Beyonce's lyrics are disgusting

[Anonymous]

This is a very middle-class attitude to take, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was thinking the Netflix doc would provide some insights into her whole persona and how that fit into HBCU culture/history, but was grossed out by the lyrics about Red Lobster, Monica Lewinsky, surfboards, "Yonce on her knees," etc.

This is coming from someone who listened to the City Girls album on repeat at the gym the past two weeks. I have no problem with crass/raunchy music but for Beyonce to perform her nastiest songs while pretending it represents Black Excellence is so absurd and I think ultimately degrading to all the talented people she had involved.

To think of the hundreds of hours the drill team, marching band musicians, steppers worked to develop their skills, probably requiring much sacrifice from their family/teachers/school, to end up performing for Beyonce who sings about "cigars on ice" and riding Jay Z like a surfboard is just....sad.




Ugh! I agree with you here. The HBCU tribute was wonderful but I couldn’t get past 30 mins before I had to give up. Too much cursing for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always cringe at the ppl like OP and some of these replies. I’m not even a true Beyoncé fan myself, but idk why it’s so weird to believe others are. Beyoncé minds her own business and makes music for her fans. No different than a lot of the other artists out there today. She consistently performs well, including being a good dancer and is clearly a hard worker. As for the ode to HBCU, so what. It was a theme and a way to unite her AA fan base. It was a shout out to black culture. Would you prefer she shout out Ivy League schools. Are you that joyless that it actually bothers you. Taylor Swift has the same cult following and she can’t dance or sing plus has a mean girl attitude. City Girls are ratchet with no real lyrical ability. It’s a shame that OPs message is basically, you can’t support HBCU if you talk about sex.

I’m not Op but there was way more filfth than what the Op pointed out. If I had a daughter I wouldn’t be comfortable with her listening to Beyoncé until she was much older. I can no longer relate to her music.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quiet down, OP. We're not supposed to acknowledge the fact that black artists and their entire industry debases women and promotes a subculture of lowbrow (lowlife, really) behavior. We're supposed to pretend it's cool that they can showcase their "culture."

As an anti-poverty advocate, I think it's a big part of the problem.

I think it's a shame Beyoncé and Jay haven't used their tremendous platform to effect social change. Think about the impact they could have if they did a PR campaign aimed at teaching black tweens and teens that it's cool to NOT have babies until you're 30 and have seen the world/lived your life/had an adventure and settled down...like they did. Better yet: tell everyone to at a minimum graduate from high school.

+100

Sigh...everyone liking this post and this poster are so ignorant. If you actually knew anything about black artist or culture you would know there are tons of black artist who promote what you find acceptable, ie Kendrick Lamar, J Cole, Black Thought, Killer Mike, Common, Lupe Fiasco, Logic (and these are just rap artists bc I’m going to go out on a limb and say you hate rap music and think it’s all the same).

How do you know they haven’t effected social change? Bc they aren’t in front of a microphone yelling it so you can judge? They both put their money toward resources and ppl who can help make changes.

Google the following...
Jay-z and Kaleif Browder
Jay-z and Trayvon Martin
Beyoncé and Freddy Gray
Beyoncé donates to Chime for Change (which is a health education program for women)
Beyoncé has Formation Scholar Awards (gives scholarships to HBCU for arts, music and black studies)

Now please tell everyone how you have helped change the world other than shopping at Whole Foods and driving a hybrid.

Black woman here, why are you taking this to the next level? I have loved B since the original Destinys Child but let’s be real, we aren’t going to pretend like her music is the same are we? I appreciate her giving back to our community. She should. After all, we have supported her and Jay, her momma with her attempt at a fashion house and even Solange. But this is about the music. And well. The new music sucks. You can try to mask it under black empowerment and a woman scorned over a cheating husband but it still sucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay okay enough with the comparisons already.
If the OP and others want to hate on Beyoncé let em they can disapprove all they want doesn't and pout till they're blue in the face, who cares, it's not gonna stop Beyoncé from being her bad self or stop her fans from loving her for being her bad self. Haters gonna hate.

This is why most people say nothing, lol. It means your an automatic hater. Mmmmkay.,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quiet down, OP. We're not supposed to acknowledge the fact that black artists and their entire industry debases women and promotes a subculture of lowbrow (lowlife, really) behavior. We're supposed to pretend it's cool that they can showcase their "culture."

As an anti-poverty advocate, I think it's a big part of the problem.

I think it's a shame Beyoncé and Jay haven't used their tremendous platform to effect social change. Think about the impact they could have if they did a PR campaign aimed at teaching black tweens and teens that it's cool to NOT have babies until you're 30 and have seen the world/lived your life/had an adventure and settled down...like they did. Better yet: tell everyone to at a minimum graduate from high school.

+100

Sigh...everyone liking this post and this poster are so ignorant. If you actually knew anything about black artist or culture you would know there are tons of black artist who promote what you find acceptable, ie Kendrick Lamar, J Cole, Black Thought, Killer Mike, Common, Lupe Fiasco, Logic (and these are just rap artists bc I’m going to go out on a limb and say you hate rap music and think it’s all the same).

