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Beyoncé’s 2016 Superbowl performance was deemed controversial by many: the police and white supremacists who deemed it a radical, political message against them on one side, and activists who saw it as a capitalisation of revolutionary rhetoric and aesthetics on the other.
She has been under scrutiny from the beginning of her career, but when it comes to the her using radicalism and revolution in her art, critique is legitimate. She certainly isn’t the first artist to echo these specifc times. Think of James Brown.
The Godfather of Soul is the ultimate self-made man. He was a capitalist, too. As soon as you hear his name, you may picture is permed hair. But he also underwent change and rocked an afro for some time. That time was the late 60’s.
