Why I hate Beyoncé
If there’s one artist who I cannot stand, it’s Beyoncé. And it deeply troubles me because I thoroughly enjoy Jay-Z and his work.
For me, Beyoncé reminds me of a certain female from high school (the annoying yearbook chic in Can’t Hardly Wait). You know the girl; she’s involved with everything from student council, track, cheerleading, oh and she’s also active in her church. She’s also dating the captain of one of the varsity teams and she’s driving a brand new BMW (given to her by her daddy). She gets good grades and other students and faculty flock to her.
But deep down, there’s something you don’t like about her. You (or me, at least) can sense a fakeness about her – as if she’s trying too hard to be someone she’s not. Then you begin noticing she changes her personality to fit whatever situation she’s in (more so than J-Lo). And then before you know it, you’re hating her every move.
Yeah, that’s me with Beyoncé.
She’s not perfect like the industry wants us to believe, not everything she touches turns to gold. She’s a marketing tool, excuse me, a marketing gimmick – that’s all. She’s cha-ching, cha-ching! She doesn’t do anything challenging nor out of her element. It’s tiring.
Besides that aspect, the hatred also stems from that god damn song that other females embrace as their own.
Ever notice when this song comes on, every female’s attention gets immediately drawn to the speakers (even faster than when I hear Justin’s Sexy Back, mind you) and they all start acting completely, for lack of better wording, stupid? You guys know what I’m talking about: they suddenly all put their hand up and start shaking it madly as if they’re having a stroke.
But it’s not even as simple as that. Once one shaking and twitching hand goes up, her friends follow; and then before you know it, you have a group of girls all with their hands twitching singing along together saying put a ring on it.
Ladies, it’s a stupid song that shouldn’t be your anthem. More than half of you aren’t even single, and if you were, you wouldn’t be demanding us to put a ring on it. Well, okay, maybe you would. Kanye did warn us that you’re all gold diggers anyways. I’m kidding, ladies…
Listen, Beyoncé is a very talented and hard-working woman. She deserves everything she has in life. I’m not knocking her accomplishments. She just annoys the living crap out of me.
I concur.
But then again, most women who would fall into the ‘diva’ category come off as somewhat fake to me. If I’m in the mood for vocal theatricality, give me Regina Spektor over Beyonce any day of the week.
I agree and am glad I’m not the only one to see her as fake.
Her dad pushed her to be who she is. It was all marketing and record execs. I do disagree that she hasn’t done something challenging. Her dancing can be amazing at times, but I think she completely has to feed off of other artist’s styles. Like her video with Lady Gaga. She completely was trying to feed into someone else’s career and hype to bring herself back into the picture. She didn’t even look good at all. Kind of pathetic, actually. And yeah, it was at that point I too decided I hated her every move. I think she should just kick back and be done now.
THANK YOU
Everyone’s like, Beyonce Beyonce, she’s doing so well, her solo project is gold, she’s so talented
But I get this feeling that she hasn’t done this on her own. She’s a pretty puppet but a puppet all the same. And yeah, she works hard. She works really hard. But isn’t the goal just to get more popular?
If so, it isn’t working on me. She’s irritating.
I’m pretty sure you’re referring to Shannon and I taking our rings off and belting out ALLLLL THE SINGLE LAAAAADIES, ALL THE SINGLE LAAADIES! The hand tremor is what she does in the video… and the video is hot… in fact, Kanye thinks it’s the best video of all time…..
I’m talking about every female when they hear this song.
I like her songs, she’s gorgeous, she can dance, she works hard
but I agree
SHE’S SOOOO OVERRATED.
for someone who doesn’t write their own songs, and most of her songs don’t even apply to her… (single ladies…she is married, you ALREADY have the ring on it) she has this following as if she was some kind of godess.
you can tell all her songs are specifically made for mtv
I like them, but I cannot bring myself to love her, never could.
hmm.. I never liked pop and she very well could be a reason me to hate it all the more..
And dude don generalize abt ladies.
Beyonce beyond her looks is highly overrated
out of all the nominees for album of the year she’s the only artist who doesn’t write her music….. Real talent right there!!
Totally agree Mikey…Her getting six Grammys is further proof of the Grammys being more a popularity contest than an award show based on merit and accomplishment…and talent…
And yet you bitches can’t keep her name out of your mouth…..
Keep doing your thing Beyonce. You don’t have to prove yourself to be “real” to anyone….Just keep doing you.
In response to “hmmm,” Beyonce ISN’T doing her own thing. She’s been married for years now, doesn’t write her own songs, and has had so many surgeries, it’s unbelievable how you can even say that. She is a complete fake.
Oh, and “bitches” doesn’t exactly help your argument. Do you have somewhere else to be a 12-year-old girl?
The thing that I dislike most about Beyonce is the fact that she isn’t overrated, I believe she has the talent to match her success, but we rarely ever get songs like Halo, all we get is the retarted sell out songs likesingle ladies and video phone and check up on it. Shes much better than that garbage imo.
lets not forget that she steals everything.
she stole credit for letoya lucketts writing in destinys child.
when she couldnt keep the lie alive, she stole cater 2 u from someone else.
then she ended destinys child.
she has since stolen several songs from other people…
“if i was a boy” was written by BC Jean. they were going to leave her completely out of credits until she sued.
shes not that cute either… people really need to look at beyonce BEFORE and AFTER her nose job. seriously.
and if you had a crazy psychotic daddy whos willing to shit on anyone as a manager, youd probably be successful too.
ive hated this tacky, thieving bitch for years. and now people are beginning to see what i saw all along.
SHES FAKE.
thanks for speaking your thoughts on this.
the underrachiever and the overachiever usually doesnt mix.
she’s garbage, she’s pop, she’s insignificant on the face of music. and tbh, she’s not even worth taking the time to fully criticize.
get over it.