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"content": "\u003cp>While Kanye West’s proposed bid for the 2020 U.S. presidential election won’t start for another few years, there have already been plenty of overlap moments between music and the U.S. election cycle, a coupling that goes as far back as our first president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While George Washington didn’t have any official campaign jingles, many songs were written about him, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPXNlnfKpj0\">“God Save Great Washington”\u003c/a> based off of “God Save the King.” Originally, many political tunes paired new lyrics with pre-existing melodies, like William Henry Harrison’s famous \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XcDeRJ_Osc\">“Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”\u003c/a>, which was set to folk tune “Little Pigs” and swept the nation during his successful 1840 campaign. It has since been covered by They Might Be Giants:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFaRklAYanY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other politicians were savvy in a different way, picking well-established songs and singers to help define their campaigns. Abraham Lincoln’s chose \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhCheCryopA\">“Battle Cry of Freedom”\u003c/a> (also known as “Rally Round the Flag” and used again by Garfield in a later election) for his 1864 campaign. FDR’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqsT4xnKZPg\"> “Happy Days are Here Again”\u003c/a> ended up defining the Democratic Party’s soundtrack for years. Presidential heartthrob JFK turned to Frank Sinatra's 1959 hit “High Hopes” to convince voters that he was the man for them:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/lHRTCVwSKMs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent history, there have been some missteps in the campaign song game. In the complicated 2000 election, George W. Bush attempted to use Tom Petty’s song “I Won’t Back Down.” The singer, who was a supporter of Al Gore, threatened to sue him and subsequently played the song proudly at Gore headquarters just minutes after he’d conceded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/nUTXb-ga1fo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, President Obama has set the bar so high with selections like Ben Harper’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOZj1Xyx354\">“Better Way”\u003c/a> and Motown favorite Stevie Wonder’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXC_lab-34\">“Signed, Sealed, Delivered”\u003c/a> that many political analysts have blasted the current candidates for uninspired choices. Luckily, this armchair commentator is here to help, especially as Californians head to the polls today to Rock the Vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some suggestions for the remaining candidates:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Donald Trump\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like his hat merch proclaims, Republican candidate Trump wants to “Make America Great Again.” However, Trump’s original pick of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” was denied by the rocker, as were tunes from Adele, Aerosmith, and R.E.M. So Trump took matters into his own hands and unveiled \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/14/listen-to-this-terrifying-new-donald-trump-song-sung-by-small-children/\">The Freedom Girls, a girl group that sings lyrics like “Deal from strength or get crushed every time.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Trump enjoys reminding Americans of better days, he might take a cue from JFK and pick another one of ol’ Blue Eyes’s hits -- “My Way” -- to explain how his presidency would shake up politics:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egY8rUpxqcE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump might also want to warn his voters about the sometimes violent protests that have been erupting at his recent campaign stops. My suggestion? Outside each of his convention halls, he could blast Kenny Loggins’ hit “Danger Zone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Bernie Sanders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musically, Sanders has made some smart choices; for example, the use of Simon and Garfunkel’s perennial hit \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nwRiuh1Cug\">“America”\u003c/a> in his campaign ads was very well-received. But, at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/06/07/despite-a-gloomy-forecast-san-francisco-feels-the-bern-at-crissy-field/\">his Bay Area campaign rally yesterday\u003c/a>, his headliner Dave Matthews Band had some scratching their heads at Sanders’ momentary lack of street cred for his constituency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Sanders likes to dig back into musical archives for material, here’s an idea that people of any age would appreciate: \u003cem>The Underdog\u003c/em> theme song from 1964. Here’s why it’s perfect: not only will a large voting block -- the Baby Boomers -- respond with nostalgia for this folksy show, but younger voters might remember the 2007 adaptation. And the lyrics reflect many of Sanders’ campaign ideas of wanting to help the, well, underdogs of American society: “Speed of lightning, roar of thunder, fighting all who rob or plunder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHej4ZqZDwo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, if the associations with a popular cartoon aren't considered presidential material, he might do well to make use of 1984 Twisted Sister hit “We’re Not Going To Take It.” I bet he and Ellen would have a fun time dancing to it, at the very least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmckWVPRaI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Hillary Clinton\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Hillary is determined to leave no opportunity behind, so she released a carefully-curated \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/13/politics/election-2016-hillary-clinton-spotify-playlist/\">Spotify playlist\u003c/a> featuring plenty of female artists like Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, Sara Bareilles and Jennifer Lopez. (Unfortunately, the playlist does not feature a hit suggested by many to be Clinton’s unofficial campaign motto -- “Shake it Off.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s helpful that songs like Clarkson’s “Stronger” reflect her message, I am left wondering if they truly reflect Clinton’s personal taste. Instead, I would suggest that she take a cue from her husband’s successful 1992 campaign. While aides thought that the Fleetwood Mac #3 hit on the 1977 Billboard charts \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3JA1nWPFqM\">“Don’t Stop” \u003c/a>would seem not “cool” enough, Clinton held firm and still uses the song since it proved such a crucial part of that election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what would I suggest for Hillary Rodham Clinton? If she wants to emphasize the historic aspects of her campaign and her history of fighting for women’s rights, she might try using Helen Reddy’s hit “I Am Woman” from 1971 that helped shape the International Woman's Year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUBnxqEVKlk\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUBnxqEVKlk\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or she could also pick everywoman’s Bridget Jones’s favorite anthem, “I’m Every Woman” as sung by Chaka Khan in 1978:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xuUdI1an0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She could also pick the Beach Boys’ “Be True to Your School” to reflect her hope that Democrats remain loyal to their party this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ijkYkJfg0s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, only one nominee can ascend to the presidency, so what about the others? