fan base Beyoncé

[Otter]

What we know is that labels have huge influence over playlisting & radio. There are all kinds of deals & bargains in place, it's essentially payola without being as blatant as exchanging money in hand...

 

[Mitsouko]

3 minutes ago, Blue Rose said:

Welcome to another day of nothing 

mte. I've lost track of the final few shows too. idek when's the next one. I've dissociated until Oct 1

 

[sillycilla]

6 hours ago, kimberly said:

Payola is illegal and far from common practice. some details get murky when it comes to promo in exchange for concert tickets or interview appearance etc, but pay-for-play is a punishable offense.

 

Streaming farms and bots can easily be spotted by Spotify and disqualified from stream counts, and Billboard/Luminate further vets the US streams. the current cap for each Spotify user is 20 streams per song per day—it'll be thrown out after that. bot/farm support is also very much clockable by fans. Nigerian artists can feud on Twitter about streaming farms all they want (lol) — I don't see how that should be relevant to Beyoncé.

 

Bottom line is, why the hell would any one of us ask Beyoncé to use payola and streaming farms? please be serious.

There are a lot of things that are technically illegal but there are ways to work around them. Are you new to how everything operates lol? 

They are not easy to spot, if that were the case labels wouldn’t pay millions for them. It’s still happening now.  Billboard also turns a blind eye to a lot of it. Vice did a documentary on how a lot of streams are fake.
 

 

Edited September 20, 2023 by sillycilla

[sillycilla]

8 minutes ago, Otter said:

What we know is that labels have huge influence over playlisting & radio. There are all kinds of deals & bargains in place, it's essentially payola without being as blatant as exchanging money in hand...

 

Case and point. 
 

There are so many things happening we aren’t privy to.

[Blue Rose]

10 minutes ago, Mitsouko said:

mte. I've lost track of the final few shows too. idek when's the next one. I've dissociated until Oct 1

 

I just know that after Sunday there will only be 2 left. My mind can’t think about Oct 1 yet. im not ready to unravel 

 

[ScorpiosGroove]

one day closer to the release of the toilet water, if that ain’t something to celebrate then idk 

[ICLDXU4HS]

I heard there's exclusive codes to access the visuals in the bottle caps. 

 

[Blue Rose]

Go comment https://atrl.net/forums/topic/454110-the-city-of-houston-goes-all-out-for-beyoncé/

[Blue Rose]

9 minutes ago, ICLDXU4HS said:

I heard there's exclusive codes to access the visuals in the bottle caps. 

 

33M codes to be exact 

 

[carameldelight]

1 hour ago, Blue Rose said:

I just know that after Sunday there will only be 2 left. My mind can’t think about Oct 1 yet. im not ready to unravel 

 

You haven't unraveled yet???? 

[Anvarie]

2 hours ago, Kingdom said:

Imagine saying "if bey wants to be a legend" in 2023....This base needs bleach. The dumb sh*t said on here is something else.

 

 

Let’s do research mama. Every fanbase on here thinks their fave is a legend. I’ve been hearing Rihanna, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears are legends for the past 10 years and clearly people are lying! Hell I even see legends like Diana, Madonna, Luther, Tina called icons by people in and out of the industry. I rarely see people actually use the word legend for musical artists, it’s VERY rare. If you were to ask random GP members I really doubt they would label Bey a legend, in fact I bet Taylor would get more responses of that nature. The reality is the public is fickle, while we might enjoy the quality music, performance, and vision Beyoncé has given us all these years the public only knows what they hear on the radio and on these promoted playlists. So they’re familiar with what… Crazy in Love, Single Ladies, Run The World, Drunk in Love, Formation, etc. Meanwhile there’s crickets for the Dance For You, Love Drought, Jealous, All Night, Virgos Groove, etc all of these truly amazing songs that show her TALENT get paid dust by her team 

Edited September 20, 2023 by Anvarie

[cloudbusting]

“who needs a degree when you’re schoolin life?” i sing to myself while browsing information about phd programs between regular job searching

 

[Anvarie]

I still remember that Elders React video to Lemonade and there was a woman who couldn’t recognize Bey’s voice on 6 Inch because she didn’t think it could go so low. The public needs to see and hear her gift, which is why performances are so important to her legacy. I’m grateful she recorded Beychella and actually let it be uploaded to a permanent viewing platform, but how many amazing performances have been locked in a vault for 0 reason? Why can’t we watch her VMAs or Grammys performances without jumping through hoops? The public should have access to her talent!

