Beyonce may be many things – talented, a good dancer, even bootylicious. But it seems in Nevada, residents have deemed her offensive. A bikini-clad Beyonce is featured on a Clear Channel billboard for radio station KWNZ, and resident Pamela Keeney doesn’t like it.

‘‘It’s obscene,” [resident Pamela] Keeney told the Reno Gazette-Journal. ‘‘I have my two little grand kids 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.”
A Clear Channel respresentative did not return a phone call seeking comment.

Scott Seidenstricker, manager of KWNZ, said the photograph of Knowles is part of a series that also includes singers Gwen Stefani and Justin Timberlake.

‘‘The billboards were taken from publicity shots and this is the way those people perform,” Seidenstricker said. ‘‘So to show them in a jogging suit probably wouldn’t be the right thing.”

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So, maybe performing in a jogging suit wouldn’t be the “right thing,” but is performing in a bikini any better? It could be a nice jogging suit, with sparkles.

A forty foot image of a woman’s armpit would be offensive in anyone’s book. Particularly when it is blocking scenic mountain views. Do you really need a billboard with a picture of Beyonce to advertise music?

Actually, in this case Beyonce is advertising a radio station, and a picture of the announcers probably would be by far less appealing than a picture of Beyonce. There’s a reason people say “that’s a face for radio.” It’s because they’re mean.

This isn’t the first time Beyonce has been told to get some more clothes on – she cancelled a Malaysian concert in October as they have a strict dress code for female performers.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Header image from the Reno Gazette-Journal by Tim Gunn. Resident Pamela Keeney is shown, and the photo credit on the Reno Gazette-Journal reads: “Pamela Keeney doesn’t like the bikini-clad image of singer Beyonce Knowles on a billboard near her home off West Fourth Street, saying that it teaches boys to disrespect women.”