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After the ‘Lemonade’ singer debuts a trailer for her upcoming visual album, people are debating online whether it’s appropriate or not for her to use the African culture to promote her new material.
Jun 30, 2020
AceShowbiz – Beyonce Knowles may have a large number of Beyhives who will always have her back, but that doesn’t mean she won’t face criticism. The R&B diva has landed in hot water after she debuted a trailer for her new visual album “Black Is King”.
The video in question features scenes of people donning traditional African costumes and performing some traditional dances, intercepted with footage of Beyonce performing and also some rare looks at her private moments with her family. People have since debated whether it’s appropriate or not for her to use the African culture to promote her new material.
“She needs to read the room,” one person, who objects to the video, reacted in an online forum. “Focus on the s**t that’s going on in the country she was born in, romanticizing Africa isn’t what we need right now girl.” Another agreed, “Seriously, I’m glad people have caught on to this because it has always bothered me how people appropriate ‘African cultures’.”
Believing that the 38-year-old singer is wrong, a third person commented, “I’ve been saying all this will eventually backfire on her. It’s clear she’s out here pandering and riding a wave. People would eventually catch on. Its becoming performative at this point.” Another echoed the sentiment, “It’s a bad look, especially when you want to bite off the culture.”
Someone else doubted that Beyonce’s support of African people and African culture is genuine, noting, “Claim to love Africa but they stay spending the summer in Europe etc… From Senegal to the Seychelles plenty of beautiful places to visit. But since white people prefer the Hamptons, the South of France and Capri that’s where you will mostly find the Carters.”
There were a few, however, who still defended Bey. “People are so sensitive,” one person said of the critics. “This is one of the rare moments where africa is being shown in a positive light that’s not just egypt or morocco. Beyonce was clearly showing the variety of african cultures not homogenizing them! They shouldn’t accuse her of being ignorant just because they cant tell the difference.”
Another doesn’t see anything wrong with using African culture to sell music. “Honestly, I do not know why people are writing think pieces about this. Beyonce is just trying to sell her music that’s it,” the said person argued. “I see it for what it is a promotional and marketing tactic to push her music, just like Childish Gambino [a.k.a. Donald Glover] did with Guava Island.”
Beyonce has not responded to the backlash. In a description of the upcoming visual album to be released on July 31, Disney+ said that ” ‘Black Is King’ is a celebratory memoir for the world on the Black experience.” The network’s bosses added in a statement, “The film is a story for the ages that informs and rebuilds the present. A reunion of cultures and shared generational beliefs. A story of how the people left most broken have an extraordinary gift and a purposeful future.”
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The 41-year-old athlete wasn’t the only one who is honored at the event as Wayne Brady honors late rock and roll trailblazer Little Richard, who died of bone cancer this year.
Jun 29, 2020
AceShowbiz – The 2020 BET Awards honored fallen stars at the event which took place virtually on Sunday, June 28. That night, rapper Lil Wayne could be seen offering a special tribute in honor of late NBA star Kobe Bryant, who died alongside his daughter earlier this year.
In the clip, Wayne performed “Kobe Bryant”, which was written in 2009, while a video highlighting Bryant’s career and photos of the late athlete and his daughter Gianna played in the background. “This is Black power status/ Two fingers for the Mambacita/ I’m screamin’ Black Mamba matters,” Lil Wayne rapped.
He went on to spit the bars, “My heart goes out to Vanessa and the whole Black Mamba family/ Rest in power/ Let’s hope for peace/ Black lives matter, facts.”
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Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas in January alongside seven other victims. The Lakers legend is survived by his wife Vanessa and three of their four children together, daughters Natalia (17), Bianka (3) and Capri, the latter of whom turned 1 on June 20.
The 41-year-old athlete wasn’t the only one who was honored at the event. Wayne Brady paid a tribute to late rock and roll trailblazer Little Richard, who died of bone cancer this year. In his video, Brady opted to channel Richard by donning a flashy gold tuxedo and performed a medley of Little Richard’s biggest hits, including “Lucy,” “Good Golly, Miss Molly” and “Tutti Frutti.”
