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Kelly","publishDate":1546903567,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update (January 9, 2018, 10:27 pm PT): \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lady Gaga has released \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ladygaga/status/1083237788663697408\">a statement\u003c/a> addressing her work with R. Kelly:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108522\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-108522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-800x1246.jpg\" alt='Gaga accompanied this image with the words: \"I stand by anyone who has ever been the victim of sexual assault.\" ' width=\"800\" height=\"1246\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-800x1246.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-160x249.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-768x1196.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-1020x1588.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-771x1200.jpg 771w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-1180x1837.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-960x1495.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-240x374.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-375x584.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-520x810.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaga accompanied this image with the words: \"I stand by anyone who has ever been the victim of sexual assault.\" \u003ccite>(@ladygaga)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">******\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>R. Kelly has persistently been accused of disturbing treatment of women, particularly underage girls, ever since he illegally married 15-year-old Aaliyah in 1997. His career has survived child pornography trials, rumors of a sex cult and even the organized effort by frustrated bystanders to \u003ca href=\"https://www.muterkelly.org/\">#MuteRKelly\u003c/a>. Kelly hasn't just dodged every bullet fired in his direction, he has reveled in the attention, even shrugging his shoulders in song form with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/104682/r-kellys-i-admit-has-all-the-hallmarks-of-abuser-logic\">shocking single, \"I Admit,\"\u003c/a> last September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend though, Lifetime docu-series, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mylifetime.com/shows/surviving-r-kelly\">\u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, somehow had a greater impact than anything that has come before. In the six-hour documentary, credible abuse survivors told stories that were harrowing to listen to and obviously extremely difficult for them to relive. There can be no doubt, after \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>, who this man is and what he continues to get away with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q0nOYtZsGU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately for the survivors in question, almost all of the household names approached to participate in the series refused interviews. Executive producer dream hampton has revealed that those who refused participation include Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, L'il Kim, Dave Chapelle and Lady Gaga. Though she has gone some way towards excusing the absent celebs, saying: “It’s not because they support him, it’s because it’s so messy and muddy,” she has also said she \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6566129/Lady-Gaga-called-Surviving-R-Kelly-producer-silence-DEFENDING-singer.html\">wanted to know how Lady Gaga could be on \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em>\u003c/a> with [Kelly] as someone who advocates for domestic abuse survivors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even back in 2013, Gaga's collaboration with R. Kelly caught a lot of people off guard. Given the already well-established rumors about him, the lyrics of \"Do What U Want\" weren't just inappropriate, they were deeply insensitive. The fact that Gaga, an outspoken advocate of women's rights, so enthusiastically embraced and supported Kelly, only compounded the confusion. At the time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6562945/R-Kelly-untrue-things-written-Lady-Gaga-defended-singer-interview.html\">she told confused journalists\u003c/a>: \"R. Kelly and I have sometimes very untrue things written about us, so in a way, this was a bond between us.\" The video, directed by another \u003ca href=\"https://www.marieclaire.com.au/terry-richardson-every-sexual-harassment-and-assault-allegation\">alleged predator, Terry Richardson, \u003c/a>was \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6128498/lady-gaga-do-what-u-want-video-r-kelly-terry-richardson\">scrapped in the midst of the controversy\u003c/a>, and Gaga did a hasty re-recording of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMBZhTqjEcw\">track with Christina Aguilera\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though little has been made of that situation in the time since, it was Lady Gaga who received much of the \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em> backlash on social media over the weekend:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Tzynya/status/1081011864430092288\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/adlfz/status/1081422509696864256\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MoreAndAgain/status/1081050379381559296\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MrErnestOwens/status/1082027380145831936\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/fauxdeity/status/1081246766949900291\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are too many musicians and industry people culpable in R. Kelly's ongoing career to name. (Let's not forget that Spotify amended its decision to remove R. Kelly from its platform last year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/kendrick-lamar-gets-dragged-in-surviving-r-kelly-discussion-news.68534.html\">pressure from Kendrick Lamar\u003c/a>. Or that Damon Dash and Jay-Z's friendship ended after Dash told Jay about \u003ca href=\"https://www.vibe.com/2019/01/dame-dash-speaks-on-r-kelly-jay-z\">Kelly's abuse of Aaliyah\u003c/a>, and Jay moved forward with 2002's \u003cem>Best of Both Worlds\u003c/em> collaboration anyway.) And it's true that women almost always end up doing the heavy lifting when it comes to issues around sexual abuse, while men get to stay in the shadows. But the truth is, no one else in this picture is in quite the same position as Gaga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her current silence isn't just a PR nightmare for her, it's becoming a dividing line and a focal point, an egregious example of how white women, even ones actively involved in social justice causes, can discard the experiences of women of color. Where Erykah Badu can take to Instagram and plead the fifth on the subject (\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BsR-mAAnsTc/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading\">\"A wise woman once said...nothing\"\u003c/a> she just posted, under pressure from fans), Gaga's silence carries more weight, not just because of her higher profile, but also because of her inherent privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer Gaga stays uncharacteristically silent about the plight of these women at the hands of one of her collaborators, the larger the gulf feels between white feminists and feminists of color, all of which creates even more division at precisely the time when intersectionality should be taking center stage. A united front is needed now if justice is to ever be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the musicians who refused to appear in \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em> might pay some sort of price for not doing so, but Gaga has both the most to lose by staying silent and the most power to wield by speaking up. If she publicly turns her back on Kelly now, it might actually bring some comfort to those survivors who've been discarded as collateral damage, repeatedly, for years, by a music industry that cares more about sales than women's personal safety. Gaga, of all people, should already know that.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gaga's silence about her one-time collaborator is confusing, frustrating and divisive.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1547145437,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":861},"headData":{"title":"Lady Gaga Needs to Talk About R. 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Kelly:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108522\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-108522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-800x1246.jpg\" alt='Gaga accompanied this image with the words: \"I stand by anyone who has ever been the victim of sexual assault.\" ' width=\"800\" height=\"1246\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-800x1246.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-160x249.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-768x1196.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-1020x1588.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-771x1200.jpg 771w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-1180x1837.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-960x1495.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-240x374.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-375x584.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl-520x810.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/01/DwhvBCvVYAA-SAl.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaga accompanied this image with the words: \"I stand by anyone who has ever been the victim of sexual assault.\" \u003ccite>(@ladygaga)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">******\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>R. Kelly has persistently been accused of disturbing treatment of women, particularly underage girls, ever since he illegally married 15-year-old Aaliyah in 1997. His career has survived child pornography trials, rumors of a sex cult and even the organized effort by frustrated bystanders to \u003ca href=\"https://www.muterkelly.org/\">#MuteRKelly\u003c/a>. Kelly hasn't just dodged every bullet fired in his direction, he has reveled in the attention, even shrugging his shoulders in song form with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/104682/r-kellys-i-admit-has-all-the-hallmarks-of-abuser-logic\">shocking single, \"I Admit,\"\u003c/a> last September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend though, Lifetime docu-series, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mylifetime.com/shows/surviving-r-kelly\">\u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, somehow had a greater impact than anything that has come before. In the six-hour documentary, credible abuse survivors told stories that were harrowing to listen to and obviously extremely difficult for them to relive. There can be no doubt, after \u003cem>Surviving R. 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Executive producer dream hampton has revealed that those who refused participation include Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, L'il Kim, Dave Chapelle and Lady Gaga. Though she has gone some way towards excusing the absent celebs, saying: “It’s not because they support him, it’s because it’s so messy and muddy,” she has also said she \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6566129/Lady-Gaga-called-Surviving-R-Kelly-producer-silence-DEFENDING-singer.html\">wanted to know how Lady Gaga could be on \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em>\u003c/a> with [Kelly] as someone who advocates for domestic abuse survivors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even back in 2013, Gaga's collaboration with R. Kelly caught a lot of people off guard. Given the already well-established rumors about him, the lyrics of \"Do What U Want\" weren't just inappropriate, they were deeply insensitive. The fact that Gaga, an outspoken advocate of women's rights, so enthusiastically embraced and supported Kelly, only compounded the confusion. At the time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6562945/R-Kelly-untrue-things-written-Lady-Gaga-defended-singer-interview.html\">she told confused journalists\u003c/a>: \"R. 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Kelly's ongoing career to name. (Let's not forget that Spotify amended its decision to remove R. Kelly from its platform last year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/kendrick-lamar-gets-dragged-in-surviving-r-kelly-discussion-news.68534.html\">pressure from Kendrick Lamar\u003c/a>. Or that Damon Dash and Jay-Z's friendship ended after Dash told Jay about \u003ca href=\"https://www.vibe.com/2019/01/dame-dash-speaks-on-r-kelly-jay-z\">Kelly's abuse of Aaliyah\u003c/a>, and Jay moved forward with 2002's \u003cem>Best of Both Worlds\u003c/em> collaboration anyway.) And it's true that women almost always end up doing the heavy lifting when it comes to issues around sexual abuse, while men get to stay in the shadows. But the truth is, no one else in this picture is in quite the same position as Gaga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her current silence isn't just a PR nightmare for her, it's becoming a dividing line and a focal point, an egregious example of how white women, even ones actively involved in social justice causes, can discard the experiences of women of color. Where Erykah Badu can take to Instagram and plead the fifth on the subject (\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BsR-mAAnsTc/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading\">\"A wise woman once said...nothing\"\u003c/a> she just posted, under pressure from fans), Gaga's silence carries more weight, not just because of her higher profile, but also because of her inherent privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer Gaga stays uncharacteristically silent about the plight of these women at the hands of one of her collaborators, the larger the gulf feels between white feminists and feminists of color, all of which creates even more division at precisely the time when intersectionality should be taking center stage. A united front is needed now if justice is to ever be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the musicians who refused to appear in \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em> might pay some sort of price for not doing so, but Gaga has both the most to lose by staying silent and the most power to wield by speaking up. If she publicly turns her back on Kelly now, it might actually bring some comfort to those survivors who've been discarded as collateral damage, repeatedly, for years, by a music industry that cares more about sales than women's personal safety. Gaga, of all people, should already know that.