Aibu - Beyonce- does anyone else not get her?

[17Degrees]

I feel like she collaborates with people who are "in vouge" and I don't get her music.

Yes, it is.

What's in-vouge?

I always think there’s something of The Emperors New Clothes about Beyoncé. She’s got a decent voice, can dance, and churns out good songs but I find the way in which she’s revered quite bizarre. More power to get for pulling it off, but I struggle to see it as much more than a triumph for excellent PR.

Frank Sinatra never wrote a song in his life. Neither did Elvis, as far as I’m aware.

There are singers and there are singer-songwriters. I don’t think not being a songwriter means you’re not an artist. Luciano Pavarotti might take issue with that notion!

Her music is not for me

Sorry pressed post too soon.

Her music is not for me and personally don't understand all this fuss about the Grammy's. It's not like she hasn't ever won any. I understand that she's extremely popular and everything but personally her music is not my taste and yeah I do think she's a bit overrated tbh.

She's stayed relevant for the last 20 years which is an achievement in itself but tbh Madonna did that first.

Personally I am a much bigger fan of lady gaga and think she is way more talented. I don't get the whole thing of Beyonce being a 'queen' I find it a little weird. And she gave her kids silly names, but at least she didn't pay a port wan to have them for her which is something I guess....

Nope, don’t get it either.

Her music just isn't my thing. I don't particularly enjoy R&B, Soul, or her style of Pop, but the select bits of those styles that I like don't involve Beyonce. I did like the odd Destiny's Child song though.

I am a huge Beyoncé fan. Lemonade was the album of our time, absolutely incredible piece of artistry and emotion. She's lost me on her latest album though, I don't get it at all.

I accept that I'm old and that Beyoncé does not care what I think but personally, I find her recent music both over worked in terms of production but a bit underdone in terms of being songs. That may be my age, but there's a bit of a "will this do?" to the lyrics in terms of scanning, for example, and the melody is awkwardly stretched around the lyrics. So the songs don't make sense to me as songs sometimes.

It may be that I'm old and no longer down with the kids, though.

Are you 10? Noone cares if you like Beyonce or not. I'm sure she'd be heartbroken 🙄

@Chocolatetoastforbreakfast

Yes to Adele being overrated lol. It’s so off putting the way she’s gone full Hollywood to and is banging on on Oprah and everywhere about her divorce as though she’s been through some terrible tragedy - she left him ffs 🤦🏼‍♀️ Why is she still crying about it in the media?

@tabulahrasa

Everyone payed to work with her and in the PR machine would say that - the fact is most of Taylor’s biggest hits have multiple writers and at least one of those writers will be a known writer of hit songs.

That’s pretty sus. If she’s such an awesome writer why do hit makers need to “co write” her hits?

Now I think she may have more input than Beyoncé - but those hitnakers are obviously working with her for a reason, they don’t just stand back and take notes.

All of this is spot on!

I tend to switch the radio off when one of her songs is played. It's the monotonous voice and the fact that her songs leave me feeling nothing, there is no emotion or passion in her voice at all.

I find her unbearable. Destiny's Child were great..then she lost something for me..her entire contrived appearance, the hubris just manifested in everything she does.. I don't get the hype at all. Switch off or over when she comes on radio/TV

I feel the same way!

I'm not a fan, it's the overly warbly voice which just goes on and on. The worst record in the world is Survivor by Destiny's Child, it's painful to listen to.

I also dislike Beyoncé and her fake humbleness, Hand on her chest when someone is complementing her

There are artists people are 'not allowed' to dislike. Beyonce has been added to that list.

Massively overrated.

Harry deserved that Grammy.

Beyonce doesn't get the Grammy by default. Especially when her album is shite.

Yeah, no idea what all the fuss is about

Yeah I don’t get the obsession either. But then I remember everyone going wild about Crazy In Love and it was played constantly, everywhere, and I really hated that song. I didn’t understand the obsession then and I still don’t now.
I don’t like Madonna either, never have done.
It feels like a sin to admit that IRL

I liked the albums Dangerously in Love and B'Day (Deja Vu is a great pop song). So what - 2003-2005ish? Nothing since.

Love lemonade but wouldn’t have got it if Ds hadn’t played it so much but absolutely love it now. The music videos are amazing for that album as well.
Her divality is out of this world. Can’t imagine her just sitting eating a packet of crisps.

Almost all of her last album was written by her and Jack Antonoff (couple of exceptions being the collaborators singing on the tracks like Lana dey Rey, and her boyfriend). Her absolute best albums, for me, were the last 3 which had similar writer credits. We're not really in the territory of Max Martin in the 90s here!

Bit like Beyoncé, it's not really about "hit" singles now anyway. The albums they release will sell/stream at number 1 instantly, whatever is on them.

I loved her growing up and had Dangerously in Love Album twice.

But her surgery and skin lightening is too much. To the point that some white women are starting to look like her just by being themselves.

I used to think she was the most beautiful woman on the planet.

Rihanna is absolute shit.