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Showing Original Post only (View all)Beyoncé’s Super Bowl Performance Inspires Conservative Freakout [View all]
Beyoncé Knowles rocked the Super Bowl halftime show last night, and, pearls clenched firmly in fist, Kathryn Jean Lopez is on it, and the national cultural decline Ms. Knowles apparently represents:
Id venture that theres more dignity in Beyoncés marvelously controlled, rigorously choreographed performance than in Bruce Springsteens sloppy slide and camera crotch-bump of a few years back. And as much as her very much post-baby body was on display, Beyoncés performance was less allusively sexual than Princes silhouetted guitar. In fact, almost everything about Beyoncés off-stage life pretty much seems to meet Lopezs criteria, from her long courtship with Jay-Z, to the child the two of them had once they were firmly ensconced in wedlock. If I were Lopez, I might actually think about striking the Knowles-Carters a medal for defying the Hollywood trend of shotgun or infinitely-delayed post-baby weddings.
http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/02/04/1537431/beyonces-super-bowl-performance-inspires-conservative-freakout/
I dont want to linger on this, but last nights Super Bowl half-time show was ridiculous and gratuitously so. Watching Twitter, it was really no surprise that men made comments about stripper poles and putting dollar bills through their TV sets, was it? Why cant we have a national entertainment moment that does not include a mother gyrating in a black teddy? The priceless moment was Destinys Child reuniting to ask that someone put a ring on it. As I mentioned on Twitter last night, perhaps that case might be best made in another outfit, perhaps without the crotch grabbing. It seems quite disappointing that Michelle Obama would feel the need to tweet about how proud she is of Beyoncé. The woman is talented, has a beautiful voice, and could be a role model. And she is on some levels on others she is an example of cultural surrender, rather than leadership.
Id venture that theres more dignity in Beyoncés marvelously controlled, rigorously choreographed performance than in Bruce Springsteens sloppy slide and camera crotch-bump of a few years back. And as much as her very much post-baby body was on display, Beyoncés performance was less allusively sexual than Princes silhouetted guitar. In fact, almost everything about Beyoncés off-stage life pretty much seems to meet Lopezs criteria, from her long courtship with Jay-Z, to the child the two of them had once they were firmly ensconced in wedlock. If I were Lopez, I might actually think about striking the Knowles-Carters a medal for defying the Hollywood trend of shotgun or infinitely-delayed post-baby weddings.
http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/02/04/1537431/beyonces-super-bowl-performance-inspires-conservative-freakout/
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