Pop & Circumstance: Beyonce is still the “Girl” who runs the world
By Allison Berger | April 22nd, 2011 |
Who doesn’t love girls? Whether you admire their beauty or intelligence, want to sleep with one or be one, you can’t deny that women make up half the population. Duh.
Beyonce’s fresh-off-the-press single, “Girls (Who Run the World),” is here to remind you (in Beyseus’ world, at least) the females are in charge. And while gender equality hardly exists in the “Real World,” there’s no way in hell we’d disagree with Queen Bey when it comes to the La La Land of pop music. Today, the top 10 singles on iTunes include GaGa, Katy, BEP (read: Fergie), Adele and J.Lo. Who needs guys, anyway?
It’s funny — for someone so committed to her seemingly perfect relationship with Jay-Z, the woman writes an awful lot about the single life, or rather, dumping that dude. See: “Single Ladies,” “Irreplacable,” “Me, Myself & I.” Then there were the Destiny’s Child tracks: “Independent Women,” “Survivor,” “Say My Name,” etc. A little hypocritical, no?
Regardless of the lyrical nature, Beyonce, like the other tried-and-true female superstars, is taking her music to a different level for the new decade.
“I’m mixing every type of genre that I love and I’m inspired by every type of genre,” Beyonce said of her fourth studio album, slated for release later this year. “I’m not in a box. It’s not R&B. It’s not typically pop. It’s not rock. It’s just everything I love all mixed together in my own little gumbo of music.”
Musically, “Girls” is a lot different than Beyonce’s previous work, sampling the indie-electro duo Major Lazer’s major hit, “Pon De Floor.” The track features high-energy vocals and seriously repetitive lyrics to boot, but hey, what else is new? Between Britney, GaGa and now Beyonce, heavy club beats are more than officially the “in” thing right now to move your single to No. 1. It worked for Brit, but only time will tell if it’ll work for Bey.
We’re pretty sure it will — $10 bucks says “Girls” is the song that will forever remind you of summer 2011, whether you’re female or not. We think her fans will be quite accepting of this fresh new everything-but-nothing style of music. The woman did sell 15 million records under the name of an alter ego, after all. Did Beyonce just make up her own genre? Sure she did. She runs the world.
http://www.heyreverb.com/2011/04/22/...-girls-single/
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