The excuses already Y'all do Rihanna so bad.
I LOVE Beyonce. But she never rapped and sung about ****ing in the kitchen before ST. Or the Partition video and lyrics for example, she never did that before. Like even my mom, a Beyonce fan since the beginning, said how obvious that change was. Especially since Rihanna is younger than Bey and Bey was already a mom during that time.
Mess, my mom says the exact same thing Bey has always served sex, but she was never raunchy before 2013
Soooo true!!! they were always bragging about how global their fav is and how Europe mattered and now that she's flopping there , they're singing a new tune and suddenly, USA is the most important market
Right. All of a sudden, now the urban Grammy categories matter. Urban hits matter. The US matters. There are so many seats available for them to have.
Mess, my mom says the exact same thing Bey has always served sex, but she was never raunchy before 2013
It's pretty raunchy to me to sing an entire song dedicated to the size of your man's penis, how it won't fit, how it's too much, how he walks a certain way because of it.
I think 6_INCH meant “all of the sudden” by the last few years, aka Unapologetic when she was more R&B/Urban.
But the post he was referring to clearly meant something totally different.
"Because Rih "flopped" globally with this era, all of a sudden the Navy cares about Urban stats"
When clearly that is false because Unapologetic and Talk That Talk did well globally, and we still acknowledged her Urban success with those albums.
But the post he was referring to clearly meant something totally different.
"Because Rih "flopped" globally with this era, all of a sudden the Navy cares about Urban stats"
When clearly that is false because Unapologetic and Talk That Talk did well globally, and we still acknowledged her Urban success with those albums.
He told you what I was referring to. I've addressed this before. It wasn't until After RR blahblahblah and urban didn't matter because she was releasing pop songs that only started charting high on the urban charts because of BB's new rules @ the time. It was either Diamonds or WFL, can't remember which era because both those eras could be combined as one big era as there was no significant distinction. However, she had a pop song charting on urban @ #1 because of that dumbass rule change. Enter, new urban Rihanna.
I'mma repeat this one more time for the cheap seats:
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Originally posted by Ascension
Bey is widely credited and cited for dramatically shifting the urban music scene with her unique vocal approach:
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Rolling Stone: But it was 1999's The Writing's on the Wall that broke the bank, with "Bug a Boo" (Number 33, 1999), "Jumpin' Jumpin'" (Number Three, 1999), "Bills, Bills, Bills" (Number One, 1999), and perhaps most definitively with "Say My Name" (Number One, 2000). The definitive kiss-off song won two Grammys and featured a standout performance by Beyoncé, whose skittering, rhythmic, and hip-hop-derived approach to melody would help shift the entire landscape of R&B singing.
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The New Yorker: Beyoncé is an eccentric, a vocalist with truly weird and original melodic and rhythmic approaches. Listen to the slippery rap-style syncopations in “Say My Name,” to the melodies that float and dart over the thump of “Single Ladies,” to the jarring timbral and tonal variations in “Ring the Alarm” and “1+1.” Those sounds didn’t exist in the world before Beyoncé. If they sound “normal” now, it’s because Beyoncé, and her many followers, have retrained our ears.
Bey is largely responsible for the way the urban music sounds today. It's absolutely insane how people will boldly try and claim something Bey herself is cited for starting.
Everyone thought DiL was a Rihanna song when it got released, and let me not even start on Yonce/Partition.
lol did they?
Yoncé and Partition though, aside from sexy lyrics, have nothing similar to anything Rihanna does.
Both have Beyoncé's trademark rap-singing over a simple beat. This is something she's done since Destiny's Child and I think most effectively on B'Day in 2006. Sonically, they follow the same idea of a song like Get Me Bodied where the instrumental is nothing more than a sparse beat and hand-claps or whatever (no melodic instrumentation), and the rest of the song is created through Beyoncé's vocal performance. It's very hard to do and in the behind-the-scenes you can get a sense of Beyoncé doing it.
We also get a glimpse into Beyoncé being embarrassed about the subject matter, not wanting her mother to hear it. This speaks to her change after becoming a mother rather than her seeing someone be raunchy and having to follow suit. ST was also really the first album where Beyoncé's own life comes through. DIL is just about love in general, B'Day is Deena Jones' perspective. IASF isn't very personal. ST has direct references to her life and the changes in it. Her sexuality is a product of her own personal growth, not keeping up with anyone else.
Yoncé and Partition though, aside from sexy lyrics, have nothing similar to anything Rihanna does.
Both have Beyoncé's trademark rap-singing over a simple beat. This is something she's done since Destiny's Child and I think most effectively on B'Day in 2006. Sonically, they follow the same idea of a song like Get Me Bodied where the instrumental is nothing more than a sparse beat and hand-claps or whatever (no melodic instrumentation), and the rest of the song is created through Beyoncé's vocal performance. It's very hard to do and in the behind-the-scenes you can get a sense of Beyoncé doing it.
We also get a glimpse into Beyoncé being embarrassed about the subject matter, not wanting her mother to hear it. This speaks to her change after becoming a mother rather than her seeing someone be raunchy and having to follow suit. ST was also really the first albums where Beyoncé's own life comes through. DIL is just about love in general, B'Day is Deena Jones' perspective. IASF isn't very personal. ST has direct references to her life and the changes in it. Her sexuality is a product of her own personal growth, not keeping up with anyone else.
!!!!!!! This is what this thread needed.
And now it can be be closed so those pressed ppl can go and listen Bey discography 1997-2008
They keep saying Partition is reminiscent of a Rihanna song, but can't give any references. TBH, Rih wishes she could do a Partition or DrIL. Talking about "Bey never sang about ****ing in a kitchen before!" Bitch, neither has Rihanna!!
They keep saying Partition is reminiscent of a Rihanna song, but can't give any references. TBH, Rih wishes she could do a Partition or DrIL. Talking about "Bey never sang about ****ing in a kitchen before!" Bitch, neither has Rihanna!!
IDK what the **** that is and its guaranteed that Bey doesn't either. After Bey started singing about making sex tapes, y'all really have nothing to tell us. And going by Navy logic, since Rih didn't started getting more explicitly sexual in her lyrics until after IASF, we can ascertain that it was actually Bey responsible for Rih's "switch in style". A reverse warholian experience we have here.
They keep saying Partition is reminiscent of a Rihanna song, but can't give any references. TBH, Rih wishes she could do a Partition or DrIL. Talking about "Bey never sang about ****ing in a kitchen before!" Bitch, neither has Rihanna!!
Watch them say S&M after what I've seen posted today, I'm pretty certain they'll reach for anything.
I'mma leave this alone, but the good sis Solange Piagét said it best: "French fries do not influence potatoes."