Beyoncé says she meant no disrespect to the seven astronauts who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion after she used audio from the disaster in her new love song "Xo."The song opens with a six-second audio sample from Jan. 28, 1986, of now-retired Nasa public affairs officer Steve Nesbitt saying, "Flight controllers here looking very carefully at the situation. Obviously a major malfunction." Under fire from friends and family of the astronauts for supposedly making light of the disaster, the pop star, 32, tells ABC News that the sample is actually meant to be a tribute to the dead. "My heart...
- 12/31/2013
- by Tim Nudd
- PEOPLE.com
Beyonce is taking heat from astronauts and family members for sampling audio from the Challenger disaster in a song on her self-titled visual album — prompting a statement from the singer saying the the sample was meant as a “tribute” to the space shuttle crew. “We were disappointed to learn that an audio clip from the day we lost our heroic Challenger crew was used in the song ‘Xo,’” Challenger widow June Scobee Rodgers wrote on space agency watchdog website NASAWatch.com. Also read: Beyonce Releases Part 3 of Behind-the-Scenes ‘Self-Titled’ Doc, ‘Run ‘N Gun’ (Video) Rodgers’ husband, Dick Scobee, was commander of the.
- 12/30/2013
- by L.A. Ross
- The Wrap
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