![beyonce:
You’ve seen it. Reblogging for posterity. Love the screwed-down raps, Beyonce as Houston’s preeminent drag king. I hope the video includes little to no movement, just Beyonce in a chair, not even curling her lip, casually singing, like the calmest boardroom ceo in America. Bow. Down. Bitches. [cut to nail-filing shot]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/a45e3ceb3454bf1f3cc05760bcd87213/tumblr_mjtpo8Kg9m1rqgjz2o1_500.jpg)
You’ve seen it. Reblogging for posterity. Love the screwed-down raps, Beyonce as Houston’s preeminent drag king. I hope the video includes little to no movement, just Beyonce in a chair, not even curling her lip, casually singing, like the calmest boardroom ceo in America. Bow. Down. Bitches. [cut to nail-filing shot]
WERRRRRRRRRRRRKKKKKKK
That is Lizzi Bougatsos (wearing Vision Street Wear for Chloe for Opening Ceremony sweats, cut off into jams), Chloe Sevigny, Beyonce and Jay-Z. Kind of want Bougatsos and Beyonce to squad up, you know?
You know how inexcusably terrible fucking Big Sean fucked up a million-dollar sample AND Minaj’s best verse since “Itty Bitty Piggy”? Do you have a grudge about that like I do? Yeah, Brick Bandits’ DJ Tameil Jersey clubbed that a$$ and redeemed the situation. No Nicki, no pooty tooty, just Beyonce and a lock of MC Hammer’s hair. This fucking slaps my face.
NEW MEDIA, YALL. THINK I SAW THIS SHIT IN MINORITY REPORT, MAYBE BACK TO THE FUTURE 2
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![Everyone interested in hip-hop, feminism or women, period, needs to read this book. It is seminal.
Anyway, been thinking a lot about all the internet-speak about whether Beyonce’s new song/video is feminist, particularly with Natasha’s post I repubbed at Alternet and Nineteenpercent’s video [embedded and explicated in aforelinked link]. So I went back to Chickenheads to consider the context, and thought this quote was particularly relevant to the convo:
Just once, I didn’t want to have to talk about ‘the brothers,’ ‘male domination’ or ‘the patriarchy.’ I wanted a feminism that would allow me to explore who we are as women––not victims. One that claimed the powerful richness and delicious complexities inherent in being black girls now—sistas of the post-Civil Rights, post-feminist, post soul, hip-hop generation.
This book was published in 1999 and it’s still so relevant, important and powerful.
Also, how about Joan Morgan’s cute haircut in that book photo.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llqvg4CGAr1qbjyhgo1_400.jpg)
Everyone interested in hip-hop, feminism or women, period, needs to read this book. It is seminal.
Anyway, been thinking a lot about all the internet-speak about whether Beyonce’s new song/video is feminist, particularly with Natasha’s post I repubbed at Alternet and Nineteenpercent’s video [embedded and explicated in aforelinked link]. So I went back to Chickenheads to consider the context, and thought this quote was particularly relevant to the convo:
Just once, I didn’t want to have to talk about ‘the brothers,’ ‘male domination’ or ‘the patriarchy.’ I wanted a feminism that would allow me to explore who we are as women––not victims. One that claimed the powerful richness and delicious complexities inherent in being black girls now—sistas of the post-Civil Rights, post-feminist, post soul, hip-hop generation.
This book was published in 1999 and it’s still so relevant, important and powerful.
Also, how about Joan Morgan’s cute haircut in that book photo.
About those pantsula references in Beyonce’s latest video: Beyonce and her choreographer, Frank Gatson Jr, had seen a Mozambican group, Tofo Tofo, on Youtube. This is Gatson talking to MTV about Tofo Tofo, above in someone’s wedding video:
We prepared a lot for it. We had seen something on YouTube; we had seen these three guys from Africa, this Mozambique African dance troupe … we were like, ‘Wow, this is an amazing movement,’ ” B’s longtime choreographer, Frank Gatson Jr., told us about the Francis Lawrence-directed video. “And that movement has always been in the back of our head for the last year. From there, we talked about a lot of concepts … I feel like we really nailed it and, again, my hats off to the Tofo Tofo guys [from Africa], ’cause none of us could imitate that,” he said. “We had to bring them around to learn that [move], which is really, really interesting. They had such a great vocabulary of movement.” Those two dancers not only helped shape the moves in the video, but also moved Beyoncé. “That was probably one of the most beautiful experiences for Beyoncé. They were so humbled,” he said. “It was hard finding them. They were really in a remote area; we had to get the embassy people involved. That was a process that took about two months or more. Beyoncé really loved them and I’m pretty sure we’ll see them again. It was magical.”
WHOA!!!!! CLOGGING COMMENTS REVOKED. Still, these dudes look smoother than ole girl, probably cuz she was wearing 90-inch heels. Also proof that context is everything: obviously the first thing I was gonna think of was country line dancing because I grew up in Wyoming and was forced to take that class in high school as part of my Physical Education programming. Feel sorry for me. RETHINKING ENTIRE STANCE/LIFE.
I STILL THINK THAT SALUTE THAT ENDS THE VIDEO WAS WRONG THOUGH.
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