Is Tuesday the day the pop artist list updates?  Preparing for this site to meltdown 

I gave in and bought some cecred products. I'm amazed  

On 11/21/2024 at 6:25 PM, ScorpiosGroove said:

did anyone clock that this

 

 

is kinda similar to this 

 

Similar, as in all of them on a billboard. Well yes-

 

Remember THE had a billboard too

12 hours ago, Fleahive said:

Is Beyoncé a pop artist or not? I need to know cause I keep flip flopping depending on the narrative. 

She is an ARTIST, pop may not apply to her anymore.

 

15 hours ago, Fleahive said:

Is Beyoncé a pop artist or not? I need to know cause I keep flip flopping depending on the narrative. 

It's as if she didn't spend the whole pandemic recording a whole 27-track album talking about this specific topic of being genreless or did she

 

I heard break my soul on the radio today

not bad for a forgotten #1 hit

Growing each year 

52 minutes ago, Noodles said:

It's as if she didn't spend the whole pandemic recording a whole 27-track album talking about this specific topic of being genreless or did she

 

But if she's left out of main pop girl topics I get pissed. But then when people use pop in a negative way I say she's hasn't been since 2013. 

19 minutes ago, benyonce said:

Growing each year 

It just needs better playlisting. Spotify is so boring with the same songs at the top every year. 

On 11/22/2024 at 4:55 PM, Anvarie said:

She needs to work with Apple and do something with the Apple Vision Pro 

when she actually does and takes us on a ride through her coochie like the RWT intro.

 

I think it'll be more of an interactive Netflix visual and the billboards are the navigation/menu 

Ngl, the "Been Country World Tour" sounds like such an ICONIC Tour Name! 
 

It's literally SO pointed and in your face. It's Southern AF too basically using what the Racists have been saying about her, and just using it against THEM. I love it!

 

These stupid a** MFers really think being Country is about making Country music, when it's literally about being FROM the Country. Being FROM the South. That meaning, she can still make Country music cause it's in her blood. And as someone who literally also lives in Texas (only 2hrs away from Houston), she's 100% right.

 

I just think it's funny watching these YT raisins claim Beyonce isn't country when their ancestors came from the dried up Nordic tree! While Beyoncé's were probably Slaves and worked in the South.  

Even with the Halftime show on the horizon, it's still dead in here! 

1 month today until the big day. 

 

Now why did the base become extra dead after the halftime announcement? 

 

Bey finally gave us something straight out of a delulu hive fever dream (a LIVE performance for her latest album - which has songs begging to be performed live, that too on a national holiday, live streamed on THE biggest and most global streaming platform, for a one of a kind - trend setting new performance category) and the base moving slower than Lemonade streams. 

 

Hive so used to complaining and bitching and being irritated at her antics that we don't know what to do with ourselves right now...LMFAOOOOOOO

 

 

Question: What do ya'll prefer/vote for in terms of the opening song for the halftime show? Ya Ya or American Requiem 

 

I personally can't decide cuz both would be amazing. Maybe AR can be a better closer with Ayyyyyymmmeeeennnn. But the do you hear me opening is more epic. 

 

Also I NEED Linda Martell to come and announce YA YA, basically perform her interlude. 

 

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I will be burning my stan card if Bey skips either of these songs cuz I would know she aint right in the head and hates us -- just for a few days tho 

 

1 hour ago, Calypso said:

Now why did the base become extra dead after the halftime announcement? 

 

Bey finally gave us something straight out of a delulu hive fever dream (a LIVE performance for her latest album - which has songs begging to be performed live, that too on a national holiday, live streamed on THE biggest and most global streaming platform, for a one of a kind - trend setting new performance category) and the base moving slower than Lemonade streams. 

 

Hive so used to complaining and bitching and being irritated at her antics that we don't know what to do with ourselves right now...LMFAOOOOOOO

 

 

Question: What do ya'll prefer/vote for in terms of the opening song for the halftime show? Ya Ya or American Requiem 

 

I personally can't decide cuz both would be amazing. Maybe AR can be a better closer with Ayyyyyymmmeeeennnn. But the do you hear me opening is more epic. 

 

Also I NEED Linda Martell to come and announce YA YA, basically perform her interlude. 

 

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I will be burning my stan card if Bey skips either of these songs cuz I would know she aint right in the head and hates us -- just for a few days tho 

 

Open with smash hit Texas. She needs to win over the audience early then transition to other songs.

On 11/23/2024 at 9:53 PM, brutal said:

Monthly reminder we need Bey to do a live-action acting role again. Preferably a musical. I will die by my opinion that she was actually amazing in Dreamgirls.

True. Not only that but she was excellent in Cadillac Records. That film low-key has a cult niche following. 

1 hour ago, Calypso said:

Now why did the base become extra dead after the halftime announcement? 

