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Originally posted by Dark XXX
I agree,.
Lemonade is a good album but critics are overpraising it because it was released by Beyonce. No other black artist would have got this amount of acclaim if they released it. Plus the possibility of them being called racist if critics were to criticise it.
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No one is overpraising it. It's an album, people loved it and happens to be the most praised because it's the most thematically ambitious and musically grand album released this year and probably this decade. It has nothing to do with it being Beyoncé, because she's released less than stellar albums in the past (IASF and DIL) and gotten bad reviews for them.
If Rihanna or Frank Ocean had released Lemonade no one would be this mad, because they're neutral artists, but because its Beyoncé it's overrated. Probably because she's already so accomplished. But you know what, Beyoncé works extremely hard for these results. Maybe others should follow suit.
As for your racism argument.... What a dumb thing to say. Maybe black artists get better reviews because they release better work and actually have something to say. POC always have to work twice as hard.