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Richard died at 87 in Nashville in May. Little Richard passed away this morning from bone cancer in Nashville. “He was living with his brother in Nashville,” his longtime agent said. “He was battling for a good while, many years. I last spoke to him about two or three weeks ago. I knew he wasn’t well but he never really got into it, he just would say ‘I’m not well.’ He’s been suffering for many years with various aches and pains. He just wouldn’t talk about it much.”
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The legendary musician’s ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ lands at No. 2 at this week’s chart, while Lil Baby’s ‘My Turn’ stays stationery at the top of the chart with 70,000 albums sold.
Jun 29, 2020
AceShowbiz – Bob Dylan has landed his highest charting album in over a decade after debuting “Rough and Rowdy Ways” at number two on the Billboard 200.
He was 20,000 sales shy of ending Lil Baby’s run at the top, but the rapper’s “My Turn” scores a fourth week at the summit, with 70,000 albums sold.
Lil Baby debuted at the top of the countdown back in March and returned for an uninterrupted three weeks earlier this month.
Dylan’s new release becomes the folk-rock icon’s 23rd top 10 album and makes him the only artist to log at least one top 40 album in each decade from the 1960s to the 2020s. His first Billboard 200 top 40 hit was “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan”, which peaked at 22 in 1963, and he scored his first top 10 two years later with “Bringing It All Back Home”.
Meanwhile, A Boogie Wit da Hoodie enjoys a chart surge as his album “Artist 2.0” rockets back into the top 10 from 80 to three thanks to a reissue release, and DaBaby’s “Blame It On Baby” and Post Malone’s “Hollywood’s Bleeding” both slip a spot to numbers four and five.
Just outside the top five, pregnant Teyana Taylor lands her first top 10 record as “The Album” bows at number eight.
Top Ten Billboard 200:
“My Turn” – Lil Baby (70,000 units)
“Rough and Rowdy Ways” – Bob Dylan (53,000 units)
“Artist 2.0” – A Boogie Wit da Hoodie (43,000 units)
“Blame It On Baby” – DaBaby (37,000 units)
“Hollywood’s Bleeding” – Post Malone (36,000 units)
“Chromatica” – Lady GaGa (33,000 units)
“Dark Lane Demo Tapes” – Drake (32,000 units)
“The Album” – Teyana Taylor (32,000 units)
“Eternal Atake” – Lil Uzi Vert (31,000 units)
“The Goat” – Polo G (31,000 units)
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To raise money for domestic women’s charities in both Iceland and worldwide, the ‘It’s Oh So Quiet’ singer invites fans to join her in Reykjavik, Iceland for 3 weekends in August.
Jun 29, 2020
AceShowbiz – Bjork has announced a trio of live shows in August, in Reykjavik, Iceland, to honor those who were “hit hardest in the coronavirus and the Black Lives Matter movement (sic).”
The star’s native country is in the process of reintroducing live concerts, and the “It’s Oh So Quiet” singer is planning to stage the shows with a conventional audience, as well as livestreaming the gigs to raise money for domestic women’s charities in both Iceland and worldwide.
“I would like to invite you to some concerts to honor folks who got hit hardest in the coronavirus and the Black Lives Matter movement and to honor how many Icelandic musicians I have worked with through the years,” Bjork said in a statement, reported Rolling Stone.
“We are going to celebrate that we are all healthily exiting quarantine together by playing concerts in Harpa Music Hall for 3 weekends of August.”
The matinee concerts – dubbed Bjork Orkestral and set for 9, 15, and 23 August – “will be ‘unplugged’ or acoustic and performed without beats and electronics.”
“I feel we are going through extraordinary times horrifying but also an opportunity to truly change it is demanded of us that we finally confront all racism that we learn that lives are more important that profit and look inside us and finecomb out all our hidden prejudices and privileges (sic),” the singer added.
The events come after Bjork was forced to cancel her planned orchestral tour, which was due to kick off in Moscow, Russia next month. For more information, click here: http://icelandairwaves.is/bjork.
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The 18-year-old Seattle-bred rapper solidifies himself as a ‘Certified Hitmaker’ with second studio album which spawned a chart-topping single called ‘Blueberry Faygo’.
Jun 29, 2020
AceShowbiz – Lil Mosey has become one of the youngest platinum-selling artists in the hip-hop scene right now. He made a wave with his first mixtape at 15 and, by the age of 16, scored his double-platinum single fittingly titled “Noticed” while his debut album “Northsbest” was certified gold.
