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Post by scarlet on Feb 8, 2016 16:26:20 GMT -4
I just...don't like her. She's so far up her own ass. Case in point: she and Jay-Z were at the Warriors game on Saturday night and she kept her sunglasses on the entire time.
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Post by Matilda on Feb 8, 2016 16:36:21 GMT -4
I haven't even seen the Superbowl performance, yet I already know that it could have done with less of her. The world can always do with a bit less Beyonce.
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Post by deeconsistent on Feb 8, 2016 16:52:51 GMT -4
It took the success of I Am...Sasha Fierce to slowly unshackle herself from respectability politics. That album gave her the type of mainstream success to allow politics to slowly seap in without financial repercussions. The ascendancy of the Obama Administration seemed to give her the confidence to finally stop being polite("I'm so grateful just to be here") and start being a bit more real. That she defies code-switching with her Texas-Bama proclamations is frankly astounding if you've followed her career from Destiny's Child until now. For a long, long, long time Beyonce's public persona was Christian, Texas, beauty pageantry. This is why I couldn't dismiss the overt sexuality of the Beyonce album. Because along with (re)claiming her personhood via her body's pleasure (and a black woman's body in this country has historically been commodified for capitalism gain) she snuck in Chimimanda's definition of feminism. As a sample on a song that asks you to love yourself as a woman. I'm even thrilled about her rebuke of those that hate Blue Ivy's kinky hair. I'm excited about her defiance. Mementomori, I had to like this post, because of the way it played off of the quoted excerpt in discoprincess' post directly above yours. When the writer compared "Formation" to "Deja Vu", all I could think was how differently she was presenting the idea of a Southern Belle back then.
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mementomori
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Post by mementomori on Feb 8, 2016 16:54:12 GMT -4
I haven't even seen the Superbowl performance, yet I already know that it could have done with less of her. The world can always do with a bit less Beyonce. I agree, a bit less Beyonce, a bit more of female artists of color in general. Now, how do we convince the powers-that -be there needn't be "just one of us at a time"?
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Post by magazinewhore on Feb 8, 2016 17:15:53 GMT -4
I've never big a big fan. She always seemed too big and famous for me, although I appreciated her calling herself a feminist, but damn! I just watched the video and I have mad respect for her. She got balls. That was freaking awesome to see a woman of color dancing in a antebellum home and taking the role of lady of the house. I like the new, more political Beyonce. And hopefully this won't be just about her, but will make room for more women of color artists. Having the young boy in a hoodie dancing in from of police is heartbreaking. She did that at the Superbowl!
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Post by Ladybug on Feb 8, 2016 17:49:32 GMT -4
I'm not a huge fan of her music either, and sometimes I feel she's overexposed, but I also have a lot of respect for her boldly addressing politics and racism in her new music.
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Post by Coffeecakes on Feb 8, 2016 17:54:04 GMT -4
I cannot stand her but if white tears are flowing over this awesome video, I respect that. God forbid someone be proud to be black and be a little political.
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mementomori
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Post by mementomori on Feb 8, 2016 18:12:15 GMT -4
"You know you dat bitch, when you cause all this conversation..."
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Post by eveschmeve on Feb 8, 2016 18:12:48 GMT -4
I cannot stand her but if white tears are flowing over this awesome video, I respect that. God forbid someone be proud to be black and be a little political. This. It's disturbing to me that black entertainers are supposed to stay out of commenting on race. Giuliani said this about her performance- And waste of space Steve Doocy said this- They're taking a song that celebrates black culture and black life and twisting it to be anti-cop and not something that decent (white), wholesome (white) middle America (white) should have to sit through.
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SApril
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Post by SApril on Feb 8, 2016 18:38:18 GMT -4
I'm really surprised she did Formation at the Superbowl. Because the lyrics and video is so pro-black, I didn't think the NFL would let her.
I love the song and video and her SB performance. More Bruno+Beyonce, please.
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