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exdelanmaria Ekim 11, 2021

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FANS ARE SHOCKED AT HOW MUCH BLUE IVY LOOKS LIKE HER MOM BEYONCE IN THIS PHOTO - BCK

Posted: 01 Jun 2019 08:20 AM PDT

For years, the general consensus has been that Blue Ivy Carter looks like her dad Jay-Z, but a new photo may prove otherwise. The photo in question shows Blue Ivy wearing a crown while gazing off into the distance.

The picture, which is said to be a couple of years old, has fans comparing how much the seven-year-old looks like her famous mom Beyoncé.

"Is this @beyonce or Blu???? I literally can't tell," one fan commented. Another said," This little girl is gorgeous. She looks EXACTLY like Beyoncé"

"Looking just like her mama," another fan said.

Another user remarked, "I've never seen blue look so much like her mom! Beautiful!"

Earlier this year, Beyoncé shared a side-by-side photo of her and Blue that showed how much the mother-pair resemble each other. She captioned, "Someone made this comparison of me at age 7 and Blue at age 7. My baby is growing up. "

Blue Ivy is Beyoncé and husband Jay-Z's eldest child. They are also parents to twins Rumi and son Sir, who were born in June of 2017.

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Beyoncé's mom is going 'Lion King' glam for her Wearable Art Gala - Los Angeles Times

Posted: 01 Jun 2019 06:00 AM PDT

"When I was 14, my brother's girlfriend took me to see Alvin Ailey. It changed my life completely," she recalled of her Texas adolescence. "I wouldn't even be here, my kids wouldn't be here, the world wouldn't have my kids if it wasn't for that experience. So I know how important it is to expose kids to the arts."

Has Beyoncé Overtaken Michael Jackson as the Most Important Black Artist of Our Time? - Variety

Posted: 24 May 2019 01:05 PM PDT

If it takes a living legend to know one, then Dionne Warwick must be one of our greatest experts on what makes an icon. And as the 78-year-old singer sees it, none of today's biggest superstars – not Adele, not Taylor Swift, not even Beyoncé – would yet qualify for the I-word.

"I love her to death and can appreciate her talent," she says of Bey the new issue of Essence magazine. "But that iconic status? It's a long road."

Warwick's words offer a clue as to where she might stand on a debate recently waged on the Joe Budden Podcast: Has Beyoncé surpassed Michael Jackson to become the most important black artist of our time?

Queen Bey certainly would qualify as a legitimate successor to the King of Pop. Like Jackson, she's sold millions of records, racked up an impressive string of hits, and amassed a sizable fan base and fortune. Jackson's 2009 death left a hole in the hall of hallowed black music stars that Beyoncé was primed to fill.

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Is that Mission: Impossible, or Mission: Accomplished … and then some? Has the next Michael Jackson now surpassed him in standing in the black community? "Leaving Neverland" and the stain its sexual abuse allegations tattooed on Jackson's reputation have left his legacy vulnerable. The scene would seem to be set for a new supreme musical hero – or heroine – to take over.

In some ways, Jackson's and Beyoncé's origin stories are eerily similar. Both were raised in red states (Beyoncé in Texas, Jackson in Indiana) by fathers who played a heavy hand in their early careers. Both broke out from successful groups to become even bigger sensations on their own. Both boosted their reps with groundbreaking music videos. Both assumed the title of music royalty.

But where one is celebrating and making black history, the other is black history – five decades of it. Beyoncé has driven some of the pivotal pop culture moments of this millennium – from "Independent Women" to "Single Ladies" to "Lemonade" to her Coachella "Homecoming" performance – but nothing in black entertainment in the last half century can match the impact of Jackson and "Thriller," the all-time best-selling album by a black musician. That both have been so difficult to mute post-"Leaving Neverland" is a testament to their artistry and enduring importance.

Beyoncé is an undeniable creative force, but she's first and foremost an entertainer. Her talent as a singer and performer is often jaw-dropping, but it takes a village to make a Beyoncé hit. Jackson was more of a self-contained, independent artist. He worked with accomplished producers but composed many of his greatest hits solo. As he proved with his career-making moonwalk on "Motown 25" in 1984, he didn't need a battalion to leave a lingering impression.

His perennial success has been against substantial odds. In future centuries, he will serve as an example of how to remain a beloved star despite ever-mounting negative press. "Leaving Neverland" may have damaged his legacy irreversibly, but it's impossible to erase him from black history.

Perhaps he has the edge over Beyoncé because he came to prominence during a different era, before fragmentation and declining sales compromised artists' ability to transcend demographics and before social media inflated our perception of popularity. Jackson had broader mass appeal that spanned all races, ages, continents, and languages.

Jackson was a black revolution, and that was its opening shot heard around the world. It still reverberates today, louder than any musical salvo Bey has yet fired.

This isn't to understate Beyoncé's musical and cultural significance. In paying homage to black womanhood, she's brought it into white living rooms in a way no other performer before her has. Though her black consciousness can seem choreographed and calculated at times, especially when compared to earthier forerunners like Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, and Mary J. Blige, Bey dares to go there in a way Jackson — who became figuratively and literally more colorless as time went by — never did.

At just 37, and 22 years into her career, she's opening more doors and breaking down more barriers than any living black music star. She can headline Coachella in California and Glastonbury in England (the first black woman to do either) and still bring down the house at the Apollo in Harlem. Critics and fellow artists are as enamored of her as fans, and although her personal life makes headlines, unlike Jackson, her legacy is untarnished by scandal.

Jackson, for all his legendary-ness, was simultaneously a joke. The tabloid media dubbed him "Wacko Jacko," and he was regarded as something of a mad genius, the wizard of weird. An eternal outsider, he was like the man-child who fell to earth. His oddness perhaps made him more vulnerable to the abuse allegations that have so damaged his legacy. Whether we believe them or not, most of us will never again be able to listen to Jackson's music in the same way.

But here's the catch: The music still holds up. It made him the biggest superstar in the world and catapulted him to near-mythic status. While Beyoncé's Beyhive has taken unconditional fandom to extremes, the cult of Bey revolves more around her starpower than unprecedented creative brilliance. She rides musical trends with deft awareness, but she doesn't invent them the way Jackson did.

Jackson is a 50-year-old cultural movement that remains perpetually in motion. He created the soundtrack to our lives, and even if it's no longer blaring from every speaker, it left a mark on the black community, on the world, that's more indelible than that of any music legend, with the exception of Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

Jackson has been gone for nearly a decade, and in some ways, his impact remains undimmed. With "Thriller," he paved a way for black artists into the white mainstream and set an example for child stars hoping to successfully transition into adult icons. Without him, there might have been no Whitney Houston, no Janet Jackson, no Beyoncé. No black musician, living or dead, has impacted black and white culture more than Michael Jackson.

If he had never entered our lives, black music – black history – would not be the same. No matter what becomes of his reputation, his artistic contributions are untouchable. Neither scandal nor time can diminish them.
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