(ThyBlackMan.com) If you haven’t heard, (unless you’ve lived under a rock,) Beyonce shocked the music world by releasing her self-titled fifth album Beyoncé via iTunes in December. As expected, her fans not only bought the album, but showered their grace upon their female messiah. And if you’re wondering, there are men out here who worships the ground she walks on. Yes, it’s that serious, folks. If her following was just a large group, now it’s a full-blown cult. With that said, it brings great shame that Beyoncé is under fire for having a photo on Instagram where it looks like she is replacing Jesus Christ on The Last Supper.
Why great shame? Because we acted like a day like this wouldn’t come. The media acted oblivious to this, too. And of course, they now are saying
Beyoncé has taken it too far, even though they are mainly responsible for the gravy train. But if thrusting their anger and shock at Bey is their way to go, someone please point them to the nearest Beytree and show them where her Beyhives live.
Beyonce and her fan base is perhaps the equivalent to the perception of Ohio State fans (how do I know? Because I am an Ohio State fan.) Loud, obnoxious, can’t tell us nothing, and extremely loyal. Sadly, saying anything bad about Beyonce is considered “blasphemous” as plenty have defended her on my Facebook. While the outrage given by the media is justifiable, they can’t act like they didn’t partially play a pivotal role in this. It’s impossible to overlook that if a celebrity gets enough false propaganda they, too, will believe they are past the wheeling’s and dealings of being human.
Once the celebrity believes it, it’s pretty much a done deal. See: Kanye West, R. Kelly, the great Michael Jackson and any other major superstar. If I was with Beyoncé, I’d at least tell her (or whoever is handling her social media accounts) that maybe that post is a bad idea. But like most celebrity’s with entourages, usually it’s a “my way or the highway” type thing. Not saying it is, but her post may point in that direction. Of course, her fans bit the bullet and increased their worship of the singer. Of course, they are also were making excuses that people are going over their heads.
But let’s be real; the principle reason she can get away with a lot of things such as this Instagram post is because of the way her fans treat her as a God. Let a friend from high school or their neighbor down the street have people calling them a god or take a picture in front of the last supper and let’s see how many upsetting social media posts we will view. Let’s see how many times people would negatively scathe or demean that person cause of people calling them a god.
Yet, Beyonce, one of the entertainment world’s most politically-correct, carefully marketed stars in history is frequently called Bey-sus, King Bey, and is given a pass. It’s cool to think highly of someone, even an entertainer. But when the entertainer begins to smell themselves and do technically politically incorrect things with excuses from the fans, then you know it’s a problem with many roots.
So, no. I don’t blame Beyonce; even though I’m no fan of her at all (I like some of her music, though.) I think the perception of Beyonce is based mainly on propaganda; to be flawless, and her latest Instagram post exemplifies that. Is it her fault? No, but is it the fans fault for securely buying into an image, while forgetting the basis of common sense? Damn right. Contrary to popular belief, Beyonce is a human like us, too.
