UPDATE: FLOTUS has a fan in Beyonce and it looks like the feeling is mutual, based on a tweet the First Lady sent out thanking the singer for her moving letter yesterday.
Beyonce's own Twitter account went live just last week with a single tweet (and the only one to date) about her intro to the social media world.
PREVIOUSLY: Beyonce's been baring her soul more than ever these days, releasing more than 100 personal photos on her new Tumblr page last week and showing off her post-baby beach body shortly after, while on vacation in St. Barts.
Bey's latest musing on her newly revamped website is a short, handwritten letter of thanks to the First Lady of the U.S.
Addressing the note simply to "Michelle," the singer thanks Obama for all that she does and for being a role model to her baby girl.
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UPDATE: FLOTUS has a fan in Beyonce and it looks like the feeling is mutual, based on a tweet the First Lady sent out thanking the singer for her moving letter yesterday.
According to the cam...
UPDATE: FLOTUS has a fan in Beyonce and it looks like the feeling is mutual, based on a tweet the First Lady sent out thanking the singer for her moving letter yesterday.
According to the cam...
I agree with you Tjamman. Is Beyonce a good person? Yes. Was her intention good? Yes. Any of you who think that the First Lady Michelle Obama would be insulted by the fact that it was hand written and not written in proper grammar are so wrong. Michelle Obama may be well distinguished but she is also a regular person. Who doesn't like to get a nice hand written thank you note once in a while? I'm sure Michelle was sincerely grateful....PERIOD. Leave it alone all you negative people. Find something else to complain about because we all know the type of people that you are. You are never satisfied with ANYTHING and can probably find something negative about EVERYTHING and EVERYONE! Let me guess I'm not suppose to cap so many words in a paragraffffffff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oops, wow I think that was the first comma I just used after the "Oops"....big deal people!
tjmq: I agree with you Tjamman. Is Beyonce a good person?
I do believe that the media is trying to downgrade the ideal of what an African-American woman should be like. People slam our FLOTUS, but not Beyonce. Why? Beyonce is never going to be an intellectual threat to anyone.
12_P: I do believe that the media is trying to downgrade
I think since this was a letter to the President's wife....it should've been as clear and professional looking as possible. I also think that's what Beyonce attempted to do know while being warm and lighthearted. Her intention is sweet and while she's not the best at writing letters, she's certainly earned her keep writing & singing songs. I'm certain Mrs. Obama's daughters will never (modern technology babies or not) write a letter like this, nor will Mrs. Carter's, I'm also certain where she and hubby fell short in education they've more then made up for it in business sav, and will ensure that their children will go the full distance as far as education is concerned. God bless America where you don't need a high school nor college education to become rich & famous and you still have an opportunity to rub shoulders with the Ivy leaguers while still being judged by all others....
alawyer826: I think since this was a letter to the President's
Sorry, lawyer, I accidentally faved your post - which is way too easy to do. To my way of thinking, becoming rich and famous is not a goal to be emulated. To become educated is what we should aspire to. Blessing America for not needing an education in order to be rich and famous is exactly what has dragged America down to the bottom of all the world rankings (except prisoners per population and gun ownership where it outranks the rest of the world by huge margins). Putting down education is putting down the population at large and that's what has happened in the US. That's exactly what the President is trying desperately to make his people see. My grandmother had some wonderful, pithy sayings, not the least among them, "Not failure, but low aim, is vile".
Rich and famous is low aim. Education would teach you that.
Eleanor_Ruby_Moon: Sorry, lawyer, I accidentally faved your post - which is
I find the letter to be conversational, genuine, and sweet. I have to be cautious, myself, about run-on sentences, lol. Anyhow, I feel conversation and writing skills may have decreased with technology, including TV . . .
Lynn_Autumn: I find the letter to be conversational, genuine, and sweet.
I agree the letter seems as it it were written by a primary school student. But in fairness, its actually very typical of the writing skills of most adult Americans today. I started noticing this a few decades or so ago. With the proliferation of the Internet, its gotten much worse since.
anandaone: I agree the letter seems as it it were written
Did anyone else catch that she wrote "u" instead of "you"? As in, "Thank you so much for every single thing that U do for us."? It's a sweet letter, and I'm a fan of Beyonce. She's very talented and a classy girl, but I would have recommended she write out the word "you" instead of just putting the letter, "u".
All the other times in the letter that she said "you" she spelled out the word, what happened there? Haha, oh nooo....
Scorpio115: Did anyone else catch that she wrote "u" instead of
I'm not a fan of Michelle, nor do I particularly follow Beyonce (beyond what's written in the tabloids, which are one of my sinful indulgences), but there's nothing wrong with that letter. It's a hand-written note, not a formal epistle, for chrissakes...
Tayvl: I'm not a fan of Michelle, nor do I particularly
She is a singer; not speech-writer, not an English teacher! Have you read some of the things doctors write? Bad grammar does not mean stupid! Moreover, I do not see anything wrong with the letter, because it conveyed her thought process about the First Lady; that's what communication is all about. I work in an industry where writing is a big deal, but it's the rationale rather than grammar that matters. Move on people, nothing to see. By the way, I am not a Boyonce fan!
Intelligentia: She is a singer; not speech-writer, not an English teacher!
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Posted: 04/12/2012 9:55 am Updated: 04/14/2012 9:04 am