✿ Haters & Hate: Queen B
✿ Memo to Beyoncé haters and hate:
Songwriting: I need everyone to take two minutes and google the definition of a songwriter. Beyoncé is the definition of one. Beyoncé is credited as a producer on the song/single If I Were A Boy, not a writer. Producer credit versus writer credit is two different things. Nevertheless, it would not be considered stealing either way. Any contribution she has on a song and its conceptual process constitutes songwriting, thus she is entitled to a songwriting credit. Songwriting is literally its definition: song writing. A song is not solely composed of lyrics. A song is comprised of many other things such as beats and instrumentation, melodies and harmonies, syncopation and rhythm, and production (vocal and sonic), among other things.
Run the World (Girls): Beyoncé collaborated with Major L and the Dream thus she is not controlled by them since she is paying them to help her create music. The concepts are hers and she “co” on anything that has her name attached to it. Run the World is not an exception to the rule. Run the World has a sampled beat but the song is co-written and co-produced among Beyoncé, Dream, and Major. Reiterated, Beyoncé redefines co-llaborations with men. So when men come to work for her she cannot be the one being controlled.
Copying: Nothing is truly original. Something becomes original or innovative due to the conceptual process of the person interpreting the idea. The idea and interpretation of said concept becomes visionary depending on the person executing it. To claim Beyoncé is unoriginal is baseless when she is known as a cultural and musical trendsetter. Her biggest contribution being her talent - her ability to sing soulfully in staccato style syncopation (something she is singularly known for creating) whilst sustaining the vocal and technical skills that are critical to a singer. No one mastered this before Beyoncé. Not only does she sing live with such technical superiority, she does THIS simultaneously while dancing to complicated choreography in stilettos (the entertainer aspect).
Retrospect: Plenty of singers have rap-sung and plenty have sung with soul, but no singer that came before Beyoncé mastered all of the aforementioned elements to the technical and musical level of being able to utilize them simultaneously and exceptionally. Beyoncé is on an exceptional level as a singer and entertainer. Normally, singers have minimal entertaining skills and performers have minimal singing skills. Singing is THE factor that distinguishes a performer from an entertainer, in my opinion. Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Price, Usher, and Beyoncé are examples of exceptional entertainers.
Beyoncé is not a mediocre singer, dancer, or entertainer. Therefore, Beyoncé took existing technical and musical concepts and evolved them based on her visions and abilities. This constitutes a creative innovation and attests to her genius artistically, vocally, and musically. She went outside of the vocal and musical limitations that past and present artists had and has broken musical, vocal, and critical barriers in the process.
Beyoncé has an undeniable maturity each era, but understanding her maturation requires one to be familiar with her catalogue in its entirety. Her arrangements alone show hints of musical and vocal brilliance. She has experimented musically with innumerable genres and has evolved vocally and continues to push vocal boundaries by using her voice as an instrument. None of her albums sound the same, songs never sound similar, and she sets the bar musically and artistically each era. She does not regurgitate, but maturates and it is so refreshing to hear her music because it stands out.
Only unmusical people tend to see Beyoncé as unoriginal and untalented. Beyoncé has never been a boxed artist and her unpredictability scares a lot of people because she pushes ahead regardless if her singles flop or succeed. Beyoncé is not the top artist in the world without reason. She is on top because her greatness is unmatched. She is highly respect by her musical peers and predecessors in a multitude of musical genres because of what she offers talent-wise.
So please stop spewing nonsense about Beyoncé when none of her contemporary peers do half of what she does. She is versatile and virtuosos so that is why she is always in demand to perform. That is why she can perform at the Oscars, Rock-Indie Musical Festivals, the Presidential Inauguration, etc, and can perform for the Royal Family, Nelson Mandela, the Obamas, etc. Her fanbase is as diverse as she is.
Haters continually hate and try to discredit Beyoncé but she is solidified. Having haters only makes her greater. I stan for and support talent.
Remember haters, birds of the same feather flop together.
「✿ An anthropoid that is an applied learner, not an accumulated one. ✿」
Bunny