Beyonce has spoken about the Billboard performance that’s causing a mini-scandal. It has been pretty widely reported that Beyonce lifted most of her Billboard Music Awards 2011 performance of Run The World (Girls) from a year-old performance that has since gone viral online. I stayed away from those reports for the most part because, honestly, even serial-plagiarist Beyonce’s not dense enough to lift a performance this literally. Moreover, I found out the same time the performances were created by the same technical team. According to The Daily Mail, ‘the video for Beyonce’s Billboard act was created by Kenzo Digital while the overall production was staged by Tribe Inc.’ Speaking to AOL Music about the comparisons and allegations of theft from a 2010 performance by Italian singer Lorella Cuccarini, Beyonce explains, ‘My makeup artist showed me the performance of Lorella Cuccarini a year ago, and it inspired me so much… I then met with the talented people who worked on it. The technology and concept were so genius. Thank God for YouTube or I would have never been exposed to something so inspiring. I never worked so hard on anything in my life as that performance for the Billboard Awards.’ It’s also noted by Jezebel.com that most of Beyonce’s Run The World music video imagery probably was lifted.
Here are some other performances that use similar interaction with a video.
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I love how the best performance of the night that NO ONE ELSE COULDVE POSSIBLY TOPPED has to be a mini-scandal. I swear, haters kill me. Ppl just can’t let Bey have her moment…smh
PS I compared the two performances: very few of the graphics are alike. I didn’t even know the Loretta chick was standing there til like 1 minute into it. Bey experimented with hers and made the graphics actually useful! Only a born hater would say she stole.
ehy r u blind or just stupid???? i can understand u like beyonce but.. jeez it was the same performance!! ok videos behind obviously is not the same.. but the idea.. it’s the same!! “the loretta chick” … is LORELLA not loretta and anyway she’s a big italian artist.. that inspired bee.. so.. a lil respect to her would be apreciated.. ty…
she has been copying since crazy in love janet is always the queen beyonce just ran out of singing artist and moved to the latinos said you tube inspired her copying some body hard work do a remix off they hard work and said its hers fake icon fake queen
and if she was inspired why didnt she thank that person
why do you think of great artists such as Picasso, Andy Warhol, Basquiat, etc etc are recognized as the leading innovative and creative artists? all simply because their work is composed of 90% inspiation is to say, take Picasso, inventor of cubism: the canvas Les Demoiselles d’Avignon has the inspiration of Africa with African masks, Matisse, female nudity (Group) also appeared in: The Turkish Bath of Ingres (much appreciated by Picasso), Cézanne’s Bathers, calm and voluptuousness of luxury Matisse .. prostitution is not a new subject, eg the Olympia of Manet or prostitutes treated by Toulouse Lautrec.
The drapes and the Nature Morte (here with an implied sex) carry on a tradition of painting .. Consider Warhol, he was content to take pictures existing, to expand, make copies and add color silkscreen … but why are warhol picasso as the greatest artists of the early twentieth century? because they were able to mix all the inspirations and make a completely personal work, so that key Picasso, or Warhol that is recognizable to thousands of kilometers, the key Beyoncé too!