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Originally posted by ultraviolento
of course you can, but you wont. because if you do, you'll be losing the entire race issue POV.  thats the way it is.
a video should be a complement to the song, they need to be in sync. but a complement not in the sense of adding entire ideas that arent in the song, but reinforcing the ones that are already there.
think of firework, the song doesnt talk about fats, gays or cancer patients. but the video is a complement to the main idea of the song, empowerment and self-confidence. the video is not ADDING an idea, but developing one.
now think of the songs from lemonade. none of them (except maybe 1 or 2) talk about race issues. so beyonce adding this whole new concept/idea to the video feels insincere. what many would call a gimmick, oportunism etc. to get her press, attract viewers etc. it's like lana writing a song about her big lips and throwing in video a domestic violence concept for the shock value. 
its not that hard to understand.
exactly  |
And again. Where is the standard on how/when/where to address race issues?
You're just continuing on making up arbitrary rules of how an artist should develop their racial identity politics. I've literally gotten nothing from you other than that Beyonce isn't doing it "the right way! But Kendrick is!"
It could very well be that the concept started as a relationship album, but she wanted to build on it to encompass all the other injustices, racial and gender included (6 Inch), that black women face. Or it could have very well been the other way around, that she had a concept of race she wanted to address, but decided to dress it up in a more digestible package to reach the most people possible.
But like, none of that matters. At all. I don't understand why that would even be the point of discussion. Unless your only motivation was to discredit her work for w/e reason. fff. Cause the impact of it has been observable from the jump. Formation is about "nappy hair" but here you have politicians, police departments, and news commentators dissecting its political connotations. So whether it "pointed" to race or it was the central theme is subjective.
The reality of the matter is that it has played a role in propelling discussions on race since its inception. That's it. That's all that will ever matter in regard to whether or not Lemonade is an album about race. Not the nuances of whether the lyrics say anything specifically about it (and they do in Freedom). lol