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent history, there have been some missteps in the campaign song game. In the complicated 2000 election, George W. Bush attempted to use Tom Petty’s song “I Won’t Back Down.” The singer, who was a supporter of Al Gore, threatened to sue him and subsequently played the song proudly at Gore headquarters just minutes after he’d conceded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/nUTXb-ga1fo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, President Obama has set the bar so high with selections like Ben Harper’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOZj1Xyx354\">“Better Way”\u003c/a> and Motown favorite Stevie Wonder’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXC_lab-34\">“Signed, Sealed, Delivered”\u003c/a> that many political analysts have blasted the current candidates for uninspired choices. Luckily, this armchair commentator is here to help, especially as Californians head to the polls today to Rock the Vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some suggestions for the remaining candidates:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Donald Trump\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like his hat merch proclaims, Republican candidate Trump wants to “Make America Great Again.” However, Trump’s original pick of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” was denied by the rocker, as were tunes from Adele, Aerosmith, and R.E.M. So Trump took matters into his own hands and unveiled \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/14/listen-to-this-terrifying-new-donald-trump-song-sung-by-small-children/\">The Freedom Girls, a girl group that sings lyrics like “Deal from strength or get crushed every time.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Trump enjoys reminding Americans of better days, he might take a cue from JFK and pick another one of ol’ Blue Eyes’s hits -- “My Way” -- to explain how his presidency would shake up politics:\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/egY8rUpxqcE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/egY8rUpxqcE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Trump might also want to warn his voters about the sometimes violent protests that have been erupting at his recent campaign stops. My suggestion? Outside each of his convention halls, he could blast Kenny Loggins’ hit “Danger Zone.”\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/siwpn14IE7E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/siwpn14IE7E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Bernie Sanders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musically, Sanders has made some smart choices; for example, the use of Simon and Garfunkel’s perennial hit \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nwRiuh1Cug\">“America”\u003c/a> in his campaign ads was very well-received. But, at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/06/07/despite-a-gloomy-forecast-san-francisco-feels-the-bern-at-crissy-field/\">his Bay Area campaign rally yesterday\u003c/a>, his headliner Dave Matthews Band had some scratching their heads at Sanders’ momentary lack of street cred for his constituency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Sanders likes to dig back into musical archives for material, here’s an idea that people of any age would appreciate: \u003cem>The Underdog\u003c/em> theme song from 1964. Here’s why it’s perfect: not only will a large voting block -- the Baby Boomers -- respond with nostalgia for this folksy show, but younger voters might remember the 2007 adaptation. 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"content": "\u003cp>Now that Victoria Beckham is a fashion powerhouse, she wishes you would forget that she was ever known for anything else. Every so often, she refuses to do a reunion tour (but \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Spice_Girls\">ends up doing it\u003c/a>), refuses to perform at the London Olympics closing ceremony (but \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PArTdhNda7k\">ends up doing it\u003c/a>), or refuses to appear on the red carpet next to the other Spice Girls at the opening of their own musical (she \u003ca href=\"http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/spice-girls-were-disappointed-victoria-beckham-didnt-join-them-at-viva-forever-premiere-says-melanie-chisholm-2013164\">\u003cstrong>did not\u003c/strong> end up doing it\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as earlier this month, she \u003ca href=\"http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/victoria-beckham-admits-mic-turned-7908127\">bitterly reminisced\u003c/a> about her time in the biggest girl group in all of herstory:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“They used to turn [my mic] off and just let the others sing. I got the last laugh - and now my mic is well and truly on, finally.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Um, Vic, this isn't an exclusive. We all knew your mic was not on and were ok with that. Having Geri's turned on was bad enough. Also, maybe be thankful they cut you a check, despite your lack of contribution?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, that's not all Beckham had to share:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I was always the one that loved fashion and it was quite a result for me because the girls always used to get their clothes for free because they were crap and so there was a lot of budget for me to have my little Gucci dress.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/giphy-14.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25267\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/giphy-14.gif\" alt=\"shade of it all latrice gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emma's baby doll dresses and platforms, Melanie B's cheetah print numbers, Melanie C's full-body Adidas looks, and Geri's Union Jack dress are iconic. How dare you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VB, you finished with sh*tting all over my childhood? No? Oh, okay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“When all the other girls were being fun and spontaneous and jumping on tables, I was always the one checking the table wasn’t going to collapse. I was always the sensible one.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Ok, we get it! You're so above the band that made you famous, the band without which you would have never met your footballer husband, the band without which...well, everything else about your current privileged life. But I digress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Point is: Victoria hates that she tried to convince us she was an acceptable-enough singer for so many years, so she's probably pretty pissed that \u003ci>Come Together, \u003c/i>a scrapped hip-hop album she worked on with Damon Dash way back in the early aughts, is coming to light and making waves on the internet today. Let's consider this karmic retribution for biting the hand that has fed for the past two decades:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzST0neMmqQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A40j6uKPYjc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gthZVyQuHtg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzv6jTZrk8o\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs-cJ-vve8A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dear other bloggers covering this, \"Let Your Head Go\" is not new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4XYmF4oy3U\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How could you forget the music video, which channels \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/05/19/bette-davis-vs-joan-crawford-the-shadiest-hollywood-feud-of-all-time/\">Joan Crawford\u003c/a>'s iconic wire hanger meltdown? Research, people!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZQlBg_4T-k\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And before any fellow Spice Girls fans call me a traitor, know that I love the group more than almost all of my cousins, aunts and uncles. We're hardest on the ones we love most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>P.S. Weak voice be damned, this will forever be a bop:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf87MJcWZQI\u003c/p>\n\n",
