del Valle Schorske: Beyonce as a boy? It’s not too wild
“You must not know about me.”
—Beyoncé, “Irreplaceable”
No lie, B. I must not know about you. Every time I get to thinking you’re — dare I say it? — replaceable, and relegate you to the comfortable status of guilty pleasure, you get restless. You seem to move — again, dare I say it? — a little to the left. While I am mostly unmoved by the political content of your so-called “feminist” anthems — “Survivor,” “Independent Women,” “Irreplaceable” — your unexpected flashes of strangeness hypnotize me. “Hypnotize” is the right word, since these flashes are almost always...
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6:05p.m. on October 22, 2008
You are a pedantic twit.
quite frankly, beyonce's canon is not worth your overanalysis - find a more sophisticated artist to ruminate upon and you'll find your effort better requited.
suggested artists:
erykah badu (New Amerykah)
jill scott (Words and Sounds Vol 3)
lauryn hill (unplugged)
janelle monae
jazmine sullivan's "Lions, Tigers and Bears"
even Jay-z himself is more interesting lol.