Help me understand Beyonce

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ Oh and I get that a lot of people dont like her but your statement "not that many people care" is laughable. If that were true she would not be worth 350 million. People def care. You are correct though, she has a fabulous PR team, fantastic choreographers and wardrobe people, etc. The people on her team have their finger on the pulse of what popular culture wants. Whether you like her or not, that can not be denied.

+1. And not matter what people think , you don't get to be worth almost a half a billion $$$ being stupid or trashy. if you hate her, that's cool, but to say the other stuff just makes you look dumb and stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^ Oh and I get that a lot of people dont like her but your statement "not that many people care" is laughable. If that were true she would not be worth 350 million. People def care. You are correct though, she has a fabulous PR team, fantastic choreographers and wardrobe people, etc. The people on her team have their finger on the pulse of what popular culture wants. Whether you like her or not, that can not be denied.

so I was trying to politely say most people I am around could care less. Maybe it is a class/social thing but I cannot even look at her much less listen to her sing. I saw her perform at the Superbowl and was shocked how bad she was.

I'm the person that you quoted. That's cool, most of the people I'm around could care less about her too. But nobody can deny her relevance and the mark she has made on the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^ Oh and I get that a lot of people dont like her but your statement "not that many people care" is laughable. If that were true she would not be worth 350 million. People def care. You are correct though, she has a fabulous PR team, fantastic choreographers and wardrobe people, etc. The people on her team have their finger on the pulse of what popular culture wants. Whether you like her or not, that can not be denied.

so I was trying to politely say most people I am around could care less. Maybe it is a class/social thing but I cannot even look at her much less listen to her sing. I saw her perform at the Superbowl and was shocked how bad she was.

It's an age thing.

[Anonymous]

I think its generational, my nieces in their 20s revere her, and I don't see the big deal either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I keep seeing articles on Yahoo about her. Granted, I don't listen to her kind of music, but I don't understand why her having children is news - or why the media has all sorts of cutesy names for her. Do people actually refer to her as Queen Bey and such?

Maybe it's celebrity in general I don't understand, I don't know. Help me get it.

Don't even try to get it.

Save your brain while you have it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^ Oh and I get that a lot of people dont like her but your statement "not that many people care" is laughable. If that were true she would not be worth 350 million. People def care. You are correct though, she has a fabulous PR team, fantastic choreographers and wardrobe people, etc. The people on her team have their finger on the pulse of what popular culture wants. Whether you like her or not, that can not be denied.

so I was trying to politely say most people I am around could care less. Maybe it is a class/social thing but I cannot even look at her much less listen to her sing. I saw her perform at the Superbowl and was shocked how bad she was.

It's an age thing.

I dont know. I have teens and I am ok with most of the performers they like-I don't like them but I can tolerate them. Her I cannot stand. She is repulsive to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^ Oh and I get that a lot of people dont like her but your statement "not that many people care" is laughable. If that were true she would not be worth 350 million. People def care. You are correct though, she has a fabulous PR team, fantastic choreographers and wardrobe people, etc. The people on her team have their finger on the pulse of what popular culture wants. Whether you like her or not, that can not be denied.

so I was trying to politely say most people I am around could care less. Maybe it is a class/social thing but I cannot even look at her much less listen to her sing. I saw her perform at the Superbowl and was shocked how bad she was.

It's an age thing.

I dont know. I have teens and I am ok with most of the performers they like-I don't like them but I can tolerate them. Her I cannot stand. She is repulsive to me.

Maybe you are racist? Who are the other performers your teens like that you are not repulsed by??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^ Oh and I get that a lot of people dont like her but your statement "not that many people care" is laughable. If that were true she would not be worth 350 million. People def care. You are correct though, she has a fabulous PR team, fantastic choreographers and wardrobe people, etc. The people on her team have their finger on the pulse of what popular culture wants. Whether you like her or not, that can not be denied.

so I was trying to politely say most people I am around could care less. Maybe it is a class/social thing but I cannot even look at her much less listen to her sing. I saw her perform at the Superbowl and was shocked how bad she was.

It's an age thing.

I dont know. I have teens and I am ok with most of the performers they like-I don't like them but I can tolerate them. Her I cannot stand. She is repulsive to me.

Repulsive is a strong word, now this I'm curious about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:she has a good pr team. She is incredibly stupid, and trashy. Not that many people care, just her sheep.

I'm not the Beyonce generation (she means much more to the 20 somethings in my office, I'm 40) but what on earth with the stupid or trashy remarks? She's clearly not stupid--- she is a masterful songwriter and I consider people like her a poet of modern times. And trashy? She grew up with money, she waited until she was married to have children, and I can't think of a time that she's done really anything that would set off the morality radar?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:she has a good pr team. She is incredibly stupid, and trashy. Not that many people care, just her sheep.

I'm not the Beyonce generation (she means much more to the 20 somethings in my office, I'm 40) but what on earth with the stupid or trashy remarks? She's clearly not stupid--- she is a masterful songwriter and I consider people like her a poet of modern times. And trashy? She grew up with money, she waited until she was married to have children, and I can't think of a time that she's done really anything that would set off the morality radar?

