Oh lord. You are the worst.

It’s not a compliment. Black women are often insulted for their hair not being “good enough,” and “good hair” has come to mean white/biracial hair that isn’t too black/kinky/etc. Beyoncé isn’t saying this woman has nice, pretty hair. She’s saying that her ain’t shit husband can go crawl back to the white/light-skinned…

Oh, absolutely. And black women ate that shit up with a spoon b/c we all know that we don’t reach peak femininity until we can show the world that WE’Z MARRIED NOW!!!!1111 That’s when I mean when I say Beyonce is cashing in on black women’s insecurities. “Look! Look! Her dancers have Afros just like me! SHE WOKE,…

Whose defending Beyonce? She doesn’t need me defending her. I am referring to Rachel who knows people suspect her of sleeping with Jay-z and she chooses to go on Instagram and fan the flames instead of ignoring it. And then gets upset when people tell her off.

If this was anybody else, we’d be slamming this shit for the tacky, sales-baiting joke that it is. But it’s Beyonce, so we have to praise her “personal growth” and how she’s being true to herself as an artist. My people, my people. *sigh*

I dunno. Her hair isn't that good. I mean it's alright. Kind of boring.

“Drama”

A woman writing about her experiences after having being cheated on and coming to terms with it after she sussed it out. The woman never names anyone and speaks as VAGUELY as possible talking mainly about her feelings.

“Not Drama”

A man writing in graphic detail the women he cheated with. Said man wins lots of…

Beyonce chose a man who didn’t respect women before, was a known dog, and then is wondering why he did her wrong for the 500th time? LOL

Why is it when female artist show us their lives through their art they are drama queens?

If Jay Z has had the extramarital affairs that Lemonade suggests, he’s a bad person! He’s done bad things! But the lyrics also allude to the cultural and generational scars that played a part in his infidelity. This is the story that plays out over and over again: a husband cheats, a woman still loves him, and they…

Side chick rule #1: you don't get to accuse the woman you helped betray of drama when she calls you out.

People aren’t light switches. They aren’t either on or off. Rachel Roy can do a shitty thing and still have positive attributes. What we’re criticizing here is her immature response to someone’s profoundly personal art—art that does not name Rachel Roy. I don’t know what you’ve been reading, but from my computer…

I’m having a hard time finding good coverage of Lemonade out there on the wild wild Internet that isn’t written by dudes or white women so far. Which is fine, those just aren’t the opinions I’m most interested in for this particular album. Maybe we’ll see some good stuff on Jezebel during the normal blogging week.

Agreed. “Becky” could be anyone or even multiple people. Rachael Roy was the one who is “outing” herself as Becky.

Also as a side note I feel like the word *drama* gets used in a really gendered way, specifically as dismissive of women’s voices, feelings, experiences.

Rachel is having a pot meet kettle moment in that IG post and she doesn’t even realize it.

I mean you can. But I think it wouldn’t really be fair.

Is it drama if it’s Beyoncé singing about her life? She annon’d her. No one had to know or even know it was autobiographical but Roy is so thirsty she wants it known it’s her. That’s where the drama is.

Of course you can be! But equating them is a little bit unfair. Beyonce was in a marriage: she didn’t involve “herself” in this infidelity drama, she is expressing what happened to her marriage.

See she brought this on herself smh bye girl ain’t nobody got time for your thirsty ass. I don’t understand why she would post that on Instagram smh