She's a very cool person, and her Lemonade album was universally critic ally acclaimed for a reason:
"We all experience pain and loss, and often we become inaudible. My intention for the film and album was to create a body of work that would give a voice to our pain, our struggles, our darkness and our history. To confront issues that make us uncomfortable. It’s important to me to show images to my children that reflect their beauty, so they can grow up in a world where they look in the mirror, first through their own families — as well as the news, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the White House and the Grammys — and see themselves, and have no doubt that they’re beautiful, intelligent and capable. This is something I want for every child of every race. And I feel it’s vital that we learn from the past and recognize our tendencies to repeat our mistakes.
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Re: It's The End of America and I Feel Fine / or ARTISTS AS THE OFFICIAL LEGISLATORS OF CULTURE time
Date: 2022-11-10 06:36 pm (UTC)She does worship Osun - literally, the Black Madonna. (Could be the White Lady or The Pretty Lady -- Latin American translation) and channels her for her art all the time: https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/7/31/21349403/beyonce-black-is-king-oshun-osun-yoruba-goddess. So she does have the "dead white eyes". I read somewhere she had the appropriate initiations.
She's a very cool person, and her Lemonade album was universally critic ally acclaimed for a reason:
"We all experience pain and loss, and often we become inaudible. My intention for the film and album was to create a body of work that would give a voice to our pain, our struggles, our darkness and our history. To confront issues that make us uncomfortable. It’s important to me to show images to my children that reflect their beauty, so they can grow up in a world where they look in the mirror, first through their own families — as well as the news, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the White House and the Grammys — and see themselves, and have no doubt that they’re beautiful, intelligent and capable. This is something I want for every child of every race. And I feel it’s vital that we learn from the past and recognize our tendencies to repeat our mistakes.
—Beyoncé during her acceptance speech for the 2017 Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_(Beyonc%C3%A9_album)