I don't know about her intelligence (at minimum she is smart enough to have smart people around her) but I don't get the trashy comment either. She's been with the same guy for years, no sex tapes or vagina shots when that was a thing, no rumors of drug habits or neglecting her child. To my knowledge doesn't start twitter beefs or engage in outlandish behavior. You don't hear of her being nasty to fans. She seems to dress pretty conservatively when not performing. What is so trashy about her?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:she has a good pr team. She is incredibly stupid, and trashy. Not that many people care, just her sheep.

I'm not the Beyonce generation (she means much more to the 20 somethings in my office, I'm 40) but what on earth with the stupid or trashy remarks? She's clearly not stupid--- she is a masterful songwriter and I consider people like her a poet of modern times. And trashy? She grew up with money, she waited until she was married to have children, and I can't think of a time that she's done really anything that would set off the morality radar?

I don't know about her intelligence (at minimum she is smart enough to have smart people around her) but I don't get the trashy comment either. She's been with the same guy for years, no sex tapes or vagina shots when that was a thing, no rumors of drug habits or neglecting her child. To my knowledge doesn't start twitter beefs or engage in outlandish behavior. You don't hear of her being nasty to fans. She seems to dress pretty conservatively when not performing. What is so trashy about her?

+1 I'm pretty surprised to hear someone thinks of her as trashy/slutty. She seems quite the opposite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:she has a good pr team. She is incredibly stupid, and trashy. Not that many people care, just her sheep.

I'm not the Beyonce generation (she means much more to the 20 somethings in my office, I'm 40) but what on earth with the stupid or trashy remarks? She's clearly not stupid--- she is a masterful songwriter and I consider people like her a poet of modern times. And trashy? She grew up with money, she waited until she was married to have children, and I can't think of a time that she's done really anything that would set off the morality radar?

I don't know about her intelligence (at minimum she is smart enough to have smart people around her) but I don't get the trashy comment either. She's been with the same guy for years, no sex tapes or vagina shots when that was a thing, no rumors of drug habits or neglecting her child. To my knowledge doesn't start twitter beefs or engage in outlandish behavior. You don't hear of her being nasty to fans. She seems to dress pretty conservatively when not performing. What is so trashy about her?

+1 I'm pretty surprised to hear someone thinks of her as trashy/slutty. She seems quite the opposite.

+1. That poster may not like her, but to call her trashy and slutty is totally wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:she has a good pr team. She is incredibly stupid, and trashy. Not that many people care, just her sheep.

I'm not the Beyonce generation (she means much more to the 20 somethings in my office, I'm 40) but what on earth with the stupid or trashy remarks? She's clearly not stupid--- she is a masterful songwriter and I consider people like her a poet of modern times. And trashy? She grew up with money, she waited until she was married to have children, and I can't think of a time that she's done really anything that would set off the morality radar?

I don't know about her intelligence (at minimum she is smart enough to have smart people around her) but I don't get the trashy comment either. She's been with the same guy for years, no sex tapes or vagina shots when that was a thing, no rumors of drug habits or neglecting her child. To my knowledge doesn't start twitter beefs or engage in outlandish behavior. You don't hear of her being nasty to fans. She seems to dress pretty conservatively when not performing. What is so trashy about her?

+1 I'm pretty surprised to hear someone thinks of her as trashy/slutty. She seems quite the opposite.

+1. That poster may not like her, but to call her trashy and slutty is totally wrong.

I think that person would likely call any woman who performs in a leotard outside the context of a ballet to be "trashy."

[Anonymous]

I'm 46 and the only thing I think about Beyonce is...why cant that woman wear pants!!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I keep seeing articles on Yahoo about her. Granted, I don't listen to her kind of music, but I don't understand why her having children is news - or why the media has all sorts of cutesy names for her. Do people actually refer to her as Queen Bey and such?

Maybe it's celebrity in general I don't understand, I don't know. Help me get it.

I mean, she isnt the first star the media has given a "cute" name so why is this puzzling you? Michael was called the King of Pop. That was darn near 40 years ago. Aretha is the Queen of Soul and she got that name before MJ got his. She is a performer/entertainer who is worth $350 million married to a first rapper to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame who is worth more than she is. Both have a huge fan following. Plus she was carrying twins which is not as common as people might have you think, and Jay Z missed the induction ceremony for the Hall of Fame and sent a video from Obama -- the first black president and another newsmaker/celebrity -- likely because she was giving birth. This is not rocket science.

Ok, so it's celebrity in general I don't get. Because I don't understand why any of this is interesting if you don't know the person.

OP, what are you expecting to hear? You're not interested so why post about it? So you can sound smug?

So, it's human nature for a person to want to know more about something you like (or love). You love a certain musician, for example, so you listen to more of their music. Maybe even wiki them to learn where they grew up, where they studied music, what awards they earned, etc....that spirals into following them on social media and tabloids. The musician plays (no pun intended) into their fan base - that's where the money is - mostly through social media with pictures of themselves, maybe outrageous attire,...you get the picture.

But seriously, OP, you don't understand the phenomenom of celebrities? Do you live under a rock? It's nothing new. More ubiquitous with the all the social media out there. Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presely, and the Beatles would've done the same thing if Twitter, FB, the tabloids, and E! were around back then.