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THE BEYONCE FACTOR IN POP CULTURE like her or hate her, the lady brings something to the table with her projects.
not saying that things are better simply because of her, but the results are generally positive for all participants. Prince/Beyonce and the Grammys Luther/Beyonce win a Grammy Mike Myers/Beyonce Austin Powers Goldmember grosses almost $300 million Dreamgirls/Beyonce--favorable advance press/hype for almost 30 year old play Jay-z/Beyonce--Billboard #1's charlie's angels/pink panther/beyonce--#1 songs from movies  you look better on your facebook page than you do in person  | |
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I can`t help but to think of her as "the new Diana Ross", there`s so many similarities... | |
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She gets my attention... even if I have not purchased much up her stuff. 
"Dangerously in Love", her performance on the Awards... had me ~Speechless~... the stilllife stage setting... mesmerizing...  | |
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It's like I've always said: Bee is a stunning beauty, singer, and performer, but aside from those undeniable qualities, I don't understand all the hype over her nor the group Destiny's Child itself. Is there something I'm missing about their music?, because all I hear is generic r'n'b/pop time and time again.  | |
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I think giving her credit for the $300 million in ticket sales for Austin Powers may be putting a bit much on it. That movie would have done that much no matter who played Foxy Cleopatra. Living to die and I'll die to live again - 360 degrees - comprehend | |
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She will be one of the very few artist nowadays that you still may hear about 15 years from now...
I wonder though if Aaliyah was still alive would Beyonce have all of this love from Hollywood. Yes, no? | |
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Rhondab said: I wonder though if Aaliyah was still alive would Beyonce have all of this love from Hollywood. Yes, no?
I think Beyonce would have still had most of the fame she does but I also think Baby Girl would be giving her a run for her money. Wasn't she just about to bloom into a superstar before she died? In addition, for a contemporary R&B act, she sure knew how to take risks and keep her music interesting. One In A Million was practically the official birth of the Timbaland sound and Aaliyah was mature, classy, and adventurous in a way I haven't heard in her genre since. EDIT: Oh yeah, and all the acting roles she was about to take on, if that's what you mean. [Edited 7/4/06 14:05pm] | |
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Rhondab said: She will be one of the very few artist nowadays that you still may hear about 15 years from now...
I wonder though if Aaliyah was still alive would Beyonce have all of this love from Hollywood. Yes, no? no disrespect to the memory of aaliyah, but she wasn't on the same level as beyonce. i was watching an old showtime at the apollo a coupla weeks ago and aaliyah was performing...i was shocked at how BORING it was. headset, 2 back up dancers--stuff i've seen a gazillion times. when beyonce performs, it's like a spectacle--fully entertaining. sadly, i think aaliyah, along with left-eye, selena and a maybe few others, were talented individuals who have had their legacies extended because of their untimely passing.  you look better on your facebook page than you do in person | |
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squiddyren said: Rhondab said: I wonder though if Aaliyah was still alive would Beyonce have all of this love from Hollywood. Yes, no?
I think Beyonce would have still had most of the fame she does but I also think Baby Girl would be giving her a run for her money. Wasn't she just about to bloom into a superstar before she died? In addition, for a contemporary R&B act, she sure knew how to take risks and keep her music interesting. One In A Million was practically the official birth of the Timbaland sound and Aaliyah was mature, classy, and adventurous in a way I haven't heard in her genre since. EDIT: Oh yeah, and all the acting roles she was about to take on, if that's what you mean. [Edited 7/4/06 14:05pm] yeah...I think she was getting a lot of attention from Hollywood. Also melt: if you go back and look at older DC clips, Beyonce wasn't the wigglin' chick she is today. You have at least give the benefit of the doubt that Aaliyah would have grown and develop as a performer. Hell, go look at old prince clips....I wanna be your lover..lawd...you would have never thought that's the same man that just performed on BET with Stevie Wonder. | |
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Rhondab said: squiddyren said: I think Beyonce would have still had most of the fame she does but I also think Baby Girl would be giving her a run for her money. Wasn't she just about to bloom into a superstar before she died? In addition, for a contemporary R&B act, she sure knew how to take risks and keep her music interesting. One In A Million was practically the official birth of the Timbaland sound and Aaliyah was mature, classy, and adventurous in a way I haven't heard in her genre since. EDIT: Oh yeah, and all the acting roles she was about to take on, if that's what you mean. [Edited 7/4/06 14:05pm] yeah...I think she was getting a lot of attention from Hollywood. Also melt: if you go back and look at older DC clips, Beyonce wasn't the wigglin' chick she is today. You have at least give the benefit of the doubt that Aaliyah would have grown and develop as a performer. Hell, go look at old prince clips....I wanna be your lover..lawd...you would have never thought that's the same man that just performed on BET with Stevie Wonder. true..not arguing there...but just merely suggesting that maybe aaliyah was already close to reaching here upper limits as a performer. queen of the damned, her last movie role, debuted at #1 with $14 million, but only raked in $5800 per screen before it left theaters shortly thereafter. again. not saying beyonce is great or aaliyah wasn't..just saying that at similar points in their careers, Beyonce had a little more going for her (writing, showmanship, wow-factor (as simon cowell says) you look better on your facebook page than you do in person | |
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meltwithu said: Luther/Beyonce win a Grammy  Luther gets a Grammy virtually every time he releases a record. "Shine" will win on the next show. Mark my words."Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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i like her...shes so entertaining!!  Baby I swear its Deja Vu!!!  | |
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Rhondab said: I wonder though if Aaliyah was still alive would Beyonce have all of this love from Hollywood. Yes, no?
