“Sweet Dreams,” I Am … Sasha Fierce, 2008 76. “That’s How You Like It,” Dangerously in Love, 2003 80. Seems like the ones she likes best are hers (Virgo) and Jay-Z’s (Sagittarius). Herein lies Beyoncé’s thoughts about all the zodiac signs. Missy Elliott), Dangerously in Love, 2003 “Haunted,” Beyoncé, 2013 Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic 82. Big Boi and Sleepy Brown), Dangerously in Love, 2003 85. It’s certainly more Gaga than Bey in its sound (and was originally written for Britney Spears, the other “Queen B,” as some call her, to feature), but like many of both women’s songs, it’s about just wanting to have a good time at the club with your girls.Ĩ6. “Telephone,” The Fame Monster, 2010īoth Lady Gaga and Beyoncé were at the peak of their pop powers when this song and video-a zany 10-minute film set in a very stylish women’s prison-came out 10 years ago. “Smash Into You,” I Am … Sasha Fierce, 2008 95. “Ave Maria,” I Am … Sasha Fierce, 2008 96. “Broken-Hearted Girl,” I Am … Sasha Fierce, 2008 97. “Disappear,” I Am … Sasha Fierce, 2008 98. The list includes her early work outside of Destiny’s Child, her duets and feature appearances-including the ones with her husband, Jay-Z-and of course her classic Coachella performance. To celebrate the release of her new visual album, Black Is King, out Friday on Disney+, we’re celebrating the top 100 songs in her solo catalog. Twenty-five-year-old Beyoncé probably knew then, as she sings now, that she was “part of something way bigger,” but it’s only the Bey of her late 30s who could convincingly show us that we all are. One is an expert dance song, musical in every way, funky from the floor up and the other is a capital-M Message. As such, it’s hard to compare a song like “Déjà Vu” to one like “Bigger”-they were made by totally different people, and yet they’re each quintessentially Beyoncé. And people who have been through some things are generally more interesting than those who haven’t. By her own admission, the Beyoncé of yesteryear was a young woman “intent on pleasing everyone around her.” Grown Bey is a mother of three who’s “died and reborn” in her marriage. She was always a beacon for “girl power”-but in a nondescript way that left out any mention of her own experience. Since 2016, she hasn’t just become more forthcoming about her Blackness, but about her womanhood. Maybe it’s an age thing, or maybe it’s because she became a parent, but she’s started to feel a bit like an elder, wisely entreating Black people to love themselves. But ever since the release of “Formation,” and with the steady stream of projects she’s dropped these past few years- Lemonade, the album and accompanying film the landmark Homecoming performance at Coachella in 2018 the victory lap duet album with Jay-Z, Everything Is Love the Afrobeat-packed The Lion King: The Gift and now Black Is King-she has become more emphatic in her pride for her cultural identity and intentional about communicating that message. I don’t think I was waiting for Beyoncé to “come out” as Black everything about her seemed rooted in or related to Black culture, from her name to her Dereon jeans to how her particular brand of beauty-light and curvy-was discussed and celebrated and bemoaned for being discussed and celebrated. “How can they be Black? They’re women.” The white man next to him suddenly realizes: “I think they might be both.” “I don’t understand,” a terrified white man screams in the SNL skit, hell breaking loose around him, as he learns that Kerry Washington, too, is Black. A group of cops boycotted her tour performance in Miami in response that April. There was also the unmistakable imagery of the video, calling out the negligence weaponized against the Black people of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. #BEYONCÉ BEST THING I NEVER HAD CLIP LYRICS FULL#Shortly after Beyoncé’s Super Bowl 50 performance in 2016, Saturday Night Live ran a short titled “The Day Beyoncé Turned Black.” It was an exaggerated version of what really happened that year-when, at the halftime show, she performed “Formation,” a clear departure from her previous catalog, celebrating her “baby hairs and Afros” and “Negro nose” all while dressed in full Black Panther regalia.
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