Piers Morgan Gives His Opinion on Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' Even Though No One Asked for It
Beyoncé stopped the world on Saturday when she dropped her latest visual album Lemonade.
But while the album resonated with the singer's legion of fans, Beyoncé made it clear that she was speaking primarily to black women. So naturally, a white man felt he had to offer his two cents.
Why I'm not so hot for the new militant @Beyonce. My new column: http://dailym.ai/1pyfEmQ pic.twitter.com/Syjn5diIhb
On Monday, news anchor Piers Morgan disturbed the "Beyhive" when he wrote a column for the Daily Mail accusing Beyoncé of "shameless exploitation."
Morgan recalled an interview he did with the singer five years ago where she discussed racism and breaking barriers in the entertainment industry. Morgan said, "Beyoncé then was unrecognizable from the militant activist we see now."
He called the star "inflammatory" and "agitating," going on to accuse her of playing "the race card" and taking advantage of Trayvon Martin's and Michael Brown's mothers, who are featured in the visual album.
It didn't take long for Beyoncé's fans to come out swinging.
I feel uncomfortable about Piers Morgan using Beyoncé to boost his strugglebus journalist careerhttps://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/724626817143984128 ...
BEYONCÉ (putting final touches to album): Well, I've done my best. Now all I can do is wait to find out if it's acceptable to Piers Morgan.
@piersmorgan @DailyMail @Beyonce I'm sure it's hard to deal w/powerful black women who threaten your mediocritypic.twitter.com/7MM1otprv7
Fitting that the first word in a dreadfully clueless Piers Morgan column about Beyonce is "I"
And many of them saw right through Morgan's pleas for Beyoncé to ditch her political message and stick to being solely an entertainer and musician:
Piers Morgan Translation: I prefer Beyonce obedient and quiet
Piers Morgan is so threatened by Beyoncé embracing her blackness. It's almost like his fantasies of her get ruined by it. He can't degrade.
I love the fact that @piersmorgan never considered that perhaps watching Black death on a regular basis would affect Beyonce. "JUST SING."
Other fans spoke up for Beyoncé's right to make art on her own terms:
@piersmorgan art reflects reality, black people feel under attack in America, Beyoncé has every right to give these people a voice
In ref to the Piers Morgan article on Beyonce, I feel sometimes, we, as a black community are told what to do with our art, and that's awful
@piersmorgan wants Beyonce to be black without having to be reminded she's black.
Shocking that @piersmorgan liked it better when he felt Beyoncé wasn't challenging white supremacy or patriarchy. pic.twitter.com/AyP2HddjHF
And to drive their point home, Twitter users reminded Morgan that Beyoncé likely couldn't care less about his opinion:
The thing Piers Morgan doesn't seem to get is that Beyonce doesn't care if you don't like where she's going. She doesn't need you
@piersmorgan assuming anyone, most of all @Beyonce, cares that he's "not so hot for her" exemplifies how boring male privilege is.