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/108417/lady-gaga-needs-to-talk-about-r-kelly","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_4","pop_1041"],"tags":["pop_3401","pop_3400","pop_3341","pop_320","pop_1105","pop_463"],"featImg":"pop_108419","label":"pop"},"pop_105278":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_105278","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"105278","score":null,"sort":[1534800521000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"an-afro-surrealistic-worldview-looms-over-this-years-video-music-awards","title":"An Afro-Surrealistic Worldview Looms Over This Year's Video Music Awards","publishDate":1534800521,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>A couple of years ago, when viral videos of black death were all the rage in America, MTV rolled out one of the blackest Video Music Awards in the show's history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comedians Keegan-Michael Key & Jordan Peele co-hosted as faux social media influencers \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lizardsheeple\">@LizardSheeple\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@TheShamester\">@TheShamester\u003c/a>, in sketches parodying the most inane corners of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/tags/454949862/black-twitter\">Black Twitter\u003c/a>. Rihanna performed a total of four times (not including her \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGcc3LyANtA\">artful dodging\u003c/a> of Drake's desperate attempt at a kiss while presenting her with the Video Vanguard Award). Seven years after crashing Taylor Swift's acceptance speech, Kanye West got seven uninterrupted minutes to ramble about Hollywood's incestuous web of fame and infamy, while shouting out his old girlfriend Amber Rose, his wife Kim Kardashian and her one-time fling Ray J. A toned Teyana Taylor gave viewers a visual workout in the premiere of Ye's new video for \"Fade.\" Beyoncé took home the most trophies by the night's end, including one for video of the year (\"Formation\"), after performing a 16-minute medley of songs from her groundbreaking visual album \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>. It was one of those rare award shows where all the black artists who were supposed to win did, at a moment when Black America was practically dying to have its humanity acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a cable network whose beginnings were defined by \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2000/11/mtv200011?currentPage=allPittman&printable=true\">charges of racism\u003c/a> before breaking its own color barrier with Michael Jackson's \"Billie Jean\" in 1983, this was peak blackness. \"I can't recall a Blacker time,\" Damon Young of the blog Very Smart Brothas wrote in his \u003ca href=\"https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/the-10-best-and-worst-moments-from-the-blackest-vmas-1822522881\">VMAs review\u003c/a> the following day. \"The hosts were Black, the co-hosts were Black, the presenters were (mostly) Black, the performers were (mostly) Black, the winners were (mostly) Black, and even Kanye was (mostly) Black last night.\" Whether coincidence or consequence, it felt like the show had been programmed in defiance of the times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months earlier, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had become the latest black men whose deaths at the hands of police sparked outrage after being captured on video. The surreal frequency of such videos, showing unsuspecting victims executed without the benefit of judge or jury, had already reached the point of absurdity. That point of view has since taken root in the visual language of music videos suffused with an increasingly Afro-Surrealist bent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If black folk had relied on mainstream recognition to affirm our existence or accurately reflect our cultural contributions, we might be nearing extinction by now. But award shows, through inclusion and exclusion, offer a useful lens through which to see how pop culture is framing the politics of the day. To be clear, the VMAs have always been the most colorful of the mainstream music awards, the Jheri-curled stepchild of institutions that produce the Grammys and such. And black artists have earned far better recognition at the VMAs — like Kendrick Lamar, who walked away with six wins in 2017 — than any other award shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the nearly 120 nominations at this year's show, artists of color lead the pack with 30, split between Cardi B, The Carters (Beyoncé and Jay-Z), Childish Gambino and Drake alone. Black artists, in particular, are reveling in a renaissance of the music video as a form of protest and cultural critique. In a year contextualized by the racial divisiveness and gender bigotry that's become a hallmark of Donald Trump's presidency, absurdity truly is the new black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When MTV launched in 1981 — with the slogan \"You'll never look at music the same way again\" — videos were virtually an afterthought in the music industry. Even for the VMAs, which started in 1984, videos have always been ancillary to the award show's primary purpose — gathering the biggest names in pop under one rowdy circus tent. Last year's show reportedly drew the lowest TV ratings in VMA history. It's a reminder that music videos don't live on MTV anymore, they live on the Internet, where the award show itself is increasingly streamed by viewers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, artists in hip-hop, R&B and Latin pop owe their collective climb in consumption directly to the world's largest streaming site: YouTube. They've used the free platform in inventive ways to extend both creative depth and commercial reach. This new symbiotic relationship, in which videos are no longer mere conduits for music consumption but an intrinsic part of the content being consumed, is exactly what media critic Marshall McLuhan was referring to over 50 years ago when he said, \"The medium is the message.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most urgent and impactful videos nominated this year are those in which the video release doubled as the surprise debut of the song. Whether it be the vagina pants of Janelle Monáe's \"PYNK,\" the shooting of the church choir in Childish Gambino's \"This is America\" or the Louvre takeover in The Carters' \"Apeshit,\" these symbols are tied to the identity of these songs and the way we process them. Much of this has to do with a rise in creative risk-taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just looking at the videos that are up for best hip-hop video, but particularly the other best art direction videos, there is a certain amount of freedom in a lot of them,\" says Miles Mullin, who is nominated for best art direction for his work on J. Cole's \"ATM.\" The video, like Cole's album KOD, satirizes the infatuation with material things and self-medication central to certain segments of rap. To symbolize the insanity, Mullin made oversize objects including a seven-foot bottle of cough syrup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUTI4bPdlgE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Ernie Gilbert, who's up for best editing on Gambino's \"This is America,\" the tonal shift in music video production is being fueled in part by a change in the music's messaging. \"We're in an interesting place with music videos,\" he says. Gilbert has worked in the medium for eight years and also works with with the video's director, Hiro Murai, as an editor on Donald Glover's \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em>. \"We've come to a place where it seems like the old gimmicks don't work anymore, in terms of getting people excited about a video — like, how many beautiful houses and awesome cars can we be in?\" But creating content intent on conveying a message doesn't mean sacrificing creativity. \"It goes back to that idea that audiences are more savvy, the world is a little bit more dialed in,\" he says. \"You want to think about the messages, what you're conveying and how you're doing it, so that you walk that fine line between something being cheesy [like] a PSA or something being unnecessarily inflammatory. In our crazy news cycle with everything that's going on, how do you keep your message kind of true and authentic? It's not easy and it's something that hopefully people are thinking about as they are working on stuff. I know I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=VYOjWnS4cMY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He credits Gambino and Murai with creating an explosive video that quite literally \"danced around some really hard subjects in a nuanced way, in a way that I think really encouraged discussion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, Janelle Monáe's \"PYNK\" became an instant conversation piece when it premiered online this past April. Nominated in several categories, including video with a message, the visual's provocative vagina pants, worn by Monáe and her accompanying dancers, speak volumes in the wake of President Trump's admitted predilection for grabbing private parts. \"If you try to grab my pussycat / This pussy grab you back,\" as Monáe sings on Dirty Computer's \"I Got The Juice.\" But it's Monáe's self-declaration — revealing in an interview with \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> this year that she identifies as pansexual — characterized by the creative play between Monáe and the cast of women, including actress and friend Tessa Thompson, that bridges the link between black queendom and queerdom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=PaYvlVR_BEc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In personal ways, she opened up about things that she didn't before,\" says Emma Westenberg, the video's director who collaborated extensively with Monáe and her team on the making of \"PYNK.\" \"She saw that people came out to their own families because of that video and because of her being open. That is the best possible outcome you can have as a maker — to encourage and inspire people.\" For Westenberg, it also served as an opportunity to revel in her own womanhood as a director. \"I'm so happy that I can be following my interests and developing myself as a person without people saying, 'Wait, aren't you supposed to be married by now? Aren't you supposed to have kids by now?' The role of a woman in society has grown so much broader. My mom and my grandma are so jealous. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As pop's personification of black excellence, Beyoncé and Jay-Z flaunted their status by taking over the Louvre in \"APES***.\" But the video, released in tandem with The Carters' surprise album drop of \u003cem>Everything Is Love\u003c/em> in June, also offers a pointed critique of the white gaze. Even the title, \"APES***,\" works as an intentional subversion of the historically racist trope likening black people to primates. The visual power of \"APES***\" lies in the extreme juxtaposition of black bodies filling up a classically white, colonialist-curated space with unadulterated movement and representation. Bey and Jay frame themselves against the backdrop of the Mona Lisa; dancers in every shade of black wind their hips in front of the painting of Emperor Napoleon and Empress Joséphine; Beyoncé thrashes wildly in front of the frozen sculpture of the winged greek goddess Nike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbMqWXnpXcA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just wanted to act a fool in such a beautiful space,\" says choreographer JaQuel Knight, who's consistently worked with Beyoncé since \"Single Ladies,\" the video that ironically lost to Taylor Swift's \"You Belong with Me\" in the category of best female video at the VMAs in 2009. \"Black culture is the new art, it's the new voice of now. From music to how we dance — the vibe and energy — everyone kind of wants a piece of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filmed after-hours while preparing for the European leg of the On The Run II tour, the video's director, Ricky Saiz, only had two nights in the Louvre to pull it off. Knight collaborated with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, artistic director of Royal Ballet of Flanders in Belgium, to create the video's choreography, or \"vibe pieces,\" as Knight prefers to call them. \"I just kind of make sure everything stays as black and cultural and funky and fun and relevant and cool [as it should be],\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To see the contrast of these beautiful black people in such a white space — that's art right there. The beauty of just being there was so strong, so it really didn't take much as far as absorbing the space. The art speaks for itself. Bey and Jay, they're modern-day Mona Lisas. The dancers, their bodies and the shapes of these beautiful black women; it's just wow. It was like a homerun, you knew it was gonna win.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter who the big winners are at the 2018 VMAs, it's becoming impossible to ignore the chorus of voices and images collectively screaming out how much black lives and black culture and black liberation matter. But it's not entirely new, and VMA recognition is far from exhaustive, even for 2018. \"I think that black artists have always been making huge visual statements,\" Westenberg says. The difference, she adds, is it feels like \"people are finally listening, or seeing, or appreciating it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that sense, the Bey and Jay takeover of the Louvre is a cultural metaphor that's been a long time coming. \"Yeah, it's a takeover,\" Knight says, \"But it's also just: We're here to stay. You can't play us anymore. It's like we're here. Not even a takeover; we've done that part already and now: Boom! This is it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=An+Afro-Surrealistic+Worldview+Looms+Over+This+Year%27s+Video+Music+Awards&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"From Childish Gambino's dystopian vision of America, to Janelle Monáe's vagina pants, absurdity fuels the best music videos nominated this year.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1534800521,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":2098},"headData":{"title":"An Afro-Surrealistic Worldview Looms Over This Year's Video Music Awards | KQED","description":"From Childish Gambino's dystopian vision of America, to Janelle Monáe's vagina pants, absurdity fuels the best music videos nominated this year.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"An Afro-Surrealistic Worldview Looms Over This Year's Video Music Awards","datePublished":"2018-08-20T21:28:41.000Z","dateModified":"2018-08-20T21:28:41.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"105278 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=105278","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/08/20/an-afro-surrealistic-worldview-looms-over-this-years-video-music-awards/","disqusTitle":"An Afro-Surrealistic Worldview Looms Over This Year's Video Music Awards","nprByline":"Rodney Carmichael","nprImageAgency":"YouTube/screenshot by NPR","nprStoryId":"640168521","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=640168521&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/20/640168521/an-afro-surrealistic-worldview-looms-over-this-years-video-music-awards?ft=nprml&f=640168521","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:52:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:52:08 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:52:08 -0400","path":"/pop/105278/an-afro-surrealistic-worldview-looms-over-this-years-video-music-awards","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A couple of years ago, when viral videos of black death were all the rage in America, MTV rolled out one of the blackest Video Music Awards in the show's history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comedians Keegan-Michael Key & Jordan Peele co-hosted as faux social media influencers \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lizardsheeple\">@LizardSheeple\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@TheShamester\">@TheShamester\u003c/a>, in sketches parodying the most inane corners of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/tags/454949862/black-twitter\">Black Twitter\u003c/a>. Rihanna performed a total of four times (not including her \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGcc3LyANtA\">artful dodging\u003c/a> of Drake's desperate attempt at a kiss while presenting her with the Video Vanguard Award). Seven years after crashing Taylor Swift's acceptance speech, Kanye West got seven uninterrupted minutes to ramble about Hollywood's incestuous web of fame and infamy, while shouting out his old girlfriend Amber Rose, his wife Kim Kardashian and her one-time fling Ray J. A toned Teyana Taylor gave viewers a visual workout in the premiere of Ye's new video for \"Fade.