Tag Archives: Beyonce

Vice reports: Beyoncé is undeniably the most powerful force in pop culture. So it makes sense that someone decided to bring her music and philosophy into church, where it belongs. Broadly recently attended a jam-packed Beyoncé Mass held at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, which was organized by reverend and theologian Yolanda Norton, who teaches a class on Beyoncé and …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Over the course of the last year, Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver has repeatedly attacked us here at Right Wing Watch for supposedly being one of “the biggest purveyors of fake news in the country,” simply because we post about the outrageous things he says and provide audio or video of him saying them. …

The Associated Press reports: Beyonce, Blake Shelton, Barbra Streisand and Oprah Winfrey will headline a one-hour benefit telethon to benefit Hurricane Harvey victims that will be simulcast next week on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and CMT. The event will be telecast live at 8 p.m. Eastern on Sept. 12, and on tape delay at 8 p.m. on the West Coast. …

The HuffPost reports: Gloria Carter, Jay-Z’s mother, came out as lesbian in a new track featured on the rapper’s just-released “4:44” album. The song, “Smile,” features both Jay-Z and his mother discussing her sexuality. It is the first time that either of them has publicly addressed her sexual identity. “Mama had four kids, but she’s a lesbian / Had to …

Politico reports: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani reacted angrily Monday to Beyoncé at the MTV Video Music Awards, decrying her performance in which the award-winning singer referenced gun violence “a shame.” The mothers of several victims of police shootings walked the red carpet with Beyoncé before the show Sunday night at Madison Square Garden, as “Fox & Friends” …

From Beyonce’s website: North Carolina has been drawing the attention of the masses for new legislation that blocks cities and local governments from passing anti-discrimination measures that could protect gay and transgender people. It all began earlier this year when Charlotte passed a decree expanding North Carolina’s anti-discrimination laws allowing LGBT people protection in places of public accommodation. The ordinance, …

From the Atlantic: Beyoncé is selling t-shirts and phone cases that say “BOYCOTT BEYONCÉ” at her current tour, which kicked off last night in Miami. The slogan’s swiped from calls by some law-enforcement organizations to shun her after her “Formation” video and Super Bowl performance. Now, for $45, you can confuse all who encounter you as to whether you’re a …

Loony tunes Harlem hate Pastor James David Manning appeared on InfoWars yesterday where he and Alex Jones agreed that Beyonce’s new album proves that she wants to eat the brains of children. “Literally.” Also, communists are lizard people. Literally. Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: “I’m pro-human so I say, black people, especially, stop killing your kids and get …

TMZ reports: Hillary Clinton went into her bag of tricks — literally — on “The Breakfast Club,” telling Charlamagne Tha God she always carries hot sauce in her purse … a clear attempt to snag New York’s black vote. Charlamagne asked the Prez hopeful what’s in her purse, and she went for the sauce … clearly a reference to Beyonce’s …

Gothamist has profiled one of NYC’s singing telegram companies, which somehow are still a thing, focusing on performer Bernard Davis, who delivers birthday messages as Beyonce, a French maid, a Mexican chicken, and a twerking pink gorilla. Watch below.

Mediaite sets up the clip: The surreal streak that ran through this week’s Saturday Night Live cold open continued into the show’s first sketch, a filmed piece that lampooned the collective freakout over Beyoncé‘s Super Bowl 50 halftime show and overall blackness. Cut like a horror movie trailer, the white characters are increasingly shocked and horrified to find out that …

Beyonce’s new single Formation contains this immortal line: “When he fuck me good I take his ass to Red Lobster.” Immediately following her Super Bowl performance of the song – albeit a cleaned up version – the Twitterverse hovered over Red Lobster’s feed, hoping for an amusing or at least meme-worthy reaction. But it was a long eight hours before …

Teabagistan is been up in arms all week about Beyonce’s tribute to the Black Lives Matter during the Super Bowl halftime show. Next week there will be a protest outside NFL headquarters in Manhattan. From the New York Daily News: Beyoncé haters are ready to get in formation. The anti-Beyhive is planning to protest the “Drunk in Love” singer outside of …

Via Rolling Stone: The day before Beyoncé takes the stage during the Coldplay-headlined Super Bowl 50 halftime show, the singer dropped her surprise new single “Formation,” her first new song since her Beyoncé: Platinum Edition was released in November 2014. “Formation” is available to stream and download for free exclusively through Tidal. In addition to the new Mike Will Made …

Stereogum reviews: The clip, from director Ben Mor, features Coldplay performing at what appears to be an Indian street fair and wandering into the city while fireworks explode above. Beyoncé never appears onscreen with the boys; instead, she plays some sort of Bollywood screen queen, which is some pretty decent casting if you ignore the whole cultural-appropriation angle. It’s a …

Vogue reports: In case you didn’t have enough proof that Beyoncé is slowly taking over the world, Australia just approved plans to build a 68-story skyscraper in the shape of the singer’s famously curvaceous figure. While there have been plenty of oddly shaped structures that have gone up in the past—such as these constructions in the form of a robot, …

This afternoon Beyonce posted an Instagram clip with this message: “Never too late. #LoveWins. ❤️.” At this writing the clip has 760K likes and over 40K comments.

Almost 200K views as 2010 American Idol finalist and subsequent YouTube superstar Todrick Hall performs “all five Beyonce albums in four minutes.”

Stereogum raves:  Oh, what, you thought the Grammys were over? Well, they are. But the Grammy producers couldn’t resist throwing some more musical prestige up on network TV. And so last night, CBS aired a big tribute show to Stevie Wonder, who is, at the very least, someone extremely deserving of a big tribute show. And Beyoncé showing up on …