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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.
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.
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
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?”
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.
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?
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.
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...
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...
@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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 ?
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
.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
It’s
#BeyDay
! To celebrate
#Beyonc
é turning 38, I’m giving away 4 (her favorite number) copies of my book AIN’T I A DIVA?: BEYONCÉ AND THE POWER OF POP CULTURE PEDAGOGY! 🐝❤️🐝 First 4 people to DM me w/ their fave Bey video & why gets ‘em. (U.S. shipping only, sorry I’m poor!)
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 🐝
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.
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.
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? 👀)
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.
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.
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.