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On Monday, Slim Shady (he’s the real Shady, all you other Slim Shadies are just imitating) put 700 bricks in his \u003ca href=\"http://shop.eminem.com/products/authentic-brick-x-mmlp-cassette\">web store\u003c/a>, for $313 a piece. The bricks are purportedly from the rapper’s now-demolished childhood home, as featured on the cover of 2000’s \u003cem>The Marshall Mathers LP\u003c/em>. Each individual piece of ridiculous rubble comes with its own \u003cdel>cheap\u003c/del> plexiglass case (“Customers will assemble the bricks into the plexiglass display case upon arrival”), along with a \u003cdel>piece of paper\u003c/del> Certificate of Authenticity, and a cassette copy of \u003cem>The Marshall Mathers LP\u003c/em>. (Side note: Cassettes are only cool right now because everyone’s forgotten how quickly they get worn out and how long it takes to wind one back into place using only a pencil and sheer power of will.) 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When stars are raising considerable amounts of cash for charity, they (or at least their publicists) usually want us to know the depths of their generosity. If the revealed amount is merely the word \"portion,\" you can almost guarantee it ain't going to be much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QNT01AadYg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now if ALL of the proceeds from the brick sale went to The Marshall Mathers Foundation – which apparently “\u003ca href=\"https://www.looktothestars.org/charity/marshall-mathers-foundation\">helps disadvantaged youth\u003c/a> in...Michigan” by making “donations to food banks and youth groups and participat[ing] in fundraisers” – I’d symbolically pat Mr. Mathers on the back for giving so much to the community he has so consistently aligned himself with throughout his career. Hell, I’d still cheer him on if it was a 25% donation. Maybe even a 15% donation. Under the circumstances though, it's difficult to see this as anything other than a means to make a crass moneymaking scheme into something that looks vaguely well-meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It certainly doesn't help matters that this undisclosed amount is going straight to Eminem’s own charity, rather than directly to an outside one. It’s difficult not to be at least a little cynical about musicians' charitable organizations after watching the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/business/20charity.html?_r=1\">Kanye West Foundation mysteriously close\u003c/a>, amidst a plethora of questions about how $570,000 was spent on “\u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/06/12/which-celebrity-charities-can-trust-with-your-donations.html\">administrative fees\u003c/a>” in 2010. 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"content": "\u003cp>The next time I hear someone suggest Beyoncé doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously as an artist because she’s a pop star, or because there are other writers credited on her new album, I’m going to punch them in the mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: I don't actually condone physical violence, and would certainly never suggest it as the appropriate response to an incorrect Pop Culture Opinion. Still, that was the first complete-sentence thought I managed to sputter out loud last night, as I sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic with roughly 50,000 other people, every one of us just trying to inch a half-mile outside of Levi’s Stadium as the clock struck midnight and it turned from May 16 to May 17, with damn near every person in every car dazed, drained, energized, aglow, and grinning ear-to-ear as though, perhaps, we'd all just witnessed the Apollo 11 moon landing. Live. 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But more importantly: after watching the most famous woman in the country work harder and tougher and more joyfully than I’ve ever seen any human work on a stage before -- and we’re talking \u003ci>hard\u003c/i> calisthenics, for two straight hours, in a series of high-heeled boots and glittery, thong-bottomed jumpsuits, long curls loose and flying, while belting her way through more than 30 songs from her 17-year career, all without once sounding out of breath -- it's also never been more obvious why it's wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re proud of who you are, say ‘I slay,’” said B early in the evening, smiling and scanning the stadium, assessing her crowd as it roared to life. We'd been treated to Too $hort, E-40 and DJ Khaled while we waited, which in most other circumstances would be quite the show, full-stop, in and of itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24584\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Beyonce.Flames\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re proud of where you come from, say ‘I slay,’” said B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>I SLAY!\u003c/i> we told her, most of us sounding pretty dumb, because Beyoncé is one of the few people alive who sounds cool when she says \"I slay.\" No matter. She had just emerged from a rotating, skyscraper-sized cube made of LED lights; she had a team of eight acrobatically gifted women dancing behind her; a tireless female drummer to her right and a ferocious female bassist to her left, and a Super Bowl-sized stadium of followers screaming her name in every other direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Group therapy had commenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_24588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-24588 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.fire_-800x1197.jpg\" alt=\"Beyonce.fire\" width=\"800\" height=\"1197\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.fire_-800x1197.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.fire_-400x599.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.fire_-768x1149.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.fire_-1180x1766.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.fire_-960x1437.