[carameldelight]

7 minutes ago, Anvarie said:

I still remember that Elders React video to Lemonade and there was a woman who couldn’t recognize Bey’s voice on 6 Inch because she didn’t think it could go so low. The public needs to see and hear her gift, which is why performances are so important to her legacy. I’m grateful she recorded Beychella and actually let it be uploaded to a permanent viewing platform, but how many amazing performances have been locked in a vault for 0 reason? Why can’t we watch her VMAs or Grammys performances without jumping through hoops? The public should have access to her talent!

I agree! Why aren't the intimate shows like "Live in Roseland, I am Yours,  and Revel" available on streaming? 

Edited September 20, 2023 by carameldelight

[QueenB]

More instances of a certain artist doing promo without the artist actually doing anything, it's almost like you can hire a team to do the promotion for you

[Draper.]

1 hour ago, Anvarie said:

Let’s do research mama. Every fanbase on here thinks their fave is a legend. I’ve been hearing Rihanna, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears are legends for the past 10 years and clearly people are lying! Hell I even see legends like Diana, Madonna, Luther, Tina called icons by people in and out of the industry. I rarely see people actually use the word legend for musical artists, it’s VERY rare. If you were to ask random GP members I really doubt they would label Bey a legend, in fact I bet Taylor would get more responses of that nature. The reality is the public is fickle, while we might enjoy the quality music, performance, and vision Beyoncé has given us all these years the public only knows what they hear on the radio and on these promoted playlists. So they’re familiar with what… Crazy in Love, Single Ladies, Run The World, Drunk in Love, Formation, etc. Meanwhile there’s crickets for the Dance For You, Love Drought, Jealous, All Night, Virgos Groove, etc all of these truly amazing songs that show her TALENT get paid dust by her team 

So you think that if her team promotes Jealous and Love Drought so the GP knows them, they’ll think she’s a legend because somehow her singles don’t show her talent but those songs do? hm.. ok 

 

If some people are not using the word legend in reference to Beyoncé is because people don’t usually use that word for people that’s still alive and active.

Edited September 20, 2023 by Draper.

[Blue Rose]

1 hour ago, carameldelight said:

You haven't unraveled yet???? 

Strap in. There’s more crazy left in my tank

 

[Redporus]

Sooooo I listened Sandcastles the other day and burst out laughing at the part where she cracked......truly the worst song on Lemonade....convince me which song on the ablum is worse 

Edited September 20, 2023 by Redporus

[sillycilla]

Some of y’all may scoff but we live in a different era now. I saw a video on TikTok where they were asking people on the street to name the artist based off the songs and one was “ say my name, jumpin jumpin, survivor” and a 20 something year old didn’t know who that was. 
 

Come on now.  

[ICLDXU4HS]

10 minutes ago, Redporus said:

Sooooo I listened Sandcastles the other day and burst out laughing at the part where she cracked......truly the worst song on Lemonade....convince me which song is worst 

“Dishes smashed on my counter from our last encounter
Pictures snatched out the frame
*****, I scratched out your name and your face”

Worst lyrical moments of her career (we’re ignoring Daddy and Ring Off here). 

[Draper.]

3 minutes ago, sillycilla said:

Some of y’all may scoff but we live in a different era now. I saw a video on TikTok where they were asking people on the street to name the artist based off the songs and one was “ say my name, jumpin jumpin, survivor” and a 20 something year old didn’t know who that was. 
 

Come on now.  

Those songs were released before that person was born and the group dissolved, are they really supposed to know them? And how important is that 1 random person interviewed in the street for TikTok who doesn’t know some DC singles? Beyoncé just broke the record for the biggest tour by a female and the biggest tour by a black artist. Trust me, people know who Beyoncé is and what she does. 

[sillycilla]

44 minutes ago, QueenB said:

More instances of a certain artist doing promo without the artist actually doing anything, it's almost like you can hire a team to do the promotion for you

She wants to be sade or something and this isn’t 2007 anymore, and she’s no longer relevant that’s why it can’t happen. 

I think I covered it all.

[Redporus]

1 minute ago, ICLDXU4HS said:

“Dishes smashed on my counter from our last encounter
Pictures snatched out the frame
*****, I scratched out your name and your face”

Worst lyrical moments of her career (we’re ignoring Daddy and Ring Off here). 

One of the easiest skips on Lemonade besides Forward and Sorry 

[Otter]

Sandcastles was so immensely ugly on first listen I thought she wrote it by herself 

[Mitsouko]

Not Cuckcastles talk