Dionne Warwick’s Beyoncé Comments Spark Controversy
Dionne Warwick is an absolute legend and one of the first black women singers who paved the way for legends like Beyoncéto flourish. However, her recent comments on what makes someone iconic has rubbed the Beyhive the wrong way and an uncivil war has erupted on these here internets.
During an interview with ESSENCE, Warwick had this to say:
“It’s wonderful to see how she’s been able to create what and who she wanted to be and who she is…very proud of that, I really am. Now, sustaining and becoming a big icon that Gladys Knight, or Patti LaBelle, or Johnny Mathis, or Frank Sinatra, or Sammy Davis Jr. is? I doubt that, I really do. And I love her to death and can appreciate her talent. But that iconic status that I just mentioned, those four names? [She has] a long read [ahead].”
This, of course, was taken as shade because she didn’t bow down and kiss Bey’s ring. However, She took to Twitter to clarify in a now-deleted tweet:
“What I said is in quotes. What @Essence said is not. It takes a long time to reach and achieve iconic status. That’s not to say that Beyoncé isn’t well on her way. She is a gifted performer. That was a reach from Essence.”
Dionne warwick's biggest hit is widely known through another woman's voice what does she know about being iconic pic.twitter.com/ZsMR3gOQBS
— thais 💜 (@thaisbmartini) May 23, 2019
It didn’t matter as a generational war has erupted.
BeyHive Twitter is trying to come for Dionne while Auntie Twitter has her back and is re-dragging the Hive. Duck for cover! This is getting ugly fast.
Dionne Warwick will shoot y’all. Pls stop.
— matt dunnells (@daaamnju) May 24, 2019
Marie Dionne Warwick is from north Jersey and nearly 80 years old. Please know that she is strapped at all times and is absolutely not one of your lil friends. https://t.co/E3ez6pi6v7
— April (@ReignOfApril) May 24, 2019
dionne warwick helped open the doors for damn near every black female performer in contemporary music. ya’ll not about to drag the first black female pop star, nah.
— eric ☥ (@thetrillgent) May 23, 2019
stan culture has 12 year old white girls thinking they can talk crazy to Dionne Warwick pic.twitter.com/V75CKnBKuA
— samra (@heysamra) May 24, 2019
Dionne Warwick is being read through the mud.. pic.twitter.com/Dn89Clsq3s
— Danny (@localblackicon) May 23, 2019
Me watching the Beyhive go after Dionne. This further proves they think music started back with Whitney, Madonna and MJ. pic.twitter.com/tu4ggEq4qu
— iLoveArethaFranklin (@LovingAretha) May 23, 2019
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you’re right. because Dionne’s generation didn’t have lackluster artists https://t.co/AzgrYNySCW
— 🤴🏾 King Unctie 🤴🏾 (@LifeAsKing) May 23, 2019
Dionne Warwick: Beyoncé ain’t no classic or iconc sin….
Bey Hive: pic.twitter.com/KYMCORj1CY
— Bunifa Latifah Halifah Sharifa Jackson (@POPOFFSON_) May 23, 2019
I saw Dionne Warwick trending! She is a legend! Who in the hell is talking trash about her?? pic.twitter.com/yl7zVTzzCP
— Senior Mama (@mama_senior) May 24, 2019
The hive needs to sit all the way down with this dragging of Dionne Warwick. She literally created the black pop girl lane Beyonce is in. The only popular bw entertainers before Dionne is were blues and jazz singers. And none of them were as successful as she was.
— itgurl (@itgurl_29) May 23, 2019
So y’all on here disrespecting Dionne Warwick? Man, this generation is wild. pic.twitter.com/MRXtnPkFBx
— Maxamillion (@RegalBasil) May 24, 2019
I love Beyoncé but Dionne is an absolute icon. So the slander can stop. pic.twitter.com/QfmZznn7lk
— raveen 🏁💙 (@xoraveen) May 24, 2019
I love Beyoncé just as much as anyone, but this Dionne Warwick thing is completely out of hand. Y’all don’t have to drag her like this. pic.twitter.com/QN5gDiOR7v
— Dorothy Zbornak’s Non Existent Bosom (@Btchnotme) May 23, 2019
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