Formation – Beyoncé
Beyoncé’s
new song, Formation, has caused quite the controversy. She is now being called
such things as racist and other very offensive things. Im sure Beyoncé’s knew
everyone was going to talk about her song/super bowl performance, but I bet she
had no idea it would go this far.
Focusing on just the lyrics, I see nothing wrong. Her song seems
to make it should like she is singing about her heritage and who she is as a
person. I find it great how she can sing so highly about who she is and where
she comes from. Everyone should be proud of who they are. My favorite line from
her song is, “I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros I like my negro
nose with Jackson Five nostrils”. I personally like these lines the
most because she mentions things about herself and her family that she loves
and she takes pride in. While watching the music video for this song, I found
it very entertaining. After talking about the video in class, I learned so much
about the specific things in the video that I didn’t realize before. I didn’t
even notice or connect the Trayvon Martin scene when I watched the video. I
admired how she put that scene in there because it really sent a message. Some
people said that Beyoncé was making light of the Hurricane Katrina trauma in
her video, but I saw it as her trying to show the world the tragedies the
people went through by showing scenes of flooded streets and houses.
With Beyoncé’s half-time
performance, I understand why people would dislike how she dressed her dancers
as Black Panthers. Some people could really take offence to that but I feel as
though Beyoncé meant no harm. I doubt that Beyoncé purposely put on a
performance or a costume that she knew would easily offend people. I think she
was just trying the make know that it was the 50th anniversary of
the Black Panthers; I don’t think she meant anything more than that.
I think sometimes some people get easily
offended, and when you’re putting on a performance at an event as big as the
super bowl with millions of people watching, you are bound to get criticism for
anything that you do. I personally did not see anything that was so shocking
and offending that would cause all of this drama, so unless I missed something
that was completely obvious, Beyoncé’s new song and performance really did not
have an affect on me.
Nicole, i agree with you people did not even pay attention to what the song itself meant, they just follow what other people had to say. the song and the Super Bowl performance was not really an issue until it was mentioned in some peoples criticism about it
ReplyDeleteI agree with how you said nothing is wrong with the song because its true. I just thought that the super bowl wasn't the right time to preform it. She also new she a powerful enough women that putting this song out there wouldn't hurt her career.
ReplyDeleteI agree with how you said nothing is wrong with the song because its true. I just thought that the super bowl wasn't the right time to preform it. She also new she a powerful enough women that putting this song out there wouldn't hurt her career.
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ReplyDeleteI think that your response was really interesting, especially that you mentioned she did not mean any harm to anybody because it is true, she just wants to take pride on her culture. I think that she had every right to perform it how, and where she did because people deserve to be made aware of things going on in the world, for example, hurricane Katrina.
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