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.
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.
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.