I still haven’t forgiven whichever Hive member said Be Alive is a flop song. It’s such an ignorant flop musical taste opinion 

Be Alive is a fine song, but def something I won't listen to more than another 5 times in my life 

Be Alive would've had a better chance at the Oscars or any other award show had the song not been so boring

Tomorrow Rennie should have it’s second top 10 hit in the US 

 

Let's dance in style

 

Let's dance for a while

 

 

 

Kinda tired of y’all going to war over gaga. It’s a new thread every day. Feels like a waste of typing on y’all keyboards 

 

 

3 hours ago, bijonse said:

Kinda tired of y’all going to war over gaga. It’s a new thread every day. Feels like a waste of typing on y’all keyboards 

 

 

It’s Gaga fans mad that she’ll never be on Beyoncé’s lvl 

Someone at a Brazilian forum said that radio stations in Portugal are announcing that Beyoncé has reserved the Altice Arena in Lisbon for concerts.

5 minutes ago, Angel94 said:

Someone at a Brazilian forum said that radio stations in Portugal are announcing that Beyoncé has reserved the Altice Arena in Lisbon for concerts.

An arena?  She hasn't performed in Portugal since 2014, there's definitely enough demand for her to do a stadium date (or two) there. I'd be surprised if she went back to arenas for portions of the tour.

9 hours ago, Shelter said:

No one wanted that though, they wanted nostalgia, not new. 
 

Lemonade is doing bad, but that’s her fault. The movie could bring in a new audience now, but it’s hidden away  she doesn’t care about streams, so it’s whatever. 

The movie would have done well regardless, the new recordings of the classic songs were completely underwhelming anyways. And it would have made the soundtrack a hit. I will die on this hill

13 minutes ago, Angel94 said:

Someone at a Brazilian forum said that radio stations in Portugal are announcing that Beyoncé has reserved the Altice Arena in Lisbon for concerts.

She could easily do a stadium (or more) here, wtf?

18 minutes ago, Angel94 said:

Someone at a Brazilian forum said that radio stations in Portugal are announcing that Beyoncé has reserved the Altice Arena in Lisbon for concerts.

I want to be excited (I really do), but at this point, even as a patient crumb collector, I'm SO over the "she has reserved xyz venue" or "she's planning to come to xyz" tea. It just needs to be announced. 

 

Her possibly still figuring out tour routing now isn't exciting, it's annoying. We don't need to know what is being mulled about in meetings or pencilled in. We need concrete dates. 

11 minutes ago, ATWK said:

She could easily do a stadium (or more) here, wtf?

This.

 

Total conjecture on my part (and possibly wishful thinking), but could it be perhaps that her live plans are layered? So, the all-out stadium show as the main thing and something more intimate as a separate thing...but all within the same timeframe? Almost like a travelling version of what Gaga does with her two Vegas shows (Pop and Jazz).

 

It's like Madonna fans were scratching their heads and doubtful when it was leaked that theater dates had been reserved for her tour. Only for Madge to actually legitimise it by announcing an intimate tour. 

 

All signs point to Bey doing a stadium tour (as all other rumored reserved venues are stadiums), but who knows what else could be coming. 

37 minutes ago, Angel94 said:

Someone at a Brazilian forum said that radio stations in Portugal are announcing that Beyoncé has reserved the Altice Arena in Lisbon for concerts.

 arena 

The tour needs to be announced before the Super Bowl before Rihanna’s possible tour announcement. Days are continuing to pass by without her making any noise and it’s annoying me.
 

7 minutes ago, Mr. Specialist said:

Days are continuing to pass by without her making any noise and it’s annoying me.

Honey the months are passing without noise 

35 minutes ago, Massive_Teardrop said:

Honey the months are passing without noise 

I know that. But it’s a new year and I’m talking specifically about the tour.

22 years ago Independent Women was #1 on Billboard Hot 100 - My childhood would have not been the same without the visual.

 

                    Poor Gen Z

Not “Enlightenment”  sounds like a title out of the Gaga songbook. I doubt Beyoncé would go for such a pretentious title

act ii is RODEO. End of.

3 minutes ago, Wizard said:

when act iii is ROSE IV YOU 

No

 

 

 

12 Roses

16 hours ago, swissman said:

Ya I mean knowing it only sold 54,000 (in the first full tracking week Beyoncé gave an album since 2011) is so shocking...

 

...but then again I really think its entire lead-up was too confusing for the GP. I remember even one of my pop-culture savvy friends was surprised she had a new album....weeks after it came out...

 

I blame the fact that Spirit was the lead for the OST, and for The Gift, and the OST came out the week before... I don't think it was very clear for the GP that there was a new The Lion King-inspired album...and why lol.

 

 

Honestly The Gift was an ill conceived and poorly executed project (this doesn't mean the music is bad)

The branding and spirit is at complete odds with The Lion King. The reason why Black Panther soundtrack worked so well is because how in tune it was with the film, conceptually, thematically, sonically. It feels like they were more or less made in tandem. Even looking at TG as a concept album ("inspired by), she should of gone all in with The Lion King references and built it from the ground up as a audio theatrical experience. Instead it felt like she took the regular MPG album making approach of grabbing song submissions on specific concepts and stitching them together at the end... Then they realised it doesn't resemble the Lion King or feel cohesive at all and decided to add the film interludes between every song to make it clear its connected.  

If this was a graded art college project it would be a C, it's clearly torn between what it wants to be. She wanted to make an afrobeats album, she wanted to write about black empowerment and speak to the Diaspora, but she also wanted that Disney money and to be attached the iconic Lion King legacy. What does Brown Skin Girl have to do with The Lion King???



 

Edited January 9, 20233 yr by Otter

1 hour ago, Mr. Specialist said:

The tour needs to be announced before the Super Bowl before Rihanna’s possible tour announcement. Days are continuing to pass by without her making any noise and it’s annoying me.
 

Madonna is announcing her tour next week. I think Bey will announce right before or after the Grammys to be honest. The later seems more likely. 

1 hour ago, Wizard said:

when act iii is ROSE IV YOU