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She may have kept quiet about the issue of lip-synching the National Anthem at President Obama’s recent inauguration ball, but Beyonce have not kept mum about the issue at all. In a recent Instagram post, she shared a photo where she is seen wearing a shirt with a phrase ‘Can I Live’ printed on it. Although she has not given her side on the lip-synching scandal, the photo is taken as referencing it as much as it referenced her husband Jay-z’s song having the same title, according to the Mail Online.

The photo posts precede Beyonce’s scheduled performance at the Super Bowl. Another image shows the singer-actress sporting a shirt with the name of her husband’s basketball team, The Brooklyn Nets. There is also a photograph that shows a wide black and white shot of her backup dancers in position. These photos were taken during her rehearsals for the Super Bowl show.

Beyonce will reportedly be performing onstage with her Destiny’s Child band mates, and she is set to sing their most famous songs as well as her hit song ‘Crazy In Love’. The singer have yet to air her side about the lip-synching issue, which exploded when a member of the Marine Corps Band claimed she did not sing in real time, but a Marine spokesman later backed off the claim. It appears the issue was a result of the misunderstanding about having a pre-recorded track. The use of these tracks as a backup is very common in live events.

Beyonce’s band mate Michelle defended on a segment of the program Good Morning America, saying that people should rather look at what can Beyonce bring in the future.

Fearing that passengers will be offended and intimidated by his shirt, a flight attendant at Qantas airways asked Wynand Mullins to change his shirt. The shirt has the words ‘Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.’ Mullins argues that the crew never understood the humor behind the shirt, and said that passengers next to him are laughing at the crew’s request because they know the movie from which the line on his shirt was taken. The quote was taken from a 1987 cult film entitled ‘The Princess Bride’.

Other airlines apart from Qantas have also been known to harass passengers on the issue of what they wear during flights. They don’t usually publish a specific dress code to follow, but they authorize attendants to decide on what is offensive or inappropriate. Last year in May, for instance, a woman in an American Airlines flight was told by the pilot that she should not be in the plane because she wore a shirt that had the F-word printed on it. In yet another instance, a man was barred from boarding a Delta flight in Buffalo, N.Y., last August for wearing a shirt that has a the words ‘Terrorists gonna kill us all’.

While this policy of the airlines may seem to violate a passengers freedom of speech, airplanes are considered as private property, and they have the right therefore to set up and enforce their own codes.