\" Beyoncé took home the most trophies by the night's end, including one for video of the year (\"Formation\"), after performing a 16-minute medley of songs from her groundbreaking visual album \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>. It was one of those rare award shows where all the black artists who were supposed to win did, at a moment when Black America was practically dying to have its humanity acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a cable network whose beginnings were defined by \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2000/11/mtv200011?currentPage=allPittman&printable=true\">charges of racism\u003c/a> before breaking its own color barrier with Michael Jackson's \"Billie Jean\" in 1983, this was peak blackness. \"I can't recall a Blacker time,\" Damon Young of the blog Very Smart Brothas wrote in his \u003ca href=\"https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/the-10-best-and-worst-moments-from-the-blackest-vmas-1822522881\">VMAs review\u003c/a> the following day. \"The hosts were Black, the co-hosts were Black, the presenters were (mostly) Black, the performers were (mostly) Black, the winners were (mostly) Black, and even Kanye was (mostly) Black last night.\" Whether coincidence or consequence, it felt like the show had been programmed in defiance of the times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months earlier, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had become the latest black men whose deaths at the hands of police sparked outrage after being captured on video. The surreal frequency of such videos, showing unsuspecting victims executed without the benefit of judge or jury, had already reached the point of absurdity. That point of view has since taken root in the visual language of music videos suffused with an increasingly Afro-Surrealist bent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If black folk had relied on mainstream recognition to affirm our existence or accurately reflect our cultural contributions, we might be nearing extinction by now. But award shows, through inclusion and exclusion, offer a useful lens through which to see how pop culture is framing the politics of the day. To be clear, the VMAs have always been the most colorful of the mainstream music awards, the Jheri-curled stepchild of institutions that produce the Grammys and such. And black artists have earned far better recognition at the VMAs — like Kendrick Lamar, who walked away with six wins in 2017 — than any other award shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the nearly 120 nominations at this year's show, artists of color lead the pack with 30, split between Cardi B, The Carters (Beyoncé and Jay-Z), Childish Gambino and Drake alone. Black artists, in particular, are reveling in a renaissance of the music video as a form of protest and cultural critique. In a year contextualized by the racial divisiveness and gender bigotry that's become a hallmark of Donald Trump's presidency, absurdity truly is the new black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When MTV launched in 1981 — with the slogan \"You'll never look at music the same way again\" — videos were virtually an afterthought in the music industry. Even for the VMAs, which started in 1984, videos have always been ancillary to the award show's primary purpose — gathering the biggest names in pop under one rowdy circus tent. Last year's show reportedly drew the lowest TV ratings in VMA history. It's a reminder that music videos don't live on MTV anymore, they live on the Internet, where the award show itself is increasingly streamed by viewers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, artists in hip-hop, R&B and Latin pop owe their collective climb in consumption directly to the world's largest streaming site: YouTube. They've used the free platform in inventive ways to extend both creative depth and commercial reach. This new symbiotic relationship, in which videos are no longer mere conduits for music consumption but an intrinsic part of the content being consumed, is exactly what media critic Marshall McLuhan was referring to over 50 years ago when he said, \"The medium is the message.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most urgent and impactful videos nominated this year are those in which the video release doubled as the surprise debut of the song. Whether it be the vagina pants of Janelle Monáe's \"PYNK,\" the shooting of the church choir in Childish Gambino's \"This is America\" or the Louvre takeover in The Carters' \"Apeshit,\" these symbols are tied to the identity of these songs and the way we process them. Much of this has to do with a rise in creative risk-taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just looking at the videos that are up for best hip-hop video, but particularly the other best art direction videos, there is a certain amount of freedom in a lot of them,\" says Miles Mullin, who is nominated for best art direction for his work on J. Cole's \"ATM.\" The video, like Cole's album KOD, satirizes the infatuation with material things and self-medication central to certain segments of rap. To symbolize the insanity, Mullin made oversize objects including a seven-foot bottle of cough syrup.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vUTI4bPdlgE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vUTI4bPdlgE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>For Ernie Gilbert, who's up for best editing on Gambino's \"This is America,\" the tonal shift in music video production is being fueled in part by a change in the music's messaging. \"We're in an interesting place with music videos,\" he says. Gilbert has worked in the medium for eight years and also works with with the video's director, Hiro Murai, as an editor on Donald Glover's \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em>. \"We've come to a place where it seems like the old gimmicks don't work anymore, in terms of getting people excited about a video — like, how many beautiful houses and awesome cars can we be in?\" But creating content intent on conveying a message doesn't mean sacrificing creativity. \"It goes back to that idea that audiences are more savvy, the world is a little bit more dialed in,\" he says. \"You want to think about the messages, what you're conveying and how you're doing it, so that you walk that fine line between something being cheesy [like] a PSA or something being unnecessarily inflammatory. In our crazy news cycle with everything that's going on, how do you keep your message kind of true and authentic? It's not easy and it's something that hopefully people are thinking about as they are working on stuff. I know I am.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/VYOjWnS4cMY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/VYOjWnS4cMY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>He credits Gambino and Murai with creating an explosive video that quite literally \"danced around some really hard subjects in a nuanced way, in a way that I think really encouraged discussion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, Janelle Monáe's \"PYNK\" became an instant conversation piece when it premiered online this past April. Nominated in several categories, including video with a message, the visual's provocative vagina pants, worn by Monáe and her accompanying dancers, speak volumes in the wake of President Trump's admitted predilection for grabbing private parts. \"If you try to grab my pussycat / This pussy grab you back,\" as Monáe sings on Dirty Computer's \"I Got The Juice.\" But it's Monáe's self-declaration — revealing in an interview with \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> this year that she identifies as pansexual — characterized by the creative play between Monáe and the cast of women, including actress and friend Tessa Thompson, that bridges the link between black queendom and queerdom.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/PaYvlVR_BEc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/PaYvlVR_BEc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\"In personal ways, she opened up about things that she didn't before,\" says Emma Westenberg, the video's director who collaborated extensively with Monáe and her team on the making of \"PYNK.\" \"She saw that people came out to their own families because of that video and because of her being open. That is the best possible outcome you can have as a maker — to encourage and inspire people.\" For Westenberg, it also served as an opportunity to revel in her own womanhood as a director. \"I'm so happy that I can be following my interests and developing myself as a person without people saying, 'Wait, aren't you supposed to be married by now? Aren't you supposed to have kids by now?' The role of a woman in society has grown so much broader. My mom and my grandma are so jealous. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As pop's personification of black excellence, Beyoncé and Jay-Z flaunted their status by taking over the Louvre in \"APES***.\" But the video, released in tandem with The Carters' surprise album drop of \u003cem>Everything Is Love\u003c/em> in June, also offers a pointed critique of the white gaze. Even the title, \"APES***,\" works as an intentional subversion of the historically racist trope likening black people to primates. The visual power of \"APES***\" lies in the extreme juxtaposition of black bodies filling up a classically white, colonialist-curated space with unadulterated movement and representation. Bey and Jay frame themselves against the backdrop of the Mona Lisa; dancers in every shade of black wind their hips in front of the painting of Emperor Napoleon and Empress Joséphine; Beyoncé thrashes wildly in front of the frozen sculpture of the winged greek goddess Nike.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/kbMqWXnpXcA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/kbMqWXnpXcA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\"We just wanted to act a fool in such a beautiful space,\" says choreographer JaQuel Knight, who's consistently worked with Beyoncé since \"Single Ladies,\" the video that ironically lost to Taylor Swift's \"You Belong with Me\" in the category of best female video at the VMAs in 2009. \"Black culture is the new art, it's the new voice of now. From music to how we dance — the vibe and energy — everyone kind of wants a piece of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filmed after-hours while preparing for the European leg of the On The Run II tour, the video's director, Ricky Saiz, only had two nights in the Louvre to pull it off. Knight collaborated with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, artistic director of Royal Ballet of Flanders in Belgium, to create the video's choreography, or \"vibe pieces,\" as Knight prefers to call them. \"I just kind of make sure everything stays as black and cultural and funky and fun and relevant and cool [as it should be],\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To see the contrast of these beautiful black people in such a white space — that's art right there. The beauty of just being there was so strong, so it really didn't take much as far as absorbing the space. The art speaks for itself. Bey and Jay, they're modern-day Mona Lisas. The dancers, their bodies and the shapes of these beautiful black women; it's just wow. It was like a homerun, you knew it was gonna win.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter who the big winners are at the 2018 VMAs, it's becoming impossible to ignore the chorus of voices and images collectively screaming out how much black lives and black culture and black liberation matter. But it's not entirely new, and VMA recognition is far from exhaustive, even for 2018. \"I think that black artists have always been making huge visual statements,\" Westenberg says. The difference, she adds, is it feels like \"people are finally listening, or seeing, or appreciating it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that sense, the Bey and Jay takeover of the Louvre is a cultural metaphor that's been a long time coming. \"Yeah, it's a takeover,\" Knight says, \"But it's also just: We're here to stay. You can't play us anymore. It's like we're here. Not even a takeover; we've done that part already and now: Boom! This is it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=An+Afro-Surrealistic+Worldview+Looms+Over+This+Year%27s+Video+Music+Awards&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/105278/an-afro-surrealistic-worldview-looms-over-this-years-video-music-awards","authors":["byline_pop_105278"],"categories":["pop_4"],"tags":["pop_465","pop_3278","pop_3280","pop_3279","pop_320"],"featImg":"pop_105282","label":"pop"},"pop_104326":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_104326","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"104326","score":null,"sort":[1529964467000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bonus-a-review-of-beyonce-and-her-husbands-everything-is-love","title":"A Review of Beyoncé and Her Husband's \"EVERYTHING IS LOVE\"","publishDate":1529964467,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Jamedra and I kicked off the weekend by appearing on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101865894/everything-is-love-completes-the-ascension-of-the-carters\">KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> to air out our feeling on Beyoncé and that other dude's new joint album, \u003cem>EVERYTHING IS LOVE\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of us wore a sweatshirt with a pointed message:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-104327\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/IMG_8083-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/IMG_8083-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/IMG_8083-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/IMG_8083-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/IMG_8083-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/IMG_8083-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/IMG_8083-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/IMG_8083-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/IMG_8083-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/IMG_8083-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/IMG_8083-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/IMG_8083-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to hear all about it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thecooler/2018/06/BeyForum.mp3\" title=\"BONUS: Beyoncé and Her Husband's \"EVERYTHING IS LOVE\"\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-25-at-2.41.05-PM.png\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week! \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1041117499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe and rate us five stars in iTunes\u003c/a>! And find us on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQED-Pop-336039936485067/timeline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kqedpop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Two of us went on live radio to air out our feelings about Bey and Stedman's new joint album. