Because in their sphere black people don’t exist.

Re: Cersei. She is a damn fool.

Artists only get paid double the royalties with the premium plan. The standard plan uses the same economics as a paid Spotify subscription. The only thing they are doing better (or worse depending on your point of view) is they don’t offer a free plan.

IMO, Their biggest mistake was not having lesser-known artists or independent artist on that stage with them. At least pretend you care about people who are not multi-millionaires.

Well the only way they can pay artists more money is if the users buy the lossless subscription plan, which I figure was the reason they were trumpeting it so much during said shitshow. Because in reality they are still subject to the same structure as Spotify and other streaming services.

Yes they are.

I think theirs goes back even farther than that with the Supremes, whose story I believe inspired Dreamgirls.

Oh I'm an old too. :) Graduated high school in the mid 90s so around that time or shortly after I remember all the stuff started coming about Whitney.

Interesting observation. Although I think Whitney Houston it was 90s. She got really overexposed after The Bodyguard.

It would have been nice. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know she's never done it before, so why expect her to give a lesser know artist some shine now.

Most of the responses I'm seeing on this are say this is not her best performance. One of the funniest comments I saw was from Royale E. Cheese on versmartbrothas. said, "Jesus take the wheel and steer her back into pop lane, please." According to a lot of people she doesn't have a voice built for gospel.

So, so pissed off. ugh. I'm getting mad just thinking about it now.

Troof!

My sister and I were talking about how in the 80s and 90s it was not unusual to have more than one black female hip-hop artist on the radio. We have regressed in a number of ways sadly. *Mainstream* hip-hop ain't here for me, so I'm not there for them.

Wow! That's my old high school.

I think I was on the flight when this happened.

:) It just goes to show you how insidious anti-blackness is. They would not fix their mouth to say some crazy shit like that about her mother cuz the is the 'right' kind of black woman: light-skin with (fake) blond hair. But even the smallest, obviously black girl has to get this shit.

Blue is a cutie patootie to me. But she has three things going on that some people are going to continually be assholes about:

This is why BET can kiss my ass. I mean, really. Blue and I have the same type of hair: nappy. Did they expect her to come out of Bey's vag with a long, flowing blond locks? Geez.

I long for the days when you could just not like something without being labeled a hater.