You're saying... that by the time Beyonce's solo shyt had dropped, she was not the lead singer and the face of the biggest female R&B group of the previous five years, a group that by then many people had already felt she was carrying?
Obviously, me & you lived in two different worlds.
In your world, Beyonce was already a huge
solo superstar in 2002 and everybody knew she would sell 10 million albums on her debut.
In my world, Beyonce was the lead singer of a successful group that everybody knew she wanted to leave but,
nobody was sure she could do it alone.
I was simply drawing comparisons. You're an exec at Columbia in 2002 & its a delicate situation. You have this attractive, charismatic singer with loads of talent. If her album soars, she's a star & everybody gets promoted. If her album flops, she's the biggest dumbass in the music industry for breaking up her successful group. So what do you do? You put the hottest rapper at the time on her first single & the hottest reggae artist at the time on her second.
Beyoncé Goes Solo, with a Lot of Help - Beyonce Knowles : People.com
Then you give her a role on the Austin Powers flick. Then you make her the face of Pepsi. Meanwhile the other girl singers had none of that on their debuts. You seem to think that's purely coincidental

it's comical to me that you think she wasn't pushed.