SeventeenDayze said:

Curtwill1975 said:

Beyoncé never said that she was holding back the release of her album because of Adele. Don't y'all realize that they have two different audiences, demographics and etc? Bey has Urban/Rhythmic R&B on lock especially as a radio format. They aren't in competition with each other.

Hell, Adele is part of the Hive! She loves Beyoncé/DC and always have. The only thing is that Adele is more popular now and part of that is she still fairly new whereas Bey is the Consistent Veteran who has a majorly loyal fan base that goes beyond trends, (sub-)genres, and other aspects that keep most acts from acheiving longevity.

Anyone who puts out an album without putting a couple of singles before its released is obviously not scared to release it whenever they want to. It's a shame that many of you don't get it and don't want to. Instead of constantly bashing her, this board should be lauding her for keeping the "90s Black Girl Group Era" alive commercially at a time when Contemporary R&B and black entertainer on a whole is slumbering as a commercial entity.

She hasn't been an R&B singer since the 90s....

Lies

alphastreet said:

Curtwill1975 said:

Beyoncé never said that she was holding back the release of her album because of Adele. Don't y'all realize that they have two different audiences, demographics and etc? Bey has Urban/Rhythmic R&B on lock especially as a radio format. They aren't in competition with each other.

Hell, Adele is part of the Hive! She loves Beyoncé/DC and always have. The only thing is that Adele is more popular now and part of that is she still fairly new whereas Bey is the Consistent Veteran who has a majorly loyal fan base that goes beyond trends, (sub-)genres, and other aspects that keep most acts from acheiving longevity.

Anyone who puts out an album without putting a couple of singles before its released is obviously not scared to release it whenever they want to. It's a shame that many of you don't get it and don't want to. Instead of constantly bashing her, this board should be lauding her for keeping the "90s Black Girl Group Era" alive commercially at a time when Contemporary R&B and black entertainer on a whole is slumbering as a commercial entity.

I definitely gave her credit for that when she deserved it. I have some albums and been to her earlier solo tours but now she's too full of herself and it's a turnoff Beyonce is the queen of shit-hop

getxxxx said:

In less than a week since her politically-laced Super Bowl performance of "Formation," Beyoncé is still the talk of the town.

But one place she won't be seen or heard is apparently the U.K..

The country's largest media group, Global, reportedly demanded its staff to remove video of the performance from all of its company-owned websites, according to The Mirror. In addition, the song--which champions Afros and "Jackson 5 nostrils"--was not listed on radio channel playlists.

BEYONCÉ'S PRO-BLACK, ANTI-POLICE 'FORMATION' IGNITES CALLS FOR BOYCOTT

An alleged email was sent to staff prohibiting them from mentioning Beyoncé under any circumstances.

“It was made absolutely clear Beyonce was not to be mentioned. No photos, no music videos, no Beyonce," a source told the Mirror. “Anything that had been published from the Super Bowl performance had to be removed.”

The publication reports that Beyoncé's tour announcement may have triggered the company banned, as it conflicted with negotiations Global had with the singer's camp to be a part of its Summertime Ball performance line-up.

Guess Queen Bey wasn't lying in the song's lyrics when she says, "You know you that bitch when you cause all this conversation."

Here's the Capital FM "Beyoncé News" page with two stories from today: one offering listeners the chance to win tickets to her #Formation tour in the UK ("Prepare to fall 'Crazy In Love' with Queen Bey all over again!"); and another effusively promoting the tour itself ("After THAT incredible Super Bowl performance, she had to do it, didn't she?! The 'Single Ladies' sensation is coming to the UK for a few dates, and you NEED to be there."): http://www.capitalfm.com/...wles/news/

Do people not get pissed off at outlets like this trying to manipulate them? I mean, the implication in that article is that it's some pearls-clutching boycott by the company bosses following a performance they've deemed too militant for "champion[ing] Afros and 'Jackson 5 nostrils'", and then you glance down the page and you find it's just been some brief hardball move in a commercial negotiation as the media conglomerate tries to secure her as their client. And then you look at their main radio station website and you find a good deal must've been struck, as they're promoting the hell out of her. If it were me and I'd read the article in good faith, I'd be pissed is all I'm saying.

now we have to hear about this one and kanye endlessly.....god help us all

alphastreet said:

Curtwill1975 said:

Beyoncé never said that she was holding back the release of her album because of Adele. Don't y'all realize that they have two different audiences, demographics and etc? Bey has Urban/Rhythmic R&B on lock especially as a radio format. They aren't in competition with each other.

Hell, Adele is part of the Hive! She loves Beyoncé/DC and always have. The only thing is that Adele is more popular now and part of that is she still fairly new whereas Bey is the Consistent Veteran who has a majorly loyal fan base that goes beyond trends, (sub-)genres, and other aspects that keep most acts from acheiving longevity.