 

Bey finally gave us something straight out of a delulu hive fever dream (a LIVE performance for her latest album - which has songs begging to be performed live, that too on a national holiday, live streamed on THE biggest and most global streaming platform, for a one of a kind - trend setting new performance category) and the base moving slower than Lemonade streams. 

 

Hive so used to complaining and bitching and being irritated at her antics that we don't know what to do with ourselves right now...LMFAOOOOOOO

 

 

Question: What do ya'll prefer/vote for in terms of the opening song for the halftime show? Ya Ya or American Requiem 

 

I personally can't decide cuz both would be amazing. Maybe AR can be a better closer with Ayyyyyymmmeeeennnn. But the do you hear me opening is more epic. 

 

Also I NEED Linda Martell to come and announce YA YA, basically perform her interlude. 

 

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I will be burning my stan card if Bey skips either of these songs cuz I would know she aint right in the head and hates us -- just for a few days tho 

 

It's because I dont really know what to say tbh. I dont even feel too excited cos I cant rlly imagine what it's even gonna be, or look like. 

Do you think Netflix and Bey could drop a 20-30 second teaser for the performance? Just to get fans and the press buzzing? Maybe drop it ten days before the show

2 minutes ago, Calypso said:

Do you think Netflix and Bey could drop a 20-30 second teaser for the performance? Just to get fans and the press buzzing? Maybe drop it ten days before the show

I don't think that'll happen.

 

We'll get info when she starts rehearsing in the stadium.

2 hours ago, Calypso said:

Now why did the base become extra dead after the halftime announcement? 

 

33 minutes ago, alien superstore said:

It's because I dont really know what to say tbh. I dont even feel too excited cos I cant rlly imagine what it's even gonna be, or look like. 

Both of y'all capture my sentiments lol. 

 

We finally have something to talk about and yet it's crickets. 

 

I think the not knowing of the format etc makes it hard to wrap one's head around it all. Almost like Coachella because beyond knowing she was performing, we actually had no frame of reference as to what it was gonna give. So I loosely recall us all kinda "posting as usual" on here around that time and we were blown away all the more when it was the slay it ended up being.

 

For me, I think it's also a case of managing my expectations. I literally am one of the stans that REALLY care and am invested in the nuances of Bey's overall operation. My head is abuzz with the following:

 

Who is creative directing?

 

Who are the choreographers? Who are the dancers?

 

Are rehearsals underway?

 

Is it a conventional Halftime in scale? Is it longer? Shorter? 

 

Is it live or is it pre-filmed? A mixture of both?

 

As longtime Hive (shoutout to the other BeyHive Board folk), times of past would have seen some insider tea spilled ahead of Halftime (especially around things like rehearsals, commissioned dancers, choreographers etc). These days not so much.

 

So in knowing that the answers to the above almost certainly won't come until the performance itself, I'm cautiously and patiently just...waiting.

 

I imagine that if more commercials, teases drop then there will more activity. 

 

Exhausting to think of whats to come since Bey is likely going to surpass our ideas

 

Very random...

 

But does anyone else wish Beyonce would do a joint album or even EP with another big Urban act that isn't Jay?

 

I find Hip-Hop consumption, in particular, in the streaming era really fascinating. 

 

Kendrick's numbers are huge and granted he benefits from the Drake drama, I legit think he'd be looking at a similar buzz had he just dropped randomly anyway. Same with the likes of Travis Scott and Tyler The Creator. Not to say she should go near them acts specifically, but it's food for thought. Both the commercial and creative potential.

 

Random musing of a Chart Hive, who equally would like to see Bey rip up the rulebook with her catalog a bit.

 

I always looked at B7 (before we had full concept of the Acts) as symbolically being a number completion. And not to say there wouldn't be 8th, 9th etc blockbuster solo projects. But just 7 solid, chart-topping projects of her "playing the game" as a Pop star. Thereafter, I wanted to see her just go more left with ish she hadn't done before. Like EPs, 3-track drops, collab projects, and concept albums. Not to the point of being excessive but in a way that sees her continue to be an unpredictable disrupter (and racking up hits etc along the way).

 

Even beyond Urban, imagine the (commercial) collapse should she drop a 3-track-pack with a Miley for example. On some "Cowboy Carter Presents: The Three Ring Rodeo" ish to still tie it to the album. Or an evolved version of the standalone drop Bruno and Gaga did e.g. dropping a mini-EP with him after all these years of us wanting even one collab. 

 

Act III will take us to B9. I would like to think some of the above will be more feasible after then, especially if she plans another break but wants to stay visible in the market and feed her streams. 

Imagine a surprise drop titled "RnB" by Rihanna and Beyonce painting the past and future of RnB music.

 

I dont know exactly what it would sound like, but I know streaming records would be broken 

Edited November 25, 20241 yr by Kristie Kuwa

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