Beyonce offends Sin City Residents  
Monday, November 12th, 2007

Photos of Beyonce Knowles on the front pages of magazines and the front row of fashion shows wearing the fur of chichillas electrocuted in China don't offend us, but when she wears a bikini on a billboard in Las Vegas, people get ruffled feathers.  What is the matter with us?

A billboard for Las Vegas' Z93.7 radio station features Beyonce in a white two-piece bikini, with her hair down and her arms in the air.  The board says, "The most Beyonce."  And some residents of Sin City are actually petitioning to have the advertisement taken down.

"It's obscene," said resident Pamela Keeney.  I have my two little grandkids coming over here, and they don't need to be seeing that.  You can change the channel on the TV but you can't change that."  Dude:  it's a bathing suit.  And if it wasn't for the fact that it was Beyonce, would people even be talking about it?

There was a quite racy beer billboard in Cleveland last year, and no one around here said a peep.  And this is Ohio - I daresay we are a much redder state than Nevada.

The manager of Z93.7, Scott Seidenstricker, said, "The billboards were taken from publicity shots and this is the way those people perform.  So to show them in a jogging suit probably wouldn't be the right thing.  It complies with all the locational criteria that are set out in our code."

   

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