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Sad Gay Folksinger | Beyoncé Professor | Author: Ain’t I A Diva?: Beyoncé and the Power of Pop Culture Pedagogy | Contact: kevin @kevinallred .com
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shouldn't have to be qualified as "female album" here cuz it's better than any dude's work this decade too.
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Beyoncé has surpassed both Madonna and Michael Jackson in terms of filmmaking and music at this point.
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Coachella doesn't get renamed for every artist that performs. Stop it.
#Beychella
is a specific once in a lifetime, world-shattering performance that no else today could ever replicate. Beyoncé changed Coachella. Every other artist is still just appearing at Coachella.
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Destiny’s Child is back to remind you that none of the kids today even know what HARMONIES are.
#Beycheclla
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white people really are terrorists. whiteness is terrorism.
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The Rockettes have refused to perform at Trump's inauguration despite being booked through their management. every single one of them. YES!
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the way Emma Gonzalez just used silence from that podium was bone chillingly powerful.
#MarchForOurLives
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I’m still laughing at all the fake outrage over Beyoncé holding an American flag only for
#COWBOYCARTER
to open AND close with a funeral dirge for America.
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NYPD just came to my house bc Rutgers Police told them i'm a threat based on political statements i've made on campus and on twitter.
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Biden: Barack Obama!
Sanders: Union!
Bloomberg: I have money for commercials.
Buttigieg: I love Microsoft Word.
Klobuchar: Post-It notes come from MN. Wheels! (Thumbs up)
Warren: OK SHUT THE FUCK UP EVERYONE AND LET ME TELL YOU HOW THINGS ARE GONNA GO.
#DemDebate
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After Lemonade, Beyoncé was like “oh you won’t let me compete in multiple genres—let me just make a full album in each genre and release them back to back to back. now what?”
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my heart is broken for Hillary Clinton as a person. she has worked SO hard for SO many years and to lose to Trump now is just too much...
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Scarlett Johansson had to know there would be justified pushback on her playing a trans man in a new movie. But WOW at this "update."
Is she insinuating her right to a play a trans man is a White Feminist™ issue bc cis white actors have played trans women? I'm disgusted.
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Remember when Beyoncé already did the 2018 Met Gala theme back in 2017?
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with lyrics like “my unamerican life” and “america…america has a problem” on Renaissance, i don’t know why everyone is so quick to jump to Cowboy Carter’s cover image as an unironic and uncritical embrace of patriotism. are you all serious? are you ok?
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People say EIL was a step down from Lemonade. WRONG.
Beyoncé doesn't do steps down. EIL was a mixtape that completed the Lemonade cycle. It was the period on the end of a sentence that allowed her to then move into crafting Homecoming, The Gift, Black is King.
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sean spicer just said if you are from a predominately Muslim country you have a "predisposition" for terrorism. he used that exact word.
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I can't stop laughing at all the MAGA asshats STILL trying to troll
@kathygriffin
by asking "how's that career going?" as if she isn't selling out a tour and making millions. Like...
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ok. they let me leave. this is a shitshow and is proof positive that Trump's crackdown on free speech has absolutely begun.
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i would dissuade Beyoncé from every going back to the Grammys bc of all the shit and snubs they've put her through...BUT NO ONE CAN TRIBUTE TINA LIKE BEYONCÉ. don't fuck it all up again, Grammys...
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@Into
jesus take the wheel and drive me off a cliff. this is some wild shit. and i love pop culture analysis. but claims require textual evidence. so much here is verifiably false. this is just really embarassing for everyone involved...
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SPIRIT ACOUSTIC VERSION WITH BEYONCÉ PLAYING THE PIANO WE NEED IT PLEASE GIVE IT TO US NOW 🙏🏻❤️🐝😩🐝❤️🙏🏻
#MakingTheGift
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i said: would conservatives care as much abt the 2nd amendment if guns killed more white people? a question meant to expose double standard
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well...i now have 500 pens that say “I majored in Beyoncé Studies” for part of my book preorder promo!! 🐝🐝
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Nina Simone said, “An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.”
That exactly what Beyoncé does.
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Beyoncé's musicality is unmatched. You can talk about all the songwriters or the producers or whatever. But Beyoncé is at the center of EVERYTHING she does and she is smarter than your favorite musician. With 20+ years experience.
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🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝🍋🐝HAPPY BIRTHDAY
#LEMONADE
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The fact that Beyoncé continues to create the most innovative and thought-provoking art of any musician today, despite the disproportionate amount of negativity and vile bullshit she receives from all sides, is astounding tbh.
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This is racist & misogynoiristic.
Journalism today is one main reason we have Trump and they're positioning a black female celebrity insisting on control of her own narrative as an "insult to journalism." FOH.
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and this is for exercising my fucking first amendment rights. i'm being labeled a threat and put in a psych hospital
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Janet Jackson really made one of the greatest videos of all time by herself dancing in an abandoned warehouse. "Pleasure Principle." Almost 31 years later and your faves still can't keep up.
#JanetJacksonAppreciationDay
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The Sorry original demo is SO DIFFERENT from the album version. And they’re both amazing. This is what Beyoncé does. That’s her genius. She has such a phenomenal musical ear.
