Brit popstar feels the sting after Lemonade attack
|||PAUL EKSTEEN
When life hands you lemons, you bash the pulp out of them and make lemonade.
At least, that’s the mood Beyonce was aiming for with the release of her new album, Lemonade, on Sunday – by turns a fashion statement, a militant declaration and a scorecard of her husband’s infidelities.
Whatever. All people could really care about is who the “becky with good hair” is?
The latest suspect is British recording artist Rita Ora, a former Roc Nation star signed by Jay-Z.
Beyonce’s legion of fans (her Beyhive) and trolls smelling blood have flooded Ora’s instagram page with insults, as well as bee and lemon emojis.
Ora has long been rumoured to have conducted an affair with Jay-Z. She was openly questioned about this in 2014 during a radio interview. Her indignant response was: “Don't you dare disrespect Beyonce like that ever again in your entire life.
“Yeah cause that's just straight up disrespect. You can't even go there, that just not a question.”
The previous year, she attacked Geordie Shore star Holly Hagan for suggesting that she was fooling around with Beyoncé’s husband. “I stayed silent on one bulls**t rumour but this one I have to speak' 'Neva eva will any1 includin a red head dum z listin attention seekin whore try talk s**t about me & my family holly wateva da f*k ur name is,(sic)” she tweeted.
The other lemons in Beyoncé’s Lemonade have already taken a severe squashing.
Rachel Roy, former wife of Jay-Z’s one-time business partner Dame Dash, was the first suspect. She is believed to be the reason Jay-Z had to endure a kung-fu-inspired dressing down from Solange Knowles in the elevator at the Met Gala in 2014. At the time of that infamous assault Beyoncé, who had a front row seat, said nothing.
Roy, who captioned a Instagram picture “good hair, don’t care” right after Lemonade dropped, should have followed suit. Instead, she found herself inundated with threats and slurs. Roy has since closed her Instagram account, but it appears her 16-year-old daughter Ava has been left to the wolves.
“A young THOT in the making. Tell your basic mutt face Mother to keep her legs closed to married man (sic),” read one charming tweet.
And what of Jay-Z. Social media seems to be taking great pleasure in clowning the rap mogul.
“Looks like Jay-Z just got his 100th problem #lemonade,” joked one tweet.
One gets the feeling he’d probably take this over whatever Beyoncé dished out behind closed doors.