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1544746925,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":124},"headData":{"title":"A Review of Beyoncé and Her Husband's \"EVERYTHING IS LOVE\" | KQED","description":"Two of us went on live radio to air out our feelings about Bey and Stedman's new joint album. 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And find us on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQED-Pop-336039936485067/timeline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kqedpop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/104326/bonus-a-review-of-beyonce-and-her-husbands-everything-is-love","authors":["27"],"categories":["pop_2793"],"tags":["pop_465","pop_320","pop_2859"],"featImg":"pop_104331","label":"pop"},"pop_102687":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_102687","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"102687","score":null,"sort":[1521061630000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"on-the-run-again-with-more-baggage","title":"On The Run Again, With More Baggage","publishDate":1521061630,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\"This is your final warning / You know I give you life / If you try this s*** again / You gon' lose your wife.\" — Beyoncé, \"Don't Hurt Yourself.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Look, I apologize, often womanize / Took for my child to be born / See through a woman's eyes / Took for these natural twins to believe in miracles.\" — Jay-Z, \"4:44\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier today, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/16318474/jay-z\">Jay-Z\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/19230778/beyonce\">Beyoncé\u003c/a>, hip-hop's most powerful couple, began selling pre-orders for \u003ca href=\"https://www.livenation.com/artists/42722/beyonce\">tickets\u003c/a> to their second family road show — On The Run II, a 36-date summer stadium tour. Though they've opted to keep the same \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebay.com/itm/BEYONCE-JAY-Z-POSTER-ON-THE-RUN-TOUR-CONCERT-RARE-/112297666260\">typography\u003c/a> and smokey, partners-in-crime \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/95707270\">aesthetic\u003c/a> for promotion of this re-up to their 2014 edition, nothing in the world — the real one or the ones they've constructed — indicates a simple repeat of the song and dance they brought fans four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102690\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-102690 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-768x545.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-1020x724.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-1200x851.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-1920x1362.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-1180x837.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-960x681.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-375x266.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-520x369.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beyoncé, Hillary Clinton and Jay-Z, during a Get Out The Vote concert on November 4, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/ Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First, the real world. Two years ago, Bey featured the mothers of slain black men and boys in her \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em> short film. Just days before the 2016 presidential election, both lent their onstage support to Hillary Clinton during a rally in Cleveland, Ohio. Last fall, Jay addressed racist black stereotypes in his song \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM7lw0Ovzq0\">The Story of O.J.\u003c/a>\" from \u003cem>4:44\u003c/em> — and like Beyoncé , in the song's striking video (one of several). He also has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhd-9IpEIJY\">docu-series\u003c/a> due out addressing the life and death of Trayvon Martin. All of these expressions have seemed to expand as the political fissures in this country and beyond have. As Jay-Z told Dean Baquet, executive editor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/29/t-magazine/jay-z-dean-baquet-interview.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times in an interview\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last November: \"The great thing about Donald Trump being president is now we're forced to have the dialogue. Now we're having the conversation on the large scale; he's provided the platform for us to have the conversation.\" This country-hopping tour is a chance to further the dialogue and push their agendas on a stadium scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, just as the world that they've wrapped around has shifted, the pair have peeled back a parallel, more personal, fracture. Once an emblem of success and nearly-unattainable perfection, their relationship has very publicly become a more nuanced, realistic and relatable construction. Four years ago, when rumors of Jay's infidelity were still a low industry murmur, video surfaced of \u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2014/05/12/jay-z-solange-fight-elevator-video-beyonce-met-gala/\">Solange kicking Jay-Z\u003c/a> in an elevator leaving the Met Gala, an altercation that pierced the veil of perfection they had carefully constructed, complicating in a way that they couldn't, for once, control. Since then, Jay and Bey have (of course) seized the plot in their work, embracing its imperfections and interweaving their art more than ever before. On Beyoncé's \u003cem>Lemonade \u003c/em>and Jay's subsequent \u003cem>4:44\u003c/em>, both addressed each other through themes — overt call-outs, really — of Jay's infidelity, Bey's forgiveness, broken trust, and domestic struggle. The albums both lean on the other for contextual support and stand on their own conceptual strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their tour in 2014 opened with \"'03 Bonnie & Clyde\" — their first official collaboration — and its production and set list were more focused on accenting and hyping the other up as they jumped around their respective discographies that it was about a cohesive storyline. On the Run II is a chance to earnestly play out the narrative that those in the audience could actually see themselves in. It offers Beyoncé a megaphone to speak her peace as her apologetic perpetrator stands by her side. Less aspiration, more confrontation. It makes you wonder how many at these shows will be living the same narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If their dramatic storyline isn't used as stage direction, or their political agendas aren't addressed, the message of this tour will be a lost opportunity. But other than apartment buildings in DUMBO, neither are known for having many of those. Whatever happens, isn't getting back to business, together, the biggest stunt of all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=On+The+Run+Again%2C+With+More+Baggage&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"On the Run II offers Beyoncé a chance to speak her peace as her apologetic perpetrator stands by her.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1521061795,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":711},"headData":{"title":"On The Run Again, With More Baggage | KQED","description":"On the Run II offers Beyoncé a chance to speak her peace as her apologetic perpetrator stands by her.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"On The Run Again, With More Baggage","datePublished":"2018-03-14T21:07:10.000Z","dateModified":"2018-03-14T21:09:55.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"102687 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=102687","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/03/14/on-the-run-again-with-more-baggage/","disqusTitle":"On The Run Again, With More Baggage","nprImageCredit":"Kevork Djansezian","nprByline":"Sidney Madden","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"592973600","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=592973600&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/03/14/592973600/on-the-run-again-with-more-baggage?ft=nprml&f=592973600","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:16:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:05:13 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:16:29 -0400","path":"/pop/102687/on-the-run-again-with-more-baggage","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\"This is your final warning / You know I give you life / If you try this s*** again / You gon' lose your wife.\" — Beyoncé, \"Don't Hurt Yourself.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Look, I apologize, often womanize / Took for my child to be born / See through a woman's eyes / Took for these natural twins to believe in miracles.\" — Jay-Z, \"4:44\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier today, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/16318474/jay-z\">Jay-Z\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/19230778/beyonce\">Beyoncé\u003c/a>, hip-hop's most powerful couple, began selling pre-orders for \u003ca href=\"https://www.livenation.com/artists/42722/beyonce\">tickets\u003c/a> to their second family road show — On The Run II, a 36-date summer stadium tour. Though they've opted to keep the same \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebay.com/itm/BEYONCE-JAY-Z-POSTER-ON-THE-RUN-TOUR-CONCERT-RARE-/112297666260\">typography\u003c/a> and smokey, partners-in-crime \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/95707270\">aesthetic\u003c/a> for promotion of this re-up to their 2014 edition, nothing in the world — the real one or the ones they've constructed — indicates a simple repeat of the song and dance they brought fans four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102690\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-102690 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-768x545.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-1020x724.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-1200x851.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-1920x1362.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-1180x837.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-960x681.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-375x266.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/GettyImages-621177132-520x369.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beyoncé, Hillary Clinton and Jay-Z, during a Get Out The Vote concert on November 4, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/ Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First, the real world. Two years ago, Bey featured the mothers of slain black men and boys in her \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em> short film. Just days before the 2016 presidential election, both lent their onstage support to Hillary Clinton during a rally in Cleveland, Ohio. Last fall, Jay addressed racist black stereotypes in his song \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM7lw0Ovzq0\">The Story of O.J.\u003c/a>\" from \u003cem>4:44\u003c/em> — and like Beyoncé , in the song's striking video (one of several). He also has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhd-9IpEIJY\">docu-series\u003c/a> due out addressing the life and death of Trayvon Martin. All of these expressions have seemed to expand as the political fissures in this country and beyond have. As Jay-Z told Dean Baquet, executive editor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/29/t-magazine/jay-z-dean-baquet-interview.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times in an interview\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last November: \"The great thing about Donald Trump being president is now we're forced to have the dialogue. Now we're having the conversation on the large scale; he's provided the platform for us to have the conversation.\" This country-hopping tour is a chance to further the dialogue and push their agendas on a stadium scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, just as the world that they've wrapped around has shifted, the pair have peeled back a parallel, more personal, fracture. Once an emblem of success and nearly-unattainable perfection, their relationship has very publicly become a more nuanced, realistic and relatable construction. Four years ago, when rumors of Jay's infidelity were still a low industry murmur, video surfaced of \u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2014/05/12/jay-z-solange-fight-elevator-video-beyonce-met-gala/\">Solange kicking Jay-Z\u003c/a> in an elevator leaving the Met Gala, an altercation that pierced the veil of perfection they had carefully constructed, complicating in a way that they couldn't, for once, control. Since then, Jay and Bey have (of course) seized the plot in their work, embracing its imperfections and interweaving their art more than ever before. On Beyoncé's \u003cem>Lemonade \u003c/em>and Jay's subsequent \u003cem>4:44\u003c/em>, both addressed each other through themes — overt call-outs, really — of Jay's infidelity, Bey's forgiveness, broken trust, and domestic struggle. The albums both lean on the other for contextual support and stand on their own conceptual strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their tour in 2014 opened with \"'03 Bonnie & Clyde\" — their first official collaboration — and its production and set list were more focused on accenting and hyping the other up as they jumped around their respective discographies that it was about a cohesive storyline. On the Run II is a chance to earnestly play out the narrative that those in the audience could actually see themselves in. It offers Beyoncé a megaphone to speak her peace as her apologetic perpetrator stands by her side. Less aspiration, more confrontation. It makes you wonder how many at these shows will be living the same narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If their dramatic storyline isn't used as stage direction, or their political agendas aren't addressed, the message of this tour will be a lost opportunity. But other than apartment buildings in DUMBO, neither are known for having many of those. Whatever happens, isn't getting back to business, together, the biggest stunt of all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=On+The+Run+Again%2C+With+More+Baggage&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/102687/on-the-run-again-with-more-baggage","authors":["byline_pop_102687"],"categories":["pop_4"],"tags":["pop_465","pop_320"],"featImg":"pop_102688","label":"pop"},"pop_95855":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_95855","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"95855","score":null,"sort":[1503956719000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"kevin-hart-just-publicly-asked-beyonce-jay-z-and-more-to-send-money-to-houston","title":"Kevin Hart Just Publicly Asked Beyoncé, Jay-Z and More to Send Money to Houston","publishDate":1503956719,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Harvey is the strongest hurricane to hit Texas in decades, killing at least two, flooding thousands of homes and causing damage reminiscent to that of Katrina 12 years ago, with FEMA administrator Brock Long \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/27/546469418/at-least-one-killed-as-floods-inundate-houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling CNN\u003c/a> the agency is \"gearing up for the next couple years.