Beyonce is a world wide pop, hip-hop, R&B, star. Not only this, she is a black woman with a fierce ability to advocate for women everywhere, especially women of color. Her music and her overall image has tastefully woven feminism into her identity in such a powerful way. With the immense amount of followers and fans, she has gained support, spread awareness, and hopefully made a positive impact. In "How #BlackLivesMatter Started a Musical Revolution" by young feminist Daphne Brooks, there is a definitive agreement on just how powerful her music is. "But Beyoncé the conundrum time and again shows how popular music culture – and especially black women’s popular culture – can awaken, acknowledge and articulate the pleasures and distastes of those in the margins."
In "Final Chorus: Planet Rock", Kevin Young describes the shared experience that many black artists and people of color face. "For African Americans, life is not an open book but a talking one. Not in the sense of being 'books on tape,' nor even the African slave's powerful idea of the "talking book," but rather, a mixtape: something homemade yet public; fragile and formidable; personal yet meant to be heard (or at least unignorable); loud as hell yet clandestine, whether passed around like love notes or sold from the trunk of a car." It is not necessarily how they want to be living their lives and expressing theirselves/experiences. But it is something that is important to their community and people outside of their community. Beyonce sacrifices her privacy in terms of her everyday life and in terms of her personal life and the way it's been afflicted.
Songs to add to the list:
Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar "Freedom"
Lauryn hill "Black Rage"
Both speak on the shared experiences of people of color, specifically black.
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