Celeb News: Time Discusses "Beyonce's Bangs" Media Coverage

simon

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I’d Like to Talk to You About Not Talking About Beyoncé’s Bangs

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is an extremely famous pop singer known for quality vocals and sexy radio singles. She is married to Shaun Corey “Jay-Z” Carter, and they have a lovely daughter named Blue Ivy. Beyoncé has won 17 Grammys and is Time’s Most Influential Person, and oh, she went out a few days ago with a new hairstyle and nearly broke the Internet.

Reporters and commenters alike felt the need to say something about Beyoncé’s hairstyle, which appeared to be a wig with short, choppy bangs. Everyone with an Internet connection was invited to Weigh In: Love It or Leave It! And the general consensus was negative.

These days, it seems as though no “conversation” is deemed too trifling, and though slow news days have been around as long as reporting the news has, social media can make a frenzy out of a single picture. But the endless reportage of Beyoncé and The Day She Banged is something else.

At best, it’s continued commodification of this woman as a product that exists either for our consumption or our scrutiny, and at worst it’s just plain mean. So many people were slinging insults and creating rude memes, and even the ones that weren’t directly cruel felt the need to “report” on Beyoncé’s Bangs: The Happening.

Overall, female celebrities and women in media are also picked apart with alarming regularity. I won’t name names, but there are more than a handful of male celebrities who are allowed to roam freely looking every level of disheveled or trying out a new ‘do without inspiring Internet memes and hashtags. There are also other women in the industry who don’t get the kind of head-to-toe scrutiny that Beyoncé gets.

If we must keep her name in our mouths and devote endless bandwidth to mentioning her, I think it’d be cool to recognize her achievements in her field, salute her owning her sexuality and being vocal about feminism, acknowledge her as her own woman who does not belong to us, who is also a wife and mother… pretty much anything but analyze that bang.

jax.

I still don't like the bangs tho

Mister Martian

Britney taught the world that bad haircuts will get you lots of attention...

J a y

Bey's bangs impact on UK media: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...anchester.html

Ressti

It's ridiculous how obsessed we are with her hair tbh... Remember the haircut. Wasn't CNN doing reports on it. Mess.

I love her bangs tho.

BudBud

i dont get why people are fussed about it , didnt she already do these bangs in telephone video?

only thing i am worried about however is ratchet girls who try and copy this look

Desert Rain

Her change of wig getting more media coverage than some girls eras

Bey, ha POWER.

Eternium

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Originally posted by Mister Martian

Britney taught the world that bad haircuts will get you lots of attention...

Britney can't take all the credit.

Comedor

Impact.

Teezy

Death. Every little thing she does is headline news.

Tom_Ford

The article is actually really good, it's societal critiques are on point

Roman Holiday

I like her bangs. Why does everyone mot like them?

Chronix

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Originally posted by Mister Martian

Britney taught the world that bad haircuts will get you lots of attention...

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Lose My Breath

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Originally posted by BudBud

i dont get why people are fussed about it , didnt she already do these bangs in telephone video?

only thing i am worried about however is ratchet girls who try and copy this look

Yeah, she's already done her hair this way.

For some reason, everything she does is headline news, it's kinda irritating

The article is very good, they really hit the nail on the head when it comes to how society is so quick to pull apart women. We should celebrate them and their differences and sadly, we don't

simon

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Originally posted by Lose My Breath

The article is very good, they really hit the nail on the head when it comes to how society is so quick to pull apart women. We should celebrate them and their differences and sadly, we don't

I agree.

Hilly

All this for hair

Rihinvention

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