Eu amo como os pop antigos são infinitamente melhores que as atuais. Nos anos 2000 e início de 2010, o pop era maximalista. Introduções marcantes, refrões gigantes, clipes cinematográficos, artistas com persona muito definida. Você ouvia 5 segundos e já sabia quem era. Hoje, muita música nasce otimizada pro algoritmo: refrão nos primeiros segundos, duração menor, produção mais homogênea, foco em viralização instantânea.
Não quer dizer que não tenha música boa atualmente, tem sim, mas músicas antigas foram feitas numa época em que havia menos volume de lançamentos. Então cada hit precisava ser realmente memorável pra sobreviver. Hoje saem milhares de músicas por dia no Spotify e TikTok. O consumo virou mais acelerado e descartável.
I remember a couple of years ago, a ex-coworker around the same age as me (20-something, conventionally attractive white woman) said to a group of us while we were talking about Beyoncé, “Beyoncé intimidates me.” And she was genuinely concerned by that feeling. Everyone went silent.
I immediately had a flashback to grad school when another white classmate once told me that I intimidated her too when she first met me, yet she couldn’t explain why. My ex-serial people-pleaser self was internally distraught at the time. 😭 (I was the only Black male in the class at the time. Everyone else was white, Hispanic, or Asian.)
Years later, it all suddenly clicked. So many people cannot fully grasp Beyoncé because she represents a level of Black excellence, confidence, discipline, beauty, power and cultural impact that society never taught them how to comfortably process without centering themselves.
Instead of simply celebrating excellence, they experience it as intimidation. What they are often reacting to is not Beyoncé herself, but the insecurities and biases reflected back at them through her very presence.💡
still makes me sick that the only man he’s ever been w is an ex-con, line cook, baby daddy w white appliances who beat his ass & didn’t even age well…surely one likkle handjob during the bush administration wasn’t enough for him to excuse all of that