Daily Mail: Beyoncé’s Grammy Awards performance was slammed by concerned parents on Sunday as they deemed the incredibly risqué routine too explicit for children to watch.
The 32-year-old singer wore a revealing black thong bodysuit over fishnet tights to perform a rendition of her hit Drunk In Love alongside husband Jay Z at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.
Beyoncé’s sexy dance routine, which aired at 8pm on both coasts and at 7pm central time, had many furious parents posting comments on social media that the performance was ‘disrespectful’, had ‘no class’ and was entirely inappropriate for young viewers.
From start to end, the mother-of-one’s routine could only be described as both seductive and risqué. She opened the show straddling a chair then proceeded to writhe around on it before twerking her way up to a standing position.
Belting out the lyrics to the explicit song, many of which had been bleeped out, it wasn’t too long before she was joined onstage by husband Jay Z, who looked dapper in a black spotted tuxedo.
Getting up from the chair, Beyonce then embarked in a spot of back-to-back slow and sexy dancing with her husband, running her hands up and down his leg and bottom in moves Miley Cyrus would have been proud of.
The 44-year-old rapper couldn’t help but get touchy feely with his wife, clasping his hands on her famous derriere and giving her a sultry kiss mid-song.
The audience at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles went wild for the first live joint performance of the song from music’s number one couple, who raked in a combined $95million last year.
However the audience at home appeared to be less impressed.
Viewer Katie Stapp wrote: ‘Come on people!! Yeah Beyoncé has an amazing voice but that outfit?!?!? Completely no class. Give children something to look up to #absurd.’
And Stephen G. Peters tweeted: ‘Sorry Beyoncé!!! Class ALWAYS wins! It wins for our children. Sad day when our kids can’t even watch the Grammy’s! #Puzzled.’
Theresa Bailey commented: ‘Beyonce seriously? It’s 8:00. That performance was NOT appropriate for children. Thank God mine are in bed. #shameonyou.’
Leah Simmons wrote: ‘All it took was a clip of Beyoncé twerking to say I would never let my children watch the Grammys. Won’t even go into the other reasons…’
And Maria Sanz commented: ‘Watching the #GRAMMYs at 8pm with my children(music lovers) performance by Beyoncé and her lack of clothing very inappropriate, she’s a mom?‘
Another user called JJ Boogie tweeted: ‘Opening Grammy song performance inappropriate for young children. Thank you Beyonce. #ChannelChange.’
Some viewers felt even more strongly about the performance, with Melissa Merry writing: ‘Beyoncé looked a W***e onstage. Just goes to show no respect for little children watching the Grammy show.‘
Twitter user clarkette added: ‘Beyoncé can twerk and dance dirty on stage by oh if Miley does it she’s such a horrible person.’
Despite comparisons to Cyrus’s explicit performance with married singer Robin Thicke at last year’s MTV Video Music Awards, many fans rushed to defend Queen Bey’s shimmying up to husband Jay Z.
Sophie Choudry tweeted: ‘Can there possibly be a more talented, inspiring, awesome couple in the world of showbiz?’
Modern Family actress Sarah Hyland tweeted: ‘Tonight also justified my obsession (of over a decade) with @Pink That woman is everything. Oh and also @Beyonce that’s all.’
Beyoncé’s performance comes after she admitted in a recent mini-documentary that she is proud to embrace her sexuality.
She said: ‘I don’t have any shame about being sexual. I’m not embarrassed about it. And I don’t feel like I have to protect that side of me.’
The singer’s often overtly-sexual performances haven’t put off President Obama praising Beyoncé as an important role model for children – including his own.
He said recently: ‘Beyoncé could not be a better role model for my girls because she carries herself with such class and poise and has so much talent.’
Even Michelle Obama loves her some Beyoncé. She once tweeted her saying, “”@Beyonce Thank you for the beautiful letter and for being a role model who kids everywhere can look up to. –mo”.
Who knew that twerking and spreading your legs is what’s included in defining a ”role model” for kids today?
DCG
