Beyonce… smh.

Posted in 2 Cents, Music on December 23, 2008 at 3:00 pm

I was originally going to write a post about the two new Beyonce videos that leaked onto YouTube but the good quality ones got pulled by her record label. When/If they go back up I’ll be sure to post them. The videos were for her songs Diva and Halo, with Halo being the song and video I liked best of the two. Contrarily, Diva upsets me on many levels. First off, I hadn’t even heard the entire song until watching the video because they usually only play part of it in the club while mixing with “A Milli”. While watching the video earlier I was bombared by lackluster cinematography and lyrics that are even worse. I’m ALL for Beyonce and her pro-woman or in this case(pro-self) lyrics… she’s been doing it since Destiny’s Child and it sells, plus everyone knows that Get Me Bodied has been a banger at parties since it came out. No hate there. However, since when was a diva “a female hustler”? I’m not quite understanding this. I guess Aretha Franklin, Patti Labelle, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston, Gladys Knight, Dion Warwick, Nina Simone, Etta James, Dorothy Dandridge, and a slew of others that I could be here all day mentioning… all got it wrong?  Who wrote this? and if SHE did… who said it was album worthy? The whole song is a subpar self glorifying calamity, that will of course get plenty burn because of the strength of the beat, and the fact that it’s Beyonce. I’m not feelin it, and I therefore have to shake my head. As a matter of fact, from what I’ve heard so far from her latest album in general, I could’ve done without the majority of the “Sasha Fierce” side, she hit us hard with club bangers on B’Day, I think I would’ve been just fine with a bunch of ballads like on the “I am” disc… but that’s just me.

Tags: Beyonce, SMH