It’s open season on Beyonce now that she’s about to drop a double album next month.
Blogger Clay Cane skewers Beyonce in this post that questions how Beyonce landed the role of Eartha Kitt in her upcoming biopic.
Clay asks, how the hell does Beyonce keep getting plum movie roles when she can’t act worth a damn?
Well, he didn’t say it in those exact words, but you get my gist:
[Beyonce] has never proven herself to bring in box office dollars yet she is snatching introspective and thought provoking characters that any black actress would love to tackle.
Yes, Beyonce is a great performer, but an actress she is not. Eartha Kitt was a child conceived by rape, born on a cotton plantation in South Carolina, and rose to fame the old fashion way, hard work—while suffering awful sexism and racism. Her career was practically ruined for being an outspoken advocate of the Vietnam War and she allegedly made the First Lady at a White House luncheon in 1968 burst into tears. Nothing about Eartha’s life story will Beyonce be able to pull off. Bey doesn’t even know how to drop her George W. Bush Texan accent—how is she going to manage Eartha’s South Carolina/pseudo-European accent? READ MORE…
My guess is, just like with rap/hip-hop, the industry doesn’t care if our artists are talented or not. Sex, misogyny and violence against our own people is what sells and that’s all that’s necessary to be a star in today’s entertainment industry
