Checks watch.
It's Beyonce's kid...you KNOW she'll throw the thing down a well if it doesn't!
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My fingers are crossed for 'Black Velvet'.
Psst. This is intended to be funny.
At least Rihanna's lawsuits seem to be on time...?
ALL OF MY DREAMS JUST CAME TRUE AT ONCE
I just noticed that, myself D: What the hell, you guys?!
Of course it was! And of course every single duet he ever did with Ashanti. That stuff is my jam — what happened to him, anyway?! BRING BACK JA.
Right?! It could be interesting to talk about in a "Hey, this is a very human reaction to a good friend's overshadowing success! We can relate to this!" kind of way, but to say she was singing about Beyonce's fame as the title to summate the article is absolutely ludicrous.
I love me some Queen Bey, but this song is only very tangentially related to her — the main message is way too fucking important not to be properly highlighted. Siiiiiiiiigh.
Exactly. This is a website marketed towards people in the feminist sphere, among others. Most of us already give a shit about supporting and giving a voice to people who are/have been trapped in abusive situations even without any fame factor whatsoever.
I just busted out Ja Rule last night while I was doing some illustration work. FLY YOUR MUSIC FLAG HIGH, MY FRIEND.
Just saw your reply and let me just say I'm so glad I'm not the only person who read this and went WHAT IN SEVEN HELLS?!
A song that painfully details the heart-wrenching abuse she went through, and you boil the song down to her singing about Bey's success being 'bittersweet'? Jesus H. Macy.
Professional help would go a little like so:
It's a tricky line — on one hand, I don't discount that some women genuinely feel better about themselves and are happier when they get work done, but on the other, I'm like you. I find myself asking WHYYYY and wishing they could've accepted themselves as they were. I try my best not to judge too hard :(
Since she rolled out her ~groundbreaking~ new hairstyle, she's looked...older. I can't put my finger on it either, I was thinking maybe she was doing her makeup differently, but I don't even recognize her now! Maybe it's just the pictures, but her eyes seem smaller.
I think you're producing a false dichotomy. Remorse and action are not mutually inclusive. You can feel remorse for the things you've done while also acknowledging that to let them go would mean voluntarily kissing your life good-bye. The moral choice to let them go would've been the right one, the one we can all…