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.fire_.jpg 1283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Parkwood Entertainment\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After opening with \"Formation,\" the politically charged call to arms that sent football fans \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/02/18/the-beyonce-backlash-continues-sheriff-cites-super-bowl-show-after-shooting-near-home/\" target=\"_blank\">clutching for their pearls\u003c/a> when she stole Coldplay's show with it at the aforementioned Big Ol' American Sports Event at Levi's in February, Beyoncé dove full-speed into a set that leaned heavily on \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>, her much-discussed, barely three-week old manifesto about love and pain and infidelity and the messy realities of being a woman, not to mention an obscenely famous woman of color, in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sorry\" saw thousands of middle fingers in the air, waving with a gusto that suggested the fingers themselves had been waiting patiently for years to do just that. \"Hold Up\" was jaunty testimony as much as it was an admonition, a map of hurt and marital betrayal, even as she segued easily into the relationship celebration of \"Countdown\" and strutted athletically down a catwalk into the middle of the crowd. \"Don't Hurt Yourself\" invited the most committed, gleeful headbanging I've ever seen from an R&B or pop star, helped in no small part by Beyoncé's (again, female) electric guitarist standing in for Jack White, wailing through heavily distorted riffs, rocking an Afro and shredded jeans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a song about the most important relationship in your life, and that's the one you have with yourself,\" Beyoncé said by way of introducing \"Me Myself and I,\" off her debut solo album, somehow managing to sound earnest while also staying on message with the precision of a knife-thrower. \"Every other relationship is just a bonus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_24586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-24586 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers-800x551.jpg\" alt=\"Beyonce.WithDancers\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers-800x551.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers-768x529.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers-1440x992.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers-1180x812.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers-960x661.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Parkwood Entertainment\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a few other exceptions -- \"Flawless\" was a beast of a performance; \"Crazy In Love\" opened with a dark, ominous downtempo rendition that emphasized the negative connotations of \"crazy\" before B flashed a smile and jumped into its rightful pace; the sloppy, sexy devotion of \"Drunk In Love\" also took on a new gravity in light of the cracks we've now seen in its central relationship -- songs from previous albums got shorter treatments. Destiny's Child tracks, in particular, became something like a tangled teaser-medley of lyrics about independent ladies and survivors and jelly (\u003cem>this\u003c/em> jelly, to be specific, and whether or not you're ready for it).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the show charged on, my initial frustration at the medley approach to early songs was outweighed by the power of juxtaposition; nothing highlights how much she's grown like hearing 2003's \"Baby Boy\" (ft. Sean Paul, though this show did not, thankfully, feature Sean Paul) in close proximity to the layered, orchestral, triumphant \"All Night\" -- which Beyoncé referred to as her favorite song to sing from the new album, because \"it's about redemption.\" (See: knife-thrower storyline crafting, above.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That juxtaposition also helped to eliminate any doubt that this woman can carry a stadium show by herself. Not only was Jay Z conspicuously missing from the premises, his parts were actually removed from her songs -- and I didn't miss them. In the same vein, the sets were certainly big visually (video clips from \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>, aerial dancers and complicated platforms of various sizes, fireworks, more than a half-dozen costume changes). But it was tough not to draw a comparison to Taylor Swift's '1989' tour, which also came to Levi's Stadium, and during which the stage became something like the set for an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/08/17/live-review-taylor-swift-regular-super-normal-girl-like-you-and-me-at-levis-stadium/\" target=\"_blank\">over-the-top, Taylor Swift-themed musical\u003c/a>; the dancers and complex video elements at that performance seemed crucial to making it interesting enough to last two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24595\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-800x579.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (8)\" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-800x579.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-400x290.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-768x556.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-1440x1042.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-1920x1390.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-1180x854.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-960x695.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Beyoncé's on stage, you don't need much else. I never got to see Michael Jackson live, but I have to imagine it was a little like this. (\"Hey, this is cool, but let's add some more grandiose set design just so people have something else to look at while Michael's dancing,\" said no artistic director ever.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the evening wound to a close, B disappeared and reemerged in white, her dancers stone-faced, bound in costumes that looked like rope. Together, barefoot, they took to a rectangular, ankle-deep pool of water at the edge of the catwalk to dance for the duration of \"Freedom,\" the drum-driven, heart-pounding Kendrick Lamar collaboration on \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>. Hair was flying, water was flying, arms and legs took the shape of wings. It looked primal. It looked like liberation. It looked exhausting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, she doesn't \u003cem>have\u003c/em> to work this hard,\" I yelled to my friend, as her dancers left and Beyoncé closed the show solo, still barefoot, with \"Halo.\" \"She's not even lip-syncing!\" my friend yelled back, and it was true: Beyoncé was clearly singing her ass off, all while doing squats and lunges and high-kicks in heels for, let me repeat it, 120 minutes straight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24596\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-5.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (5)\" width=\"640\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-5.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-5-400x395.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-5-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-5-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-5-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-5-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the thought I woke up with this morning -- after three hours of traffic and three and a half hours of sleep -- was something like: Actually, she \u003cem>does\u003c/em> have to work that hard. Because the more \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/03/every-track-on-beyonces-lemonade-debuts-on-billboard-hot-100-as-radiohead-fades-out-or-maybe-not/\" target=\"_blank\">records she breaks\u003c/a>, the more people are waiting for her to slip. No matter \u003cem>what\u003c/em> she does, people will line up to say she doesn't deserve her success, that she's a pretty lady pop star propped up by shrewd male writers and producers; to proclaim that her newfound public political consciousness is just a well-crafted but disingenuous marketing ploy, instead of entertaining the possibility that a 34-year-old performer who's been in the spotlight since age 16 might grow up and develop fresh ideas and want to go in new directions, and that doing all of that on an international stage will obviously, at times, get messy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But whether it was calculated or genuine or somewhere in between, the sparkle of a tear in Beyoncé's eye as she put her hand to her chest, looked around the stadium, and smiled a gracious, humble, goddamn beautiful smile before saying \"thank you\" one last time and disappearing below the stage said everything I needed to know about what \u003cem>she\u003c/em> thinks she deserves. She might not have always been clear on that. It might have even taken heartbreak for her to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if that's not proof that the personal is political -- especially, yes, if you're a woman, and \u003cem>especially\u003c/em> if you're an obscenely famous woman of color in America -- I sure as hell don't know what is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>--\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24597\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-800x595.