NY magazine is speculating on whether Sony-BMG’s Arista Records head honcho Clive Davis had a hand in the Beyonce-Aretha Grammy snub. As you know, Beyonce made Aretha’s blood boil when she introduced Tina Turner as “the queen” during their Grammy duet.
But NY magazine thinks Davis may have written Beyonce’s introduction – since we know it was clearly scripted by someone other than Bee. In a post on NYmag.com, the writer theorizes that Davis wrote the intro to get back at Aretha for not renewing her recording contract:
Aretha told Variety that she’d split with Sony-BMG’s Arista Records after Clive Davis failed to make her an acceptable offer for her forthcoming album and would instead be releasing it through the AARP (yes, really). All of this must have happened pretty recently, because, in his profile in this week’s Rolling Stone (sadly not online) Davis talks excitedly about putting out said record. And doesn’t everybody at the Grammys just do what he tells them to do? Isn’t that how Alicia Keys got two performances? Could he also have had a hand in Beyoncé’s intro? Or was it just crappy writing, like every other part of Sunday’s ceremony? We have no idea, but we’re certainly not above baseless speculation! (Source)
