Why Beyoncé hated naked diamond top on ‘Dangerously in Love’ album cover

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Dangerously in Love” solidified her spot as an R&B icon and the Queen Bey of the music industry.The 41-year-old’s record cover was photographed by Markus Klinko and featured the flawless singer rocking a diamond-covered top and jeans as she posed in front of an icy blue background.However, the “Crazy in Love” songstress initially hated the web-like shirt that was draped over her bare skin, according to Klinko, who noted that the inspiration behind the record’s jacket photo came from a snapshot he captured of model Laetitia Casta, titled “The Web.”That 2000 photo showed the French model lying on a spider web that was crafted from jewels, with Casta sporting a silver, thread-like minidress that wrapped around her body.“She said she really loved that image and if we could do something like that, just smaller, on her.

And I didn’t really know how to interpret that,” Klinko recently told Insider of Beyoncé’s interest. “That image is very blue, mainly blue, dark blue.

When she said it, I didn’t really immediately know what to do about it.”When it was time to take the photos, Tina Knowles-Lawson, Beyoncé’s mom and then-stylist, had brought in the shiny, diamond-encrusted top — and Klinko “immediately recognized it as an opportunity.”He gave the garb to the Grammy winner to try on, but the former Destiny’s Child frontwoman was not a fan. “She said she didn’t like it,” he said. “She didn’t think it worked because her mom wanted to pair it with these long skirts.

Beyoncé said, ‘This is going to look very prom or red carpet and I don’t want to do that.'”However, he reached a solution when he realized that skirts were not the way to go to make the cover memorable.