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (10)\" width=\"800\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-800x595.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-400x297.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-768x571.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-1440x1071.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-1920x1427.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-1180x877.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-960x714.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some non-\u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em> highlights and stray thoughts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Would be remiss not to mention the gut-punch-emotional cover of Prince's \"The Beautiful Ones\" that ended with B on all fours, belting into the mic like it was a lifeline, followed by a set break/costume change during which the LED skyscraper glowed purple, the entirety of \"Purple Rain\" blasted over the sound system, and confetti fell from the sky while nearly 50,000 cell phone lights swayed from side to side.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Also, a chorus from D'Angelo's \"Untitled (How Does It Feel)\" popping up in the midst of \"Rocket.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>On at least three separate occasions when Beyoncé crouched down and invited the front row to sing into the microphone, the crowd members who apparently grabbed said opportunity were adult men who then growl-yelled the next lyric so forcefully that she started cracking up.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Waiting to see how many Beyoncé-sweat covered towels show up on eBay in the next week or two, as she obliged at least five or six fans who offered relief from the front row.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The parking situation was a nightmare both on the way in and the way out. Also, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfl.com/qs/allclear/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">NFL's idiotic no-purse policy\u003c/a>, under which Levi's Stadium employees offer concert-goers clear plastic bags to hold their possessions, contributed to an interesting \"turning over your affects as you arrive at prison\" feeling. Beyoncé prison, though. It's way better than regular prison.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>It's pretty well understood that the wages of superstardom in this country involve giving up any semblance of privacy; that once you reach a certain level of fame, people are going to pick apart, criticize, and capitalize on your personal life whether you like it or not. Wrapping up the hungered-for \"personal story\" in a shiny bow and demanding payment for it the way Beyoncé has with this record and tour is one of the smartest chess moves in pop music history, and I don't care whose idea you think it was.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>As the throngs of people shoved toward the exits, a man \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/732459633848127490\" target=\"_blank\">got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend\u003c/a>, prompting shrieks from about a hundred people nearby. She said yes, of course, and they hugged. Then a quick-witted bystander offered the bride-to-be some sage advice: \"Take his ass to Red Lobster!\" Really hope she did.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Beyoncé's Formation Tour returns to Levi's Stadium on Sept. 17. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C0050948EE32832?CAMEFROM=CFC_49ERS_WEB_LS_EVENT\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The next time I hear someone suggest Beyoncé doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously as an artist because she’s a pop star, or because there are other writers credited on her new album, I’m going to punch them in the mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: I don't actually condone physical violence, and would certainly never suggest it as the appropriate response to an incorrect Pop Culture Opinion. Still, that was the first complete-sentence thought I managed to sputter out loud last night, as I sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic with roughly 50,000 other people, every one of us just trying to inch a half-mile outside of Levi’s Stadium as the clock struck midnight and it turned from May 16 to May 17, with damn near every person in every car dazed, drained, energized, aglow, and grinning ear-to-ear as though, perhaps, we'd all just witnessed the Apollo 11 moon landing. Live. From the moon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24593\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-6-800x652.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (6)\" width=\"800\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-6-800x652.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-6-400x326.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-6-768x626.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-6-1440x1174.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-6-1920x1566.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-6-1180x962.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-6-960x783.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just that the \"she's not a real artist\" argument, which handily strips Beyoncé of any shred of agency, is boring and sexist (though it is both of those things, and if you have a few hours I'm more than happy to talk about it over drinks). But more importantly: after watching the most famous woman in the country work harder and tougher and more joyfully than I’ve ever seen any human work on a stage before -- and we’re talking \u003ci>hard\u003c/i> calisthenics, for two straight hours, in a series of high-heeled boots and glittery, thong-bottomed jumpsuits, long curls loose and flying, while belting her way through more than 30 songs from her 17-year career, all without once sounding out of breath -- it's also never been more obvious why it's wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re proud of who you are, say ‘I slay,’” said B early in the evening, smiling and scanning the stadium, assessing her crowd as it roared to life. We'd been treated to Too $hort, E-40 and DJ Khaled while we waited, which in most other circumstances would be quite the show, full-stop, in and of itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24584\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Beyonce.Flames\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.Flames-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re proud of where you come from, say ‘I slay,’” said B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>I SLAY!\u003c/i> we told her, most of us sounding pretty dumb, because Beyoncé is one of the few people alive who sounds cool when she says \"I slay.