White Data Loungers, did you destroy your copies of Bey’s Lemonade?

But if you don't spend your white money on art that wasn't meant for you, you're a racist!

as if Beyoncé would actually wear box braids if it wasn’t for a photo or video shoot where she’s playing up her blackness. She lives for silky long European style tresses to match her fair skin.

Nazi fapper OP had to dig up some article from 2016 that no one read or paid attention to ignite the impeding race war. Sad.

Formation is still on repeat when my white ass goes outside to power walk. Is that wrong?

Very low energy, low IQ OP. Do the black panthers coming to rape your white nieces bit now

The album is for ANYBODY. White people just can’t handle that she is acknowledging her black heritage.

And her natural hair is long. She doesn’t have very nappy hair.

Because your not part of the Beyhive. But the Chingchong Murder Hornets will take care of that.

NOOOOOO! I love my Beyonce Lemonade album!

In truth, I cannot read OP's header because he/she/it/they is a troll and that's what happens when you ignore trollz. They get beheaded.

the feed cuts the title off at Bey....I'm good at assuming.

pretty sure Bey aint complainin so why are these nobodies whining

This article is four years old and it really shows.

OP is too stupid to live!

Ironic that her name is Karen.

Wow the " create a divide by the use of incendiary racebait threads" trolls are going hard today.

I thought it was unlistenable. Her solo voice is grating, and the music was all over the place and ugly.

Really don’t care about beYAWNce

Yes. Her "talent" certainly is not for me.

But it's not because I'm white, since I'm biracial. It's because she's a commercial, over-produced dim bulb who lacks intelligence, depth and any actual commitment to anything but keeping herself phat.

It’s 💩

I never listened to it.

Piss-ade

Pffft...I don’t own any Beyoncé records.

It’s actually good.

It's a great album. It should have won Album of the Year. Even winner Adele said so.

It was actually a much better album than 25. I don’t know how she lost.

Are is self expression. The only person it's made for is the artist.

And whether an album in which every song has dozens of different writers with the lead "artist" contributing barely more than one word should really be called art is highly debatable.

[Quote] I don’t know how she lost.

Because J and Bey aren't hot shit like they make out to those who work in the industry.

She sounds really ghetto and uneducated when she speaks.

Lemonade is the only Beyonce album I like.

R26: you do know you can be "of middle eastern descent" and still be incredibly racist.

R26 shes not from the ghetto... sooooooo

When life gives you Lemonade, make lemons.

I've always questioned why Beyoncé lost to Adele. Now, I don't love everything Beyoncé does and sometimes it's like people are always kissing her ass. But Lemonade was a great album and it had such an impact in 2016.

But, so did Adele's, although I felt it wasn't that much different from her previous album. Maybe it was because Beyoncé's album was released earlier in the year and Adele's had dominated the fall/winter of 2016.

R22, your opinion doesn’t matter if you’re white.

The whole point of the album according to the blogger is to communicate to black women things that are only a black womans concern. Jay cheating on her? That’s not your business to judge, white person.

“Copies”? Like physical CDs?

CDs? Who buys CDs? Delete that Lemonade NOW from your itunes, says the bloggeress.

Butthurt much, OP?

Well r32 it’s obvious now why Bey didn’t win Album of the Year. You just revealed it!

I guess if white people’s opinions don’t matter, their votes don’t either.

r2 That's true, Beyonce always has been a fan of that platinum blonde hair.

[quote] It's a great album. It should have won Album of the Year. Even winner Adele said so.

1. The Grammy's rarely reward the "best" album or song. If Beyoncé expected that, she's even dumber than she looks.

2. Adele shouldn't have apologized, it just played into that whole "white guilt" thing. And she won the award fair and square.

3. LMFAO @ Solange and others who were threatening to boycott The Grammys in response to Beyoncé losing. If you care that much about The Grammys, you need therapy.

Most importantly....

4. Rihanna's Anti was a better album than Lemonade. Far less hyped (Rihanna doesn't have the cult of personality Beyoncé has) and more enjoyable.

[quote] Lemonade was not made for me, either. As a Singaporean Chinese woman, I would be lying if I said I was familiar with the complex, myriad ways Beyoncé explores black female personhood, sexuality, and spirituality in the film. But as a non-American, non-white woman, what I am familiar with is appreciating art that is not and will never be made with me in mind.

This is a really long-winded way of saying "I am a pretentious dumbass from Singapore, a nation-state filled with robotic people".

[quote] We’ve already seen white entitlement play out this year in the reactions to Rihanna’s use of Barbadian patois in her hit song “Work”, which can be summed up in a single question: “But what is she singing?”

How is any of that entitlement? Maybe they had no idea what she was singing because she was singing in PATOIS!

Snoresville. I’m sure Beyoncé wants as many people as possible to buy her work.

