Beyoncé is looked heavily down upon on ATRL despite having a generally favorable reception with the GP. She is frequently called local and ghetto. Among the other main pop girls, none of them receive the kind of hate and vitriol that Beyoncé attracts. And the majority of other pop girls are white. Coincidence?
Yes, there is Rihanna, but her music generally caters much more heavily to white people than Beyoncé's does. Rihanna has always been a pop star who does occasional R&B/hip-hop crossover, while the opposite is true for Beyoncé. And Rihanna has never made an album/video/project that celebrates black culture as much as Lemonade does. Beyoncé's blackness is very much in your face, which makes her a target for racists.
And Rihanna has never made an album/video/project that celebrates black culture as much as Lemonade does. Beyoncé's blackness is very much in your face, which makes her a target for racists.
Lemonade has 2/14 songs that have anything to do with black culture.
There are certain members who are disgustingly racist towards Bey, but a lot of the hate towards her comes from disliking her fans, not being from a place where urban/r&b is popular, being from a rival fanbase, and wanting to "combat" the media deception of her as perfect. I wouldn't say as a whole it all stems from racism, no
Lemonade has 2/14 songs that have anything to do with black culture.
Yet the themes run all throughout the movie. The mothers of the shooting victims. References to police shootings in Kendrick's Freedom verse. The BLM themes all throughout Formation. Even the little things like the fact that almost everyone who appears is a black woman.
Yes, there is Rihanna, but her music generally caters much more heavily to white people than Beyoncé's does. Rihanna has always been a pop star who does occasional R&B/hip-hop crossover, while the opposite is true for Beyoncé. And Rihanna has never made an album/video/project that celebrates black culture as much as Lemonade does. Beyoncé's blackness is very much in your face, which makes her a target for racists.
Oh please
Beyonces discography is just as 'white' as Rihannas up until Lemonade
and no its not racism, the hive need to stop using the race card every time Beyonce gets dragged
She is called local because her main market is her home country lol. Taylor Swift, the whitest of the whitest, gets called local all the time too. Country and urban are bigger domestically. And all artists have haters here
jk, just because a person dislikes her work doesn't mean they dislike her because she's black even knowing her last work was about celebrating black culture, I can't see the relation But let's be real, I can't imagine people hating on her.
She literally has the biggest fanbase on this site wyd? Yes, I will admit that there are some racists who dislike her, but not everyone who dislikes Beyonce is racist. Most people don't like her because she's shoved down their throat, find her overrated, don't connect with her music or only troll her because they don't like the hive.
Also, Beyonce's music also appeals to white people too seeing as she has ALOT of white fans. Rihanna doesn't even cater specifically to the white demographic either. Have you heard Man Down? Work (the video as well her performance at the VMAs celebrating black and caribbean culture?? Since when is doing reggae, dancehall, and etc. catering to white people?
