While Beyonce‘s concert in Dubai stirred outrage from some fans — due to the country’s anti-LGBTQ+ laws — her pops looks at it differently, telling us his daughter has incredible power to bring people together … from all walks of life.
Mathew Knowles tells TMZ … Queen Bey united a really diverse crowd with her incredible performance overseas, bringing people closer, as she does best.
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He says people who weren’t at the show might not understand — adding she gave respect and got respect back from the country, calling it an amazing moment.
MK notes his daughter’s always stood for inclusiveness, and believes everyone was there for love. He adds she’d never do something to deliberately hurt someone.
As for the criticism about her NOT performing hits from “Renaissance,” Mathew says hold tight … Beyonce IS planning a tour, and she’ll announce it when she’s ready.
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TMZ caught up with Bey’s mom, Tina Knowles, Monday — telling us her daughter was pretty nervous before her first big show in years, but notes she pulled it off and it was a great trip. She had less to say about the controversy, though.
As we reported, Beyonce’s show brought down the house over the weekend as she performed to a packed house for the opening of the new Atlantis resort, and reportedly got paid $24 million.
The backlash, which Beyonce rarely faces, centered around some in the LGBTQ+ community feeling she’d “sold out” by performing in a “homophobic dictatorship.”
Mathew says that’s a narrow-minded view of what went down.