\" With the National Weather Service \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWS/status/901832717070983169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calling\u003c/a> the situation unprecedented and \"beyond anything experienced,\" the U.S. Coast Guard \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/28/546693088/hurricane-harvey-brings-catastrophe-to-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conducting\u003c/a> urban search and rescue in Houston and more rain still to come, people are volunteering to help in rescue operations and pitching in \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/27/546598238/texans-lend-a-helping-hand-as-floods-continue-across-the-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wherever possible\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comedian Kevin Hart asked his famous friends with ample financial means to join a donation daisy chain he began Sunday evening. \"I think we've participated in a lot of challenges on the Internet, some meaningful some meaningless,\" Hart said in an Instagram video. Hart urged eight famous friends — The Rock, Steve Harvey, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Jerry Seinfeld — to donate $25,000 each and to call on others to pitch in as well, in order to supply much-needed resources (boats, dry shelters, hygiene kits and food, among many other \u003ca href=\"https://www.dps.texas.gov/dem/Preparedness/emerSupplyKits.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supplies\u003c/a> needed) to those on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BYUKlyPj9Fw/?taken-by=kevinhart4real\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyoncé, a Houston native, shared \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BYUY2sDg47b/\">a message\u003c/a> of sympathy on Instagram late Sunday evening for those affected. Many others have expressed emotional support for residents of affected areas as well, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BYVP8q4DVVq/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drake\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BYT91O_Al9b/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kelly Rowland\u003c/a> (also a Houston native), \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/diddy/status/902005792513064960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sean Combs\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/common/status/902037580270641152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BYUBkuWAemc/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meek Mill\u003c/a> and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BYUY2sDg47b/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon announced it would match donations made through its website \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/l/16927356011\">up to $1 million\u003c/a>. Apple is also accepting donations through its iTunes Store, halting the 30 percent commission the company usually takes from sales on the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Country musician Chris Young began \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/HarveyRelief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a GoFundMe campaign\u003c/a> for Harvey relief efforts with a $100,000 donation of his own, which has since drawn more than $43,000 more from 595 additional donations. Lady Antebellum also announced it would be donating merch profits to relief efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have friends and family there and I'm almost certain my house down there may have to be torn down as it was in one of the areas that was hardest hit by winds and flooding,\" wrote Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Celebrities+And+Companies+Pitch+In+To+Harvey+Relief+Effort&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Kevin Hart has donated $25,000 to Hurricane Harvey relief and challenged his rich friends to do the same.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1503956910,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":392},"headData":{"title":"Kevin Hart Just Publicly Asked Beyoncé, Jay-Z and More to Send Money to Houston | KQED","description":"Kevin Hart has donated $25,000 to Hurricane Harvey relief and challenged his rich friends to do the same.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Kevin Hart Just Publicly Asked Beyoncé, Jay-Z and More to Send Money to Houston","datePublished":"2017-08-28T21:45:19.000Z","dateModified":"2017-08-28T21:48:30.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"95855 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=95855","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/08/28/kevin-hart-just-publicly-asked-beyonce-jay-z-and-more-to-send-money-to-houston/","disqusTitle":"Kevin Hart Just Publicly Asked Beyoncé, Jay-Z and More to Send Money to Houston","nprImageCredit":"Joe Raedle","nprByline":"Andrew Flanagan","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"546728810","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=546728810&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/08/28/546728810/celebrities-and-companies-pitch-in-to-harvey-relief-effort?ft=nprml&f=546728810","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:44:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:01:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:44:01 -0400","path":"/pop/95855/kevin-hart-just-publicly-asked-beyonce-jay-z-and-more-to-send-money-to-houston","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Harvey is the strongest hurricane to hit Texas in decades, killing at least two, flooding thousands of homes and causing damage reminiscent to that of Katrina 12 years ago, with FEMA administrator Brock Long \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/27/546469418/at-least-one-killed-as-floods-inundate-houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling CNN\u003c/a> the agency is \"gearing up for the next couple years.\" With the National Weather Service \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWS/status/901832717070983169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calling\u003c/a> the situation unprecedented and \"beyond anything experienced,\" the U.S. Coast Guard \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/28/546693088/hurricane-harvey-brings-catastrophe-to-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conducting\u003c/a> urban search and rescue in Houston and more rain still to come, people are volunteering to help in rescue operations and pitching in \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/27/546598238/texans-lend-a-helping-hand-as-floods-continue-across-the-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wherever possible\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comedian Kevin Hart asked his famous friends with ample financial means to join a donation daisy chain he began Sunday evening. \"I think we've participated in a lot of challenges on the Internet, some meaningful some meaningless,\" Hart said in an Instagram video. Hart urged eight famous friends — The Rock, Steve Harvey, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Jerry Seinfeld — to donate $25,000 each and to call on others to pitch in as well, in order to supply much-needed resources (boats, dry shelters, hygiene kits and food, among many other \u003ca href=\"https://www.dps.texas.gov/dem/Preparedness/emerSupplyKits.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supplies\u003c/a> needed) to those on the ground.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"BYUKlyPj9Fw"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Beyoncé, a Houston native, shared \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BYUY2sDg47b/\">a message\u003c/a> of sympathy on Instagram late Sunday evening for those affected. Many others have expressed emotional support for residents of affected areas as well, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BYVP8q4DVVq/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drake\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BYT91O_Al9b/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kelly Rowland\u003c/a> (also a Houston native), \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/diddy/status/902005792513064960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sean Combs\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/common/status/902037580270641152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BYUBkuWAemc/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meek Mill\u003c/a> and others.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"BYUY2sDg47b"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon announced it would match donations made through its website \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/l/16927356011\">up to $1 million\u003c/a>. Apple is also accepting donations through its iTunes Store, halting the 30 percent commission the company usually takes from sales on the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Country musician Chris Young began \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/HarveyRelief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a GoFundMe campaign\u003c/a> for Harvey relief efforts with a $100,000 donation of his own, which has since drawn more than $43,000 more from 595 additional donations. Lady Antebellum also announced it would be donating merch profits to relief efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have friends and family there and I'm almost certain my house down there may have to be torn down as it was in one of the areas that was hardest hit by winds and flooding,\" wrote Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Celebrities+And+Companies+Pitch+In+To+Harvey+Relief+Effort&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/95855/kevin-hart-just-publicly-asked-beyonce-jay-z-and-more-to-send-money-to-houston","authors":["byline_pop_95855"],"categories":["pop_1041"],"tags":["pop_465","pop_3045","pop_2844","pop_320","pop_183","pop_3044"],"featImg":"pop_95859","label":"pop"},"pop_95386":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_95386","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"95386","score":null,"sort":[1502110844000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"coldplay-cant-stop-covering-the-songs-of-the-recently-deceased","title":"Coldplay Can't Stop Covering the Songs of the Recently Deceased","publishDate":1502110844,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>After almost two decades together, Coldplay might still be one of the most divisive bands on the planet. Depending on who you ask, the quartet is either the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetoptens.com/rock-bands/coldplay-44316.asp\">\"best band of the 21st century\"\u003c/a> (Jay-Z recently compared frontman Chris Martin to \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/jay-z-chris-martin-coldplay-william-shakespeare-songwriter-live-band-a7872451.html\">\"a modern-day Shakespeare\"\u003c/a>), or it makes middle of the road \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,,347745,00.html\">\"bedwetters' music\"\u003c/a> for boring people (Bono once called Chris Martin a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1157358/U2-singer-Bono-apologises-foul-mouthed-insult-Coldplays-Chris-Martin.html\">\"wanker\"\u003c/a> live on BBC Radio).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past few years though, Chris, Will, Jonny, and Guy have started stretching themselves in a rather morbid direction: cover songs for recently deceased famous people. Last week, the band garnered attention for Chris Martin's solo cover of Linkin Park's \"Crawling,\" following the death of frontman Chester Bennington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFj2jKnFM0g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving though it was, \"Crawling\" is the latest in an increasingly long line of cover tributes. It started in earnest in 2009, after the death of Michael Jackson. Coldplay spent the rest of the year incorporating a cover of \"Billie Jean\" into live sets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VchZzMZLaPo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, two months after David Bowie's death, Chris Martin got together with Jimmy Fallon and performed a deeply uncomfortable rendition of \"Life On Mars?\" The problem? Fallon did a hokey Bowie impersonation all the way through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OcHOBenPFc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly afterwards, Coldplay started incorporating \"Heroes\" into their set on the regular, despite the fact that David Bowie had rejected an offer to collaborate with the band while he was still alive. \"One time I sent [Bowie] a song to ask him to sing on it,” Chris Martin told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6406310/david-bowie-chris-martin-coldplay-collaborate-diss\">BBC Music Awards\u003c/a> in 2014. “He called me and said, 'It's not one of your best.' He's got very high standards and I appreciate that. It inspires the rest of us to keep our standards high.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the band ignoring Bowie's shade and paying tribute to him anyway:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOzplfOMKJ0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You'll notice at the beginning of that clip, Martin references not just Bowie, but Prince too. And literally one night after the above Bowie cover, the band got together with the host of \u003cem>The Late, Late Show\u003c/em> (and lover of his own singing voice) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JKCorden?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">James Corden\u003c/a> to do a rendition of \"Nothing Compares 2 U.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mak_Cu9Wl6w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could be argued that bringing a comedian onstage to pay tribute to a recently-deceased megastar, who was notoriously protective of how his music was presented, wasn't particularly sensitive. In life, Prince actively \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/07/10/princes-music-videos-are-back-online/\">removed even fan-generated videos\u003c/a> from the internet, so he may not have appreciated being covered by a chat show host at what was surely a still-solemn time for Prince's family, friends, and fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, at the 2017 BRIT Awards, two months after George Michael's death, Coldplay performed Wham!'s \"A Different Corner.