Five For Fighting just got a bigger ovation than 3 Doors Down did playing an inauguration.

You think Adele should have given Beyonce her award?

How many ads can y’all fit on one page? Jesus.

Is she? Which African goddess?

I agree with you. Beyonce is a fantastic writer and singer (I hate her narcissistic performances and movies). But her music should be viewed as a continuation in a looooong line of female black artists who sang about their painful experiences (but those messages weren’t taken seriously because the music was pop and…

But what is she wearing. The Beyonce-as-Madonna thing is too fucking much.

Because black women haven’t already been speaking about their pain and struggle in every single rnb song ever. But I guess no one cares about them anymore unless they work for Beyoncé.

I couldnt help but think she’s the new princess of Zamunda.

This is why I never go to Midas on the way to an awards ceremony.

We’re in 2017 — something like this should not happen in America.

“Will Kimball—who is clearly well-versed in German pronunciation, should have seen “Deutchland Deutschland Über Alles” and immediately raised a red flag”

What a complete disaster. This was supposed to play instead of the Star Spangled Banner.

Ancona, who is known for claiming that the Ku Klux Klan is a Christian organization, not a racist one—as if the two are always mutually exclusive

Wow that must have been really, really sad. Being in Detroit, I mean.

This is certainly true. His moving Little Ceasar/Olympia Entertainment’s HQ to the Fox Theatre & renovating that old, huge ornate theater provided a positive anchor downtown (or near downtown, anyway) when the business district literally looked like a post-apocalyptic wasteland in the late 1980s-late 2000s. He also…

Nice to see that he was given his due to the tune of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars while the city was bankrupt.

Rest in Pizza-Pizza

Maybe. Maybe there’s some merit to that idea, that they were making him nervous with extra attention for no particular reason. But the other way some of those statements could be read is he was a paranoid drunk guy with a big ego.