Is it me, or are the standards in today’s music industry greatly flawed? The other day my roommate and I were watching a TV One: Beyonce Special on television and to say the least I was not impressed with some of the comments being made about this girl.
One Journalist said, "She's the most beautiful, the most talented and she has the best guy." Another Journalist said, "If you don't like Beyonce, you don't like yourself." Really?! He stated it as if it we’re a fact... and it's not. The most talented? Who are we putting her up against exactly? Have any of these reporters ever heard of Michael Jackson? Whitney Houston? Luther Vandross? Patti LaBelle? Stevie Wonder? Karen Clark Sheard? Donny Hathaway? HELL... JAZMINE SULLIVAN?!?!
As far as people who don’t like Beyonce supposedly hating themselves...well, what a horrible thing to say. The same journalist said at the end "Beyonce represents everything that is pure and wonderful in the entertainment industry." REALLY?!?!!! Some of these comments are unbelievable to me because they make it SO obvious how blinded Beyonce has everyone. She is a great talent and has an amazing voice, yes. But I personally do not think she is everything the media makes her out to be. Beauty is relative in my opinion...so to label someone as the most beautiful is point blank, biased. Mind you, despite my disgust for her I can give her her props because the girl can perform like none other. Her shows are amazing, but when you really look at her behind the scenes, it’s a mess.
One, she is 27 singing about the same things she was singing about when she was 16. First negative. Two, you are married still shaking your behind in videos, (even though everybody knows that dance to single ladies lol). Three, her albums have consistently gotten worse with every new release. Critics and fans alike trashed “B’day” until “Irreplaceable” saved it. And this new CD, well I will just let the critics speak for me again...lol. Itunes has that averaging 3.5 stars...and it's steadily beginning it's fall on the charts...hmm. And four the girl is everywhere, it’s too much. Commercials, tv shows, music videos, movies… I mean REALLY??!
All everybody keeps saying is when you’re the best that's what happens. Beyonce to me is like a lyrical drug, not necessarily good but addictive. And the radios, ads and music channels are our suppliers. If we ingest it enough we eventually get addicted to it, and confuse this as liking it, when in reality were addicts. Now, for all Beyonce fans out there, once again I will admit that she can sing her tail off...but when you aren't SINGING ABOUT ANYTHING than I have a problem with you. When all you are making is bubblegum music, I can't live off of it because I am not being nourished anymore, I am simply tricking my stomach into thinking it's being fed when in reality it isn't.
When I listen to Jazmine Sullivan's cd I get fed. When I listen to Alicia Key's cd I get fed. When I listen to Musiq Soulchild, India Aria, JILL SCOTT I GET FED! Beyonce who??? She needs to sing about something real and than, and ONLY than will she get my respect. I love myself so that comment about not liking yourself if you don't like Beyonce is absurd... And for a reporter to say she is the best thing in the music industry I just don’t know anymore. If she represents everything that is PURE and WONDERFUL in the entertainment industry with her history of stealing other people's song, copyright infringement and lack of penmanship concerning actually writing songs, yet claiming she did...than I just don't know what has become of today's music industry. The only album that will move people 20, 30, 40+ years from now is Dangerously in Love and that's SAD for someone who has been in the music industry more than a decade... All I have to say is SAY NO TO DRUGS!!!! Just because something sells well doesn't mean it's good...
Please note, I do not expect everyone to love all of the same things that I like musically. I just want people to ask themselves is Beyonce really the best of this time? Maybe she is...and I just can't see it...or maybe in reality she isn't...
4 comments:
Beyonce is an icon. In being that, she has seemed to lose a sense of herself. Yes, she does still sing about the ups and downs of love, but that sells. She has learned how to sell herself, and its working. Sometimes you do wonder if she doing it for the love of music, as many neo-soul artists profess. But I don’t think it matters anymore. She is doing what works, and if shaking her bum in videos and singing about love works, hey- she’s in. And might I say she is at the top of the game.
Beyonce has successfully crossed over racially! And in doing so, she has made a cultural statement. Yes- she’s black, yes-she’s voluptuous, yes-she can sing, yes-she has weave…and you are still going to love her! Why, because she is Beyonce, her songs are catchy, her performances are out of this world and she is EVERYWHERE!
As for her being a drug, I had never thought of her as such. But that is a good point. The media overdoes on her every time she drops a track. It’s almost as though the radio go into a “Beyonce fever.” I do think that gets annoying, but that’s how she makes her money. So I can’t blame her! It’s easy to forget that singing/performing is her job. But it’s important to remember that, it brings “sense” into that equation.
I agree with you. I am so so so tired of all these young artists who flood our stereos with their constant blabber! Like Raisa says WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. Music should hjave a message and every message shouldn't be the same ole same ole love ballads. ITS FRUSTRATING! I mean I hear Beyonce's message. She wants to be loved, get married, take care of someone; and when it does not work (because clearly it hasn't been working for years) she wants to cry and sit in the rain. This is pitful! What are we teaching our young girls? Though, I do agree that Beyonce fever is annoying but some of them are cools!!
Yes! At times Beyonce can seem to be taking over the radio, and yes she DOES seem to be everywhere but like previously stated, that's her job! As much as people may idolize her and put her on a pedestal at the end of the day she's is an entertainer, a VERY good one, and those things come with the field.
I don't feel we should fault Beyonce for the way that people view her because she can't control that! I love Michael Jackson, but I'm pretty sure certain people felt Michael Jackson was overplayed and "everywhere" during his time and some may argue that he had the same themes throughout his music over the years. Having saying that, the claim that has been made is definitely one of value and is backed by a lot of subjectivity.
It's also stated that Beyonce is sending a bad message to young females but where is the proof of that? I could go as far to say that Beyonce enhances the esteem of young girls by portraying a beautiful black woman who sings, dances, acts, works with charities, owns her own business and maintains a personal life with her husband.
While I understand your argument of society needing more of a "message", I don't feel Beyonce is who you need to be targeting. If I had a choice between handing my 9 year old sister a beyonce CD or another artist, [I won't name any names], I would DEFINITELY hand her Beyonce.
If your argument had more factual evidence about what Beyonce-itis is doing to society I may be more inclined to agree but as of now the argument seems very subjective.
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