I'm convinced Beyonce is illiterate

She is guest editing the September Vogue...

Try not to be a stupid bitch OP.

"I caught today's episode of The View which featured Beyoncé performing her latest single, "One Plus One." She delivered a powerful performance as always but she made a mistake on the lyrics, belting out "algebuh" instead of "algebra" with an "r."

Usually I would recognize this as a simple mistake that anyone could make and completely brush it off. But she also said "algebuh" on American Idol. And on Good Morning America. And at the Glastonbury Festival in front of 150,000 people. And on the recording (included below) for her brand new album "4" which millions of people will probably buy.

This can only mean one thing: No one has told Beyoncé to her face that she's making this mistake or surely she would have corrected herself.

Why are we so afraid to tell people the truth?

I don't know much about algebuh.

r3, She's obviously doing it for affect, moron. Only you don't get it.

I think I heard her say ambuhlance also so you're right OP

She sounds like she has a swollen tongue.

Queen Bey is gonna get ya

Another one of Wendell Williams' dumb fans just parroting what she said.

The illuminatti is real. Yall should chill.

Uh-ruh, I b’lieve it’s “ammalance.”

She’s a really dumb person. This I wish I were white black skin bleaching blonde dyed hair woman always has an entire team to think for her, tell her what to do.

The truth is that [she] is functionally illiterate. I don’t think that people realize that about her. She didn’t graduate from high school, not because she was busy, but because she can’t read or write beyond a second-grade level.

When I receive emails or texts from her, it’s like they were written by a child whose native language is not English. It’s just a jumble of words, some bigger than others (as if she is trying to sound intelligent). She does not understand the concepts of grammar or spelling or sentence structure. I sometimes have to ask other people to read the messages and then we piece together what she is trying to say!

The thought of her writing a screenplay is laughable. I have never even seen her read a book (although she will pose with one for a photo shoot if required). Never. Not even to [her child/ren].

What she is going to do is lay out the broad strokes of the story and let a ghostwriter handle it. Of course she’ll take all the credit though! She wants that Oscar!!! That’s why she is going to name herself the writer/ producer/ star/ composer/ everything on this project.

Sad. Someone is walking on shaky ground. Exposing half truths and stating out right lies. IPs can be tracked and their willing to risk it all.

Now I know why she has not showed up in any talk shows for years. She’s not articulate or has the ability to think properly

*they're

t She sounds that way because her parents took her (and the original Destiny's Childers) out of school when they were 9. From that point on they spent 6 hours a day practicing singing and performing, and a couple of hours a day being "home-schooled." The home-schooling involved them doing the work "on their own." This I heard from Beyonce herself on the radio in Houston when they first came out with that "No, No, No" song.

She’s no Madonna, darling

r17 Yes, it worked great, education-wise.

I doubt she has more than a 5th grade education.

It’s very possible that she can barely read.

Ummm, I b'lieve it's 'am'ulance.'

She’s academically uneducated.

So Muriel, how long are you going to let the white homos thrash another black woman? Six hundred posts should be enough. This site's becoming an alternative to Stormfront.

Talking about whether or not a huge massive global superstar is illiterate is racist?

Explain.

Show your work.

This list of black women who have hosted SNL isn't exactly long.

Maya Rudolph 2012

Gabourey Sidibe 2010

Cicely Tyson 1979

Oprah Winfrey 1986

Queen Latifah 2003

Taraji P. Henson 2015

Halle Berry 2003

Janet Jackson 2004

Rosario Dawson 2009

Kerry Washington 2013

Octavia Spencer 2017

Tiffany Haddish 2018

43 seasons 12 black women have hosted.

Oprah thick ass hosted SNL back in the 80s. Interesting.

R18 have you read Madonna's Instagram posts? There awful.

Pun intended.

R25 are you seriously suggesting that the reason SNL hasn't been hosted by Beyonce is because the producers are racist / sexist against black women?

I'd assume Beyonce would be a major get regardless of her race and sex at any point since 2000...

[quote] [R25] are you seriously suggesting that the reason SNL hasn't been hosted by Beyonce is because the producers are racist / sexist against black women? I'd assume Beyonce would be a major get regardless of her race and sex at any point since 2000..

Are you suggesting that only these 12 black woman have been big enough, desirable enough or literate enough for SNL to offer them the hosting gig?

Are all other black female celebs illiterate?

[quote]So Muriel, how long are you going to let the white homos thrash another black woman?

Stop making it about race.

There are white artists who are most likely equally illiterate.

Madonna and Britney Spears being two examples.

[quote] I doubt she has more than a 5th grade education. It’s very possible that she can barely read.

