Beyoncé
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Recommended Pairing: Toss some premium vodka and a can of frozen lemonade concentrate into a blender. Grab a straw and a seat.
Last weekend the good folks at HBO gave us a free preview through their cable and dish affiliates as well as their new streaming service, HBO NOW. This freebie coincided with the launch of their most popular
show's new seasons, most likely with the thinking that it would help curb piracy. (Though most people still stole that shit anyway.)
It was a fantastic Sunday of television, but I'll talk about the season premieres later in the column because despite the revelation of a certain sagging red woman, the lady that got the most buzz last Sunday was Beyoncé. Queen Bey absolutely killed it, or to use her words...
"Goddamn, she murdered everybody and I was her witness."
George R. R. Martin would be proud.
Her film, Lemonade, had pretty much everything I could possibly want out of a one hour video album... thingy.
She smashed cars and windows:
There were explosions and monster trucks; ballads and bangers and great choreography to match the cinematography. Above all, she sang her balls off... And she looked dope doing it. Nobody makes scaring white people look better than Beyoncé.
I grew up on MTV and genuinely miss the days when your favorite songs on the radio were paired with visually striking short films, or at worst shots of the band pretending to play their instruments in exotic locations.
As popular artists become further and further removed from playing instruments and/or writing their own songs, I respect the extra grind involved to use all available mediums to create a work of art. This isn't going to end up being one of my favorite albums of 2016, but I'm happy that so many people sat and watched an hour long concept album.
I'm one of the last handful of people that still prefers listening to albums in a single sitting as opposed to shuffling through a playlist of "bangers." So, if creating these epic short film companion pieces is a way to bring back the era of artists creating albums and people listening through them, then I'm all in. Thanks Beyoncé.
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Recommended Pairing: Toss some premium vodka and a can of frozen lemonade concentrate into a blender. Grab a straw and a seat.
Last weekend the good folks at HBO gave us a free preview through their cable and dish affiliates as well as their new streaming service, HBO NOW. This freebie coincided with the launch of their most popular
show's new seasons, most likely with the thinking that it would help curb piracy. (Though most people still stole that shit anyway.)
It was a fantastic Sunday of television, but I'll talk about the season premieres later in the column because despite the revelation of a certain sagging red woman, the lady that got the most buzz last Sunday was Beyoncé. Queen Bey absolutely killed it, or to use her words...
"Goddamn, she murdered everybody and I was her witness."
George R. R. Martin would be proud.
Her film, Lemonade, had pretty much everything I could possibly want out of a one hour video album... thingy.
She smashed cars and windows:
There were explosions and monster trucks; ballads and bangers and great choreography to match the cinematography. Above all, she sang her balls off... And she looked dope doing it. Nobody makes scaring white people look better than Beyoncé.
I grew up on MTV and genuinely miss the days when your favorite songs on the radio were paired with visually striking short films, or at worst shots of the band pretending to play their instruments in exotic locations.
As popular artists become further and further removed from playing instruments and/or writing their own songs, I respect the extra grind involved to use all available mediums to create a work of art. This isn't going to end up being one of my favorite albums of 2016, but I'm happy that so many people sat and watched an hour long concept album.
I'm one of the last handful of people that still prefers listening to albums in a single sitting as opposed to shuffling through a playlist of "bangers." So, if creating these epic short film companion pieces is a way to bring back the era of artists creating albums and people listening through them, then I'm all in. Thanks Beyoncé.
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