(ThyBlackMan.com) I have read a lot of commentary about Beyonce’s performance at the MTV’s Video Music awards which aired last night(August 24, 2014). Beyonce is NOT a good role model for our young girls. Over the years her lyrics have gotten more vulgar and her performances have become more salacious.
Last night, during her performance, she had her legs open, it was VERY sexual , and this took place in front of her DAUGHTER. Clearly if Beyonce doesn’t care about HER daughter watching and listening to heavily sexually laced lyrics and performances….she can’t care about YOURS.
Here are some of the songs that she performed snippets from (I had to Google both the song list and the lyrics because I don’t listen to her music, but I wanted to showcase some of the lyrics).
“Blow”
“I can’t wait till I get home so you can tear that cherry out, (turn that cherry out, turn that cherry out)”“Drunk In Love”
I want to point out that this is the part of her performance where she literally had her legs WIDE open.“I’ve been drinking, I’ve been drinking
I get filthy when that liquor get into me
I’ve been thinking, I’ve been thinking
Why can’t I keep my fingers off it, baby?
I want you, na na
Why can’t I keep my fingers off it, baby?
I want you, na naLast thing I remember is our beautiful bodies grinding up in the club
Drunk in loveWe be all night, love, love
We be all night, love, loveThen I fill the tub up halfway then ride it with my surfboard, surfboard, surfboard
Graining on that wood, graining, graining on that wood
I’m swerving on that, swerving, swerving on that big body
Been serving all this, swerve, surfing all in this good, good”“Rocket”
“Let me sit this ass on you
Show you how I feel
Let me take this off
Will you watch me?
That’s mass appeal
Don’t take your eyes
Don’t take your eyes off it
Watch it, babe
If you like you can touch it, baby
Do you, do you wanna touch it, baby?Hard
Rock steady rock hard
Rock steady rock hard
Rock steady rock hard
Rock steady”“Partition”
Driver roll up the partition please
I don’t need you seeing Yoncé on her knees
Took 45 minutes to get all dressed up
We ain’t even gonna make it to this cluboh, there daddy, daddy didn’t bring the towel
Oh, baby, baby we better slow it down
Took 45 minutes to get all dressed up
And we ain’t even gonna make it to this clubTake all of me
I just wanna be the girl you like (girl you like)
The kinda girl you like (girl you like)”
“Bow Down”I know when you were little girls
You dreamt of being in my world
Don’t forget it, don’t forget it
Respect that, bow down bitchesBow down bitches, bow bow down bitches
Bow down bitches, bow bow down bitches”“Yonce”
Drop the bass, mayne, the bass get lower
Radio say, “Speed it up, ” I just go slower
I sneezed on the beat and the beat got sicker
Yoncé all on his mouth like liquor
Like, like liquor, like, like, like liquor”
As you read the lyrics and (remember these are just partial lyrics), imagine our young girls singing along. Imagine these lyrics finding residence in the subconscious minds of our daughters. Not only do we have these sexually charged lyrics, but she has provided visual aids in the form of videos and performances. Also once again, here we have yet ANOTHER BLACK WOMAN, promoting the word bitch.
If a male performer had showcased a raunchy, sexually charged performance, if he and a bunch of men were shirtless,and the lyrics
were equally sexual and he said “bow down bitches”, if he touched himself in a suggestive manner, women would be in an uproar, we would be offended, we would call for a banning of that artist or a public apology. A woman does it and she’s applauded. This is because we are extremely hypocritical.
During part of her performance , an excerpt of Chimanda Ngozi’s speech was displayed on the screen;
“We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings the way that boys are. We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls ‘You can have ambition, but not too much’,” says the voice-over. “Feminist. The person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.”
I take it that Beyonce thinks the first line of that speech means it’s OK to teach our girls to be whores. Feminists want all this equality but somehow the scales remain unbalanced when it comes to accountability. Go figure.
A lot of people have made comments like she is grown and she is simply stating what goes on between a husband and wife in their bedroom. That would be acceptable, but it’s going on in OUR living rooms. It’s going on in the mp3 players and in our daughter’s play list. What Beyonce does in her bedroom is her business. What she does in front of our daughters is MY business, and if you care about the lack of morals that is found in our community, you’d make it your business too.
“Straight sinkin, I hate thinkin that these the future mommas of our chillun”-Outkast
http://www.mtv.com/news/1910270/beyonce-2014-vma-perfomance/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW-9eOPAWdA