Janet Jackson was labeled a performer, a musical act. She wasn't always referred to as an 'artist' and never as a 'Queen' Her fans did not call her the greatest woman alive, the leader of a movement, or tried to put her in any special class. It is pretty clear Beyonce does not exist as a solo pop act in super stardom capacity if it wasn't for Janet Jackson and videos like Rhythm Nation and Scream. Those visual mini movies, with limited resources at the time, are the very foundation for HBO specials for Lemonade.
Yet she was never half as hyped. She didn't have delusional rabid fans that named themselves collectively.....so that's why she didn't get criticized for it.
You'll notice the talented music acts (and their fans) don't have delusional rabid fans who live in hyperbole. It's always the poppy mediocre ones that attract the simple-minded.
From Bey right down to Kanye and Kendrick. They play in this shallow, flimsy music pseudo-deep world all day.
It's a generational thing, Beyonce was seen as a bad bytch & dope popstar that made anthems for little girls & young women in the early-mid 2000's. Then the music industry fell apart (both in terms of units sold & quality) & people got more & more pretentious, top tier pop artists started to become elevated on some over compensating shyt as well as on some pretentious shyt. Imagine how many think pieces 'Survivor' would produce if it dropped in 2016? Bootylicious would not be an empty, fun pop song but a political statement about Black women owning their sexuality and rejecting European beauty standards. Soldier would not be a stupid hood rat anthem with bad message but an anthem for black love in the face of Police brutality. I can't take that shyt serious.
very on point.
we've been living in an era of hyperbole since the mid 2000s. and it just gets more insane every year.
Her R&B style was different i.e. music she sang to was different from the typical R&B mid tempo stuff at that time.
CrimsonTider is a garbage poster. I wouldn't waste time going back and forth with him/her