I find Zane Lowe exceedingly annoying. He is a big fat music snob, who revels in anything anti-pop, and is full of his own self importance. So what if he has his own Radio 1 show, it comes on at 7, which is after most people have stopped listening anyway. In fact, when Zane Lowe hits the air that is my cue to turn the radio off. During the BBC’s coverage of Glastonbury last night Zane was less than enthusiastic about Beyonce’s magnificent headline act. The presenter claimed that Beyonce’s act was ‘entertaining, that’s what it was’, then broke down in laughter after co-presenter Lauren Laverne asked him what he thought. He eventually replied ‘I went to watch Queens of the Stone Age’. Today rumours have been flying, linking Zane Lowe’s hasty exit from the festival with his possible firing from the BBC. This is unlikely, but wouldn’t it be great?
The fact remains that last night was a momentous occasion. Beyonce is the first woman to ever headline Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage, and 
thus made history with her dazzling, energetic, show-stopping set. The Queen of pop played for over an hour and a half and did all the hits anyone could have hoped for. Just when I was fearing that she would miss one of my favourites, ‘Irreplaceable’, the recognisable ‘to the left, to the left’ met my ears, and filled my heart with happiness. The set even included a Destiny’s Child medley, as well as a cover of The Kings of Leon’s ‘Sex on Fire’.
Wearing only a gold sparkling blazer, black pants, and killer heels, Beyonce commanded not only the stage, but the 175,00 strong audience that appeared to go on for miles. Hubby Jay-Z and friend Gwyneth Paltrow watched from the pit as the singer proved herself to be a cut above the rest; not many female pop acts can dance the way Beyonce does, whilst maintaining those powerful and perfectly pitched vocals.
I woke up this morning to an array of facebook statuses praising the goddess that is Beyonce. My only wish is that I could have been at Glasto to experience history being made for myself. Nevertheless, watching it on TV was still fantastic. Check out BBC iPlayer for the coverage.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who unlikes Z-Lowe. I doubt he could get his head much more up his own. I find the true test of a media personality is how they behave with others. I’ve heard him regularly cutting off mid-way people with interesting things to say, interjecting with his own inane nothingness.
The guy certainly has a passion for music, but he needs to take it down a notch or a thousand and treat others with a bit more respect. He could do with a lesson in not enjoying the sounds of his own voice quite so much.
If we all liked Take That, what a dull world it would be. So Zane doesnt like Beyonce,,,,, where is the problem? I am sure there was plenty on offer that did, and didnt meet, his tastes. That is the beauty of Glastonbury, there is something for everyone.
Good on him for being honest. To pretend he is in to pop music, just because he is a co-presenter of the BBC’s coverage, would have been hipocrasy.
I dont remember the late great John Peel being chastised for not liking pop music, and he didnt hide this whenever he presented the Beeb’s coverage…. and he was a Glasto legend.
To the person who recently made a comment on this article that I decided not to show – why don’t you try to construct a decent argument instead of insulting me, and telling me to f*** off? I don’t deny that others are allowed an opinion, because that’s exactly what I’m expressing here. Just because Beyonce is mainstream, that does not mean she is ‘mindless pop’. She has a fantastic voice, and is the first ever female to headline Glasto. For this reason, I believe she deserved a bit more respect than Zane Lowe appeared to give her. To me, ‘mindless pop’ is characterised by so-called ‘artists’ who do not write or produce their own music, and can barely perform live.
To add to this, lumping Beyonce and Take That together in the same category to me just shows ignorance, and a bitterness for those who have been highly successful in the music industry.
Beyonce sang, danced, dazzled and entertained for an extensive amount of time, and never showed any signs of fatigue. She is thus, a suitable topic for blog praise. Zane Lowe on the other hand didn’t even give any sort of reason for disliking her, he just laughed in front of the camera, and in my opinion, made a right fool of himself.