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what we’re not gonna do is pretend Beyoncé hasn’t been encouraging people to vote and making her political choices known for YEARS while Taylor let the alt-right crown her a white supremacist icon without a word until a couple weeks ago...👀
Taylor Swift vocalized her support for local candidates days ago, why would Beyoncé wait til there’s just a couple hours left of the polls being open ?
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Beyoncé’s been out here fucking up white spaces from the Super Bowl halftime to the CMAs to Coachella and NOW THE MOTHAFUCKIN’ LOUVRE screamin’
#Apeshit
at the top of her lungs!!! what a time to be alive! it’s civil disobedience tbh and it’s brilliant!!!
#EverythingIsLove
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i fucking love the way
@kathygriffin
speaks out and pulls no punches. we need so much more of this.
(and apropos of nothing, i also love how Kathy threads her tweets using the alphabet. it's just fun.)
A) I have a story to tell and it's related to the whole Les Moonves situation. Normally, I hate when women are blamed for their husband's misconduct...it happens all the time. And after the first allegations against Leslie were revealed, I hoped his wife wouldn't face blowback.
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they've forced me to now undergo a psychiatric evaluation at the hospital. they brought me by ambulance tho i'm not under arrest technically
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hey everyone, Amy Schumer is hosting SNL right now so be sure to change the channel to anything but that. ❤️
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even the doctors thought it was ridiculous to take me to a psychiatric hospital and force me into evaluation. it was fucking intimidation.
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I don’t usually pay attention to those One Direction boys but this new Harry Styles album is GOOD.
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I enjoy Porochista Khakpour's writing, been a fan for years. I think she's got great insight on many things. After today, I'll no longer support her. She seems to believe that being anti-racist includes using racial slurs in order to truly be down for the cause. I'm done.
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best part is Formation dropped in February. everyone had 10 months to compete & still couldn't come close-that's how far beyond Beyoncé is 🐝
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THAT IS WHAT THEY DEEMED A THREAT ENOUGH TO SEND POLICE FROM 2 DIFF STATES AFTER ME & FORCE ME INTO A PSYCH HOSPITAL. wow. 👀
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damn...watching Beyoncé riff hakuna matata into “Mood 4 Eva” in real time was MAGIC.
#MakingTheGift
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Only 3 Black women have ever won AOTY at the Grammys. I hope
@JanelleMonae
takes it home in 2019!!!!
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I love how much Prince hated everyone but Beyoncé!!
Prince memoir reveals he hated Ed Sheeran and Katy Perry's music
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This is willfully ignorant & uninformed. Beyoncé writes lyrics, melodies, creates beats through her vocal syncopation alone. She also plays/writes on piano. She risks everything in her harmonies, song structure, storytelling, & the intricacies layered into her songs. ALL BY HER.
I think Kanye has had more misses than hits but at least he’s an artist. He writes his own music, makes his own beats. He takes risks. Beyonce on the other hand writes nothing, creates nothing, and takes no artistic risks. She sings the words other people write. That’s it.
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trans actors shouldn't be pigeon-holed into only playing trans roles. i think more trans actors playing cis characters will create meaningful conversations about gender and how we conceptualize and stereotype gender.
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& to be clear: my statements the police labeled threats were abt burning the american flag& me posing a rhetorical question on 2nd amendment
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@OutstandingWC
i got my phone back. they're letting me leave. the psych doctors thought it was ridiculous they brought me in luckily
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naming things Arichella, retroactively calling it Gagachella. No. Everyone get a life. this isn't downplaying anyone's performance, it's recognizing and respecting the magnitude of what Beyoncé did and always does. don't play.
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Lemonade as a visual album is psychological journey (note no accompanying emotion/step given to Formation). Lemonade as an audio album encompasses near every genre of American music in one cohesive statement. How is that not good? How is that not GENIUS?
#3YearsofLemonade
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SPIRIT!!!! Beyoncé is giving every aspect of her vocal range and technique in this song. And a surprise key change out of nowhere!!!
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they're taking my phone now. but i'll try and tweet again as soon as i can. if not, i'm at bellevue being held!!!!
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she said politicians say much worse on live television with no repurcussions and they choose to waste resources bringing me in.
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you ever feel an emotional bender coming on? like the sadness and anxiety and disappointment just creeping in from every angle? and trying to ignore it does no good. you have to dive in headfirst to swim through. i need a bottle of whiskey and my favorite sad songs...
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Beyoncé: does literally anything
Everyone: YEAH BUT HOW MUCH HAS SHE EVER HELPED POOR PEOPLE?!?!?!?
oh my god, shut up. 🙄
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jesus fucking christ. not the way i thought my night would go. also not that bad comparatively. but i'm not intimidated. i won't be.
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Nicki calls Miley out for being racist.
Miley dismisses it while twirling her faux locs.
I CAN'T...
#VMAs
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Beyoncé should have won AOTY for I Am...Sasha Fierce
Beyoncé should have won AOTY for BEYONCÉ
Beyoncé most fucking definitely should have won AOTY for Lemonade
(and if we're being hones, B'Day and 4 should've both been nominated too.)