\" No matter. She had just emerged from a rotating, skyscraper-sized cube made of LED lights; she had a team of eight acrobatically gifted women dancing behind her; a tireless female drummer to her right and a ferocious female bassist to her left, and a Super Bowl-sized stadium of followers screaming her name in every other direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Group therapy had commenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_24588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-24588 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.fire_-800x1197.jpg\" alt=\"Beyonce.fire\" width=\"800\" height=\"1197\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.fire_-800x1197.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.fire_-400x599.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.fire_-768x1149.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.fire_-1180x1766.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.fire_-960x1437.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.fire_.jpg 1283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Parkwood Entertainment\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After opening with \"Formation,\" the politically charged call to arms that sent football fans \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/02/18/the-beyonce-backlash-continues-sheriff-cites-super-bowl-show-after-shooting-near-home/\" target=\"_blank\">clutching for their pearls\u003c/a> when she stole Coldplay's show with it at the aforementioned Big Ol' American Sports Event at Levi's in February, Beyoncé dove full-speed into a set that leaned heavily on \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>, her much-discussed, barely three-week old manifesto about love and pain and infidelity and the messy realities of being a woman, not to mention an obscenely famous woman of color, in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sorry\" saw thousands of middle fingers in the air, waving with a gusto that suggested the fingers themselves had been waiting patiently for years to do just that. \"Hold Up\" was jaunty testimony as much as it was an admonition, a map of hurt and marital betrayal, even as she segued easily into the relationship celebration of \"Countdown\" and strutted athletically down a catwalk into the middle of the crowd. \"Don't Hurt Yourself\" invited the most committed, gleeful headbanging I've ever seen from an R&B or pop star, helped in no small part by Beyoncé's (again, female) electric guitarist standing in for Jack White, wailing through heavily distorted riffs, rocking an Afro and shredded jeans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a song about the most important relationship in your life, and that's the one you have with yourself,\" Beyoncé said by way of introducing \"Me Myself and I,\" off her debut solo album, somehow managing to sound earnest while also staying on message with the precision of a knife-thrower. \"Every other relationship is just a bonus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_24586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-24586 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers-800x551.jpg\" alt=\"Beyonce.WithDancers\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers-800x551.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers-768x529.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers-1440x992.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers-1180x812.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Beyonce.WithDancers-960x661.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Parkwood Entertainment\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a few other exceptions -- \"Flawless\" was a beast of a performance; \"Crazy In Love\" opened with a dark, ominous downtempo rendition that emphasized the negative connotations of \"crazy\" before B flashed a smile and jumped into its rightful pace; the sloppy, sexy devotion of \"Drunk In Love\" also took on a new gravity in light of the cracks we've now seen in its central relationship -- songs from previous albums got shorter treatments. Destiny's Child tracks, in particular, became something like a tangled teaser-medley of lyrics about independent ladies and survivors and jelly (\u003cem>this\u003c/em> jelly, to be specific, and whether or not you're ready for it).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the show charged on, my initial frustration at the medley approach to early songs was outweighed by the power of juxtaposition; nothing highlights how much she's grown like hearing 2003's \"Baby Boy\" (ft. Sean Paul, though this show did not, thankfully, feature Sean Paul) in close proximity to the layered, orchestral, triumphant \"All Night\" -- which Beyoncé referred to as her favorite song to sing from the new album, because \"it's about redemption.\" (See: knife-thrower storyline crafting, above.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That juxtaposition also helped to eliminate any doubt that this woman can carry a stadium show by herself. Not only was Jay Z conspicuously missing from the premises, his parts were actually removed from her songs -- and I didn't miss them. In the same vein, the sets were certainly big visually (video clips from \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>, aerial dancers and complicated platforms of various sizes, fireworks, more than a half-dozen costume changes). But it was tough not to draw a comparison to Taylor Swift's '1989' tour, which also came to Levi's Stadium, and during which the stage became something like the set for an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/08/17/live-review-taylor-swift-regular-super-normal-girl-like-you-and-me-at-levis-stadium/\" target=\"_blank\">over-the-top, Taylor Swift-themed musical\u003c/a>; the dancers and complex video elements at that performance seemed crucial to making it interesting enough to last two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24595\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-800x579.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (8)\" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-800x579.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-400x290.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-768x556.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-1440x1042.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-1920x1390.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-1180x854.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-8-960x695.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Beyoncé's on stage, you don't need much else. I never got to see Michael Jackson live, but I have to imagine it was a little like this. (\"Hey, this is cool, but let's add some more grandiose set design just so people have something else to look at while Michael's dancing,\" said no artistic director ever.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the evening wound to a close, B disappeared and reemerged in white, her dancers stone-faced, bound in costumes that looked like rope. Together, barefoot, they took to a rectangular, ankle-deep pool of water at the edge of the catwalk to dance for the duration of \"Freedom,\" the drum-driven, heart-pounding Kendrick Lamar collaboration on \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>. Hair was flying, water was flying, arms and legs took the shape of wings. It looked primal. It looked like liberation. It looked exhausting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, she doesn't \u003cem>have\u003c/em> to work this hard,\" I yelled to my friend, as her dancers left and Beyoncé closed the show solo, still barefoot, with \"Halo.\" \"She's not even lip-syncing!\" my friend yelled back, and it was true: Beyoncé was clearly singing her ass off, all while doing squats and lunges and high-kicks in heels for, let me repeat it, 120 minutes straight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24596\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-5.