Patti LaBelle stumbled over lyrics while singing Tina Turner's "The Best" during a tribute to the late singer at Sunday night's BET Awards.
LaBelle took the stage wearing a sparkly black dress featuring fringe in honor of Turner. As she was singing, the teleprompter became obscured by the audience, and LaBelle lost her place in the song. "Oh, Lord," LaBelle said, before admitting, "Whatever, I can't see the words, I don't know." "I'm trying, y'all," she added.
Viewers criticized LaBelle on social media, calling her performance "disrespectful" and "unprofessional." "I wanna know who agreed to let Patti Labelle do the tribute to Tina Turner," a viewer mused on Twitter.
One wrote, "The fact that #PattiLabelle couldn't learn the f---ing words to a song as well known as ‘The Best’ is just downright disrespectful to #TinaTurner and the #BetAwards2023." "Said the same thing..
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