In fall of 1990, Beyoncé enrolled in Parker Elementary School, a music magnet school in Houston, where she would perform with the school's choir. She also attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and later Alief Elsik High School.

What SNL cast member created this troll bait post? lol

This want to be white piece of shit is an idiot and uneducated.

You in danger gurl!

LEAVE BOUNCIE ALOOOOOOOOONE!!!!!!!

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

Really, R10 ? That's your rationale for letting her get away with shit?

isn't she also in her 40s?

Azaelia Banks dedicated a song to Jay Z

It wouldn't surprise me. I'm sure there are people in showbiz and professional sports who can't read. Floyd Mayweather reportedly can't read either.

Either did Tom Cruise. Dyslexic?

How the fuck is she reading this, You stupid stankin bitch. EXPLAIN. PLS FKIN EXPLAIN IT. HOW THE FUCK CAN SHE BE READING IT.

[quote]When I receive emails or texts from her

Hoo boy.

R36 whites desire to be black? 😂😂😂😂😅😅😅 Whoever wrote this must be still in grade 6 🤣🤣👏 THANKS BUT NO THANKS

OP you still haven't answered the fucking question. How the fuck can she be reading in clip r41. ANSWER THE QUESTION BITCH.

Profundity? Lol, bitch please. She is reaching for the stars with that $100 word. Someone wrote that speech for her and is probably feeding her the lines through a earpiece. It is well known that, for all her talents, Bey is NOT an intellectual. Profundity!

Madonna illiterate? Yeah with an IQ of 140 I doubt it. But who cares about pop divas.

Does Beyonce write her own lyrics?

Madonna is known for her intelligence. Watch her interviews in the last 30 years bitches

Beyoncé is a dumb fuck who is uneducated and illiterate. It took like a dozen of writers to write the line Who run the world for her. 😂😂😂😂

Wasn't Madonna a straight-A student in high school?

If she were smart she would have married a good looking man.

r45, you dumb ass thot. It was stated as fact that Queen Bey was illiterate, and I posted a video which clearly falsifies that outrageous argument. Now die in a million grease fires, Bitch.

R51 You used the exact same line and word trying to prove Mariah was smart.

R12 makes it sound, probably correctly, that Bey wants to be Becky with the hair.

r52, Lies. Don't like on me again.

R54 It is in the Whitney Houston doc thread

MADONNA : “She attended St. Frederick's and St. Andrew's Catholic Elementary Schools, and West Middle School. Madonna was known for her high grade point average, and achieved notoriety for her unconventional behavior. She would perform cartwheels and handstands in the hallways between classes, dangle by her knees from the monkey bars during recess, and pull up her skirt during class—all so that the boys could see her underwear.[10]

Madonna later attended Rochester Adams High School where she became a straight-A student and a member of the cheerleading squad.[11] After graduating, she received a dance scholarship to the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and attended the American Dance Festival over the summer.[12] She convinced her father to allow her to take ballet lessons[13] and was persuaded by Christopher Flynn, her ballet teacher, to pursue a career in dance.[14]“

Beyonce's parents put her education second, rehearsing and performing came first. Same thing with Britney. Having a Southern accent does not help matters either.

I am a slow reader, so I could never do SNL.

I don't know about her being illiterate but she is definitely a robot, trained to an inch of her life not to react until told what to do. Remember when she was on "Punked" and I think they knocked over a huge Christmas tree -- and she didn't react at all? Her face never changed half an inch. She just stared ahead with a frozen smile. It was so weird, I can't believe they even aired it.

I am sick of her being hyped up in the media. It is so obviously payola. Just like the whole Kardashian shitstains and Jenners and their ilk- all payola. Everything is hype now. Nothing is organic.

Is OP Wendy Williams? She's said this for years, that Beyonce is dumb as a pile of bricks, can't tie her shoes, etc.

"Boy, you better step off 'cause I can read! U gon' need a ammalance if you keep it up!"

I don't think she is illiterate, rather borderline retarded.

Assuming the only songs I know by Bey are "Crazy In Love" and Jay Z's '03 Bonnie and Clyde, what do you recommend I listen to next?

Is she like actually retarded or what?

I mean, people on here are saying that she can’t tie her shoes, etc??

The pretty ones aren't usually the sharpest knives in the drawer.

I could've done better in cultivating and promoting a talented Child.

My bad.

R66 the irony is that she’s not even pretty

R13, you receive emails from her?

Just saying 😂

R65 what else would expect from a bunch of white supremacists?

The only thing that Datalounge hates worst than black people is successful black people. For most Dataloungers black people are just a long list of idiotic and antiquated negative stereotypes.