\" It started beautifully enough, but, halfway through, unexpectedly turned into a duet with a video of George Michael also performing the song. Martin was visibly and genuinely emotional about the whole thing, but it undoubtedly bordered on the macabre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPoKzxTS80g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not just deceased musicians Coldplay pay tribute to either. The day of Gene Wilder's death in 2016, the band worked \"Pure Imagination\" into the end of \"The Scientist\" at a concert in Denver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yZCRsCfc5I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's fair to say that the members of Coldplay most probably have their hearts in the right place when they perform these tributes to their fellow fallen musicians. Audiences also often need that moment of catharsis to bid their heroes goodbye in the wake of a tragic death. But when there are this many tributes, and some of them are performed with a veneer of insensitivity, it is occasionally difficult not to question the band's motives. It's also now so unusual for Coldplay to skip a tribute, rightly or wrongly it's hard not to wonder why Chris Cornell, for example, didn't get one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, fans must trust that the band really do just want to honor their heroes; it would probably just mean more if they did it less often and with fewer comedians involved.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Coldplay pay tribute to fallen musicians so regularly, it's starting to feel a little weird.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1502149302,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":738},"headData":{"title":"Coldplay Can't Stop Covering the Songs of the Recently Deceased | KQED","description":"Coldplay pay tribute to fallen musicians so regularly, it's starting to feel a little weird.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Coldplay Can't Stop Covering the Songs of the Recently Deceased","datePublished":"2017-08-07T13:00:44.000Z","dateModified":"2017-08-07T23:41:42.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"95386 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=95386","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/08/07/coldplay-cant-stop-covering-the-songs-of-the-recently-deceased/","disqusTitle":"Coldplay Can't Stop Covering the Songs of the Recently Deceased","path":"/pop/95386/coldplay-cant-stop-covering-the-songs-of-the-recently-deceased","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After almost two decades together, Coldplay might still be one of the most divisive bands on the planet. Depending on who you ask, the quartet is either the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetoptens.com/rock-bands/coldplay-44316.asp\">\"best band of the 21st century\"\u003c/a> (Jay-Z recently compared frontman Chris Martin to \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/jay-z-chris-martin-coldplay-william-shakespeare-songwriter-live-band-a7872451.html\">\"a modern-day Shakespeare\"\u003c/a>), or it makes middle of the road \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,,347745,00.html\">\"bedwetters' music\"\u003c/a> for boring people (Bono once called Chris Martin a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1157358/U2-singer-Bono-apologises-foul-mouthed-insult-Coldplays-Chris-Martin.html\">\"wanker\"\u003c/a> live on BBC Radio).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past few years though, Chris, Will, Jonny, and Guy have started stretching themselves in a rather morbid direction: cover songs for recently deceased famous people. Last week, the band garnered attention for Chris Martin's solo cover of Linkin Park's \"Crawling,\" following the death of frontman Chester Bennington.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/pFj2jKnFM0g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/pFj2jKnFM0g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Moving though it was, \"Crawling\" is the latest in an increasingly long line of cover tributes. It started in earnest in 2009, after the death of Michael Jackson. Coldplay spent the rest of the year incorporating a cover of \"Billie Jean\" into live sets.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/VchZzMZLaPo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/VchZzMZLaPo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, two months after David Bowie's death, Chris Martin got together with Jimmy Fallon and performed a deeply uncomfortable rendition of \"Life On Mars?\" The problem? Fallon did a hokey Bowie impersonation all the way through.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/0OcHOBenPFc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/0OcHOBenPFc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Shortly afterwards, Coldplay started incorporating \"Heroes\" into their set on the regular, despite the fact that David Bowie had rejected an offer to collaborate with the band while he was still alive. \"One time I sent [Bowie] a song to ask him to sing on it,” Chris Martin told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6406310/david-bowie-chris-martin-coldplay-collaborate-diss\">BBC Music Awards\u003c/a> in 2014. “He called me and said, 'It's not one of your best.' He's got very high standards and I appreciate that. It inspires the rest of us to keep our standards high.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the band ignoring Bowie's shade and paying tribute to him anyway:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/oOzplfOMKJ0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/oOzplfOMKJ0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>You'll notice at the beginning of that clip, Martin references not just Bowie, but Prince too. And literally one night after the above Bowie cover, the band got together with the host of \u003cem>The Late, Late Show\u003c/em> (and lover of his own singing voice) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JKCorden?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">James Corden\u003c/a> to do a rendition of \"Nothing Compares 2 U.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/mak_Cu9Wl6w'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/mak_Cu9Wl6w'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>It could be argued that bringing a comedian onstage to pay tribute to a recently-deceased megastar, who was notoriously protective of how his music was presented, wasn't particularly sensitive. In life, Prince actively \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/07/10/princes-music-videos-are-back-online/\">removed even fan-generated videos\u003c/a> from the internet, so he may not have appreciated being covered by a chat show host at what was surely a still-solemn time for Prince's family, friends, and fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, at the 2017 BRIT Awards, two months after George Michael's death, Coldplay performed Wham!'s \"A Different Corner.\" It started beautifully enough, but, halfway through, unexpectedly turned into a duet with a video of George Michael also performing the song. Martin was visibly and genuinely emotional about the whole thing, but it undoubtedly bordered on the macabre.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/iPoKzxTS80g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/iPoKzxTS80g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>It's not just deceased musicians Coldplay pay tribute to either. The day of Gene Wilder's death in 2016, the band worked \"Pure Imagination\" into the end of \"The Scientist\" at a concert in Denver.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/7yZCRsCfc5I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7yZCRsCfc5I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>It's fair to say that the members of Coldplay most probably have their hearts in the right place when they perform these tributes to their fellow fallen musicians. Audiences also often need that moment of catharsis to bid their heroes goodbye in the wake of a tragic death. But when there are this many tributes, and some of them are performed with a veneer of insensitivity, it is occasionally difficult not to question the band's motives. It's also now so unusual for Coldplay to skip a tribute, rightly or wrongly it's hard not to wonder why Chris Cornell, for example, didn't get one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, fans must trust that the band really do just want to honor their heroes; it would probably just mean more if they did it less often and with fewer comedians involved.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/95386/coldplay-cant-stop-covering-the-songs-of-the-recently-deceased","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_4"],"tags":["pop_2949","pop_323","pop_3026","pop_2756","pop_320","pop_1005","pop_3027","pop_1301","pop_529"],"featImg":"pop_95402","label":"pop"},"pop_94895":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_94895","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"94895","score":null,"sort":[1501535131000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-illuminati-satan-and-numerology-conspiracy-theories-about-jay-zs-444-are-everywhere","title":"The Illuminati, Satan, and Numerology: Conspiracy Theories about Jay-Z's '4:44' Are Everywhere","publishDate":1501535131,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>It's been just over a month since Jay-Z's \u003cem>4:44\u003c/em> album landed. Special attention has been paid across the board to the title track, thanks to the fact that it's a painfully raw apology to Beyoncé for basically everything we heard about on \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>. Pay close attention to the lyrics if you want an unflinching look at the weight that comes with deep remorse, regret, and guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSkA61esq_c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay told \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/06/jay-z-breaks-down-meaning-songs-444-album/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">XXL\u003c/a>\u003c/em> that the track is \"the crux of the album, just right in the middle of the album. And I woke up, literally, at 4:44 in the morning, 4:44 AM, to write this song. So it became the title of the album and everything. It’s the title track because it’s such a powerful song, and I just believe one of the best songs I’ve ever written.” [aside postid='pop_104326']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that's that, right? We've got the song, an amazing video, a response to \u003cem>Lemonade,\u003c/em> and an explanation about the title. Done! The End. Only not, because in the age of the internet, this just \u003cem>has\u003c/em> to be about a bunch of other stuff too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the album was even released, Twitter was already throwing out theories. On June 6, 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/geespin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Geespin\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/geespin/status/872199299349835776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted\u003c/a>: \"JOHN 4:44 — 'For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.' ....read what you may into that.\" The following day, another user, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerrelXL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JerrelXL\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerrelXL/status/872470378550927360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked\u003c/a>: \"What if 4:44 is also an homage to Jay's good friend and the greatest president of our lifetime Barack Obama?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the album's release, one of the first groups to jump in with some extra analysis were numerologists. You can't blame them really. According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.spiritual-path.com/numerology.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SpiritualPath.com\u003c/a>, seeing the number sequence 444 or 4444 repeatedly is a \"Cosmic 'No!'\" that \"indicates a 'No' to absolutely anything\" the person is thinking about at their time of seeing it. (Imagine using number sequences to make decisions every single day, then having one of the biggest artists in the world name his album after the sequence that means \"No.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-113467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Giant ads for Jay-Z's '4:44' album, like this one on the side of a bus? Not great news for some numerologists. \" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-768x508.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-2048x1355.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-1920x1270.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giant ads for Jay-Z's '4:44' album? Not great news for some numerologists. \u003ccite>(TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891898']\u003ca href=\"http://feliciabender.com/blog/444jayz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Felicia Bender\u003c/a>, \"The Practical Numerologist,\" has a more positive spin. \"There are obvious connections,\" she says, \"like Beyoncé’s birthday is on the 4th, his mother’s birthday is on the 4th, his own birthday on the 4th, and he and Beyoncé got married on the 4th.\" She continues: \"The number 4 carries the energy of structure ... The 4 is all about hard work, process, stability, and a certain level of security. Its power resides in envisioning something and creating it from nothing … Where others give up or want the easy way out, the 4 stays late and comes to work early, if you know what I mean.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you think the numerologists sound bananas, just wait until you hear what the illuminati conspiracy theorists had to say on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 30, 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/locale40th\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@locale40th\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/locale40th/status/880814491881140224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pointed out\u003c/a>: \"On 4:44 Illuminati Jazy Z/Carter raps about ego (devil's sin), being stuck in La La Land, & catching 'The Eye.\" 4:44 upside down like 66:6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KONNYKON_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@KONNYKON\u003c/a> chimed in with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KONNYKON_/status/880815238169473025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a tweet\u003c/a> that referenced Jay-Z's 1996 track \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC5JYhNAymY&list=RDuC5JYhNAymY#t=15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">22 Twos\u003c/a>.\" \"Jay Z did 22 2's first,\" it said. \"Now 4:44. 222 + 444 = 666 #illuminati.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thank you, interwebs, for somehow transporting us from the time on a clock in Jay-Z's bedroom to ACTUAL SATAN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back on Planet Earth (specifically the Meatpacking District of Manhattan), some other folks just noticed that 444 just might have a link to the address of the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Standard,_High_Line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Standard Hotel\u003c/a>. This is significant, since that's where Solange Knowles \u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_6lrpg6kh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">physically attacked her brother-in-law \u003c/a>in an elevator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/StephenOssola/status/890063102515007488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spin.com%2F2017%2F07%2F444-solange-jay-z-elevator%2F\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quick Google search reveals that The Standard's actual address is 848 Washington St. Though if we're clutching at straws, \u003ca href=\"https://standardhotels.myshopify.