Piers Morgan is in big trouble with the Beyhive.

The current editor-at-large for The Daily Mail is getting a lot of attention for his somewhat scathing review of Beyonce's new visual album, Lemonade, which officially dropped on HBO, and is now available on iTunes and Amazon. In his piece about it, Morgan calls Beyonce a "militant activist," and says he prefers her "Less inflammatory, agitating" persona and music from albums in the past.

Morgan calls out Beyonce for not only songs like "Formation," which received some criticisms after she performed it at the Super Bowl Halftime Show for its references to the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as what many considered to be blatant references to Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, with dancers wearing black berets, forming an X on the field, and punching the air in a way similar to the group's salute, but also for other tactics he noticed she used throughout the entire visual album.

Morgan specifically refers to one clip of Malcolm X in the concept, as well as Beyonce's showing Lesley McSpadden and Sybrina Fulton, the mothers of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, who were killed in 2014 and 2012 respectively, saying he believed Beyonce was trying to make a statement that allowed her to exploit the women's grief over losing their sons to benefit her own financial gain.

"But I felt very uneasy watching these women being used in this way to sell an album. It smacks of shameless exploitation," he wrote.

He finished off the piece by saying he preferred what he knew as the "old Beyonce," one he said seemed more focused on showcasing her talent-and not her race.

"Then, she was at pains to be seen as an entertainer and musician and not as a black woman who sings. Now, it seems to be the complete opposite," he wrote. "The new Beyonce wants to be seen as a black woman political activist first and foremost, entertainer and musician second. But I have to be honest, I preferred the old Beyonce...the one who didn't play the race card so deliberately and to my mind, unnecessarily."

Naturally, Beyonce's fans, known as the Beyhive, have since come after Morgan for his comments--and they are not happy with the things he said:


Morgan himself has since responded back to some of the negative comments in an attempt to defend himself.
 

 

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