However, Catherine A. Traywick of Foreign Policy magazine criticized the singer, commenting that "On a track called 'Flawless', Beyonce samples Adichie's April 2013 Ted Talk, which is a thoughtful, amusing examination of subtle sexism in everyday life. Beyonce bookends Adichie's words with distinctly less thoughtful lyrics of her own: She shallowly trumpets material wealth and physical beauty and, working in a few lines from her spring single, advises others to 'Bow down, bitches.'" She continued, "Beyonce gives us a heavily-edited, watered-down version of Adichie's speech that aligns with the singer's banal brand of beginner feminism: She reduces Adichie's powerful message to an overly simplistic, inoffensive pro-girl anthem that does little to challenge trenchant gender ideals."[22] In the annual Pazz & Jop mass critics poll of the year's best in music in 2013, "Flawless" was ranked at number 72.[30] The following year, "Flawless" was ranked at number nine on the same poll for the best music of 2014, tied with DJ Snake and Lil Jon's "Turn Down for What". Pitchfork Media named it the 7th best track of 2014.[31] Slant Magazine listed the single as the 23rd best one of 2014,[32] while Tiny Mix Tapes also considered the release one of the best songs of the same period.[33]
Without being released as a single, "Flawless" managed to appear on several music charts. In the US, it peaked at number 13 on February 15, 2014 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart which acts as a 25-song extension of the main Billboard Hot 100.[34] The same week, on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, the song peaked at number 32 in its fourth week of charting.[35] Elsewhere, it peaked at number 157 on the UK Singles Chart on March 8, 2014 and 77 on the Irish Singles Chart on March 13.[36][37] Following the performance at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, "Flawless" debuted at number 82 on the Billboard Hot 100 and moved to a peak position of 25 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for the issue dated September 13, 2014.[38][39] Selling 29,000 digital copies, it entered the Hot Digital Songs chart at number 48.[40] Following the first week of the remix's availability as a digital download as part of the Platinum Edition release, the song reached new peaks of 41 and 12 on the Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, respectively; it sold 67,000 that week, 91 percent of which were of the remix.[41]
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"Flawless" was performed live by Beyonc during the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards on August 25, as part of a medley consisting of songs from her self-titled album. The rendition of the song came towards the end of her set list, following an interlude of "Superpower". Adichie's words began appearing on the screen on the stage with bold, pink letters and background dancers started appearing on the dark stage. At the end of the speech, the word "feminist" in capital letters was flashed on the screen and the singer was seen next to it in a silhouette.[59] As she launched into the song, Beyonc asked the crowd "How did you wake up this morning?". Towards the end of the performance, a line from the remix version featuring Nicki Minaj was heard in the background and the singer immediately continued with a performance of "Yonc". Throughout the entire performance, she was dressed in a jeweled bodysuit.[60][61] Nadeska Alexis, writing for MTV News praised the bold, feminist statements made during "Flawless" and felt that Beyonc changed the soulful vibes of the other songs for "all out breaking-it-down".[61] Eliana Dockterman of Time magazine considered the performance of the song to be a peak of the singer's medley and praised its feminist theme for being presented to an audience consisting mostly of teenagers.[59] Following the song's live performance at the VMAs, its sales in the US increased by 1,237% the next week.[62]
A remix of "Flawless" featuring rapper Nicki Minaj, entitled "Flawless Remix", was released on Beyonc's website on August 2, 2014. Columbia Records released this version as a single on August 12, 2014, impacting radio in the United States. The remix version of the song features newly added verses and explicit lyrics by both Beyonc and Minaj and marks their first collaboration. Its music was also slightly modified with several parts being reorganized and changed. The lyrics in which Beyonc sings about the infamous elevator incident between her husband Jay-Z and her sister Solange Knowles received media attention. The song peaked at number 41 on the US Billboard Hot 100 after being released as a digital download, included in the reissued version of Beyonc, subtitled Platinum Edition.
Musically, the remix was noted for being a slower version of the original and containing new, sexually explicit verses.[74][75] The music of "Flawless" is mostly kept the same as the original, with the sound being slightly altered and several parts reorganized.[76] It also contains a sample from the horns of Outkast's song "Spottieottiedopaliscious".[77] The remix opens with Beyonc speak-singing lines about sex: "It's that Yonc, your Yonc in that lingerie, on that chardonnay, scoring touchdowns on your runway."[76] Her accent during the verse was noted to be West Indian and similar to Rihanna.[76] The remix addresses the infamous elevator altercation between Beyonc's sister Solange Knowles and Beyonc's husband Jay-Z after the 2014 Met Gala. Beyonc raps in the song with her higher vocal register, "Of course sometimes shit go down when it's a billion dollars on the elevator", repeating the line twice, followed by a sound of a cash register dinging and the singer laughing, referring to her and her husband's combined billion-dollar net-worth.[78][79] She also addresses her detractors through the lines "You can say what you want/I'm the shit" adopting a softer voice.[76][80]
Beyonc maybe be known as "the Queen," but she isn't too regal to climb down a ladder. The superstar did so in front of a stadium full of fans in Poland when her "flying" stage malfunctioned during the concert and she had to take an emergency ladder down, Entertainment Tonight reports.
The stage crew brought a tall ladder to the side of the stage. It took a bit of coaxing to get the 36-year-old to climb down it. Eventually, she descended backwards down the ladder, clad in a black sequin leotard and heeled thigh-high boots.
The mother of three didn't let the situation get her down. As a veteran of two decades in the music industry, Beyonc knew the show must go on, and she broke into a little dance for the waiting crowd. She blew kisses as the crowd cheered. Some audience members captured the well-handled mishap on camera.
There's a reason why even ostensibly normal kids these days look like they might have a touch (a dusting, if you will) of down syndrome. It's because their moms are like 40, and 40 year-old women don't have any business trying to have a baby. Once you get to be that old, you probably can't have a baby anyway, or at least not without being pumped full of the shit the Octomom was on. And even if you do manage to successfully conceive and carry a baby to term, there's probably going to be something wrong with it. Because the egg it came from was old and decrepit, just like the rest of its mother. In fact, something like 85% of a woman's eggs are already spent by the time she's 30. Not 39, mind you, but 30 years old. Beyonce is the same age as I am, which means she's closing in on 30 - but I think we all know that's just her showbiz age. In real life, she's probably closer to 40. I heard she was childhood friends with Gabrielle Union, who used to be surprisingly young looking, for being mad old. But the last few times I've seen on her, on these bored hoodrat blogs I check to stay up on things, she looked older than a motherfucker. Which suggests to me that this NBA player she's with might be on the DL.
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