"My beloved queen": After homage to Tina Turner – Beyoncé reaps shitstorm

The 50th Grammy Awards in 2008: Beyoncé and Tina Turner perform together. © IMAGO/Robert Hanashiro/USA TODAY Network

Tina Turner was one of the biggest inspirations for singer Beyoncé. For a tribute to the late rock legend, however, "Queen B" earned negative comments.

Munich – After the death of rock legend Tina Turner, Beyoncé published a tribute to her great role model on her homepage. On Friday, the pop star also interrupted a performance during a concert of her "Renaissance World Tour" to commemorate the late Tina Turner. On social media, "Queen B" received some negative comments for this.

Beyoncé pays tribute to her idol: "I wouldn't be on this stage without Tina Turner"

"My beloved queen," Beyoncé wrote on her own homepage alongside a picture with Turner, thanking her for inspiration and for paving the way for her. "You are strength and resilience. You are the epitome of power and passion." Tina Turner was even the reason why she became a singer, Beyoncé revealed at a concert on Friday. "If you're a fan of mine, you're a fan of Tina Turner. I wouldn't be on this stage without Tina Turner," the singer told her audience. She then urged her fans to scream so that "she feels your love."

Criticism of reference to Tina Turner in Beyoncé's lyrics

On social media, however, Beyoncé received some negative comments on her tribute to Tina Turner. "I don't want to see tributes from the evil Beyoncé and Jay-Z for Tina Turner," read one post. The background to the criticism was a song lyric by R&B singer Beyoncé with her husband Jay-Z from 2013. It referred to Tina Turner's violent ex-husband, Ike, with whom the rock legend formed a duo at the beginning of her career.

Jay-Z and Beyoncé would make fun of "Tina Turner (birth name Anna Mae) who was beaten up by Ike Turner" in the song "Drunk in Love," psychologist Jessica Taylor said on Twitter on Wednesday. The song also refers to a moment when Tina's then-husband pressed a cake in her face with the words "Now eat the cake, Anna Mae".

Already after the release of the song, this line was controversially discussed. She was "not surprised" that Jay-Z compared herself to Ike, Taylor quoted a statement from Tina Turner. However, the scene from the biopic "What's Love Got to Do With It?", to which "Drunk in Love" alludes, is said to have been purely fictional.

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Criticism unfounded? Beyoncé and Tina Turner remained friends after the song release

Other commentators, however, consider the conflict to be contrived or suspect other motives. "It's unbelievable how many white women use the death of a black woman to spread hatred and misinformation about two women who actually loved and respected each other," wrote one user on Twitter. Tina Turner understood that the text took artistic liberties based on a film line. Even after the song's release, Beyoncé and Tina Turner remained friends, the comment continued.

Even during her lifetime, Tina Turner did not want her abuse to be mentioned every time her name was mentioned, another Twitter user recalled. "There's no way she would want her death to be overshadowed," the post continued. Beyoncé and Tina Turner performed together at the 50th Grammy Awards ceremony in 2008. There are two important Tinas in her life, "Queen B" had once said. "Every now and then, when I think of inspiration, I think of the two Tinas in my life – my mother, Tina, and, of course, the incredible Tina Turner."