Last Seen Blogs
Video
beyoncé auditioning musicians for her all-female band (2006 bet performance)
48K notes
·
View notes
Photo
“Until their is a mosaic of perspectives coming from different ethnicities behind the lens, we will continue to have a narrow approach and view of what the world should actually looks like. That is why i wanted to work with this brilliant 23-year-old photographer Tyler Mitchell.
When i first started, 21 years ago, I was told that it was hard for me to get onto covers of magazines because people did not sell. Clearly that has been proven a myth. Not only is an African American on the cover of the most important month for Vogue, this is the first ever Vogue cover shot by an African American photographer.
It’s important to me that i help open doors for younger artists. There are so many cultural and societal barriers to entry that I like to do what I can to level the playing field, to present a different point of view for people who may feel like their voices don’t matter.
Imagine if someone hadn’t given a chance to the brilliant women who came before me: Josephine Bake, Nina Simone, Eartha Kitt, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston, and the list goes on. They opened the doors for me, and i pray that i’m doing all i can to open doors or the next generation of talents.
If people in powerful positions continue to hire and cast only people who look like them, sound like them, come from the same neighborhoods they grew up in, they will never have a greater understanding of experiences different from their own. They will hire the same models, curate the same art, cast the same actors over and over again, and we will all lose. The beauty of social media is it’s so completely democratic. Everyone has a say. Everyone’s voice counts, and everyone has a chance to paint the world from their perspective.
Beyoncé on Opening Doors for Vogue
643 notes
·
View notes
Photo
“ There are many shades on every journey. Nothing is black or white. I’ve been through hell and back, and I’m grateful for every scar. I have experienced betrayals and heartbreaks in many forms. I have had disappointments in business partnerships as well as personal ones, and they all left me feeling neglected, lost, and vulnerable. Through it all i have learned to laugh and cry and grow.
I look at the woman i was in my 20′s and i see a young lady growing into confidence but intent on pleasing everyone around her, I now feel so much more beautiful, so much sexier, so much more interesting. And so much more powerful “
Beyoncé on her Journey for Vogue
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
An important stat about Beyoncé on Vogue’s 2018 September Issue.
Reportedly, Beyoncé has been given full creative control over the shoot, including selecting the photographer.
Tyler Mitchell, a 23-year-old photographer has been chosen, marking the first time a black photographer has shot the cover for a US Vogue in its 126-year history.
45 notes
·
View notes
Photo
Can we take a moment to realize what a feminist jam Bootylicious is? Especially given that it’s from 2001 when feminist pop discourse was not a thing. More than just celebrating an attribute that had priorly been subjugated in favour of the “heroin chic” aesthetic of the 1990s, it makes the centre of the song the woman’s autonomy of her body. The man in question is not ready for her jelly. In a classic Destiny’s Child way, he is the one being asked to live up to performative expectations. When they say “You gotta do much better if you gone dance with me tonight” and “prove you can hang with me” they make it clear that they are in control. Their confident, bootylicious bodies are not something he has a right to. In contrast, more recent booty anthems have missed the mark. In J.Lo’s “Booty” from 2014, she sings, “Go on let them jeans touch you while you’re dancing, It’s his birthday, give him what he ask for” and in Nicki’s Anaconda (also 2014), the man’s preference for big asses is the driving force of the song, “He say he don’t like ‘em boney, he want something he can grab” and the repeated sample, “My anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns, hun” simultaneously places the male gaze as a measurement of worth as well as shaming those with naturally small booties. Bootylicous of course, would be a #1 hit, so huge that it got placed in the dictionary as a legitimate word. Come on Bootylicious!
193 notes
·
View notes
Photo
Beyonce’s outfit is symbols of Black power & liberation. A nubian queen, a black panther, a Black Power fist, a black bee and on top, a winged sun with the eye of Horus in the middle.
15K notes
·
View notes
Text
!!!!!!!!!!
Today marks the end of Mercury in Retrograde. Yesterday, Virgo Queen Beyoncé Knowles-Carter performed a legendary set on her Coachella stage, forcing her ruling planet, Mercury, to get in formation.
Mercury is no longer in retrograde.
SHE DID THAT!
47 notes
·
View notes