Jay-Z Confronts Journalist Who Gave His Historic Glastonbury Show A Bad Review
This time last week, Jay-Z was about to take to the main stage at Glastonbury to finally perform the gig which had caused a mass of hysterical controversy over the past few months.
In the run-up to the gig, I took a long, hard look at the controversy over the booking of Jay-Z as a headline act at the long-running festival, a controversy which seemed to stem from the belief by some that a hip-hop artists wasn’t right for the venue, and especially as the main headline act on the Saturday night.
Then the gig came and went, and Jay-Z pretty much managed to blow all the previous arguments away, putting on an historic show which delighted the vast majority of people who saw it, either live or on television. Some still weren’t impressed though, with The Sun’s showbiz editor Gordon Smart one of the few journalists blind enough to walk away disappointed.
While everyone is entitled to their opinion, Smart, and The Sun newspaper as a whole have been very critical over the past few weeks of Jay-Z and Michael Eavis’ decision to give him a headline slot at Glastonbury. And Jay-Z didn’t take too kindly to the bad review.
According to Digital Spy, Jay-Z spotted Smart at London club Paper in the early hours of Friday morning, and decided to confront him over his comments. He allegedly walked up to the journalist, poked him in the chest, and then delivered a diatribe.
“You were the only one who gave me a bad review. Everyone else said it was history. I’m not one of those guys who gets cut up about good or bad reviews but you missed the moment, man.
“It was a first for Glastonbury and you didn’t get it. You’re a non-believer. I was making history and you missed the moment.”
“I have sold your paper on stage for the last few weeks. I made history on Saturday and that can’t be taken away from me. It was something new, never done before, and I’m proud.”
Jay-Z certainly had the right to reply, and seems to have told it as it is. But my thought is that Smart probably only made the comments he did over the past few weeks because he knew it would sell newspapers. In the same way that Amy Winehouse is splashed across the front page (and then on Brit Music Scene obviously) at every chance an editor gets, Jay-Z was the artist most likely to sell copy that week.
Meanwhile, it seems that Jay-Z’s effort to embarrass Oasis’ Noel Gallagher, by covering Wonderwall at the start of his set, has backfired. Sales of the song are said to have doubled since Jay-Z did his almost karaoke version of it last weekend. Jay-Z covered it after Gallagher stated that he was wrong for the festival, but he maybe now wishes he hadn’t.
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