This is the best Beyoncé analysis of all time by Johari Bandele it does have bad language but still the most powerful thing I’ve ever read about Beyoncé:
“Beyonce is in an abusive relationship and it really is sad that all of her wealth, talent, hard work, and success blinds people to that. We don’t know if he physically abuses her, but you can’t listen to her music and not see that he is definitely mentally, emotionally, and spiritually abusing her and has been for a VERY long time.
All this woman has ever talked about is how insecure her relationship with her husband makes her feel as a person and a woman. Most of her music is about how she constantly worries if the only reason he is with her is because she is Beyonce the brand and not Bey the person. How threatened she feels all the time because her husband doesn’t give her his undivided attention. How she feels worthless because there is nothing sacred between her and her husband and he shares what should be reserved for her as his wife, with anyone woman he pleases. She constantly speaks on how she feels there would be no point in existing if she didn’t have him – which is nice to for her children and family to know – and anything that can be seen as a celebration of their love is instead a reminder to other women that she may share her husband with them, but she is the one he comes home to. Which is…so much to unpack, yo. She spends a lot of time begging for her husband to see her worth and honor her love – and it is just really, really sad how one of the most powerful women in the world is consistently and publicly reduced to a wounded teenager because she chooses to get her validation from her relationship with her husband instead of from within herself. 😖
I don’t understand where and how people get empowerment or confidence in her actual material, because listening to her music is the perfect snapshot for how Black Women can have it ALL but still be living worthlessly, all because a dusty nigga came along and wore her down into the same dust he is made of himself…
It is present on EVERY album, even if it is only once.
Dangerously In Love was the start and “Me, Myself, and I” was the flagship for all this mess. Clearly, it was written for her and perhaps wasn’t exactly about them, but it starts and sets the tone.
B’Day features “Ring the Alarm” which is the first true sign that Jay-Z is a disrepectful partner who doesn’t value her and sends her into a rage because of his infidelity; then you have the MOST MAJOR song, “Resentment” which is a diary entry of what she be putting up with and dealing with.
I AM..Sasha Fierce is the first album that becomes CENTERED on this – “If I Were A Boy”, “Broken-Hearted Girl”, and of course the iconic “Single Ladies”, which is doesn’t have to be explained.
4 is just…sad. It’s a battered woman’s love letter to her shitty husband, begging him to love her and be with her and be faithful to her, which he clearly has no interest in because otherwise, she wouldn’t be begging like this. “Love On Top” is the most Pick-Me I ever heard of: finally, after all this we been through, you decide to put me first and kind of honor and love me. “Rather Die Young” and “I Care” supports this Pick Me and it’s upsetting.
BEYONCE is the first full-length album where you realize – oh shit, this woman is unhappy as fuck, mistreated, and going through it. “Jealous”, “Mine”, and “Ring Off” are booming-ass examples that are uncomfortable to listen to, especially “Mine” and “Jealous”.
And, finally, we have Lemonade – there is really, really no explaination that is necessary for this album. lol!
Let me do it this way and list the tracks that are NOT talking about or centering on her relationship with Jay-Z.
Dangerously in Love – “Daddy” and “Hip-Hop Star” are the only songs that don’t have anything to do with her and her love for a man who we KNOW at this point is Jay-Z, because she’s been with him since going solo. The rest of the album is her talking about her very new relationship with Jay-Z.
B’Day – “Get Me Bodied” is the only song that doesn’t have do to with her and her deepening relationship with Jay-Z
I AM…Sasha Fierce – “Radio” and “Diva” are the only songs that don’t have anything to do with her enagagement to Jay-Z. I give latitude with “Video Phone”, because it isn’t specific to a man and is very general.
4 – “Party, “I Was Here”, and “Run the World (Girls)” are the only songs that don’t have anything to do with her marriage to Jay-Z.
BEYONCE – “Heaven”, “Blue”, and “Flawless” are the only songs that don’t have to do about her broken marriage to Jay-Z.
Lemonade – “Formation”, “Freedom”, and “Daddy Lessons” are the only songs that aren’t about recovering from her broken marriage to Jay-Z.
Now, out of dozens and dozens of songs across six albums, only three on average are NOT about her awful ass relationship with Jay-Z I’d say that her marriage and relationship to Jay-Z is definitely the premise of her albums. That’s my ultimate point. Even the uptempo songs are rooted insecurity and proving herself worthy to a man who doesn’t see her as worthy, despite EVERYTHING that she has which makes her a goddess as individual and more powerful than the man she’s whining over.
This woman has made a career out of being unfilled and unhappy in her relationship with the SECOND man she’s ever been with and that’s what I’m getting at. She centers herself on Jay-Z and doesn’t get anything out of it but misery, from where I’m sitting.
People be getting her singles and the marketing image around them confused for her actual album content and I’m talking about listening to her discography as a whole, not hearing her on the radio. Beyonce is abused and EVERY album shows this and again – it’s really upsetting to listen to this and know that we can have it ALL and still not having nothing, because of a nigga.
Also: even the uptempo love songs that are actually love or empowering songs are instead battered women’s anthems that are filled with underlying insecurity and low self-esteem. Beyonce literally cannot talk about how much she loves her husband without a threat to other women and fake confidence that is really insecurity, when you get down to it.
Nobody who is secure and in a healthy relationship has to subtly threaten people by expressing how better she is, how enduring she is, how long she been with him and how she is going to stay with him regardless of who he sharing himself with.
I keep pointing the finger at her nigga because she centers herself on him so severely, there is nothing that you can pull out of her music that doesn’t come back to her relationship with Jay-Z. I’m almost positive that she is a fully developed person outside of her marriage with Jay-Z. I’m not saying she exists in a vacuum unless you’re talking about him. There’s plenty to talk about that doesn’t have to do with Jay-Z because she is literally a force of nature in and of herself.
But, when it comes to her music? Everything, even if it isn’t the main idea, centers itself on her love for her husband and how utterly lost she is within the context of their relationship because everything is centered on him. It gets made about him because she makes it about him.
Again – I’m almost positive that she is not an empty drone centered on the penis she married. But, from the content of her music, this man treats her WORTHLESSLY and that’s my entire point. That’s how sad this is – she is Beyonce, but she got old school, highly refined struggle love that isn’t any different from someone who isn’t Beyonce…”