“if I knew white folks were going to buy my albums I‘d never have recorded them”

R43, I can easily see Lauren Hill saying something like that.

she did! then said she was misquoted

R45, wow, what a big surprise. She's cracked out of her mind half the time so she's probably more "honest" than she normally would be. Didn't she also write some derogatory lyrics about Koreans on the Miseducation Album?

according to Snopes she never said it

R47, ok, good to know.

R47: you think that's gonna stop people here?

R29 so it's faux street cred? Kind of like Lauryn Hill claimed she wish street even though she was raised in an upper-middle-class New Jersey suburb, her parents were doctors and teachers.

I don't care what any racists think.

Beyonce has good hair so I don't know why she's ascribing that attribute like it's so new and rate. Maybe she's Becky with the good hair herself.

Don't you all think a decade of seeing long Kardashian, Beyonce, Jessica Simpson, Kate Middletown slightly wavy hair is old? We've seen whole DECADE OF IT!

That's hair like this is the 'good hair' in my book. It actually has personality! Finally something besides the long wavy and the oh-so-rebel shoulder length blunt cut!!

Diane wears wigs

Fuck you, R32. Go finger yourself to "Formation" and fuck off.

who?

R50: where did Lauryn Hill claim she was street?

"But as a non-American, non-white woman, what I am familiar with is appreciating art that is not and will never be made with me in mind."

As someone who is white but who isn't a straight man, I'm familiar with it too.

Hell, as a fan of old black-and-white movies, 19th century literature, and 16th century paintings, I'm even more familiar with it! Those things sure as hell meant for me and my modern eyes! So get over yourself, bitch, the majority of human beings are familiar with enjoying stuff that wasn't catered for their tastes, and don't need to be lectured about it.

R13, I was thinking of calling them the "See How They Are?" Trolls, but your description is more apt.

[Quote] Maybe she's Becky with the good hair herself.

Nope.

The most overhyped and bland "legend" today.

Not a great singer.

Doesn't really sell many albums.

For a so called legend, she doesn't really have the hits to back up that claim.

0/10

I never listened to it nor cared. I don’t want to summon Janbot but Janet Jackson did this type of music way better, 30 years before.

Love the hypocrisy of an Asian girl telling white people to stfu about a record/video because it’s made for black women only.

That job should’ve gone to a black woman; Talk about entitlement.

Was Becky with the nice hair ever exposed? Was it Lori Loughlin?

no it was Rita Ora, who as an Albanian is POC-adjacent.

no it was Rita Ora, who as an Albanian is POC-adjacent.

Why do straight white men and a good amount gay white men hate Beyonce so intensely? Is this your way of transposing your hatred of black women in 2020 onto this one woman? If not, what black women do you like? Seriously........

[quote] If not, what black women do you like? Seriously

Wow, I had no idea disliking or hating Beyoncé meant you hate all black women. I'll make sure to write this down in my "What NOT to Do" book.

The desperation in this thread to create race wars.

Flop bait.

R67, I’ll list them (note: all have talent)

Diana Ross

Alicia Keys

Donna Summer

Helen Adu aka Sade

Jabba

classic disco divas like Carol Douglas, Linda Clifford, The Ritchie Family,

(black adjacent) Mariah Carey

I agree with R70 and would add:

Grace Jones

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Gladys Knight

Whitney Houston

Dionne Warwick

Ruth Brown

oh, and the real queen, Aretha Franklin

That's just off the top of my head...I know there's more. All fabulous and far more talented that dull old Beyonce.

So, yeah...try to make it about race because you don't care much for a particular person.

Dumbass.

"Why do straight white men and a good amount gay white men hate Beyonce so intensely?"

No, dear, it's Meghan Markle they hate intensely.

Beyoncé seems to inspire mild to moderate dislike, and a bit of bewilderment.

I think Kelly Rowland’s vocals on “When Love Takes Over” were a 1000 times more legit and soulful than anything Beyoncé has recorded so far.

R73 but Kelly didn't have Bey's dad in her corner. In fact, he was sabotaging her career when DC split up.

how stupid of her to trust him, even letting him manage her solo career. OF COURSE he was going to play Berry Gordy and make Weaveoncé the Diana.

Four year old article. Hmmm... I'm busy being outraged by other things right now.

It is so funny to me how non-black SJWs are the ones who seem to put Beyoncé on this pedestal the most. Rihanna has outsold Beyoncé but people act like Beyoncé is as big as Adele--she's not! And really, why is Beyoncé talking about sex in her music considered so groundbreaking? Madonna and Janet were doing that in the early 90s long before Beyoncé was even a thing. Madonna talked about getting her pussy eaten and Janet talked about rope burn, bdsm, boom boom boom until noon noon noon, etc. It seems like millennials and Gen Z have such limited frame of references when they laud artists like Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, etc.