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (5)\" width=\"640\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-5.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-5-400x395.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-5-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-5-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-5-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-5-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the thought I woke up with this morning -- after three hours of traffic and three and a half hours of sleep -- was something like: Actually, she \u003cem>does\u003c/em> have to work that hard. Because the more \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/03/every-track-on-beyonces-lemonade-debuts-on-billboard-hot-100-as-radiohead-fades-out-or-maybe-not/\" target=\"_blank\">records she breaks\u003c/a>, the more people are waiting for her to slip. No matter \u003cem>what\u003c/em> she does, people will line up to say she doesn't deserve her success, that she's a pretty lady pop star propped up by shrewd male writers and producers; to proclaim that her newfound public political consciousness is just a well-crafted but disingenuous marketing ploy, instead of entertaining the possibility that a 34-year-old performer who's been in the spotlight since age 16 might grow up and develop fresh ideas and want to go in new directions, and that doing all of that on an international stage will obviously, at times, get messy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But whether it was calculated or genuine or somewhere in between, the sparkle of a tear in Beyoncé's eye as she put her hand to her chest, looked around the stadium, and smiled a gracious, humble, goddamn beautiful smile before saying \"thank you\" one last time and disappearing below the stage said everything I needed to know about what \u003cem>she\u003c/em> thinks she deserves. She might not have always been clear on that. It might have even taken heartbreak for her to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if that's not proof that the personal is political -- especially, yes, if you're a woman, and \u003cem>especially\u003c/em> if you're an obscenely famous woman of color in America -- I sure as hell don't know what is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>--\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24597\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-800x595.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (10)\" width=\"800\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-800x595.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-400x297.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-768x571.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-1440x1071.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-1920x1427.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-1180x877.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-10-960x714.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some non-\u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em> highlights and stray thoughts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Would be remiss not to mention the gut-punch-emotional cover of Prince's \"The Beautiful Ones\" that ended with B on all fours, belting into the mic like it was a lifeline, followed by a set break/costume change during which the LED skyscraper glowed purple, the entirety of \"Purple Rain\" blasted over the sound system, and confetti fell from the sky while nearly 50,000 cell phone lights swayed from side to side.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Also, a chorus from D'Angelo's \"Untitled (How Does It Feel)\" popping up in the midst of \"Rocket.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>On at least three separate occasions when Beyoncé crouched down and invited the front row to sing into the microphone, the crowd members who apparently grabbed said opportunity were adult men who then growl-yelled the next lyric so forcefully that she started cracking up.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Waiting to see how many Beyoncé-sweat covered towels show up on eBay in the next week or two, as she obliged at least five or six fans who offered relief from the front row.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The parking situation was a nightmare both on the way in and the way out. Also, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfl.com/qs/allclear/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">NFL's idiotic no-purse policy\u003c/a>, under which Levi's Stadium employees offer concert-goers clear plastic bags to hold their possessions, contributed to an interesting \"turning over your affects as you arrive at prison\" feeling. Beyoncé prison, though. It's way better than regular prison.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>It's pretty well understood that the wages of superstardom in this country involve giving up any semblance of privacy; that once you reach a certain level of fame, people are going to pick apart, criticize, and capitalize on your personal life whether you like it or not. Wrapping up the hungered-for \"personal story\" in a shiny bow and demanding payment for it the way Beyoncé has with this record and tour is one of the smartest chess moves in pop music history, and I don't care whose idea you think it was.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>As the throngs of people shoved toward the exits, a man \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/732459633848127490\" target=\"_blank\">got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend\u003c/a>, prompting shrieks from about a hundred people nearby. She said yes, of course, and they hugged. Then a quick-witted bystander offered the bride-to-be some sage advice: \"Take his ass to Red Lobster!\" Really hope she did.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"DxM3sXPHwdqoCIi3Lm9zhf0IV7RsnYtz\"]There are certain things I \u003cem>think\u003c/em> I know everything about: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/gilmore-girls/\">\u003cem>Gilmore Girls\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/23/5-reasons-why-adapting-reality-bites-is-a-terrible-idea-winona-ryder-ben-stiller/\">Winona Ryder\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/02/18/weird-facts-you-never-knew-about-the-u-s-presidents/\">Abe Lincoln\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/spice-girls/\">Spice Girls\u003c/a>, and Joanna Newsom. Last night, at a City Arts and Lectures event hosted by Dave Eggers, I found out that I had more to learn about the latter. Here are all the new things I discovered about Joanna Newsom and her music:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Her most interesting fan interaction: A woman approached Joanna, presented her tween daughter and said she gave birth to her while listening to Joanna's music.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The event took place on Hayes Street at the Nourse Theater, which reminded Joanna of her time working in retail on that very street years ago. She said she was awful at it. When women would try garments on and fish for permission to buy something expensive by saying things like \"It's so beautiful, but I should probably pay rent,\" Joanna would say \"That sounds important! You should pay rent!\" instead of the shop girl refrain, \"Oh, forget that! You deserve it!\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Joanna said she was a flaky kid, but that music was \"the thing I never flaked on.\" She learned how to play the piano at the age of four and went on to learn how to play the harp at the age of eight. A childhood teacher recently sent Joanna sheet music of her first ever composition. It was about a camel.