I always feel that with her work, I walk away with some sort of homework.
#Beyonce resentment live album full
I’ll never get over it.Ĭlarissa: “Formation” felt like a full dissertation, and the Super Bowl performance was the moment she presented it. Beyoncé was so, so intentional with this performance. We need to know that our ancestors were not criminals-they were defending themselves and building up Black communities. I went to a regular degular school that taught us about this country’s racist history, but I was never taught about Black Panthers. Seeing an array of Afros spread across the 50-yard line on an American football field was unbelievable. Harry Howĭanielle: Beyoncé has performed at the Super Bowl before, but this was much, much Blacker. I loved it.Ĭlarissa: Her almost tripping and getting up was truly destined by the ancestors!īeyoncé performs during the Super Bowl 50 halftime show on February 7, 2016.
Yes, there are Black fans, but who do you think are the people really in control? When I saw Beyoncé and them damn berets looking like a group of Black Panthers during a Coldplay set? I knew everybody was gonna lose their minds over it. It’s a shame it was deemed radical at the time-but it truly was. February 7, 2016: “Formation” makes its live debut at Super Bowl 50 and shows that Blackness is inherently political.īrande Victorian: When you think about seeing Black women performing on that field with Afros and how so many people found it offensive, it reminds you of the real America we live in.
It was her way of saying, “I see y’all, and I see what y’all are doing.” The thoughtfulness of every scene was striking.
It also represented the complete drowning of Black America. Danielle: When she drowned the police car, honey! For Beyoncé to make a statement like that and for it to specifically be about New Orleans and Katrina and how our people were left there to die.
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