{"id":6760,"date":"2010-02-03T23:50:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T04:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=6760"},"modified":"2010-02-03T23:53:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T04:53:22","slug":"solangeknowles-keeps-it-swift-beyonces-sister-says-what-in-the-wake-of-kanye-some-people-wont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=6760","title":{"rendered":"@SolangeKnowles Keeps It Swift: Beyonc\u00e9’s Sister Says What, In the Wake Of Kanye, Some People Won’t."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"screen1-grammy1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"screen2-grammy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"alg_show_swift3\"<\/a><\/span>Can’t say Solange Knowles, Beyonc\u00e9’s fiery little sis, doesn’t roll hard.<\/strong> In a couple of tweets from Monday night, the day after the Grammy Awards, she questions what anybody with more than four fingers might ask: Why was Taylor Swift, seen here, right, with one of the quartet of awards she won, being deemed the nights “big winner,” when Beyonc\u00e9 took home six<\/em> trophies?<\/p>\n

\"Grammy<\/a>I thought that it might be just sensitivity, or maybe it’s that they didn’t show all of Beyonce’s wins, right, on TV. (Did they, and did they show Swift’s?)<\/p>\n

But for what it’s worth, I did a Google search count\u2014andmittedly unscientific\u2014and found the following hit counts for the following searches:<\/p>\n

Taylor Swift, grammy, “big winner”
\n107,000<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Beyonc\u00e9, grammy, “big winner”
\n14,400<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Deleting the accent on Beyonc\u00e9’s name added 400 hits, for 14,800 total.<\/span><\/p>\n

So far, Solange’s calling out Swift hasn’t earned her the backlash Kanye West received<\/a>, famously documented here, on MEDIA ASSASSIN. (Then again, she didn’t grap Swift’s award on TV and shout out Sasha.)
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\"GRAMMYS\/WINNERS\"<\/a><\/strong>Karma don’t like ugly, though, and Solange’s may have anticipated the final retribution against Swift: Public outry condemning, not her wins but, her “instrument.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In a piece for The San Diego Union Tribune <\/em><\/a><\/span><\/a>(“Backlash grows over Taylor Swift’s Grammy performance”)<\/a>, columnist George Varga notes
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Ouch! Taylor Swift’s painfully weak, off-key vocal performance Sunday night at the Grammy Awards has become the subject of so much on-line controversy that some fans and music biz veterans alike are wondering if she’d have been better off not performing at all. At the very least, her karaoke-level singing made a good argument in favor of using Auto-Tune (the recording studio device that helps vocally challenged performers sound at least somewhat in in tune).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

C’mon, man: Given Solange’s beef, and Beyonc\u00e9’s problems, why you gonna go and dis Jay-Z<\/em>?<\/p>\n

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can’t say Solange Knowles, Beyonc\u00e9’s fiery little sis, doesn’t roll hard. In a couple of tweets from Monday night, the day after the Grammy Awards, she questions what anybody with more than four fingers might ask: Why was Taylor Swift, seen here, right, with one of the quartet of awards she won, being deemed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,51,69,55,15,3,8,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6760"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6784,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions\/6784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}