Beyonce just released a new song, so the Internet is banding together to protect her from the imaginary haters
how could anyone muster up enough thoughts regarding beyonce to actively hate her
We spent the first two weeks of my Jazz and Pop Culture in America class talking about Beyonce. The professor's considering making the first chapter of his book about her. We had fights.
Now obviously a hot tub is a bit of an investment and I wish they had some sort of establishment that let people use them at any time but apparently so called "bathhouses" aren't really dedicated to the baths as much as something else entirely
Beyonce just released a new song, so the Internet is banding together to protect her from the imaginary haters
how could anyone muster up enough thoughts regarding beyonce to actively hate her
We spent the first two weeks of my Jazz and Pop Culture in America class talking about Beyonce. The professor's considering making the first chapter of his book about her. We had fights.
well i guess someone has different thoughts than me on a musician
Beyonce just released a new song, so the Internet is banding together to protect her from the imaginary haters
how could anyone muster up enough thoughts regarding beyonce to actively hate her
We spent the first two weeks of my Jazz and Pop Culture in America class talking about Beyonce. The professor's considering making the first chapter of his book about her. We had fights.
Her weird tendency to frame such a large number of her singles as angry power-fantasy breakup songs is sort of grating even if it does occasionally produce on or two clever one-liners, but mostly she just doesn't interest me that much.
Her weird tendency to frame such a large number of her singles as angry power-fantasy breakup songs is sort of grating even if it does occasionally produce on or two clever one-liners, but mostly she just doesn't interest me that much.
I mean, it's essentially girl power music, which is fine (and it's a lot better than most), but it's not really my thing either.
^^ I feel like there are better roads to female empowerment in pop music, though, and there are better ways to write breakup songs that are empowering. But there is worse, for sure.
^^ I feel like there are better roads to female empowerment in pop music, though, and there are better ways to write breakup songs that are empowering. But there is worse, for sure.
is that really something that's up to us to decide though?
being the pop culture aficionado I am, I've grown fond of Yoncé's work in that way where I don't necessarily consider her a favorite but I'm still willing to appreciate it for what it is
and her most recent album was surprisingly subversive, if not necessarily groundbreaking, and the way it was released was a stroke of genius so I'll give her that
The Makit and Bakit Oven...an Easy-Bake clone that could make faux-stained glass ornament things. I remember the ads for this, but never had one because Mom and I did Makit and Bakit in the actual oven.
And check out the candy-making kit in the middle of the page. It looks pretty much identical to the ones Wilton makes now...even the molds look similar (vacu-formed plastic).
is that really something that's up to us to decide though?
neither of us are women.
I'm not trying to mansplain here. I'm just saying that there are better songs that deal with similar territory in a more interesting, less simplistic way written by women for women.
And just speaking as someone who likes a good anti-love song now and then, the whole "I am better than you and I am the moral victor" approach to breakup songs just strikes me as very played out and a little condescending.
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Hee hee, Easy Bake Ovens
I had one of those 1990s ones that was inexplicably styled to look like a toy microwave instead of a proper oven
Never did understand the logic behind that
Also it was one of those things that relied upon light bulbs being terribly inefficient wrt energy consumption
is that really something that's up to us to decide though?
neither of us are women.
I'm not trying to mansplain here. I'm just saying that there are better songs that deal with similar territory in a more interesting, less simplistic way written by women for women.
And just speaking as someone who likes a good anti-love song now and then, the whole "I am better than you and I am the moral victor" approach to breakup songs just strikes me as very played out and a little condescending.
I'd rather hear that than hear another one about a couple sticking together even though their relationship is not working / is horribly abusive (recent example: "Stay With Me").
It kind of bugs me when things get panned as essentially not being subversive enough when even that first level of subversion is very rare compared to the norm. That's not necessarily what you're doing, but that is a bit how it's coming across.
I'd rather hear that than hear another one about a couple sticking together even though their relationship is not working / is horribly abusive (recent example: "Stay With Me").
