how about beyonce covering "jolene" erasing the implied gay of the song _and_ turning it into "you can't step to me because we're _so good at monogamy_"

Submitted by anethum at April 19, 2024, 8:29 AM in just_post

i thought it disrespectful. to me, personally (dolly's probably publicly fine with it)

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neku wrote at April 19, 2024, 9:17 AM

i dont really dislike beyonce herself but her brand is very annoying because i dont really enjoy her music and her fans are absolutely insufferable. i think its so funny that she voluntarily included the line "i raised that man, i raised his kids" like maam this is not a flex. for jay-z? you're proud of that? ok

hollyhoppet wrote at April 19, 2024, 5:51 PM

it's all so very.... lib

neku wrote at April 20, 2024, 1:08 AM (edited at April 20, 2024, 1:09 AM)

yeah its like... this is your ig baddie feminist #icon? and this is what she's got? turning jolene, a song that's basically about recognising the beauty and power of another woman, into a song about your own beauty and power because you're... jay-z's wife and pseudo mother? maybe i'm being reductive but it's just so nothing

hollyhoppet wrote at April 19, 2024, 5:59 PM

also like... how come he didn't raise his kids???

anethum wrote at April 19, 2024, 8:36 AM

some more stuff because i'm shadowboxing with a guy i made up in my head and losing:

i don't have any problems with beyonce doing country. i actually think the songs sound cool! please don't lump me in with the folks who are criticizing her for that. god knows there are actual, more profound criticisms of beyonce that could be had (s/o to oolong for sharing that article here a few back). though i guess that's not my place specifically to do that. so i'll stick to the more superficial stuff. hee.

oolong wrote at April 19, 2024, 4:05 PM

do you feel like she balanced it out by doing tyrant with dolly (i think the song is selfcest)

anethum wrote at April 20, 2024, 11:18 AM

i think that rocks but also it's separate somehow? like, your problem is you have a good tea but with bad snacks, and you solve it by having better tea but still bad snacks? that analogy is kinda doomed from the beginning

flabberghaster wrote at April 21, 2024, 5:01 PM

I just listened to it, it seems like kind of a waste to cover this song in this style, the whole thing that was interesting and unique about the original was the vulnerability in the original. A woman plaintively pleading that Jolene not do what she can't stop her from doing.

The beyonce version is just standard girlboss fare.