These days, Beyoncé’s honesty has been seriously questioned. The singer has faced several accusations: one that sustained her baby bump was fake and one regarding the originality of her new video, “Countdown.”

The first rumor ignited Monday, after a taping of Australia’s “The Sunday Night Show.” It seems that when Beyoncé sat down to be interviewed, her baby bump folded in half beneath her dress and viewers thought it was all a hoax, and that B was employing a surrogate to carry her child. Anyway, her reps stand up and denied the whole thing, calling the accusations “stupid, ridiculous and false”.

Unfortunately, when one charge was down, another one emerged, and I may say it’s a more serious one. A Belgian director claims that the singer has copied her routines in the new music video for her latest single “Countdown”. Beyoncé’s clip was directed by Adria Petty and it is any filmmaker’s dream, with bright colors, split screens, dizzying patterns and dance sequences that will remind you of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s styles, never too much skin, always smiling so lovingly as the Beyoncé we all know and love.

But B’s joy as well as ours, her fans, has been seriously overshadowed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker who claims that Beyoncé’s “Countdown” video pays unattributed homage to one of her clips by using two routines created by her dance company for the music video of “‘Rosas danst Rosas” which is actually one of the Belgian dance company’s biggest hits and it was created in 1983. De Keersmaeker is not angry nor she feels flattered by B’s admiration of her work under the mask of imitation, and she stated that she had been “struck by the resemblance of Beyoncé’s clip not only with the movement from ‘Rosas danst Rosas’ but also with the costumes, the set and even the shots from the film by director Thierry De Mey.” Then she added that “obviously, Beyoncé, or the music video director Adria Petty, plundered many bits of the integral scenes in the film.” The director recognizes B’s talent, saying that she is not the worst copycat as she sings and dances very well, but that “there are protocols and consequences to such actions, and I can’t imagine she and her team are not aware of it.”

De Keersmaeker and Thierry De Mey didn’t decide yet if they are going to sue the pregnant singer and her team, but it’s a fact that they will have to pay for their mistakes. Beyoncé is however denying the accusations, motivating that she found inspiration only in Audrey Hepburn’s film Funny Face and the retro look of Diana Ross, Andy Warhol and Brigitte Bardot. But who knows, she may reconsider her statement as she did earlier this year. At the Billboard Music Awards, Beyoncé was accused of copying the choreography of a dance by Italian pop singer Lorella Cuccarini. The singer first denied the accusation but later she acknowledged being inspired by Cuccarini.

This entry was posted on Monday, October 17th, 2011 at 12:35 am and is filed under News.