How do you know they haven’t effected social change? Bc they aren’t in front of a microphone yelling it so you can judge? They both put their money toward resources and ppl who can help make changes.

Google the following...
Jay-z and Kaleif Browder
Jay-z and Trayvon Martin
Beyoncé and Freddy Gray
Beyoncé donates to Chime for Change (which is a health education program for women)
Beyoncé has Formation Scholar Awards (gives scholarships to HBCU for arts, music and black studies)

Now please tell everyone how you have helped change the world other than shopping at Whole Foods and driving a hybrid.

Black woman here, why are you taking this to the next level? I have loved B since the original Destinys Child but let’s be real, we aren’t going to pretend like her music is the same are we? I appreciate her giving back to our community. She should. After all, we have supported her and Jay, her momma with her attempt at a fashion house and even Solange. But this is about the music. And well. The new music sucks. You can try to mask it under black empowerment and a woman scorned over a cheating husband but it still sucks.

Why are you sitting here hating on another black woman? Bc she has success? Bc she is giving back to the black community? Beyoncé is her own style and I won’t condemn her on her choice of music bc it’s her choice. No one forced you to support Beyoncé’s music, fashion, her mother, Solange or Jay-z so no that doesn’t mean she should give back, but it’s awesome that she chooses too. The music sucks to you and that’s fine. You aren’t her fan base. She isn’t making music for you to listen to as you’ve aged out.

And I didn’t try to mask her music under black empowerment. What I did was reply to an ignorant poster who ignorantly claimed, “black artists and their entire industry debases women and promotes a subculture of lowbrow (lowlife, really) behavior.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always cringe at the ppl like OP and some of these replies. I’m not even a true Beyoncé fan myself, but idk why it’s so weird to believe others are. Beyoncé minds her own business and makes music for her fans. No different than a lot of the other artists out there today. She consistently performs well, including being a good dancer and is clearly a hard worker. As for the ode to HBCU, so what. It was a theme and a way to unite her AA fan base. It was a shout out to black culture. Would you prefer she shout out Ivy League schools. Are you that joyless that it actually bothers you. Taylor Swift has the same cult following and she can’t dance or sing plus has a mean girl attitude. City Girls are ratchet with no real lyrical ability. It’s a shame that OPs message is basically, you can’t support HBCU if you talk about sex.

I’m not Op but there was way more filfth than what the Op pointed out. If I had a daughter I wouldn’t be comfortable with her listening to Beyoncé until she was much older. I can no longer relate to her music.

That’s awesome! As you age you find music more geared to you. Beyoncé is for a younger generation now and I guess the older ppl who loved her when she first came out take resentment in that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay okay enough with the comparisons already.
If the OP and others want to hate on Beyoncé let em they can disapprove all they want doesn't and pout till they're blue in the face, who cares, it's not gonna stop Beyoncé from being her bad self or stop her fans from loving her for being her bad self. Haters gonna hate.

This is why most people say nothing, lol. It means your an automatic hater. Mmmmkay.,

What else would you call it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That song “Squeezebox” is a cringey embarrassment. I like a lot of Beyoncé, am looking forward to Homecoming, but I don’t view her as a role model for my daughter. I see PPs point about her sexually explicit lyrics being not a great symbol of black academic excellence and culture in light of the HBCU theme, but I also see PPs point about her success and luminosity being one (of many) part of black artistic and cultural importance and success. Sadly, her husband is fugly, but they seem to have a great and collaborative career rapport. I hate Taylor Swift, fwiw.

And no, “Satisfaction” isn’t saying “pregnant” after “make some girl”! The lyric is about being on the make ie looking for action.

She doesn't know anything about that. She didn't even graduate high school.

1. And yet she owns the rights to all her songs and has built a brand that is all hers. What do you own that you created by yourself?

2. How embarrassing for you that you think a high school diploma is the only way to achieve academic excellence.

You're funny.

+1 a high school diploma is not "academic excellence" - that she has never bothered to obtain a GED is pathetic.

Why? Bc you graduated from high school so everyone should? Plenty of successful ppl didn’t graduate from high school or college. I did but I won’t sit on some high horse and judge them like it makes you better.

[Anonymous]

Meh, her lyrics aren’t anymore disturbing than Rhianna or Nicki Minaj so why are we focusing on her? She’s an entertainer and looking for her audience just like Madonna did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meh, her lyrics aren’t anymore disturbing than Rhianna or Nicki Minaj so why are we focusing on her? She’s an entertainer and looking for her audience just like Madonna did.

Madonna...there's quite the classy role model.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meh, her lyrics aren’t anymore disturbing than Rhianna or Nicki Minaj so why are we focusing on her? She’s an entertainer and looking for her audience just like Madonna did.

Madonna...there's quite the classy role model.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Stop everything. @Beyonce's #Lemonade is now streaming on Amazon Music.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meh, her lyrics aren’t anymore disturbing than Rhianna or Nicki Minaj so why are we focusing on her? She’s an entertainer and looking for her audience just like Madonna did.

They all suck.

[Anonymous]

Well if y’all feel like this about Bey you must get the vapors over Cardi B.

Still confused about how someone bopping to City Girls is mad with Beyonce.

“It’s that season....”