Why not? Since when was Aaliyah the big Hollywood star with power to hault careers? love is a fate resigned memories mar my mind love it is a fate resigned Over futile odds and laughed at by the Gods and now the final frame Love is a losing game | |
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Scorpion said: Rhondab said: I wonder though if Aaliyah was still alive would Beyonce have all of this love from Hollywood. Yes, no?
Why not? Since when was Aaliyah the big Hollywood star with power to hault careers? Missing my point completely. Hollywood tends to have a "darling". No one is suggesting that Aaliyah had major clout but that she was becoming the darling. And Melt, we can only speculate about Aaliyah because you can't compare the careers toe to toe. My thought was just that Aaliyah was moving up into some other things and would she rival Beyonce. | |
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Rhondab said: Scorpion said: Why not? Since when was Aaliyah the big Hollywood star with power to hault careers? Missing my point completely. Hollywood tends to have a "darling". No one is suggesting that Aaliyah had major clout but that she was becoming the darling. And Melt, we can only speculate about Aaliyah because you can't compare the careers toe to toe. My thought was just that Aaliyah was moving up into some other things and would she rival Beyonce. I totally agree with you...It was obvious Aaliyah was going places in her music and acting career...I mean she snagged The Matrix  | |
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Bouncy would'nt have anything on Babygirl. Wasn't she supposed to be in Dreamgirls or something? I think Aaliyah looks better than B. IMO  Lance is SO a bottom  | |
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Goldmember was a third movie in a trilogy that had greater and greater recipts with each movie. Plus B had little speaking in the movie.
Chicago, Evita, had good advanced hype as well. You CANNOT use the name of God, or religion, to justify acts of violence, to hurt, to hate, to discriminate- Madonna
authentic power is service- Pope Francis | |
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Beyonce is growing all the time, but her acting abilities | |
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you people kill me with the aaliyah sales werent ever good from any of her LP's out of the Brandy, Monica, Aaliyah class, she had the lowest sales, but she had the msot production done to her vocals, to make her sound passable. Brandy was a bigger star than aaliyah when aaliyah died, by far, and Beyonce was just coming off the Survivor LP, and the Bootlicious craze, so she was light years ahead of aaliyah this time, aaliyah never had the commercial success and attention until that plane hit the ground. | |
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I hate her with a passion  | |
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Aaliyah has class. Beyonce is crass.  Feel free to join in the Prince Album Poll 2018! Let'a celebrate his legacy by counting down the most beloved Prince albums, as decided by you! | |
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Moonbeam said: Aaliyah has class. Beyonce is crass.
I just talked to R. kelly, i heard aaliyah had class A head game [Edited 7/5/06 6:26am] | |
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She definately brings something.....boredom. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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krazykid18 said: you people kill me with the aaliyah sales werent ever good from any of her LP's out of the Brandy, Monica, Aaliyah class, she had the lowest sales, but she had the msot production done to her vocals, to make her sound passable. Brandy was a bigger star than aaliyah when aaliyah died, by far, and Beyonce was just coming off the Survivor LP, and the Bootlicious craze, so she was light years ahead of aaliyah this time, aaliyah never had the commercial success and attention until that plane hit the ground.
Brandy had her own TV show and huge fanbase...people were gettin Braids because of Moesha...myself included. | |
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krazykid18 said: Moonbeam said: Aaliyah has class. Beyonce is crass.
I just talked to R. kelly, i heard aaliyah had class A head game [Edited 7/5/06 6:26am] Dont disrespect the dead,your messed up in the head | |
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krazykid18 said: you people kill me with the aaliyah sales werent ever good from any of her LP's out of the Brandy, Monica, Aaliyah class, she had the lowest sales, but she had the msot production done to her vocals, to make her sound passable. Brandy was a bigger star than aaliyah when aaliyah died, by far, and Beyonce was just coming off the Survivor LP, and the Bootlicious craze, so she was light years ahead of aaliyah this time, aaliyah never had the commercial success and attention until that plane hit the ground.
A word she claimed she came up with but that was a lie. Why she even TRIED to take credit for coining that term is beyond me when Snoop said it on "The Chronic" album and then the term was used again in 1994 on an episode of "A Different World" with Tupac guest starring. Living to die and I'll die to live again - 360 degrees - comprehend | |
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PleasurePrinciple said: krazykid18 said: I just talked to R. kelly, i heard aaliyah had class A head game [Edited 7/5/06 6:26am] Dont disrespect the dead,your messed up in the head how did i disrespect her, i clearly said had, not has | |
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Oh and for ther record
Good sales don't make a good artist ; 50 Cent sells well too  | |
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Dewrede said: Oh and for ther record
Good sales don't make a good artist ; 50 Cent sells well too because 50 Cent makes good music, point blank, Get Rich or DIe Trying quite possible is the best rap LP that came out this decade, their isn't one bad song on that LP like on Stillmatic you have Braveheart Party, and Rule, or Jayz - Blueprint where you have Hovita track and the Girls, Girls, Girls song, good music is good music, whether you feel you don't like the artist or not, but i will take listening to 50 Cent music all day long before i listen to southern music ALSO QUEENS, NY STAND THE FUCK UP | |
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