2 hours ago, Draper. said:

I think XO was sent to Pop and then retired because of its intro and then they sent Drunk In Love because it was an inevitable crossover smash. Pretty Hurts was just sent to Rhythmic I believe.

I still think about how Miss XO was fighting for her life about to enter Top 15 at radio (daily chart?) and she just tumbled to her untimely death 

 

But "Drunk in Love" was a HUGE hit especially at radio, so… whatever 

Edited August 18, 20242 yr by Brikenbur

Giddy up now,

diggadont, diggadont
Digga daddy,

can't leave me 'lone, leave me 'lone
Damn if I do, dammit if I don't
Lady with a whip, want what she wanna want,

 

okay!
 

Edited August 18, 20242 yr by Brikenbur

7 minutes ago, Brikenbur said:

Giddy up now, diggadont, diggadont
Digga daddy, leave me 'lone, leave me 'lone
Damn if I do, dammit if I don't
Lady with a whip, want what she wanna want, okay
 

Tyrant is the best song on ConWoman Carter. Why?

 

1 hour ago, Brikenbur said:

Giddy up now,

diggadont, diggadont
Digga daddy,

can't leave me 'lone, leave me 'lone
Damn if I do, dammit if I don't
Lady with a whip, want what she wanna want,

 

okay!
 

The harmonies are insane  My favorite part of the song. It reminds me so much of the second verse of 'THIQUE' for some reason. 

3 hours ago, Brikenbur said:

Not my a*s buying RWT merch off of eBay … the chokehold that era still has me in 

Gurl SAME 

I'm issuing a formal apology to Hold Up for all the years I've hated you. She clicked for me today randomly and now it won't leave my head, I was just kidding love you bestie

Spoiler

The real enemy on Limonada is Sorry. And no Forward doesn't count before you try to come for her

 

 

FORWARD is the worst song on LEMONADE, very much one of her most forgettable songs. It's worse than 'Daddy'. 

7 hours ago, Brikenbur said:

Not my a*s buying RWT merch off of eBay … the chokehold that era still has me in 

I recently found the tour book for the same price it was being sold at the tour. Most are currently selling for $ 300+. It was the only thing I really wanted but wasn't available at my show. So happy to finally have it 

3 hours ago, mons†er said:

FORWARD is the worst song on LEMONADE, very much one of her most forgettable songs. It's worse than 'Daddy'. 

you're entitled to your wrong opinion.

 

Cowboy Carter was trending and I thought something happened but....

16 hours ago, Draper. said:

That's not true at all. She got 5 #1s on Urban radio with Drunk In Love, Partition, Flawless, On The Run and 7/11 in just over a year. Radio was eating her up. She was just not sending the songs to Pop or having double singles. Still, Drunk In Love peaked at #6 on overall radio with a 129m audience.

Yup. Feeling Myself and Tom Ford (with her vocals at the end) also did well on Urban at the time as well.

I would have loved to see how Jealous would've fared on Pop radio. Haunted too around the 50SOG soundtrack release.

2 hours ago, Bender34 said:

you're entitled to your wrong opinion.

 

#Justice4Daddy

Oh how im gonna laugh out LOUD when 21 year old Dangerously in Love, which was released during the PHYSICAL era, overtakes 4 months old Cowboy Carter, an album with 27 tracks released during the streaming era, in terms of streaming power

Edited August 19, 20242 yr by Kristie Kuwa

Levii's Jeans commercial this week maybe!! We stay FED over here, girlies

 

7 minutes ago, alien superstore said:

Levii's Jeans commercial this week maybe!! We stay FED over here, girlies

 

 

I'm really curious if she'll be at the DNC?  They've been speculating on MSNBC

 

I feel like she wont, but she has the braids.....

 

 

16 minutes ago, Lose My Breath said:

 

I'm really curious if she'll be at the DNC?  They've been speculating on MSNBC

 

I feel like she wont, but she has the braids.....

 

 

It would be Thursday right, if she ends up performing? That would be the night Kamala is officially nominated? I'm British and I keep up with it all but I'm still a bit in the dark

hide your man when the hangman come in TOWN

 

Oooh YIKES

 

so glad to see she's done with the cowboy cosplay and we can hopefully wrap this sad era up now 

 

 

So is Cowboy Carter officially done? Am I delusional for thinking that she hasn't abandoned this album? Am I wrong for believing she's done with this album? IDK what to think when it comes to her and this era at this point. I'm genuinely confused. 

 

 

 

 

12 minutes ago, mons†er said:

So is Cowboy Carter officially done? Am I delusional for thinking that she hasn't abandoned this album? Am I wrong for believing she's done with this album? IDK what to think when it comes to her and this era at this point. I'm genuinely confused. 

 

 

 

 

Shes done, we're done, everything is done

 

2 hours ago, ScorpiosGroove said:

so glad to see she's done with the cowboy cosplay and we can hopefully wrap this sad era up now 

 

 

That braid 

22 minutes ago, Brikenbur said:

That braid 

hey at least it's not another fried platinum wig x party city cowboy hat combo 

 

Yeah the CC era is done. I don't even know if promo would help with how low the momentum is at this point. 

So Texas was CC's TikTok moment then? No cute little challenge for Tyrant or Bodyguard? I would've guessed at least one song to blow up there à la Cuff It.

I almost wish sometimes we could fast forward through to the legacy stage of Bey's career.

 

Stay with me lol...

 

We are very much still in the imperial phase/top-tier/competing Queen era of her reign, which means she is firmly driving ish (rather than being driven by the industry). In the bigger picture, she remains "the" one to beat, the reigning champ, and is in no way against the ropes. 

 

In one regard, it's exciting because she's the one act (for me) that I can literally say I've followed since the first single to have had a career as long and successful as hers. The first act I can say I lived their rise, peak, and journey into legacy phase. There's rather amazingly been no true dip/flop/career blip or scandal to "come back from"  either. In so many ways, it's all unprecedented territory. 

 

However...

 

I'm really eager to be able to assess her career and her antics from complete hindsight and also from an aerial view. 

 

Because, it's abundantly clear a lot of her antics are deliberate. Over the last 10, 11, 12 years, she's positioned herself as a luxury product. The rules for which will always be "limit the supply, increase the demand". Her current Cowboy Carter run is totally emblematic of that in that we will for sure jump at whatever the next thing she does with it.

 

But I've always been really upfront about the fact that I have NEVER bought that she doesn't care about sales, etc. I think since 4 she's just been very careful to cultivate an "image of not caring" so that the expectations aren't what they are for those who solely measure artistic relevance by numbers. 

 

I guess I say all of this to say I wonder if she'll journey back towards more traditional Pop star antics when her legacy phase is truly upon her, thus gifting us another key cornerstone of her career journey. We've had the 1) all-out omnipresent promo era of her early days  2) the renegade era from ST to now. 

 

I could see her either playing ball again or going the Sade route and diving into further into the enigma / mystery side of things.