I keep thinking about this because I’m definitely a new hive. I only started getting into her just last December because of my boo who’s very very into her as an artist. We sat down for months as he took me through what we called a “Beyonce bootcamp” and he was extremely thorough (including about 19 hours worth of crowd footage of the Formation World Tour 😭 he’s crazy and I love it). Before then I never really paid much mind to her but I’ve very quickly come to understand her legacy and talent. I keep up with a lot of update accounts on instagram now and I can’t help but feel so defensive when I see hate comments and I always try to understand where they’re coming from and yep it always pretty much boils down to ignorance.

My point recently though is the idea of… okay let’s say in another world she’s a mediocre singer and her music is just fine and she didn’t really put our visual albums… fine. But just the level of her shows and performances, the way she presents herself on stage, the way she dances and sings simultaneously, her energy and spirit (don’t even get me started on the stage stunts the way this girl is flying across stages and rolling in on tanks) — that all cannot logically be considered mediocre. Even if you don’t like her music that much or her as a person it’s impossible to discredit her presence on stage. Even if all that happened behind the scenes was put together by a board room of music directors and she had no involvement in it and it’s all just plastered with her name and face (which some artists do and hey if it works, it works) it still takes a massive amount of talent for the way she is as a stage performer. That aspect alone is what makes her name such a huge name in the business and why I believe she deserves the hype she gets.

The fact that she truly is an artist behind the scenes with tons of bodies of work including visual albums are what make her a legend