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Shop at The Standard\u003c/a>, as well as the hotel's rooftop bar, \u003ca href=\"http://www.standardhotels.com/new-york/features/le-bain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Le Bain\u003c/a>, is, in fact listed as 444 W. 13th Street. (Wait... 13? \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://taylorswift.wikia.com/wiki/13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Does Taylor Swift have something to do with this too?!\u003c/a>\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's face it, not even Beyoncé directly referencing these kinds of conspiracy theories on her track, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDZJPJV__bQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"Formation\"\u003c/a> (\u003cem>\"Ya'll haters corny with that Illuminati mess\"\u003c/em>) could shut them down. And thank goodness for that—this is altogether far too much fun.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"What does 4:44 REALLY mean? Numerologists, bible scholars, Obama supporters, and more weigh in.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1623208712,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":801},"headData":{"title":"The Illuminati, Satan, and Numerology: Conspiracy Theories about Jay-Z's '4:44' Are Everywhere - KQED Pop","description":"What does 4:44 REALLY mean? Numerologists, bible scholars, Obama supporters, and more weigh in.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The Illuminati, Satan, and Numerology: Conspiracy Theories about Jay-Z's '4:44' Are Everywhere","datePublished":"2017-07-31T21:05:31.000Z","dateModified":"2021-06-09T03:18:32.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"94895 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=94895","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/07/31/the-illuminati-satan-and-numerology-conspiracy-theories-about-jay-zs-444-are-everywhere/","disqusTitle":"The Illuminati, Satan, and Numerology: Conspiracy Theories about Jay-Z's '4:44' Are Everywhere","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/pop/94895/the-illuminati-satan-and-numerology-conspiracy-theories-about-jay-zs-444-are-everywhere","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's been just over a month since Jay-Z's \u003cem>4:44\u003c/em> album landed. Special attention has been paid across the board to the title track, thanks to the fact that it's a painfully raw apology to Beyoncé for basically everything we heard about on \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>. Pay close attention to the lyrics if you want an unflinching look at the weight that comes with deep remorse, regret, and guilt.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zSkA61esq_c'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zSkA61esq_c'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Jay told \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/06/jay-z-breaks-down-meaning-songs-444-album/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">XXL\u003c/a>\u003c/em> that the track is \"the crux of the album, just right in the middle of the album. And I woke up, literally, at 4:44 in the morning, 4:44 AM, to write this song. So it became the title of the album and everything. It’s the title track because it’s such a powerful song, and I just believe one of the best songs I’ve ever written.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_104326","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that's that, right? We've got the song, an amazing video, a response to \u003cem>Lemonade,\u003c/em> and an explanation about the title. Done! The End. Only not, because in the age of the internet, this just \u003cem>has\u003c/em> to be about a bunch of other stuff too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the album was even released, Twitter was already throwing out theories. On June 6, 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/geespin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Geespin\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/geespin/status/872199299349835776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted\u003c/a>: \"JOHN 4:44 — 'For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.' ....read what you may into that.\" The following day, another user, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerrelXL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JerrelXL\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerrelXL/status/872470378550927360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked\u003c/a>: \"What if 4:44 is also an homage to Jay's good friend and the greatest president of our lifetime Barack Obama?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the album's release, one of the first groups to jump in with some extra analysis were numerologists. You can't blame them really. According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.spiritual-path.com/numerology.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SpiritualPath.com\u003c/a>, seeing the number sequence 444 or 4444 repeatedly is a \"Cosmic 'No!'\" that \"indicates a 'No' to absolutely anything\" the person is thinking about at their time of seeing it. (Imagine using number sequences to make decisions every single day, then having one of the biggest artists in the world name his album after the sequence that means \"No.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-113467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Giant ads for Jay-Z's '4:44' album, like this one on the side of a bus? Not great news for some numerologists. \" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-768x508.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-2048x1355.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/GettyImages-803544978-1920x1270.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giant ads for Jay-Z's '4:44' album? Not great news for some numerologists. \u003ccite>(TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13891898","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://feliciabender.com/blog/444jayz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Felicia Bender\u003c/a>, \"The Practical Numerologist,\" has a more positive spin. \"There are obvious connections,\" she says, \"like Beyoncé’s birthday is on the 4th, his mother’s birthday is on the 4th, his own birthday on the 4th, and he and Beyoncé got married on the 4th.\" She continues: \"The number 4 carries the energy of structure ... The 4 is all about hard work, process, stability, and a certain level of security. Its power resides in envisioning something and creating it from nothing … Where others give up or want the easy way out, the 4 stays late and comes to work early, if you know what I mean.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you think the numerologists sound bananas, just wait until you hear what the illuminati conspiracy theorists had to say on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 30, 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/locale40th\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@locale40th\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/locale40th/status/880814491881140224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pointed out\u003c/a>: \"On 4:44 Illuminati Jazy Z/Carter raps about ego (devil's sin), being stuck in La La Land, & catching 'The Eye.\" 4:44 upside down like 66:6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KONNYKON_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@KONNYKON\u003c/a> chimed in with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KONNYKON_/status/880815238169473025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a tweet\u003c/a> that referenced Jay-Z's 1996 track \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC5JYhNAymY&list=RDuC5JYhNAymY#t=15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">22 Twos\u003c/a>.\" \"Jay Z did 22 2's first,\" it said. \"Now 4:44. 222 + 444 = 666 #illuminati.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thank you, interwebs, for somehow transporting us from the time on a clock in Jay-Z's bedroom to ACTUAL SATAN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back on Planet Earth (specifically the Meatpacking District of Manhattan), some other folks just noticed that 444 just might have a link to the address of the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Standard,_High_Line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Standard Hotel\u003c/a>. This is significant, since that's where Solange Knowles \u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_6lrpg6kh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">physically attacked her brother-in-law \u003c/a>in an elevator.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"890063102515007488"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>A quick Google search reveals that The Standard's actual address is 848 Washington St. Though if we're clutching at straws, \u003ca href=\"https://standardhotels.myshopify.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Shop at The Standard\u003c/a>, as well as the hotel's rooftop bar, \u003ca href=\"http://www.standardhotels.com/new-york/features/le-bain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Le Bain\u003c/a>, is, in fact listed as 444 W. 13th Street. (Wait... 13? \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://taylorswift.wikia.com/wiki/13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Does Taylor Swift have something to do with this too?!\u003c/a>\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's face it, not even Beyoncé directly referencing these kinds of conspiracy theories on her track, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDZJPJV__bQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"Formation\"\u003c/a> (\u003cem>\"Ya'll haters corny with that Illuminati mess\"\u003c/em>) could shut them down. And thank goodness for that—this is altogether far too much fun.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/94895/the-illuminati-satan-and-numerology-conspiracy-theories-about-jay-zs-444-are-everywhere","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_4"],"tags":["pop_465","pop_320","pop_3203"],"featImg":"pop_94904","label":"pop"},"pop_78395":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_78395","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"78395","score":null,"sort":[1493764515000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"5-things-you-could-buy-instead-of-beyonces-crazy-expensive-lemonade-box-set","title":"5 Things You Could Buy Instead of Beyoncé's Crazy Expensive 'Lemonade' Box Set","publishDate":1493764515,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>And lo, on this, the second day of the fifth month of the year two thousand and seventeen, Our Lady Beyoncé did bestow upon us a box set related to that, her most magical work of audio and visual art, \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And contained within thee stark black box was one yellow-hued album, split betwixt two vinyl discs, and a great book. And lo, thou great book was glossy and had an unfeasibly large spine, owing to 600 pages of behind-the-scenes photos contained therein, in addition to words by world-renowned poet and lyricist \u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/warsan-shire\">Warsan Shire\u003c/a>, words by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MichaelEDyson\">Dr. Michael Eric Dyson\u003c/a>, who hath great knowledge of many things, and even words by thou divinest of all pop maidens, Beyoncé.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fans inevitably swoon with luminous anticipation, one might ask thineself what else this most majestic of boxes contains to warrant a $299.99 price tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aQwnLqeyA0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's where the sound of the needle scratching across the record cuts in and this whole thing becomes distinctly un-divine. Nothing. This box contains nothing else. Beyoncé wants you to pay $299.99 for a book and a record. Sure, it's not as bad as Kanye West announcing his new plan to sell \u003ca href=\"http://www.nme.com/news/music/kanye-west-necklace-line-chain-yeezy-2037768\">basic gold chains for $13,000\u003c/a> last month, but... 300 bucks is pretty steep for this set. (They could have at least thrown in a DVD!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So before you, blinded by unwavering devotion to Queen B, fork over the cash for the \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em> boxset, keep in mind that you could spend that money on one of the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Roundtrip \u003ca href=\"https://www.southwest.com/flight/shortcut/low-fare-search.html\">flights between San Francisco and New York City\u003c/a> using a budget airline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A weekend at \u003ca href=\"https://www.hotels.com/ho122212/?pa=10&q-check-out=2017-05-22&tab=description&q-room-0-adults=2&YGF=14&q-check-in=2017-05-19&MGT=3&WOE=1&WOD=5&ZSX=0&SYE=3&q-room-0-children=0\">the Luxor\u003c/a> in Las Vegas (plus snack money)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>4 x \u003ca href=\"https://www.sixflags.com/discoverykingdom/store/season-passes\">2017 Season Passes\u003c/a> to every Six Flags theme park in the country (plus snack money)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>CD copies of the entire back catalogs of Beyoncé, Destiny's Child, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams \u003cem>and\u003c/em> Jay-Z (plus snack money)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/harry-styles/id1226034336\">iTunes download\u003c/a> of Harry Styles' \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uD6s-X3590\">Sweet Creature\u003c/a>\" single, for you and 230 of your friends.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People seem pretty excited about that last one today, so your money might be better spent that way...\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Which would you rather: a book of Beyoncé photos or a vacation with lots of snacks?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1493767981,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":382},"headData":{"title":"5 Things You Could Buy Instead of Beyoncé's Crazy Expensive 'Lemonade' Box Set | KQED","description":"Which would you rather: a book of Beyoncé photos or a vacation with lots of snacks?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"5 Things You Could Buy Instead of Beyoncé's Crazy Expensive 'Lemonade' Box Set","datePublished":"2017-05-02T22:35:15.000Z","dateModified":"2017-05-02T23:33:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"78395 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=78395","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/05/02/5-things-you-could-buy-instead-of-beyonces-crazy-expensive-lemonade-box-set/","disqusTitle":"5 Things You Could Buy Instead of Beyoncé's Crazy Expensive 'Lemonade' Box Set","path":"/pop/78395/5-things-you-could-buy-instead-of-beyonces-crazy-expensive-lemonade-box-set","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>And lo, on this, the second day of the fifth month of the year two thousand and seventeen, Our Lady Beyoncé did bestow upon us a box set related to that, her most magical work of audio and visual art, \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And contained within thee stark black box was one yellow-hued album, split betwixt two vinyl discs, and a great book. And lo, thou great book was glossy and had an unfeasibly large spine, owing to 600 pages of behind-the-scenes photos contained therein, in addition to words by world-renowned poet and lyricist \u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/warsan-shire\">Warsan Shire\u003c/a>, words by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MichaelEDyson\">Dr. Michael Eric Dyson\u003c/a>, who hath great knowledge of many things, and even words by thou divinest of all pop maidens, Beyoncé.