Beyoncé stole my moves, says high priestess of modern dance

Beyonce is more of a brand than an artist these days. She is the figurehead on the front of a giant money making machine. And so blaming her or criticising her (and her 'people') for hoovering up and rebranding the work of genuine hard working artists like De Keersmaeker is kind of missing the whole point. It is a bit like blaming or criticising a corporation for 'making too much money at the expense of workers or standards or the environment' without realising that that's what a corporation is specifically designed to do. Make money above all else. The same is true with the brand headed by Beyonce. She is a face and voice of a giant money making machine. So what do you expect to happen? Everything her organisation does is about making money before all else. It is this sheer efficiency of the cynical exploitation of art and artistry of others (in addition to whatever talent as a performer Beyonce may have herself) which separates brand Beyonce (I mean everyone involved rather than Beyonce by herself) from the more genuine artist. The industries which were supposed to merely facilitate art (record labels, media, PR etc) have now well and truly taken it over. Yet we still criticise acts like Beyonce her as if she were (a) a single artist working essentially under her own steam according to her own vision (b) playing the same game as other artists. She is neither. She is part of a team who were reportedly paid $2,000,000 to entertain Gaddafi's son. The point is not that it was Gaddafi's son (it's hard to know who we are supposed to demonise the most: Gaddafi himself, NATO for enforcing their no fly zone by bombing the country into oblivion and setting up a central bank there I beg your pardon, or the Al Qaeda 'freedom fighters' that we are now formally recognising and selling arms to), the point is the brazen greed of it all. That figure of $2,000,000 apparently represents about two week's wages for team Beyonce. Does anyone really think these people have the time (or the inclination) to develop their own unique artistic ideas and expression? Are you 'flipping' kidding me?!!! They're way too busy being rich celebs, doing endless photo shoots, meeting advisors to discussing branching out into yet more branded products (perfumes, apparel, lunchboxes, pencil cases), having plastic surgery, meeting more advisors to discuss the best investment strategies for their vast fortune and generally jet setting around the world being asked to have dinner with (and be photographed alongside) various political leaders desperate to be seen as in touch with contemporary culture. If you're going to pay any attention to these big name acts at least understand who and what they represent. And how we all get sucked into funding them and worshipping these enormous money making cultural combine harvesters. Better yet forget all about them! And stop feeding this cynically repackaged, rebranded, dumbed down consumer garbage to your children, too. And support real artists instead. End of rant :)

Well, Beyonce is a big artist and, per the above comment, that means that she may not do much of the creative development on her music/mvs....so she may not have had anything to do with it, while it's obviously plagiarism