Tag: Beyoncé Renaissance
(Re)Branded: There’s Not Much Country Gold in Them Thar Notes, But Beyoncé Has Made It Impossible Not to Be Called A White Supremacist If You Don’t Bow to Cowboy Carter
For a long time, there was nothing “too political” in Beyoncé’s oeuvre. She went about the business of singing her songs that usually pertained to [Read More…]
Beyoncé’s Recent White-ification Now Makes Plenty of Sense in the Wake of Her Country Album Announcement
At the end of a Verizon commercial during the Super Bowl on February 11th, Beyoncé announced that the world was ready for her new music [Read More…]
Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner at the Beyoncé Concert
A headline such as “Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner at the Beyoncé Concert” seems like the stuff of an AI-generated sentence arbitrarily spit out from [Read More…]
Album of the Year and the Beyoncé Was “Snubbed” Narrative
It’s an awards show that, like so many others, never quite gets it right. And can never possibly please everyone. Nonetheless, the “objective” viewpoint regarding [Read More…]
Pillaging Loot That’s Already Been Plundered: On Beyoncé Doing Madonna
“The loot we pillaged had been plundered.” It’s one of the most indelible lines from Jeremy Atherton Lin’s Gay Bar. An aphorism that speaks to [Read More…]
Who’s Afraid of Beyoncé Knowles? Everyone (And Diane Warren)
Diane Warren’s songwriting is what the modern, jaded type might refer to as “schlock.” Maudlin, antiquated shite about yearning and pining that doesn’t actually exist. [Read More…]
Monica Lewinsky Is Right to Shoot Her Shot at Asking Beyoncé for a Re-Record of “Partition”
Not long ago in some ways, 2013 was still a cultural moment when a person like Monica Lewinsky could continue to be mocked despite a [Read More…]
Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul” Calls For the Type of Action That Many Can’t Take
With an opening that is instantly identifiable to any 90s music scholar as Robin S.’ “Show Me Love” (which Charli XCX also recently took to [Read More…]