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fans inevitably swoon with luminous anticipation, one might ask thineself what else this most majestic of boxes contains to warrant a $299.99 price tag.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/_aQwnLqeyA0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/_aQwnLqeyA0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>And that's where the sound of the needle scratching across the record cuts in and this whole thing becomes distinctly un-divine. Nothing. This box contains nothing else. Beyoncé wants you to pay $299.99 for a book and a record. Sure, it's not as bad as Kanye West announcing his new plan to sell \u003ca href=\"http://www.nme.com/news/music/kanye-west-necklace-line-chain-yeezy-2037768\">basic gold chains for $13,000\u003c/a> last month, but... 300 bucks is pretty steep for this set. (They could have at least thrown in a DVD!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So before you, blinded by unwavering devotion to Queen B, fork over the cash for the \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em> boxset, keep in mind that you could spend that money on one of the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Roundtrip \u003ca href=\"https://www.southwest.com/flight/shortcut/low-fare-search.html\">flights between San Francisco and New York City\u003c/a> using a budget airline\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A weekend at \u003ca href=\"https://www.hotels.com/ho122212/?pa=10&q-check-out=2017-05-22&tab=description&q-room-0-adults=2&YGF=14&q-check-in=2017-05-19&MGT=3&WOE=1&WOD=5&ZSX=0&SYE=3&q-room-0-children=0\">the Luxor\u003c/a> in Las Vegas (plus snack money)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>4 x \u003ca href=\"https://www.sixflags.com/discoverykingdom/store/season-passes\">2017 Season Passes\u003c/a> to every Six Flags theme park in the country (plus snack money)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>CD copies of the entire back catalogs of Beyoncé, Destiny's Child, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams \u003cem>and\u003c/em> Jay-Z (plus snack money)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/harry-styles/id1226034336\">iTunes download\u003c/a> of Harry Styles' \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uD6s-X3590\">Sweet Creature\u003c/a>\" single, for you and 230 of your friends.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People seem pretty excited about that last one today, so your money might be better spent that way...\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/78395/5-things-you-could-buy-instead-of-beyonces-crazy-expensive-lemonade-box-set","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_4"],"tags":["pop_465","pop_320","pop_282"],"featImg":"pop_78421","label":"pop"},"pop_13057":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_13057","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"13057","score":null,"sort":[1407450012000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"beyonce-and-jay-z-divorce-on-the-run-tour-san-francisco","title":"Beyonce and Jay Z: Divorce Or Marketing Scheme?","publishDate":1407450012,"format":"aside","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13064\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/bey.jpg\" alt=\"bey\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/bey.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/bey-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're used to constantly talking about Beyonce. From \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/12/13/the-genius-behind-beyonces-surprise-game-changing-visual-album-self-titled/\">surprise releases\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/12/16/beyonce-and-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-make-feminism-go-viral/\">feminist schooling\u003c/a> to elevator brawls and divorce rumors, she's often the topic of water-cooler conversation, but never more so for San Franciscans than this week, which saw not one, but two shows at AT&T Park with her partner in crime, Jay Z. At least three people have told you that they could hear the concert from their house. And you probably already know that \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Here-s-why-Beyonc-could-be-heard-all-over-S-F-5673191.php\">the cause was science\u003c/a>. But what's more interesting than noise pollution is the whole marital spectacle of the On the Run tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Infidelity rumors have plagued the power couple for years, but the speculation around a possible breakup reached crescendo thanks to the infamous elevator footage of the Mortal Kombat-esque beatdown Solange administered to Jay Z, while her sister sentineled nearby. Because of the lack of audio and that bodyguard's confidentiality agreement, we will probably never know exactly what that was about, but it didn't take long for people to assume the kickboxing was inspired by cheating. It was an unusual crack in the perfect facade Beyonce and her team have maintained since the Destiny's Child days. But, instead of compromising her brand and this tour, the debacle actually brought more interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, most attended these shows for the music, but there's also a sort of twisted voyeuristic schadenfreude at work here. Because of everything that led up to the tour, it began to feel like the final act of a great romance we've all been a part of in a strange parasitic way for years. We watched as they strutted their young love back in 2003 for Beyonce's debut single \"\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/ViwtNLUqkMY\">Crazy In Love\u003c/a>.\" We watched as she \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/uRVcKXlF42o\">revealed her pregnant belly\u003c/a> at an awards show. We watched them vacation and \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/pAT8CdKkKAY\">talk about utopia, Jesus, and Sade on a yacht\u003c/a>. So it makes sense that we would want to be there for the undoing of all that romantic history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-13070\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/bey-cryy.jpg\" alt=\"bey-cryy\" width=\"350\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/bey-cryy.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/bey-cryy-400x501.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">The tour's lights and video montages and pyrotechnics couldn't fully distract from the main event: taking a microscope to every choreographed interaction Beyonce and Jay shared on stage. Having attended both shows (\u003ca href=\"http://media.giphy.com/media/13jJIY0llDdip2/giphy.gif\">YOLO\u003c/a>), I had a lot of time to parse the body language and the main takeaway was that something is not right. Jay sidles up to hug Beyonce from behind at the end of \"Drunk In Love\" and Beyonce does her best not to recoil (\"OMG, she hates him!\" screamed two girls in front of me). Beyonce is a good actress, but she always lets a little something slip during these few interactions. And then there's Beyonce in a wedding dress fighting back tears while singing a song about a lying, trifling man from a 12 year relationship (the same time span as her courtship with Jay), or Beyonce borrowing Lauryn Hill's wounded \"It ain't workin, it ain't workin\" mantra from \"Ex Factor,\" or Jay mournfully rapping \"\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">I can understand why you want a divorce now\" in \"Song Cry.\" These songs are old, but the fact that they were specifically selected over countless others is noteworthy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So all of this could mean two things. A. The rumors are true. They're only staying together to make bank ($100 million so far from this tour) before announcing their conscious uncoupling after the tour wraps. Or B. This entire divorce thing is part publicity stunt, part performance art. Messing with the idea of their marriage and family for profit would be a cynical move, but perhaps there are two marriages at work here, the one they live at home and the one they live for us on stage. Maybe they feel fine messing with our conception of them because, at the end of the day, we \u003cem>don't\u003c/em> know them; it's all fiction. And what makes better fiction than a plot twist or a heartbreaking betrayal? As much as we are obsessed with happily ever after, we sure do get bored of it pretty quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe the fantasy they package and present to us holds no real value in their day-to-day reality; maybe they are just playing characters in a modern day opera, putting on the show they know we want to see. Certainly Beyonce and Jay Z, two of the most famous people on the planet, know how to manipulate the media and the rest of us by now. Would it be that surprising if they were savvy enough to create a narrative that would keep us interested, keep us buying $300 tickets, while they laugh all the way to the bank?\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Are Beyoncé and Jay Z breaking up? Or just trying to get into your wallet?\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1407451920,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":806},"headData":{"title":"Beyonce and Jay Z: Divorce Or Marketing Scheme? | KQED","description":"Are Beyoncé and Jay Z breaking up? 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From \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/12/13/the-genius-behind-beyonces-surprise-game-changing-visual-album-self-titled/\">surprise releases\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/12/16/beyonce-and-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-make-feminism-go-viral/\">feminist schooling\u003c/a> to elevator brawls and divorce rumors, she's often the topic of water-cooler conversation, but never more so for San Franciscans than this week, which saw not one, but two shows at AT&T Park with her partner in crime, Jay Z. At least three people have told you that they could hear the concert from their house. And you probably already know that \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Here-s-why-Beyonc-could-be-heard-all-over-S-F-5673191.php\">the cause was science\u003c/a>. But what's more interesting than noise pollution is the whole marital spectacle of the On the Run tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Infidelity rumors have plagued the power couple for years, but the speculation around a possible breakup reached crescendo thanks to the infamous elevator footage of the Mortal Kombat-esque beatdown Solange administered to Jay Z, while her sister sentineled nearby. Because of the lack of audio and that bodyguard's confidentiality agreement, we will probably never know exactly what that was about, but it didn't take long for people to assume the kickboxing was inspired by cheating. It was an unusual crack in the perfect facade Beyonce and her team have maintained since the Destiny's Child days. But, instead of compromising her brand and this tour, the debacle actually brought more interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, most attended these shows for the music, but there's also a sort of twisted voyeuristic schadenfreude at work here. Because of everything that led up to the tour, it began to feel like the final act of a great romance we've all been a part of in a strange parasitic way for years. We watched as they strutted their young love back in 2003 for Beyonce's debut single \"\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/ViwtNLUqkMY\">Crazy In Love\u003c/a>.\" We watched as she \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/uRVcKXlF42o\">revealed her pregnant belly\u003c/a> at an awards show. We watched them vacation and \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/pAT8CdKkKAY\">talk about utopia, Jesus, and Sade on a yacht\u003c/a>. So it makes sense that we would want to be there for the undoing of all that romantic history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-13070\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/bey-cryy.jpg\" alt=\"bey-cryy\" width=\"350\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/bey-cryy.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/bey-cryy-400x501.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">The tour's lights and video montages and pyrotechnics couldn't fully distract from the main event: taking a microscope to every choreographed interaction Beyonce and Jay shared on stage. Having attended both shows (\u003ca href=\"http://media.giphy.com/media/13jJIY0llDdip2/giphy.gif\">YOLO\u003c/a>), I had a lot of time to parse the body language and the main takeaway was that something is not right. Jay sidles up to hug Beyonce from behind at the end of \"Drunk In Love\" and Beyonce does her best not to recoil (\"OMG, she hates him!\" screamed two girls in front of me). Beyonce is a good actress, but she always lets a little something slip during these few interactions. And then there's Beyonce in a wedding dress fighting back tears while singing a song about a lying, trifling man from a 12 year relationship (the same time span as her courtship with Jay), or Beyonce borrowing Lauryn Hill's wounded \"It ain't workin, it ain't workin\" mantra from \"Ex Factor,\" or Jay mournfully rapping \"\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">I can understand why you want a divorce now\" in \"Song Cry.\" These songs are old, but the fact that they were specifically selected over countless others is noteworthy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So all of this could mean two things. A. The rumors are true. They're only staying together to make bank ($100 million so far from this tour) before announcing their conscious uncoupling after the tour wraps. Or B. This entire divorce thing is part publicity stunt, part performance art. Messing with the idea of their marriage and family for profit would be a cynical move, but perhaps there are two marriages at work here, the one they live at home and the one they live for us on stage. Maybe they feel fine messing with our conception of them because, at the end of the day, we \u003cem>don't\u003c/em> know them; it's all fiction. And what makes better fiction than a plot twist or a heartbreaking betrayal? As much as we are obsessed with happily ever after, we sure do get bored of it pretty quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe the fantasy they package and present to us holds no real value in their day-to-day reality; maybe they are just playing characters in a modern day opera, putting on the show they know we want to see. Certainly Beyonce and Jay Z, two of the most famous people on the planet, know how to manipulate the media and the rest of us by now. Would it be that surprising if they were savvy enough to create a narrative that would keep us interested, keep us buying $300 tickets, while they laugh all the way to the bank?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/13057/beyonce-and-jay-z-divorce-on-the-run-tour-san-francisco","authors":["27"],"categories":["pop_4"],"tags":["pop_465","pop_320"],"featImg":"pop_13065","label":"pop"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. 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