp change on these revival concerts and shut the hell up.