craig 680 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 I suppose Run The World (Girls) is pretty feminist Or you could argue the premise makes feminism obsolete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NatureBoy 0 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 listen to Jealous the end of that song Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ithinkweed 142 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Not feminist songs, but Halo imo is her best ballad. Freakum Dress is very fierce, one of my fav Bey tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArDXxTsJJoo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 680 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Most of her songs are empowering, but not always exclusively to feminism, Irreplaceable and Single Ladies for example are empowering about love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiF6-0UTqtc DC - Bills, Bills, Bills I would agree - this ones has girls sticking up for themselves, but reinforces the idea that men are only worthwhile if they fulfill traditional gender role (breadwinner). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo 3,000 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Or you could argue the premise makes feminism obsolete. Also true Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrawberryBlond 14,193 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Beyonce's only feminist songs are Run The World and ***Flawless. In order to be a feminist song, the song must explicitly be about feminism. Her "moving on after a break-up" songs aren't feminist as either gender can do that and it's nothing to do with the actual feminism cause. Both of her "feminist" songs have problems too. Run The World inaccurately tells girls that they run the world when they never have achieved this, is more about Beyonce than it is about women in general and even refers to b*****s in the lyrics, which throws female empowerment out of the window. And ***Flawless completely misses the point of the feminist speech it samples and its message only works for girls who are confident in themselves and think they're pretty. And that is, in a nutshell, the only kind of females that Beyonce's "feminist" songs are for: confident, pretty ones. They never encapsulate all women. It annoys me when people call Beyonce a champion of feminism. She may be a feminist in the basic definition of the word, but she clearly has a very poor understanding of the cause and likely doesn't know much history about it. Because of Beyonce, a lot of girls grow up thinking that feminism is all about being sassy, looking hot and telling men where to go. Sure, I would prefer that concept over the untrue stereotype of all feminists being misandrist lesbians, but stereotypes and poor representations are still stereotypes and poor representations. But if you just want general inspiring/empowerment songs from Beyonce, these are my picks (though I don't like all of them): Me, Myself And I, Ring The Alarm, Irreplaceable, Beautiful Liar, Listen, Single Ladies, Best Thing I Never Had, I Was Here, Pretty Hurts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knife 6,653 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiF6-0UTqtc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Gc7L2e544 These are my favorite feminist jams from Beyonce's Child. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway10 1,072 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Dance for You and flawless :legend: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIRE 75 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Which set of songs do you use more? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHANTEL 2 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Partition is by miles the best but ***Flawless is great too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEVDALIZA 1,274 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I think my username gives it away operating from another world Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Venus 473 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Partition>>>>>>>>>> Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellatrix 34,639 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I love them both, but the ***Flawless remix steals my vote thanks to Onika Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bebe 16,930 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I like both but Yoncé alone >>>> Everything else. Partition slays harder than everything else on the album too so obviously Yoncé/Partition "Est-ce que tu aimes le s-xe? Le s-xe, je veux dire: l'activité physique, le coït. Tu aimes ça? Tu ne t'intéresses pas au s-xe? Les hommes pensent que les féministes détestent le s-xe mais c'est une activité très stimulante et naturelle que les femmes adorent" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonsterOfficial 11,079 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Yoncé only >>>>> exorcise my mind Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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