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.
	
		
			
		
		
	
			
			
	


		
		