![]() ![]() Whether she’s talking about her metaphorical dick or asking us to stop hounding her about JAY-Z’s snowballing mediocrity in the face of her much more obvious evolutionary leaps and bounds doesn’t matter much. As for a desire to please the powerful at any cost, Beyonce’s answer is “get off my dick.” Self-confidence and autonomy are in abundance on every track, especially “Nice,” which showcases Beyoncé at the height of her rapping prowess. Anger is turned outward, at the appropriate targets (JAY-Z takes swipes at the NFL and the Grammys, for example). One way of gauging how free The Carters are on Everything is Love is comparing them to Painter’s definition. In her biography of Sojourner Truth, Nell Painter writes about the slave mentality and how it didn’t occur in a vacuum: “Its characteristics-a lack of self-confidence, personal autonomy and independent thought a sense of one’s own insignificance in comparison to the importance of others a desire to please the powerful at any cost and finally, a ferocious anger that is often turned inward but can surge into frightening outbursts-are precisely the rants of vulnerable people who have been battered.”Įverything Is Love celebrates the hard-won absence of these qualities 153 years after the Emancipation Proclamation declared all enslaved persons free. Heralded and received as the long-anticipated event album from one of the most-surveilled couples in contemporary popular culture, the joint effort displays the couple's (particularly Beyoncé's) unique talent for reframing Black history-while making some of their own-with stunning acuity. Felix describes as her Southernness and the global black vernacular. Like much of Beyoncé’s most fascinating work of late, the album-a collaboration with her husband JAY-Z-emphasizes the unique intersection of what New Yorker writer Doreen St. To fully appreciate Everything is Love, it helps to think about the past.
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