There has been a big uproar as Beyonce released her newest album called “Lemonade”. This was a very uplifting, cultural inspired album. Lemonade was released on HBO on April 23, 2016 as a visual album. There were mothers featured in these videos, such as Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin mother’s. These were the mothers of the young black boys that were killed by police officers unlawfully. In the song “Sorry” that was released on the album she made a statement saying, “He better call up Becky with the good hair”. Many people took offense in this in the blogs and TV shows after her released and spoke badly on her for making this remark. I don’t believe Beyonce was trying to create a racial controversy, she was trying to bring light unto the fact that a lot of black women and others believe that caucasian and other ethnicity beside theirs have “good hair”. This is a big problem within the black community because there are many girls who don’t believe that they are good enough or beautiful enough because of the stereotypes of our hair not being “good hair”. Within Beyonce’s entire album she is explaining the greatness of our culture and the beauty in it. This comment also had a lot of people wondering who this “Becky” was and has Jay Z been cheating. There were many assumptions saying that this Becky could be Rita Ora, Jay Z artist. Rumors has started going around giving many pictures of Jay Z and Rita Ora being a little friendly. With the privacy of Bey and Jay, we will never know. Beyonce leaves her fans and many others with the thoughts of wondering and many rumors to be passed around. I personally don’t believe that Jay Z and Beyonce has had any controversy recently. Beyonce is a wonderful artist and is trying to give her fans things that they can relate to. She is a very artistic and amazing artist and her career is only getting better.
- How do you feel about the comment Beyonce made about referring to white girls as "Becky"?
- Do you think Jay Z has been messing around with Rita?
- If you've heard the album, what were your thoughts of it?
I feel as if white girls have a right to feel offended, but Becky isn't as stereotypical or bad of a name like bonquisha which black women are constantly referred to by other races. I think Jay- Z might have been cheating but itcould have been long ago. Beyoncé is very expressive as we all know but she keeps her personal life private. I think she was getting all of her emotions off of her chest in this album.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely loved the album! Also I agree with what you said about how she may be just releasing this album to give her fans something to relate too. As far as the cheating allegations go, I think he was but its probably something they have already worked out because she basically warns him in the songs to not do it again or he will lose her.
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