So we here at Y.I.F. watched all the hype about Beyonce’s incredible Billboard awards performance on sunday night, just for media & fans to question it the next day when new footage appeared online that she supposedly stole the concept from Italian singer Lorella Cuccarini. Beyonce states “My makeup artist showed me the performance of Lorella Cuccarini a year ago, and it inspired me so much,” she told AOL Music. “I then met with the talented people who worked on it. The technology and concept were so genius.”“Thank God for YouTube or I would have never been exposed to something so inspiring,” she added. “I never worked so hard on anything in my life as that performance for the Billboard Awards.”
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Artistic film director by the name of Kenzo Digital spoke to Yahoo and has been quoted saying ” I met with Beyoncé and worked non-stop on the production for a month before bringing it to life in Las Vegas. “[The Cuccarini artists] are awesome and do incredible work as well, but there are a lot of different inspirations for where our piece came from,”“If anything, it’s a great example of how great of a performer Beyoncé is. It’s just a bare white screen. It’s a technique in video art since the ’80s in terms of frontal projection and interactive things. That’s really nothing new. It’s not even a new technology. It’s just an incredibly simple, awesome storytelling device, and with a performer like Beyoncé it becomes incredibly powerful.”

Honestly i think people need to give it a rest, Nothing was stolen and i know for a fact how hard that team worked on that performance. I think media should take note from Yahoo and do their research before passing judgement on an artist creativity.