Today we were watching Beyonce Lemonade album. It features some great visual as well as great musical creativity. A lot of people how have seen this on the big screen may only tell you how great the music was. It was terrific don't get me wrong but I wonder did anyone else see anything about Beyonce specifically in each song.
In each song she wears different clothes and her actions and movements are completely different. She even shifts her body language depending on how she feels in a particular song. An example I notice was when she continues to change her hairstyle. Each one has to do with African culture. Everything she did is based upon her own culture an African American. She even acts like it because in some scenes you see her walking down the street looking happy but than in a matter of seconds she smashes a car in. I believe what she is saying that Black Women can look happy and beautiful but they can get mad and angry to. I also think that is another way of her oppressed anger as well so she is showing how black people tend to have two different sides to them.
There tend to be many hidden things in each of her songs but instead of listening to just the music we have to look at everything in order to understand the true message she is trying to give us.
I completely agree! I didn't connect it with African culture as much (b/c I don't know as much) but it makes sense...I think analyzing even just the colors of the clothes she wears in each part would yield amazing results; for example, in Hold Up, her yellow fringe dress could be yellow as that is a color of mourning in Africa? It's all so complex!
ReplyDeleteI agree, the costumes she had the perfromers wear i found also related the kimd of mood of the ubsection in lemonade. Like how in the beginning the tone was somber, and the film was in black and white, and the actors were wearing traditionally southern clothing to represent the hardsips of what it used to be black back then
ReplyDeleteI agree with your thoughts that Beyonce is trying to say that black woman can be happy and beautiful and be mad and angry. This is similar to the point Claudia Rankine made in Citizen with Serena Williams. Black people are perceived as these crazy people sometimes and Beyonces is just putting this into simpler terms, trying to destroy that perception.
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