Thursday, February 18, 2016
Formation- Beyonce
Beyonce's new song, "Formation" is very strong and influential, regardless of people's impression from the Super Bowl. I really like how she's essentially saying, "ladies let's stand up for what we believe in and join a formation". A lot of people have different opinions of the song, but you can't please everyone. Someone, somewhere is going to have a negative opinion of you. Taking that into consideration, and the high power she holds, she felt she could stand up and say what she wanted to say. My opinion of her performance changed a little bit after class. As I mentioned Wednesday, Beyonce said her reason for singing it at the Super Bowl was to show that she's not afraid of who she is, where she comes from and her African American and Creole heritage. I admire her for that. Everyone should be proud of who they are and where they come from. The one thing I didn't agree with was her approach. She knew she's obviously a world famous super star, and she would get some serious backlash. The only thing I didn't understand was why she wanted to spark such a big "controversy" over the "racial war" currently happening. I'm sure it was to raise awareness and attention to the obvious problem, but I feel she's in a position that she could have done it without being so controversial. She's Beyonce, if she did something, I don't want to say less aggressively, but something that wouldn't have been so debatable to so many people, I feel like she could have gotten her point across as well. In my opinion more people would've agreed with her, and not felt like they were being attacked or accused. I'm just saying she could have done it differently, but like like I said, you can't please everyone. After really hearing both sides, I feel like her performance wasn't as bad as people are making it out to be. She's raising awareness to something she sees everyday, and there's nothing wrong with that. As Nina Simone said, "How can you be an artist and not reflect on the times?"
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I really like your post, Emily. I think you bring up some great and valid points. I like how you said, a few times, that you can't please everyone, which is so true. As I discussed in my blog, I feel as though Beyoncé's video does a lot of overgeneralizing. I know in class you brought up the police brutality topic and felt as though we should respect the police. I didn't like how the wall in the music video read "Stop shooting us." There are plenty of white people that have been killed by police too. I think more people need to look at the situations and not just the skin color. I think, regardless of how I feel about this song, Beyoncé did a fantastic job of using her position to make a point. I just feel like she was not considerate of a lot of people. Especially the victims of Hurricane Katrina and even Messy Mya. I think this song is very powerful and is something a lot of people remember, I just wonder why her approach to such sensitive topics had to be so blunt. Great post, Emily!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you that the purpose of her new song and her performance at the super bowl was to raise awareness. And after all that has been going on after her preference, you can definitely say that she did just that. She wanted what we are doing right now. She wanted everyone everywhere to talk about her song and find the true meaning of what its about. I admire her for the risks she takes to raise awareness about a topic that she is very passionate about.
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ReplyDeleteHi Emily,
ReplyDeleteI really like how confident you were in your post. I totally agree with you when you talk about how strong and powerful Beyonce is. I think thats probably the only thing everyone around the world can agree with when it comes to talking about her performance at the Super Bowl. I see good and bad things that came out of her performance. I like that she fights for women every where and I agree that it was a very powerful message when she told her ladies to get in formation.