“Noticed” is bouncy and easy on the ear, showcasing his rapping/singing hybrid with Auto-Tune. It was named one of the hip-hop singles to watch by Forbes. It has since racked up nearly 200 million YouTube views, over 350 million Spotify plays, and more than 60 million SoundCloud streams.
The baby-faced rapper soon got his very own Northsbest festival in hometown of Seattle, landed a spot on the coveted XXL Freshman Class along with the likes of Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, and YK Osiris in 2019, and earned co-sign from Ice Cube and Chris Brown.
But it’s not enough for him and he’s not shy to let people know of his big aspirations. “I want the top spot. I want to be number one. I need my whole album to go platinum and I need some more plaques too. I’m really trying to go crazy,” the rapper, now 18, said in an interview.
He boldly declared his second studio album a “Certified Hitmaker”. It peaked at No. 12 on Billboard Hot 200 and spawned a hit single “Blueberry Faygo” which reached No. 11 on Billboard Hot 100, topped the Rhythmic Songs airplay chart, and climbed up to No. 16 on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop airplay chart.
While his catchy music appealed to young generation and TikTok demographic, some people criticized his sound. He was, however, unbothered. “I’m using this sound to show people that this is the wave,” he said. “I feel like I’m definitely a melodic artist. I try to use a lot of rap elements but my main thing is melodies. I feel like what really brings them in is the melody of the song. They don’t even need to know what I’m saying it’ll just be replaying in their head multiple times.”
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The ‘Eyes on You’ singer sparks health and safety concerns after he performed in front of 4,000 mask-free fans at the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee.
Jun 29, 2020
AceShowbiz – Country singer Chase Rice’s return to the road after the coronavirus lockdown has sparked health and safety concerns after fans packed a Tennessee venue on Saturday night (June 27) to see him perform live.
The “Eyes on You” singer even led a sing-along at the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, where 4,000 fans gathered and ignored social distancing guidelines even though COVID-19 is spiking in the state.
Chase filmed the fans singing along and posted the footage online, receiving a backlash from many who caught the video, with one commenter stating: “So concerts are allowed and no masks needed. What a great idea amidst covid19 on the rise. All over insta (Instagram). Chase rice might have just provoked a healthy covid19 wave in a couple of weeks.”
A fan critiziced Chase Rice for ignoring social distancing guidelines a his packed concert.
Another asked: “So will Chase Rice be held responsible for the spike of cases in TN in the next week after the jam-packed concert he had last night with no social distancing rules enforced?”.
The singer is further dragged for his packed concert.
Rice has yet to comment on the gig or the fact he may have put fans at risk, but his summer tour continues this week (July 03) in Ashland, Kentucky. He also has a handful of drive-in concerts coming up later this summer, where fans can watch him from the comfort and safety of their cars.
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The forthcoming record, which is written, directed and executive produced by the ‘Halo’ hitmaker, is based on the music from her 2019 album, ‘The Lion King: The Gift’.
Jun 29, 2020
AceShowbiz – Beyonce Knowles will release her forthcoming visual album “Black Is King” exclusively on the Disney+ streaming service.
It was previously reported that the “Halo” hitmaker, who worked with Disney bosses on last year’s “The Lion King (2019)” revamp and its subsequent soundtrack, was eyeing a $100 million (£80 million) deal with chiefs at the media giant to work for the organisation exclusively.
On Saturday, June 26, it was confirmed the 38-year-old entertainer will be releasing “Black Is King”, based on the music from her 2019 album “The Lion King: The Gift”, with the project being written, directed and executive produced by Beyonce.
“‘Black Is King’ is a celebratory memoir for the world on the Black experience,” Disney+ bosses said in a statement. “Videos for ‘My Power,’ ‘Mood 4 Eva,’ and ‘Brown Skin Girl’ are extravagances of elegance and soul.”
“The film is a story for the ages that informs and rebuilds the present,” they added. “A reunion of cultures and shared generational beliefs. A story of how the people left most broken have an extraordinary gift and a purposeful future.”
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“Black Is King” will be released on Disney+ on 31 July.
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