All black people are:

Less intelligent, less educated, less attractive, less kind, less tolerant, less honest, less hard working, less creative etc.

Less than whites or rather less that what whites perceive themselves to be

Whites aren’t troubled by the small group of white men who control most of the wealth in this country. Because they believe that those men are smarter, better and they earned whatever they have. And they are entitled to what they have. They have what white men deserve to have.

They are however very troubled by non whites who are successful. Their success is questioned and seen as less legitimate or delegitimate. Nonwhites who succeed have something that they don’t deserve, something that really belongs to whites. So they trust a Donald Trump but question a Barack Obama.

R71, making blanket statements about a group of people and their propensity to stereotype and judge a group of people is not a very strong rhetorical tactic.

If, as you argue, all of this talk of Beyoncé and her shortcomings stems from some deep-seated racial animus why are Wendy Williams and Beyoncé’s own father saying basically what many in this thread have, albeit in a subtler way?

Wendy was also a pregnancy truther, saying Beyonce wore a pregnancy pad and might've faked her 1st pregnancy.

To the unhinged poster above - Beyonce "reading" a [gold] thank you note at the Grammys proves nothing.

She is literally the world's foremost performer.

Obviously she can memorize a thank you note. She memorizes all her lyrics and scripts.

She is probably not utterly unable to make sense of letters and words. She can probably slowly decipher simple written text at any rate. But to pretend she is reading that gold note off the cuff is absurd.

This is not the first time that rumor has been spread. Her father took her out of school when she was young to concentrate on performing.

OP is Rihanna thinking shes funny.

[quote]Now I know why she has not showed up in any talk shows for years. She’s not articulate or has the ability to think properly

I am laughing my ass off at the numerous posters in this thread casting aspersions on Beyonce's literacy while unable to write even one correct sentence themselves. The nitwit who penned the above quote (in just two sentences, he managed to hit a trifecta of grammar, punctuation AND usage errors) is a prime example.

Beyoncé: I am not black, ok.

Why do people call her an innovative performer?? Hasn't she literally copied all of her innovation from other artists? Like multiple times she has been accused of plagiarizing other performers.

[quote]She is probably not utterly unable to make sense of letters and words. She can probably slowly decipher simple written text at any rate.

That's one of the most insane, condescending, borderline psychopathic things I've read on DL. To just invent the idea that someone you dislike is illiterate (or, even worse, base it on an interpretation of some vague comment by a woman who makes a living by inventing "tea") is crazy enough, but to do it so you can pretend to be smart on an anonymous board is insane.

The Beehive is smarming! You know when a diva has to name their fans or their fans have to name themselves that is a sign said diva is not really "all that."

She was interviewed by a friend on our local radio station and he said she was very limited mentally, she only knows about performing and anything outside of that she is ignorant.

If you are stupid enough to believe Beyonce pulling a gold lame thank you note out at the Grammys and "reading it out loud" somehow "proves" she's not functionally illiterate, then YOU FUCKIN STOOPID.

I doubt she’s truly illiterate, but she’s unquestionably a deeply stupid and intellectually incurious person.

R84 so she's on par with 70% of the US adult population?

Dressing up her tiny daughter and bringing her on the red carpet is a bit much.

[quote]Dressing up her tiny daughter and bringing her on the red carpet is a bit much.

The daughter seems like an entitled brat.

Bringing her to events is pretty low rent.

I don't like how people like the fat jewish have memified her as a rich brat.

Saw her on stage reading a fan letter she started and stopped, she was crying so hard. She gave it to a back up singer who read it - it was just basic like 'I love you....you inspired me.' - I wondered at the time why she couldn't read it aloud.

She is not well educated nor is she a brainiac.

I do not care for her voice and style but she is a success despite her lack of book learning.

[Quote]She gave it to a back up singer who read it - it was just basic like 'I love you....you inspired me.' - I wondered at the time why she couldn't read it aloud.

The letter might've been written in cursive handwriting. Many young people these days have difficulties in deciphering it, since it's no longer taught in most American schools.

There’s no way she’s as illiterate as Cardi B.

[quote]The letter might've been written in cursive handwriting. Many young people these days have difficulties in deciphering it, since it's no longer taught in most American schools.

She’s not a young person, she’s late thirties. Definitely old enough to have learned cursive in school.

The problem is that she didn’t go to school.

She's not illiterate but she's certainly not eloquent. I'm guessing that's why she doesn't give interviews anymore.

R91, my kids go to a NYC public school, and they learn cursive in third grade. It may be up to the individual school, I don’t know. We live in an affluent district and zone.

And if they didn’t teach it there, I’d teach them, myself.

