ri ri dancing up on a moving platform at the top of a football stadium while heavily pregnant and still commanding the entire audience (live or tv) with ICONIC songs like bitch better have my money and only girl and where have you been and we found love and umbrella and diamonds is honestly such queen shit.
I was at the 2011 Super Bowl with BTS. I was super excited for Beyoncé’s halftime show. The lights dimmed in the stadium and I was super excited. Then the lights turned back on and I was filled with heart-sinking dread, realizing that I had to watch a whole half of football before I could see Beyoncé.
Racists be like, “Please stop singing the non-racist anthem! Can’t we just go back to the quietly racist anthem?”
Although “The Star-Spangled Banner” and all of its verses were immediately famous, Key’s overt racism prevented it from becoming the national anthem while he was alive, Morley wrote. There was no official anthem, and many people chose to sing other songs, like “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.”
Key’s anthem gained popularity over time, particularly among post-Reconstruction White Southerners and the military. In the early 20th Century, all but the first verse were cut — not for their racism, but for their anti-British bent. The United Kingdom was by then an ally.
After the misery of World War I, the lyrics were again controversial for their violence. But groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy fought back, pushing for the song to be made the official national anthem. In 1931, President Herbert Hoover made it so.
“The elevation of the banner from popular song to official national anthem was a neo-Confederate political victory, and it was celebrated as such,” Morley wrote. “When supporters threw a victory parade in Baltimore in June 1931, the march was led by a color guard hoisting the Confederate flag.”
I don’t watch the Super Bowl and I don’t give a flying fuck about Rihanna’s halftime show. HOWEVER, give me a Ghalftime show and then I’ll be very interested
Papa already infiltrated ghaseball and ghascar, now we just need ✨the Ghuper Ghowl✨ 😈