There’s also Fleetwood Mac and Gwen Stefani. But I guess neither of them are iconic either. 

Yeah, it’s not like she whipped that up in 5 days time. And she’s worked with marching bands in her live shows way before Beychella. Homecoming is a HUGE artistic achievement and deserves all the props in the world. But this is accusation a little galling.

As a former bandgeek, absolutely!

I’m not one to defend TS, especially at the expense of Beyonce, but isn’t it likely that this performance had been planned/rehearsed for months, and it was too late to change it up in the last few weeks since Homecoming was released?

“ICONIC” lol. Yeah, Bey was the first performer to ever use a marching band.

To be fair, Gwen Stefani may have led the charge, pre-Beyonce at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards: /s

Maybe marching bands are just awesome, and we can just celebrate mainstream celebs utilizing them in such high-profile ways.

Hot damn if Beyonce wasn’t about 10 years too late to the marching band concept.

Except Taylor toured with a marching band ten years ago so just stop, Beyoncé did not invent the fucking marching band 🙄

Lol get out of here with your facts. That’s not allowed. We must worship Beyoncé and she’s the only one allowed to do anything 🙄

Madonna did the marching band motif back in 2012 during her Super Bowl Halftime show. I doubt Beyoncé even thought about that when planning her (genius) Homecoming set/motif. And I seriously doubt Swift was trying to one-up Lady Bey with this performance. People need to stop pitting female performers against each…

She literally toured with an onstage marching band in 2009 but go off I guess.

Can you be supportive but also really, really leery of lifting the Statute of Limitations on anything? I just have some serious qualms about prosecuting people (with the exception of cases with physical evidence) for something that occurred decades ago because it seems like something that would be really ripe for…

Yep! Every where else I’ve been online today her skit has gotten positive reactions. Leave it to Jezebel to not get the joke.

Kvetching about Tina Fey and “allies” like the top post does is what amounts to 98% of #activism.

I’m so sick of all these stupid articles that get everything all wrong.

To be fair, it’s really hard to laugh at anything with a large stick up your ass. And come on, thinking for yourself requires effort. That’s hard and stuff.

It’s your problem that you’re looking to a comedian for something way more substantial than a comedic bit. That’s all this was. Stop looking to celebrities for guidance. People are perfectly capable of knowing how to feel about Nazis without help from Tina Fey.

I just finished watching it and laughed my ass off. I came over here to see what people thought. I don’t really agree with the “don’t show up” message, but she had some really amazingly funny digs at “Donny John” in there.

Seemed more like her boyfriend was laughing that people would expect things differently and not at the plight of black people in his hometown area.