Anyone who puts out an album without putting a couple of singles before its released is obviously not scared to release it whenever they want to. It's a shame that many of you don't get it and don't want to. Instead of constantly bashing her, this board should be lauding her for keeping the "90s Black Girl Group Era" alive commercially at a time when Contemporary R&B and black entertainer on a whole is slumbering as a commercial entity.

I definitely gave her credit for that when she deserved it. I have some albums and been to her earlier solo tours but now she's too full of herself and it's a turnoff

My God, she's an entertainer. There are many people that think that don't like Prince because they think is full of himself but so what? I don't buy personalities, I buy product and both of their cases, their music. No one is obligated to like their music but if people don't like her music or performance, why post a thread about her?

In fact, since she's not of Prince's generation, why even post about her at all? It's like a jazz message board posting about Gaga or Britney.

Mintchip said:

mjscarousal said:

We don't like her..get over it. Everyone is not obligated to like her, period.

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I'm over it! I appreciate that you don't like her. It's cool: she's another divisive pop star. I just question the wide-spread conspiracy theories, which are impossible to engage with, and the refrain that people who like her need to "wake up", which you yourself wrote just the other day. I DO like her, nothing naive about it. "Get over it".

Well get use to it because I will never stop expressing my opinion. I am passionate about this "agenda" because she is helping to destroy a culture/community that I am a member of. So most definitly, I will always have my opinions on it.

thedoorkeeper said:

Let me get this straight Beyonce delayed releasing her new album out of respect for Adele Instead she is going to release her album right after Rihanna's new album What does that say about her opinion of Rihanna?

The only way Beyonce is going to sell 7 million copies of her new album is if she buys 6 million copies herself. Someone in her camp definately made that one up. She delayed her album out of respect for Adele because she's so humble, enjoys sharing the spotlight with others and she didn't want to steal any of Adele's thunder? That's a good one.

OMG. They are really trying to make Beyonce out to be Angela Davis.....Her hometown of Houston, Texas is also looking at boycotting working her tour. Hyperbole much?

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/miami-cops-vow-security-boycott-of-beyonc%C3%A9-concert-in-april/ar-BBpGmcS?li=BBnb7Kz

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Miami cops vow security boycott of Beyoncé concert in April

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The Fraternal Order of Police has moved on from berating filmmaker Quentin Tarantino to bashing Beyoncé, vowing to boycott working security at her concert when her Formation tour kicks off in April in Miami.

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Members of the Miami chapter of the FOP, the national police union, voted to boycott Beyoncé's April 26 show at Marlins Stadium, local union president, Lt. Javier Ortiz, confirmed Thursday.

He called on all police officers everywhere to boycott all of her concerts on her forthcoming world tour.

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The reason: She '"used this year's Super Bowl to divide Americans by promoting the Black Panthers and her anti-police message," Ortiz said in a letter announcing the boycott.

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The FOP was one of multiple police unions and departments that called for a boycott of Oscar-winning Tarantino's latest film after he delivered inflammatory remarks at a November rally in New York against police brutality.

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The Miami move comes after ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani went on Fox News Channel after the Super Bowl to condemn Beyoncé-and-company's half-time show — in which she and her dancer posse cavorted in black berets and bandoliers — as "outrageous" and an "attack on police officers."

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Ortiz accused Beyoncé of using her Super Bowl show to "salute" the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panthers, a black-power group widely feared by police back in the day and still loathed in 2016.

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Ortiz said he and "tens of thousands" of cops didn't watch the show — apparently they knew what Beyoncé was going to do before anyone else. But he later stumbled on her Formation video, which featured a black boy dancing in front of police in riot gear, who put their hands up in surrender.

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Clearly a reference to the Black Lives Matter campaign, Ortiz said, and the police-shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., last year. He challenged Beyoncé to read the Justice Department report on that shooting, saying it showed "hands up, don't shoot was built on a lie."

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As per usual, Beyoncé has been silent about all this.

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Ortiz did not clarify whether the call to boycott working security on the Miami concert is an order or a request, and whether it applies to all Miami cops, or just union members or all police officers in Dade County.

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Nor would he say what would happen to those cops who ignore the boycott. And what about cops who want to attend the concert for their own pleasure on their own time?

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But the Fox News affiliate in Tampa reported that no local cops have signed up yet to work her concert on April 29 in Tampa.

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So far, the FOP's campaign against Tarantino has yielded little. Prior to the opening of his The Hateful Eight on Christmas Day, Jim Pasco, the head of the national FOP, threatened a nasty "surprise" for the filmmaker in retaliation for not apologizing for his remarks at the New York rally.

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But nothing happened and the film opened without incident. It's grossed about $132 million worldwide.

^ Its all bullshit. Those are stories her team iplanted in the media. There was a NY protest her team had made up and guess what? Nobody showed up to it. She is all smoke and mirrors.