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Her very first song was titled \"Flying a Kite.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>When Joanna was at Mills College, she started out as a composition major, but soon switched over to a self study in West African music and then later to creative writing. She claims her poems were terrible, until she realized that they were actually songs.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Joanna is a huge Nabokov fan. She went as far as writing a paper in college on the color mauve's role in \u003cem>Lolita\u003c/em>, one of her all-time favorite pieces of literature.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Joanna says she's \"kind of a jock about songwriting.\" When she gets it right, she bro-yells \"YEAH!\" and goes around kicking things.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>She sang all the harmonies on her last album \u003cem>Divers\u003c/em> to keep up the theme of time folding onto itself. She wanted the layered vocals to symbolize different versions of herself traveling from parallel universes to sing in harmony with each other.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>When asked to explain the concept behind \u003cem>Divers\u003c/em>, Joanna shared that she wanted it to evoke the questions: \"What's the point? Why are we all doing [this] if it all gets extinguished in the end?\" She also intended for the album to represent someone who has just realized that we all die and the journey it takes to process that information.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>On the last record, Joanna had a rule that no collaborator would be in the room for more than one purpose to ensure clarity of purpose.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Before recording \u003cem>Have One on Me\u003c/em>, Joanna tried to sing one day and heard a pop and a hiss emanate from her throat, like opening a soda can. Turns out she had developed nodes on her vocal chords from extensive touring without proper vocal training. Surgery was encouraged, but because of horror stories Joanna had heard about how some who undergo the process lose their ability to sing, she decided to go on a two-month vocal rest instead.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>She would walk around with a button that explained that she wasn't speaking and a dry-erase board to communicate. Because her hometown of Nevada City is also home to a lot of performance artists and buskers, many thought it was an art project. So she changed the language, only to then have people assume she had a \"horrible disease\" or that she was dying. She eventually figured out the right message to get the point across.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>After her vocal rest, she gained 5 notes at the top of her register and 6 notes at the bottom. She now practices \"the same hygiene\" on her voice as she does with her harp, by doing vocal exercises for 30 minutes before every sound check, rehearsal and performance.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The way she found out Paul Thomas Anderson wanted her to be in the film adaptation of \u003cem>Inherent Vice\u003c/em>: Warner Bros. called out of the blue asking for measurements.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Like the rest of us, Joanna also procrastinates. Her poison: shopping for antiques online.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Joanna loves Kate Bush, but did not fall in love with her until after she had debuted on the musical scene, despite many critics claiming Bush must have been a strong influence early on.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Her favorite methods of self-care and healing: going on walks and cooking for others. \"I love the slowness of it.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>When she's making music, Joanna doesn't imagine anyone ever hearing her songs. Instead, she works from the mindset of living in a post-apocalyptic world and recording from a bomb shelter.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Want to keep your Joanna Newsom education going, check out all these big words from \u003cem>Divers\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/10/26/all-the-big-words-youll-learn-from-joanna-newsoms-new-album-divers/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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There \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL066Rp7J7k\" target=\"_blank\">were capes\u003c/a>. (Unfortunately, there were no \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM07r57QqGg\" target=\"_blank\">holograms of wolves\u003c/a> – Belarus was eliminated in the Semi-Final.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annual contest pits more than 40 countries against each other, as the Two-Way has reported \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/13/477810126/lightshows-fire-nudity-glitter-wolves-welcome-to-eurovision-2016\" target=\"_blank\">in this handy primer.\u003c/a> It draws tens of millions more viewers than the Super Bowl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you missed the live event yesterday, you can catch it on demand \u003ca href=\"http://www.logotv.com/full-episodes/51pift/eurovision-song-contest-2016-the-61st-annual-eurovision-song-contest-grand-final-ep-1\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> via its U.S. broadcaster, Logo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ukraine's Jamala was the unexpected winner with her haunting song \"1944,\" which recounts the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars under Stalin's orders during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-rnM-MwRHY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To say this song is serious is an understatement. In fact, this is how it opens: \"When strangers are coming / They come to your house / They kill you all, and say 'we're not guilty.' ... You think you are gods, but everyone dies.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politics are never far from the glittery surface at Eurovision – indeed, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/may/14/ukraine-wins-eurovision-jamala-1944\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian says\u003c/a> it was \"seen by many as the most politicised version of the competition to date.\" Many have interpreted \"1944\" as a thinly-veiled anti-Russian anthem, considering Russia's annexation of Crimea two years ago. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/13/477810126/lightshows-fire-nudity-glitter-wolves-welcome-to-eurovision-2016\" target=\"_blank\">As we reported,\u003c/a> Jamala, who is Tatar, maintains the song is \"personal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, speaking to \u003cem>the Guardian\u003c/em> after her win, she says it has current relevance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Of course it's about 2014 as well. These two years have added so much sadness to my life. 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So people were hunched forward in their seats staring at the results screen, unsure of what was going to happen.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>He adds that Australia had actually been in the top spot with only the votes of industry professionals counted, \"and people were genuinely surprised when they lost their lead when the tele-voting was factored in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's Australia's entry, Dami Im's soaring ballad \"Sound of Silence,\" which was the critic's favorite:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ymFX91HwM0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wondering why Australia is a part of the European contest? 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