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Anonymous wrote:Listening to the album earlier, watching the visual movie now. This is brilliant!

But I don't get the animosity against Rachel Roy, if Jay-Z did have an affair with her. Indicative of a broken moral compass for sure, and there's no excuse with getting involved with a married man. But Jay-Z is the one who made and broke vows of fidelity. The Bee-hive should rage against him, FAR, FAR more than Rachel Roy.

Also, if "Becky" is a white girl, how can "Becky with the good hair" allude to Roy? Roy's Indian, not white.

Roy is part Indian, part white I think.

Who said Becky was white or that good hair alluded to a white woman's hair?

Well now it's clear why this thread sucks, it's full of white women speaking on things they have no clue about. "Hip hop trash". Old white women at that.

Carry on.

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Anonymous wrote:Listening to the album earlier, watching the visual movie now. This is brilliant!

But I don't get the animosity against Rachel Roy, if Jay-Z did have an affair with her. Indicative of a broken moral compass for sure, and there's no excuse with getting involved with a married man. But Jay-Z is the one who made and broke vows of fidelity. The Bee-hive should rage against him, FAR, FAR more than Rachel Roy.

Also, if "Becky" is a white girl, how can "Becky with the good hair" allude to Roy? Roy's Indian, not white.

Ummm- newsflash INDIAN people have the "best hair" (ugh i hate the concept of "good" hair)- didn't you watch Chris Rock's documentary- extensions made from indian hair are the most expensive and sought after. Thick, straight, long flowy hair- white hair is stringy and split ends most of the time or ironed within an inch of its life, very few blondes have thick lustrous light filled heavy hair a la portia di rossi - Kate Middleton's hair is an anomaly. most white people have mousey hair naturally. . .

You think Jay Z would let her fool around on him, even if he fools around on her? You think he would raise another guy's kid as his own? I think he's too street for that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listening to the album earlier, watching the visual movie now. This is brilliant!

But I don't get the animosity against Rachel Roy, if Jay-Z did have an affair with her. Indicative of a broken moral compass for sure, and there's no excuse with getting involved with a married man. But Jay-Z is the one who made and broke vows of fidelity. The Bee-hive should rage against him, FAR, FAR more than Rachel Roy.

Also, if "Becky" is a white girl, how can "Becky with the good hair" allude to Roy? Roy's Indian, not white.

Roy is part Indian, part white I think.

Who said Becky was white or that good hair alluded to a white woman's hair?

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Anonymous wrote:I like the idea of releasing an album this way and beyonce does it well. Few other performers could do this and command such attention. But it feels fake to me because she does not write her own lyrics or music.

She can't write anything. Waste of time.

Isn't this special. Gosh there are so many haters. A quick Google search of songs written by Beyoncé shows that she wrote and co-wrote the vast majority of the songs on her last four CDs. But carry-on hating.

If she changes one word she can take credit for co-writing. Name one song that she wrote on her own.

Anonymous wrote:in any case, it's all a stunt. they are paying Rachel Roy, staged the camera stunt in the elevator, and are counting on each of these perfectly timed incidents to help boost sales. maybe not for Rachel ray's tacos though.

I suspect this too. Jay-z is a genius when it comes to money-making. She has upped the sex factor since marrying him and now this. It's the new anthem album for women screwed over by their man, like Morrisette's Jagged Little Pill in the 90s.

I suspect she there was infidelity and she was upset, but now she is over it and they have an open marriage. They are a power couple like the Clintons.

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Anonymous wrote:Listening to the album earlier, watching the visual movie now. This is brilliant!

But I don't get the animosity against Rachel Roy, if Jay-Z did have an affair with her. Indicative of a broken moral compass for sure, and there's no excuse with getting involved with a married man. But Jay-Z is the one who made and broke vows of fidelity. The Bee-hive should rage against him, FAR, FAR more than Rachel Roy.

Also, if "Becky" is a white girl, how can "Becky with the good hair" allude to Roy? Roy's Indian, not white.

Roy is part Indian, part white I think.

in any case, it's all a stunt. they are paying Rachel Roy, staged the camera stunt in the elevator, and are counting on each of these perfectly timed incidents to help boost sales. maybe not for Rachel ray's tacos though.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's about jayz. I think it's about her parents

This. And she actually does write most of her own stuff.

Sure, if you think changing a few words is songwriting. Beyoncé is a curator--she assembles songs to tell a story, which in this case may be a story about her parents or it may not be a story about anyone specific. The songs might apply to her life but they are not her truth, which is why I think it's silly to read into Beyoncé's lyrics in the same way as lyrics by someone like Taylor Swift (even if you hate Taylor, it is well known that she writes her own songs).

I could hug you.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the idea of releasing an album this way and beyonce does it well. Few other performers could do this and command such attention. But it feels fake to me because she does not write her own lyrics or music.

She can't write anything. Waste of time.

Isn't this special. Gosh there are so many haters. A quick Google search of songs written by Beyoncé shows that she wrote and co-wrote the vast majority of the songs on her last four CDs. But carry-on hating.

I have never liked Beyonce as a an artist. She made her millions dressing in skanky clothes and displaying little creative ability besides shaking her booty in a million different ways. I en-likened her to a modern day prostitute. Her voice sucked, her music was hip hop trash, her videos and performances gauche and trashy.

I watched Lemonade yesterday afternoon and I could.not.look.away.

WOW.

She put her heart and soul into it. And what brilliant, deep, intelligent thoughts she has. So many people have sung about infidelity but no one quite grasped the depth of the betrayal or did it so beautifully and so creatively. Those scenes with the black girls dressed in southern belle poufy dresses and walking around out plantation farms wowww.

This is a visual album not only about Beyonce and Jay Z but about the experience of being a black woman, past and present.

As for whether her narrative takes from her personal life...we don't know. However, it felt too raw too real to be fake or just a figment of her imagination. All reviews are treating the material as if it truly stems from her heartache. I can see why.

Anonymous wrote:^ Nobody uses Tidal. Lemonade was shown on Friday night. I bought it off of iTunes this morning. There's no exclusive counting on her husband's platform.

Don't be thick. Releasing it on his platform brought him more traffic and money.

^ Nobody uses Tidal. Lemonade was shown on Friday night. I bought it off of iTunes this morning. There's no exclusive counting on her husband's platform.

Anonymous wrote:Come on, people. Think a little. She's so angry at her husband that she makes him more money by releasing her album on his platform, Tidal? She is counting on people taking the album literally, deciding she is talking about her own marriage, and generating more buzz than the mediocre music deserves. If you think for a second, you'll realize she's channeling her mother's experience of her father cheating.

PP here. By the way, her own father exposed her last time she started rumors about her marriage to sell concert tickets in 2014:

But is it all a bit of clever marketing? As Radar reported, sources close to the couple insisted they were headed for divorce in summer 2014, as they prepared to embark on their On The Run World Tour.

At the time, her father, Mathew Knowles, said, "Iknow, from experience, because we’ve done this, there’s a tour going on. So you have to sometimes ignite that tour — it’s called a Jedi mind trick! The Jedi mind trick fools you a lot of time."

http://radaronline.com/videos/beyonce-jay-z-divorce-rumors-lemonade-teaser-video/

Come on, people. Think a little. She's so angry at her husband that she makes him more money by releasing her album on his platform, Tidal? She is counting on people taking the album literally, deciding she is talking about her own marriage, and generating more buzz than the mediocre music deserves. If you think for a second, you'll realize she's channeling her mother's experience of her father cheating.