As we learned in Beyonce’s utterly stupid New York Times profile earlier this week, Beyonce “has not answered any direct questions for more than a year.” Which means that Beyonce’s “people” are left to pick up the slack in explaining how awesome she is and how she’s the second coming (Beysus!) and all of that. Hilariously, Jay-Z’s stylist June Ambrose sort of threw some minor shade at Bey for her Met Gala look in an interview a few days ago. Ambrose told Page Six: “I love that some people got it and some people didn’t…It was a lot of that sheer, Bob Mackie-inspired pieces, which is not Chinese. You know, they’re musicians. Do they follow rules? Never.” You in danger girl! How dare you say that Beyonce didn’t follow the theme! So of course Beyonce’s hair stylist had to come out and explain how Beyonce’s look was completely fabulous and haters to the left. Except that The Glamming of Beyonce went down in an elevator?!

‘Course sometimes s–t goes down when there’s a billion dollars in the elevator! When Beyonce hit the red carpet at the 2015 Met Gala hours after most of the other stars posed for the cameras, she flawlessly worked her racy Givenchy gown and her high ponytail.

But what most don’t know is that the “Flawless” singer’s effortless look was finalized in the elevator. No, not that elevator, but in the elevator of her apartment building on the way to the swanky event’s carpet. Beyonce’s longtime hairstylist Neal Farinah (of the Neal Farinah Salon in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood on Fulton Street) was on hand for the quick fix, and exclusively told Us Weekly’s Gwen Flamberg about the last-minute switch up.

“For the Met Ball we did that high ponytail but that wasn’t supposed to be the style,” Farinah revealed. “We did that in the elevator as she was on the way out.”

Originally Bey’s long locks were entirely wrapped up in “an asian-inspired chignon,” but Farinah said the Grammy winner felt the look might be too “costumey,” and made a spur-of-the-moment decision.

“Then we were in the elevator on the way down, and she looks at me and says ‘Neal, I want to change my hair, will you change my hair?’ And I said, ‘Honey, there could be cameras in the elevator,'” Farinah quipped, referencing last year’s infamous “Elevatorgate” in which her sister Solange Knowles got into a physical altercation with her husband Jay Z. “She says, ‘You have 5 minutes.’ And I said, ‘Girl, what do you want me to do with the hair?’ And she wanted a high ponytail. With Beyonce, she looks at herself and she says, ‘This isn’t right, let’s change it.'”

After years of collaborating with Queen Bey for events, music videos, and concerts, Farinah and the chart-topper have formed a close friendship. The longtime stylist greatly admires Beyonce for her comprehensive creative vision.

“Just like everything else we do we come up with a concept and then we present it to Beyonce,” he explained. “She is a powerhouse and she knows what she wants. I have to pay her a compliment. Beyonce takes us all out of our comfort zone, and she pushes us to be the most artistic we can be with her.”

[From Us Weekly]

Girl, you’re going to get fired if you keep making elevator jokes. Elevator jokes will not be tolerated!!

As for her hair drama…on one side, I think a chignon would have been bad with Bey’s dress. On the other side, the high rooster tail was pretty bad too AND it made her look like the Zamunda chick from Coming to America. Basically, when Beyonce wasn’t happy with her look, she should have just stopped everything (including the elevator!!!) and started over. Let’s be honest: Bey’s look-at-ME Givenchy was pretty bad. As was her look-at-MEEEE entrance on the Met Gala carpet more than two hours late.

Oh, and Us Weekly also claims that Beyonce was SOOOO late for the gala because she was online, looking at what everyone else was wearing, and she changed into the Givenchy at the last minute. Bey’s rep deigned to deny that part of the story though.

Photos courtesy of WENN.