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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this really is just more evidence that Beyoncé actually shifts culture time and time again, and then every other artist gets heralded for doing less. (This isn't criticism at the artists per se, more at other fan bases for collapsing and minimizing Bey's impact.)
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white ppl, there's no reason to practice "getting along" w/ your racist relatives on thanksgiving. call 👏🏻them 👏🏻out! throw pie if you want.
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Here I go again:
Using expensive things (fashion, jewelry, whatever) in filming
#BlackIsKing
is not the same thing as centralizing wealth in the story/plot. The Simba character dreams of wealth and Beyoncé gives a lesson on BALANCE. Attaining wealth isn't the goal in BIK.
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fuck white america. fuck white supremacy. fuck white people. fuck an inability to see beyond our own noses. and fuck the faux concern for tragedies in the past while allowing them to continue in the present.
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but guess what? no missed calls. no emails. & they've had my home address. & also know i'd be there tomorrow to teach. pure intimidation.
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I hate this trend of artists releasing shit before things are completely finished and then wanting to change/mess with it and update it later. STOP IT.
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I'm gonna say it: don't click on this article because it's wildly uninformed and ignorant.
Beyoncé didn't put
#Lemonade
on Spotify (until now) because the depth and scope of Lemonade can't be experienced on Spotify. This shitty take is proof of why.
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NO ONE does it like Beyoncé. Period. Past, present, or future. Full stop. Goodbye and goodnight. The end. No exceptions.
An artist. A CEO. A SINGER. A performer. An icon. A legend. A genius. 🐝
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everyone's so basic. I WILL CELEBRATE RICHARD SPENCER GETTING PUNCHED IN THE FACE & NOT CARE. he's an actual nazi. punch him again!
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¬e it's only a matter of importance when "white people" as a group are "targeted" (their term). acting like national security was at risk
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LOL. She already used a white maid in "Partition." Get with the times.
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@OutstandingWC
even the dr said actual politicians say worse than you said on television w/ no repercussion so why are they coming for you?
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when did Beyoncé EVER say that her songs alone create some kind of revolution??? folks need to relax with these incessant anti-Beyoncé threads trying to critique her through a revolutionary activis lens she’s never claimed. she’s an ARTIST.
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here's a thread of things Americans SHOULD be ashamed of before they feel ashamed Bo Bice was called a white boy at Popeye's.
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first of all, her name is Beyoncé. and are you playing so coy you pretend not to know "firing back" with deeply personal tweets is (unfortunately) par for the course regardless of particular view on social media? ok. go play the victim somewhere else.
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HOLY FUCK. How in the white hell????
Trey Gowdy is eleven days older than Keanu Reeves.
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My book FINALLY comes out June 11, 2019! Do you love Beyoncé? Do you like media analysis? Are you interested in social justice, education, pedagogy? Ain't I A Diva? has it all!!
#Beyhive
#Beyonc
é
#PoliticizingBeyonc
é (
@BeyLegion
can you give us a RT? 👀)
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the best album of 2017 is still Beyoncé's Lemonade, which was released in 2016. 🐝❤️🐝
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critics HATE recognizing that a woman had the best work of a decade, and they especially hate recognize that a BLACK WOMAN had the best work of the decade so they make excuses for why a couple men were a little bit better when they clearly weren't.
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Not to mention all those genres of American music were appropriated by white men and Beyoncé returns them to their rightful place as the creative expression of Black women. Alongside the exploration of Black women in American history through the visuals.
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Susan Sarandon has turned into the James Woods of the Left.
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Remember when Natalie Maines wore this "Fuck U Toby Keith" shirt and said it stood for "Friends United Together in Kindness"? 😂😂😂 LEGEND!
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should we get in formation with a little information on what country music actually looks/sounds like? ok.
#CMAs
#CMAawards50
@CountryMusic
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There’s nothing like a Beyoncé project. Levels above today and it was filmed a year ago. Bow down.
#BlackIsKing
#Beyonc
éIsComing
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Beyoncé threatens the music industry bc she's a powerful black woman and she breaks ALL their rules and slays.
#GRAMMYs
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Lemonade was unlike anything this decade -- a sweeping film blending history with present and future, and 12 tight songs spanning nearly every genre. A legit journey. A film. An album. Throwback and of the future. I'm done with y'all pretending it wasn't THE BEST of the decade.
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ALL INTELLIGENCE CONCLUDES WE DID NOT HAVE A FREE OR LEGITIMATE ELECTION. so why are we still going along with the results?
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so now the FBI, CIA, & NSA all agree that Russia hacked our election to ELECT TRUMP. and we're just supposed to accept those hacked results?
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this is ridiculous. Prince says hello. Janet Jackson says hello. Beyoncé says hello. 🙄
Taylor Swift Stands to Make Music Business History As a Free Agent; Will She Drive Her Own Machine?
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and the brilliance of Viola Davis' acting is always in the tiniest expressions, the fraction of a gesture. it's unparalleled.
#HTGAWM
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