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I have lost respect for Etta James.  Killing my hopes of a public Beyonce bashing, she basically took back her rant caught on tape.  The diva told the NY Daily News that she was only trying to get a laugh for bitching about Beyonce singing ‘her’ song at the Inauguration.  She did not mean it as a diss. She was just kidding everyone!

“I didn’t really mean anything,” Etta now says. “Even as a little child, I’ve always had that comedian kind of attitude. … That’s probably what went into it.”

She also claims she kept ripping on Beyonce because the crowd was hysterical:

“Nobody was getting mad at me in Seattle. They were all laughing, and it was funny.”

She is, however, still a little p.o.-ed that she wasn’t invited to perform her own song for the Obamas.  She says:

“[I didn’t like] feeling left out of something that was basically mine, that I had done every time you look around.”

And she also says that though she liked Beyonce’s rendition, when asked if she could have done better, she said:

“I think so. That’s a shame to say that.”

Yawnsville.

-C

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