An ILX roundtable discussion of Beyonce's Lemonade for people who don't feel like listening to it right now.

On 26 April 1997, American television network ABC aired a one-hour prime time special about Pop and the PopMart Tour, titled U2: A Year in Pop. Narrated by actor Dennis Hopper, the documentary featured footage from the Pop recording sessions, as well as live footage from the opening PopMart show in Whitney, which took place the night before.The program received poor reception, ranking at 101 out of 107 programs aired that week, according to Nielsen ratings, and became the lowest rated non-political documentary in the history of the ABC network.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LBGi69xtYA

is everyone's favorite "rock" song by a huge non-rock pop star "black cat"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBRTauJ6I1E

xpost Yeah, En Vogue could rock, too. I don't like Black Cat, but it's better than Dirty Diana, I think. Did Madonna have any big guitar song I'm forgetting?

"Beautiful Stranger" might be as far as she went.

Ray of fkn Light!

For a second I was all "what about the one Madonna song that sounded like Smack My Bitch Up?" But then I realized I was thinking of Smack My Bitch Up. Whose video of course was made with the same director as Ray of Light. And Prodigy was on Maverick.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/prince-cecil-taylor-and-beyonces-shape-shifting-black-body

should I read this? can someone read it for me and tell me, I just don't know.

Since Prince's death, I've been going online and seeing things that I want to click on but something keeps stopping me.

I haven't been able to read more than a couple of tributes, I don't have the energy to go and search out Lemonade or read the 1231435 Beyonce thinkpieces, I haven't seen the new Game of Thrones or Veep episodes. it's just... so many goddamn OPINIONS.

I need a break so badly but I'm stuck compulsively scrolling through twitter and facebook all day, mostly because it's part of my job but also out of sheer habit.

first Game of Thrones episode wasn't all that exciting. I watched that post show talk thing with the people who think they are funny but are about as entertaining as local news anchors. That was less entertaining than the episode.

Eye have no desire 2 listen 2 Lemonade, and eye probably never will. Besides, life is 2 short 2 listen 2 a concept record about a pair 'o' cunts that eye could not be any less interested in.

should I read this? can someone read it for me and tell me, I just don't know.

It's pretty dumb. Skip it.

bless you, scott

On 26 April 1997, American television network ABC aired a one-hour prime time special about Pop and the PopMart Tour, titled U2: A Year in Pop. Narrated by actor Dennis Hopper, the documentary featured footage from the Pop recording sessions, as well as live footage from the opening PopMart show in Whitney, which took place the night before.The program received poor reception, ranking at 101 out of 107 programs aired that week, according to Nielsen ratings, and became the lowest rated non-political documentary in the history of the ABC network.

I saw it! On a Saturday night too.

xpost Yeah, En Vogue could rock, too. I don't like Black Cat, but it's better than Dirty Diana, I think. Did Madonna have any big guitar song I'm forgetting?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, April 26, 2016 8:47 PM

"Candy Perfume Girl"

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/prince-cecil-taylor-and-beyonces-shape-shifting-black-body

this headline and article seems like maybe it was produced using "black musician madlibs"

I'm not that familiar with Hilton Als' writing, but I've now read two jazz-related pieces by him this month (that one and the Pitchfork interview with Sonny Rollins), and neither impressed me.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-aVxEar0TX8/TJYsuc4Zl-I/AAAAAAAACik/ADh_jC9N9cQ/s1600/cover6188-copy.jpg

what's up w/ pink lemonade?

He's a Pulitzer finalist for criticism this year. Been writing about race and gender for a few decades, but more focused on literature/performance more than pop culture.

It's possibly quite gross

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/why-is-lemonade-pink_n_1503570.html

looking forward to the first hamburger blogger to win a pulitzer

the hambloggler

Some people assume that there are red-colored berries responsible for this oddity

Ha, it never occurred to me to think that pink lemonade was pink because of anything other than a dye.

Here it is:
http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-jonathan-gold-hamburgers-los-angeles-story-story.html

that blogger who wrote about the designer chocolate fraud people should for real get a Pulitzer! that shit was riveting. especially the original posts he did on the Texas chocolatier fraudsters. the one before the mast brothers bombshell. although the mast brothers one was good too. he should win for that.

I was kinda crazy about Destiny's Child back in the day and was all about solo Bey but then I've just realized that I haven't listened to an entire album of hers since B'Day. And I even bought the one that she released really cheap that one time. What, the fourth one? I don't know. I chalk my lapse up more to my near-complete disengagement from pop music over the past decade than anything personal against Ms. Knowles-Z.

it's all starting to feel like homework

Iggy Azalea: Rapper Criticizes 'Becky' Lyric on Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' Album
"Generalizing ANY race by calling them one sterotypical name for said race. i personally dont think is very cool, the end," Azalea tweeted

Trump/Azalea '16

http://i.imgur.com/0EiSRel.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N387gr-Vr4

i used to love lemonade but true story on saturday i drove by a lemonade stand some kids were selling it so i bought a tiny plastic cup of lemonade for a dollar and so help me god i have been vomiting and pooping ever since, it is so nasty to be me right now and i think i may have dysentery so lemonade is not my thing right now

my son had a lemonade stand the day after this album dropped in commemoration of it. kind of. actually it was more because we were able to steal 30 lemons off the tree at the house next door which is empty for the time being.

I ran a stand a couple times -- didn't really learn "hard work" but I did get introduced to the concepts of expenses, revenue, profit, like a little lightbulb went on that we spent a certain amount on the ingredients and needed to subtract that out of what we made.

Basically it was economically empowering. I slay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcKG4EJ6rsQ

Not that excited about this new album but really looking forward to the follow-up, 'Round The Corner Fudge Is Made.

awful but I keep thinking about that too

the lemonade stand was great, he and his friend made $12 which they split evenly. My son decided that when the lemonade was 3/4 gone they should raise the price of what was left; he stumbled on the basics of scarcity in economics on his own at age 10. he didn't move forward on this capitalist scheme though. also he charged our dog 25 cents for a tiny peanut butter muffin they were also selling.

Eye don't no about anyone else but if eye was 2 find a "formation" in my lemonade, U can bet eye'd throw that shit away!

25c for a peanut butter muffin is a steal, especially if you're a dog and it makes your whole day. Score one for capitalism!

When I learned that there were other lemonade stands in the neighborhood I required customers to sign an exclusive subscriber agreement.

A quarter is like a buck seventy-five in dog dollars tho.

dog was pretty happy. she shoved the whole thing in her mouth and ate it even though it was scalding hot. she paused momentarily like, "is this a good idea?" then decided it was.

hilton als is great but i'm not as into his pop music writing

Lemonade by Peyoncé

Diana Ross, Sun Ra and Fetty Wap

Do you guys like salty lemonade? Great after a workout or when it's really hot imo.

So it turns out that using some coconut water (approx 1/3?) is the key to perfection with this.