It kind of bugs me when things get panned as essentially not being subversive enough when even that first level of subversion is very rare compared to the norm. That's not necessarily what you're doing, but that is a bit how it's coming across.
But therein lies the problem, doesn't it?
I'm not expecting pop music to entirely cease to be shallow or trashy, but shouldn't we really expect better of it than that in the gender relations department?
I'd rather hear that than hear another one about a couple sticking together even though their relationship is not working / is horribly abusive (recent example: "Stay With Me").
It kind of bugs me when things get panned as essentially not being subversive enough when even that first level of subversion is very rare compared to the norm. That's not necessarily what you're doing, but that is a bit how it's coming across.
But therein lies the problem, doesn't it?
I'm not expecting pop music to entirely cease to be shallow or trashy, but shouldn't we really expect better of it than that in the gender relations department?
Better of it than what?
That kind of song is pretty good at encapsulating how a lot of people feel after breaking off a potentially dangerous relationship.
I'm not expecting pop music to entirely cease to be shallow or trashy, but shouldn't we really expect better of it than that in the gender relations department?
Better of it than what?
That kind of song is pretty good at encapsulating how a lot of people feel after breaking off a potentially dangerous relationship.
Better of it than having creepy "stand by your man" songs be more common than "screw this jerk, I'm free as a bird" songs. I don't care for either, but the fact that the latter is considered subversive and the former even remotely normal is just sad and stupid.
I'm not expecting pop music to entirely cease to be shallow or trashy, but shouldn't we really expect better of it than that in the gender relations department?
Better of it than what?
That kind of song is pretty good at encapsulating how a lot of people feel after breaking off a potentially dangerous relationship.
Better of it than having creepy "stand by your man" songs be more common than "screw this jerk, I'm free as a bird" songs. I don't care for either, but the fact that the latter is considered subversive and the former even remotely normal is just sad and stupid.
actually that's untrue, if someone were to ask me to tell them all i know about beyonce is i'd say she's an african american lady who sang the song "girls run the world" and also she's married to another famous person IIRC.
it's kinda lame that one of the three things i know about one of the most famous female musicians in the world is that she's married to another famous person
he's an african american rapper who did the song 99 Problems, apparently his latest album was kinda terrible, Kanye West got his big break producing for him i think?
actually that's untrue, if someone were to ask me to tell them all i know about beyonce is i'd say she's an african american lady who sang the song "girls run the world" and also she's married to another famous person IIRC.
it's sorta weird that that's the song you think of
i think she's probably better known for like. hm
either "irreplacable" or "single ladies". more recently "partition". which is about fucking in a car.
he's an african american rapper who did the song 99 Problems, apparently his latest album was kinda terrible, Kanye West got his big break producing for him i think?
i thought magna carta holy grail, especially the title track, was alright. he's also good friends with Justin Timberlake on that note
he's sold out like as hard as a musician possibly can though, for sure
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...I remember it being nice, though
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
neither of us are women.
and her most recent album was surprisingly subversive, if not necessarily groundbreaking, and the way it was released was a stroke of genius so I'll give her that
female empowerment death metal
It kind of bugs me when things get panned as essentially not being subversive enough when even that first level of subversion is very rare compared to the norm. That's not necessarily what you're doing, but that is a bit how it's coming across.
like it or not, Yoncé's on all of our mouths like liquor
That kind of song is pretty good at encapsulating how a lot of people feel after breaking off a potentially dangerous relationship.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
like talking about music that gets one through hard times that one puts on when one is sad
Beyonce is very popular.
and im not even sure of who that person is :/
he has the hottest chick in the game wearing his chain, in his own words.
he's an african american rapper who did the song 99 Problems, apparently his latest album was kinda terrible, Kanye West got his big break producing for him i think?
i think she's probably better known for like. hm
either "irreplacable" or "single ladies". more recently "partition". which is about fucking in a car.
he's sold out like as hard as a musician possibly can though, for sure
and yeah the part about Kanye is correct.