Beyonce VMA take 2 and the word Feminism
I need to explain, I heard so much about how Beyonce slayed everyone and I was really expecting this epic, life changing performance and then felt completely let down when I watched it. I liked her SuperBowl performance way better.
That being said, a lot of what I said yesterday needs to be put in perspective. Beyonce is HUGE, she's a huge role model for women, she is a huge artist, complete superstar and a woman that has always been so fiercely real, so empowered, so womanly and always evolving as an artist. That means that sometimes, I have too high of an expectation from her (as women always do of each other I can't decide if that's a good thing or bad), she's the only female artist I have an expectation of. No one else.
SO, while I was feeling really annoyed by her dancers and a lot of the elements I said yesterday, that's not to say that I didn't like stuff. I realized that to people who don't know how I feel about Beyonce it could come across as too nit picky and too hateful. I give her all of the props for what she's done to empower women and what she is as a performer and as an artist.
I think a reason that people feel so strongly about her performances is because here you have a woman who is completely in tune with her sexuality, and this sexuality is being displayed in such an in your face manner that you can either take it as 1) she's sexualizing herself and that's negative because she out of all artists doesn't need to do this or 2.) she's not letting people put her in a box, you don't have to be ashamed of your sexual side, she's free, she's empowered.
About her performance at the VMA's - I felt enough to want to write something about it, speak something of her performance and that is what an artist does - they make you feel something. She is a complete artist and what she does is commendable and she deserves respect. I think for me lines just get blurred as to - what is she doing for the shock value/money and what is she doing for herself. Like how much of what she is doing because it's what sells.
Moving past that, I think what is absolutely amazing is that she brought the F word back. The dreaded F word that females these days seem to want to avoid being called "Feminism". Words are powerful and just having that in the background makes you think about it.
When you have women like Nicki Minaj do the complete opposite of what Beyonce does on the regs, and on the same stage it's harder to really "get" what B is doing and what B is trying to say because it sort of looks the same.... but it's very, very different.
That being said, a lot of what I said yesterday needs to be put in perspective. Beyonce is HUGE, she's a huge role model for women, she is a huge artist, complete superstar and a woman that has always been so fiercely real, so empowered, so womanly and always evolving as an artist. That means that sometimes, I have too high of an expectation from her (as women always do of each other I can't decide if that's a good thing or bad), she's the only female artist I have an expectation of. No one else.
SO, while I was feeling really annoyed by her dancers and a lot of the elements I said yesterday, that's not to say that I didn't like stuff. I realized that to people who don't know how I feel about Beyonce it could come across as too nit picky and too hateful. I give her all of the props for what she's done to empower women and what she is as a performer and as an artist.
I think a reason that people feel so strongly about her performances is because here you have a woman who is completely in tune with her sexuality, and this sexuality is being displayed in such an in your face manner that you can either take it as 1) she's sexualizing herself and that's negative because she out of all artists doesn't need to do this or 2.) she's not letting people put her in a box, you don't have to be ashamed of your sexual side, she's free, she's empowered.
About her performance at the VMA's - I felt enough to want to write something about it, speak something of her performance and that is what an artist does - they make you feel something. She is a complete artist and what she does is commendable and she deserves respect. I think for me lines just get blurred as to - what is she doing for the shock value/money and what is she doing for herself. Like how much of what she is doing because it's what sells.
Moving past that, I think what is absolutely amazing is that she brought the F word back. The dreaded F word that females these days seem to want to avoid being called "Feminism". Words are powerful and just having that in the background makes you think about it.
When you have women like Nicki Minaj do the complete opposite of what Beyonce does on the regs, and on the same stage it's harder to really "get" what B is doing and what B is trying to say because it sort of looks the same.... but it's very, very different.
