Here is a less "pretentious" article about the racial history and politics of Beyonce's performance
rollingstone.com/music/live-reviews/beyonce-t...Posted Apr 15, 2018, 6:56 PM UTC
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This article sounds like its describing a red carpet appearance and an oprah interview. And it says coachella made the choice of putting female acts on a third of the line up. That really bums me out. Are there popular female bands out there having trouble booking shows?
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There's a steep uphill battle for genuine female performers in pop and rock music. You could look at Ke$ha for an extreme example, but you don't have to. Women performers are that - WOMAN performers. They're expected to fit a certain cliche, kiss the ring, play the game, in a way that male performers simply don't have to deal with.
Beyonce is transformative because she's out there acting aggressive and tough, essentially emulating male hip-hop performers. The "suck my dick" attitude is intentional, it's directed right at the people who propagate the attitude. It's calling out misogyny using language it can understand.
I'm not into Beyonce's music, but I'm into Beyonce. She dealt with a very public embarrassment, and responded in a genuine way. She wrote songs about being angry, being strong, being furious. But she also wrote songs about being hurt, being betrayed, being confused. You don't see that from most pop female performers - you get a pigeonhole response.
What I love seeing at Coachella this year is not just the voice of main stage performers, but women being represented all over. Declan McKenna had a female drummer, and so did Borns. Women, usually relegated to background singers and the occasional token bassist, are showing their talent as being on par and better than their male counterparts.
It's a microcosm of a larger story.
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In the 90s the number of female artists hitting Billboard's Top 10 outnumbered males. Billboard even nicknamed it "The Decade of the Female Singer" because women were so dominant.
- It's sad how things have reversed.
Lilith Fair was created in 1996 to draw attention to an all-female festival & promote women. Maybe it's time to revive the idea.
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I noticed when the line up dropped that there were more female artists/bands this year for sure. Are female bands having trouble booking shows? Probably not. There are just less of them.
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Look at other festivals like Lollapalooza this year. Not many women at all.
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Alright well I'm not really about to get into a music festival gender quota argument. Have fun out there.
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Wait... they just compared her headlining Coachella to Woodstock and Monterrey Pop? The writer who wrote this article for rolling stone magazine actually had the audacity to say this was our generations ultimate music culture turning point?!
Seriously what am I missing about Beyoncé?! I watched the stream for a bit last night and while the impressive choreography kept my attention for a bit, this wasn’t really all that exciting of a performance. Granted I didn’t watch long enough for the destiny child’s reunion or Jay Z, it shouldn’t take guests to make or break a headlining set.
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wasn't qwhite exciting to u/dakkmd and some other redditors so it clearly wasn't a great performance
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Beyonce was an amazing performance.
It was nowhere as culture-changing as Woodstock's 3-day festival
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Are you willing to say this was culturally as important to music and politics as events like Woodstock and MP were in the 60s? Do you know what either of those two events were?
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People were amazed by the pretty lights and a hundred dancers. If you say you didn’t like the performance then you’re considered sexist. Why can’t we just say her performance just plain sucked? Just because she spent a lot of money on her show doesn’t mean it’s good.
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Idk if it sucked, there’s probably a lot of people that had a a great time. But cultural significance comparison the the height of the 60s counterculture during Vietnam? Get the fuck out
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Woodstock was a completely different era, you can't compare it with Coachella.
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I wish you didnt take the other post down. I had a solid joke in there.
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My life has down time. Sorry your life isnt where you want it to be.
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Have a good weekend.
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Funny how that word gets thrown around when an article discusses the racial implications of a performance that had obvious racial themes.