As we all know, Nelly Furtado announced that she gave away money earned from playing a private party for the family of Libyan fucknut Colonel Gaddafi, making her look like an altruistic saint compared to everyone else.
Everyone started pointing and muttering about Mariah Carey, 50 Cent, Usher and all the rest of the entertainment world who accepted piles of money covered in people’s blood and stinking of crude oil.
Would they give the money to charity? Would they stick their fingers in their ears until all this was swept under a rug made from Libyan cadavers? Well, not in Beyonce’s case. Why? Well she gave the money to charity last year and didn’t feel the need to tell everyone about because she really cool like that.
Of course, you could argue that Jay Z’s wife may have quickly flung the money into a charitable account and claimed to have done it last year… but that’d be really cynical, right?
Quite why artists felt it was okay to play a show for Gaddafi in the first place is beyond us. Everyone knows about Lockerbie don’t they? Gaddafi hasn’t exactly got a good track record when it comes to generally being nice and lovely with the rest of the world.
You’ll all be mega-surprised and shocked when you learn that loads of pop stars have done these shows and that, often, the most morally upstanding of people – supermodels – are frequently in attendance of these lavish bashes.
A music bizz chump says:
“They’ve done it for tons of artists.”
“These parties are jammed with supermodels. Those guys are all over the world.”
And while everyone gets on their high-horse, a rep for Beyonce states quietly that Beyonce – who played a New Year’s Eve gig for the Gaddafi family – sorted her business out ages ago.
Her publicist says:
“All monies paid to Beyonc? for her performance at a private party at Nikki Beach St. Barts on New Year’s Eve 2009, including the commissions paid to her booking agency, were donated to the earthquake relief efforts for Haiti over a year ago”
“Once it became known that the third-party promoter was linked to the Qaddafi family, the decision was made to put that payment to a good cause.”
Queen B’s $1million cheque was donated to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund established in the wake of last year’s devastating earthquake. That’s nice isn’t it?
Meanwhile, Libyans wonder why their leader and his kids got to hang out with Beyonce and supermodels when they live in absolute squalor.
In other news: James Blunt plays gig for Young Conservative party bash and gets paid 80p and a potential knighthood.
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