Beyonce is Overrated and, Even Though She Tries, Her Music, With Particular Regards to 'Run The World', Send a Harmful Message - An Editorial by Me

First of all, I am not slamming Beyonce, her music, or her fans. This is simply my opinion of her as a celebrity personality and the affect her music is having on us.

Let's first look at Beyonce herself. I'm sure she's a perfectly nice woman, but as a celebrity I think she garners too much attention. I mean, really, she's not that special. She sings, as do 200+ other women. Other than that, she's nothing special. I cannot think of anything that sets her apart from the multitude of female vocal artists.

But, that's the secondary opinion. What I'd really like to talk about is her song "Run The World (Girls)" and its accompanying music video. When it first came out, I heard everyone talking about it and about how great it was, how much they liked the music video, how much it empowered females. I, by some miracle, got through the public's obsession with it never having hearing the song or seeing the video. I finally did watch the music video a few months ago, and didn't really have an opinion one way or another, save that it was overrated as I had previously assumed. I watched the video again not twenty minutes ago and this time, I did have an opinion. Those of you that know me know that I am a feminist. I believe that society should stop holding women to such obscene physical, intellectual, and emotional standards and that women should be treated as men's equals, not their inferiors or superiors. I'm a feminist because I believe that men and women should be equal, not because I believe that women are better than men and it angers me when I see a feminist purporting such ridiculous ideals. That being said, I cannot, in good conscious, condone the song or the music video "Run The World", for a few reasons. One is I believe it grossly oversexualises women and that's not something I'm ok with. We need to stop seeing women as sexual objects and start seeing them and people first and foremost. Beyonce dancing lewledy with a gaggle of women dressed in lingerie is not helping. Second, if you listen to the song, and I mean really listen, she's singing about how women run the world by using their sexual prowess to get what they want. Because, you know, that sends a message of female empowerment. I think that women should be able to use their intellect to achieve their goals, but society, aided by such songs as this, have reduced women to nothing more than a walking sex toy and some women now believe that using that society-assigned role to get what they want is good. You are not being independent when you do that, you are promoting society's view of you as a piece of sex with legs!

But, this is just my opinion and maybe someone views the song in a totally different way, and that's ok.