Posted on 10/26/2016 5:08:07 AM PDT by Cronos
When you think about it, the world is full of unexplained phenomena. Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near? Why do I continue to eat ice-cream when I have a lactose intolerance? We may never know. Here’s another mystery I’ve been grappling with for a few years: what did we, the human race, do to deserve the excellence of Beyoncé?
..Here’s why: raw talent and an unstinting work ethic. It’s that simple. Nobody works harder than Bey. The muscular voice, the obvious care when it comes to choosing her collaborators, the fashion and the thighs: they’re all just frosting. The cake is a ton of sheer hard work, which I was lucky enough to witness when I (finally) saw her in concert earlier this month. When you add in the maturation of her politics (feminism! police brutality! girls’ education!) and her style, Beyoncé is in a league beyond any other popular musician. “Empower” is one of those words much bandied about by marketers eager for women’s cash, but it’s truly how Beyoncé makes me feel. When I watch and listen to her, I feel a number of things: a surge of self-love, wonder, strength and a bubbling, excited joy at being a woman – a black woman, at that. That’s magic.
She may not be the pop star we deserve, but she’s the one we need.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Had to make sure it was not April 1
Lots of people work extremely hard to make themselves extremely rich. Lots of them are scum. El Chapo worked hard, too.
Where is the barf alert? How do Beyoncé’s lyrics and on stage gestures empower women to be anything but sluts?
All tongue-in-cheek.
It drips sarcasm.
Here’s an individual so insecure he/she has to find his purpose in the persona os some botox’d hood rat booty-shaker. This is the cult of celebrity in a microcosm, hero worship on the personal scale. Sad that so undeserving a creature should be the target of such adoration, but in a hollowed-out society devoid of any moral heroes, I guess you find them other places.
I’ve never heard her sing, watched her perform or bothered to read about her, albeit this once.
She’s as immaterial to my life as I am to hers.
In fact, just about all the celebrities and “culture” (in quotes and loosely considered) are about as meaningless to my life as I am to someone who resides in Phoenix or Kalamazoo.
EXCEPT
For this one citizen’s vote against the current machine on November 8.
If...my vote is counted, not changed mechanically, or thrown away.
~Which is in question.
Excuse me while I go and expel my breakfast!
“All tongue-in-cheek.
It drips sarcasm.”
I wouldn’t be so sure. There is no limit to sycophancy. How do explain the media and Hillary?
Is this sarcasm?
My BS-o-meter is ooff the charts...
Yeah, but here “music” sucks, so........
Pathetic.
I do not consider anyone named "Bim" to be worthy of my time, or let alone air. People like her should fall into Harambe's enclosure.
She is so disgusting!
Is this author serious?
A culture of liquid manure.
This is why I absolutely detest the so-called “semi-news semi-satire” genre. It consists of falsehoods which mimic reality ... but in the end reality is far weirder than the falsehoods.
She is the beneficiary of an extremely dumbed-down populace.
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