It's not a bad thing though. All successful popstars who are a brand have to project a certain image. Beyonce's is that of a woman who wakes up looking flawless and has a white maid standing on call at all times to retrieve her napkin in case she drops it. It just is what it is.
Hey you, you're way ahead of me
You're drunk on apathy
You burned right out
Hey you, you're just a cripple now
They sell for millions now
They sold you out
Oh, I had to tell them you were gone
I had to tell them they were wrong
And now they're playing your song
I wouldn't say "SurfboarT" is iconic, but it is the most quoted music expression since "shine bright like a diamond" so yeah, "I woke up like this" is quite relevant too
Diamonds was a worldwide hit, DRIL wasn't. I am sure Diamond is much more known and also the phrase from it.
I wouldn't say "SurfboarT" is iconic, but it is the most quoted music expression since "shine bright like a diamond" so yeah, "I woke up like this" is quite relevant too
1. I actually thing the album's release created way more buzz than BTW and RED combined. That doesn't necessarily mean that the song is guaranteed to be a hit though. I'm sure we can find many people saying how even despite it's success, that BEYONCÉ wouldn't have a top ten.
2. The rest of the world may have picked it up, but that was their choice and so is a testament to the song's iconicness if Beyonce didn't even to make it a single around the world for it to go top ten in many countries.
3. I agree numbers usually go along with iconicness but it doesn't necessarily have to. For example, Toxic is iconic but hasn't really sold a huge amount and peaked at #9 which is good but you see, there are more factors than just numbers.
All these vines and memes seem to distort and inflate the importance of trends and leave stans deluded. Nobody will be using memes or vines 10 years from now and nobody will remember surfboart, shine bright like a diamond or I woke up like dis unless it is attached to something epic.