R95 My sister's children attended public school in Staten Island, but they weren't taught script (or penmanship) like we were. They were introduced to the concept of it, and familiarized with the cursive lettering, but they never had to practice it, nor were subsequently required to use it for their schoolwork (unlike us in our day). One child taught herself to use it, the other child only writes in print, and cannot read script very well.

R93 She's from Houston, so I don't know how their school system is regarding cursive writing. But if she learned it, she probably wasn't required to use it. And like you said, she was also pulled out of school before her literary and speaking skills could become advanced, solidified, and natural. Her education was faulty, and it shows.

I cannot help but laugh at people who don't know how to read cursive script, It's still mandatory in my country.

R97, American education has been very spotty, very irregular, for the past thirty years. Public school or private school - no major difference. Nowadays, you have to know which schools are the good ones, and attempt to enroll your kids in them. It doesn't seem to matter much anymore, anyway. Beyoncé isn't the only half-illiterate who's a popular influence on our impressionable youth today.

Yes R98, and see I'm a bilionair.

her records suck and she never sings live - it's obvious she's dumb whenever she's allowed to speak on t.v. (which is rare) - she has very little talent and she and equally dumb hubby were recently caught inflating their record sales by millions - hope they crash and born

crash and burn, illiterate bitches!!! You SUCK and are homophobes to boot

when Mary J Blige was on the panel at the View she had to read a cue card that said something basic like "we'll be right back" and she couldn't read it -

[quote]Madonna illiterate? Yeah with an IQ of 140 I doubt it. But who cares about pop divas.

My cousin, an MD, has an IQ of 163 and he can't spell for shit. I'm not kidding. He's one of the best doctors in Southern California in his field, has a remarkable vocabulary, yet he can't correctly spell such words as "occasion" or "yacht." Consistently. I think some people mistake spelling and grammar for total literacy.

r74 but theres no facts to prove otherwise. STFU AND NEVER SPEAK AGAIN.

But Beyonce is numerate! I am sure she knows her times tables at least through the sixes.

Queen Bey is a living deity providing inspirational anthems around the world. WTF have you whores done with your life?

The beyhive is buzzing today.

I know this will sound cunty, but when in Rome...

Note that no one disputes that Beyonce is either dimwitted, very poorly educated, or both.

No one is really arguing she isn't dim.

Sure they get MAD she is getting called dim on this thread but no one disputes the basic premise.

You have to be very slow to be famous for being slow.

But she is a fantastic performer. You have to give her that. The way she moves is amazing.

Fine R74, there is no "proof" she can't really read and write ... but no proof she CAN.

How come she never hosted SNL?

How come she never cracks a joke?

How come she never engages live with her fans?

How come she doesn't do interviews?

Come on now. You know what's up.

Does she have an official diagnosis, or just “slow and dimwitted”??

There's nothing slow and dimwitted about her. I've seen people underestimate country and slow talking people all my life. And yet these people stay winning. IQ and work ethic have nothing to do with how articulate one may be; though there might be a slight correlation vocabulary. Charm and intelligence goes along way. I hope you guys don't apply these superficial markers of intelligence in real life because your going to stay losing. In fact less pretentious, less articulate, but beautiful intelligent people have already probably taken your spots.

Poor baby; she spent so much time in the talent line that the angels had almost run out of intellect by the time she arrived at that department, and so they gave her what little was left.

IT was on YouTube years ago, Bey was interviewed by French tv and she meant to say Toulouse, but it came out Toe Loose.

It was well known to never give her a paper check. She thought if you had checks that meant they were MONEY. She's that stupid.

To put this in a bit of perspective: Rudy, my barber, recently told me that his son, 13, was having difficulties with his schoolwork and his teacher recommended putting him in a special education class. "I don't think you need to do that," Rudy told the teacher. "He's not retarded, he's just really stupid."

True story.

Functional illiteracy doesn't mean a person is slow or stupid or mentally challenged,

Many people on this thread are math illiterate or innumerate. Are they stupid, retarded, slow because they can't define a function?

Cardi b may be dumb, but she doesn't come across as autistic the way Beyonce does. Cardi b can handle interviews like a pro, even charming the audience. Beyonce has always avoided interviews because she and her handlers know that her poor speaking skills ruin her image.

So, as someone mentioned above, what is DL's opinion on the fake pregnancy belly that FOLDED IN HALF when she sat down?

Queen Bey doesn't have natural charisma like cardi b. Thats something you can't really buy or learn. Beyonce's charisma is her beauty and stage presence. However I doubt cardi b will have have enough dough to master class as Queen Bey.

She faked that pregnancy.