Tuesday 17 December 2013

Beyonce Knowles is not the 'genius' behind 'BEYONCE'

Conversation between Dorothy and Daphne

  • also do you find it hilarious that everyone is going mental that Beyonce surprise released an album?
  • I know, I'm a bit more cynical about it, I mean Beyonce's team is amazing at marketing
    Beyonce isn't
    if you hear he interviews she pretty dull
    she doesn't write her own music
    and i doubt she had anything to do with the 'power drop' of the album
  • I know everyone is going mad for it and it's just like yeah okay that's cool....

  • great for the fans, but we are all tricking ourselves if we like that she's an amazing artist/marketer/girl power hero.
  • she is no girl power hero have you seen the video for drunk in love.... grim.
    you think that someone who has had some pretty sick videos could think of something better than a Rihanna style writhing around in barely any clothing on a beach
    because that's what all powerful women do right? put on some underwear and a net curtain then go roll around on the sandy shores of California
    paahahahahahaha

  • exactly. She isn't a genius, her Team is a good machine at making her seem so
    we should blog this
    its provocative, it gets the people going

  • yeah going against the grain

  • like why is Kayne not allowed to say that he's great,
    yet Beyonce can say she's 'Queen Bey'

  • Kanye isn't great though

  • running the world ect

  • I get you but Kanye isn't great
    but I do get what you saying

  • i think his music, apart from (Bound 2) is generally quite good. I think that Kanye and Beyonce are about on a par.
    talent wise

  • .... mmmmm debatable
    you have to admit Beyonce is a lot more likeable for so so many reasons

  • yeah, because she never actually does anything, Kanye is more independent I think in a way. It's all a game for publicity, they just go about it in different ways

  • I think we've got this celebrity malarkey sewn up you know

  • I just couldn't get excited. have you read this jezebel article? http://jezebel.com/5985033/beyonces-documentary-was-just-a-theatrical-infomercial
Beyoncé's 'Documentary' Was Just a Theatrical Infomercialjezebel.comOver the weekend, Beyoncé's "documentary," Life Is But a Dream, aired on HBO. It wasn't really a documentary, though, it was part video diary, part infomercial, part carefully staged interview intended to give viewers the sense that the singer was revealing all, when in fact, she revealed very little...

  • I just think she (the product) is an oiled publicity/consumer machine.
    I prefer Solange her sister

  • no I don't think shes that blah I just thing that Jay-Z controls her more and more the older they get

  • she's been married to him since she was 19 I think

  • that's insane

  • I like 'Pretty Hurts', but I just think she does't deserve the worship.
    I think it's fitting that the album is called 'BEYONCE' like she is the product. The food.
  • nah they got married in 2008 they've just been going out since she was nineteen. and yeah I know. she is a product
    I want her to be human
    like just once
    I feel like English celebs are way more 'normal'
    do you not think?

  • yeah, I kind of want some leaked photos. I just can't help thinking she's too controlled
    I want more Kanye

  • I hate the Kanye/Kardashian extravaganza I'm sorry mate but that is one area I cannot agree with you
    cannot stand it

  • more Kanye in her, like she needs to make some comments that your pretty sure someone didn't feed her
    because they're so disastrous
    I hate the whole 'mother nature' thing going on too.
    I like imperfect celebrities
  • same. I cannot get enough Jennifer Lawrence
  • yeah, because she falls over. And actually says she's hungry

  • she's just funny

  • Beyonce has never been funny
    I respect funny
  • as do I
    which is why Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French are my heroes
    ahaha

  • I think this GIF shows my mixed feeling perfectly


Monday 9 December 2013

Why I want to say sorry to my brother...



http://www.upworthy.com/they-asked-if-she-had-anything-else-she-wanted-to-say-to-the-audience-thats-when-she-took-it-home

I watched that earlier and hearing Jane Fonda talk about the way boys were criticised for remaining emotionally intact and being 'sissys' as it were made me think about something. When I was younger (I am three years older than my little brother) I used to make fun of him for doing anything slightly effeminate, because 'that's not what boys do'. This only occurred after I started school and learnt 'what boys do' and 'what girls do' and my mum always got so angry when I would say anything to him and I didn't get it. I just thought she wanted him to be a 'mummy's boy' and now I realise that I was the one in the wrong. It isn't fair to criticise boys for being emotional, for wanting to play with toys their big sisters play with and for getting upset about things that I was 'allowed' to get upset about. I am so very sorry that I ever imposed any of this on him because I was wrong. I just want him to know it is always okay to be who you are. 

My brothers used to have long hair, well they all still do apart from one (wanted to be Legolas) and it used to embarrass me so much. But at the same time when the one with now short hair cut it off I cried so much, because he didn't want to, but he felt that he had to (and he was sick of having to flash people to prove he was a boy). I remember one particular instance when myself and him were at a soft play area, and a boy had trapped him in a ball pool was forcing him to show his penis to prove he was a boy, I punched him (remember kids, violence doesn't solve thing, it totally is worth it sometimes though). Then when the punched kid went to his father, the father started saying that 'no real boy had long hair' this resulted in my brother actually flashing him and me again punching him (a grown man); we were thrown out of the play area. One of my other brothers used to do ballet, and he was actually very good, but relentless teasing (play ground and from the girls in his class) made him switch to break dancing. But my second brother (the ballet one) has never really cared what people think and has continued to have long hair. And I always try to stop the 'he's such a girl' comment in my home.


Star ballet dancer Sergei Polunin