Pirates, the CRC, and porn: The week in numbers

….’standing on a chair alone on my balcony’….I skipped the rest ….

I too note the privilege of someone worth $250 million.

No, wait, she meant something else. Never mind.

I feel so sorry for the marginalized multimillionaire Beyonce

Any black journalists working for the journal? No? Racism!

An unjust pay rise….Christ..i find it amusing how often the average normal person seems to live of the advice of the multi millionaire celebrity.

Beyoncé is a genius, who else can get 50 people to write her album Lemonade for her and still get all the credit for it!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_(Beyonc%C3%A9_album) The outright stupidity of some people blinded by their own self righteousness baffles me!!

I stopped reading after “Lemonade is my favourite album of all time” can anyone give us the general gist of this?

Absolute drivel

If the “check your privilege” cancer makes its way to Ireland I will denounce my left wing views and dedicate my life to the ultra right.

“Beyonce’s boundary breaking work of genius” what planet are these eejets living on?

Someone got paid to write this trash.alarming.

I cried after reading this……it was that bad. Black quotas for awards too.

I read the comments first. I should have taken the advice of the people commenting but no, I went ahead and made myself read about half of it before I stood on my chair in my back garden and belted out the prodigy’s I’m a fire starter.

Lack of privilege?
Beyonce, who secretly flew to Libya to entertain Muammar Gaddafi’s family getting paid one million dollars for an hour’s performance but was then exposed by Wikileaks and had to issue a public apology.
That Beyonce? Her lack of privilege?
OK,

I never want to read again after reading that.

Celebrity culture is being treated like a science these days and what the hell is with the standing on a chair on a balcony??

Adele makes he own music, she plays the guitar, some of her songs are from other musicians, every musician do that, but Beyonce doesn’t make her own music at all. Adele’s music is hers, Beyonce is someone else with her shaking her arse or exploiting her pregnancies.

Whats everybody hot against the Average straight white male, The struggle is real.

Ah ffs , edele’s album outsold Beyoncé by multiple times, a man would use that to drive him out , well except for Kanye west who’s a Bitch anyway

I’m off to stick rusty needles in my eyes…

Elva, I can’t imagine the depths of victimisation you must have felt at the privileged hands of a straight, white male, to end up teetering at the brink of a chair on your balcony in the rain, empathising with Adele’s inner angst. Do you have any selfies of that moment because I sense that some of these trolls doubt that one person could be so profound.

I’ve studied the ‘lack of privilege’ that the author talks about and, oddly enough, I can fully agree. When you’ve got a group of people who have little access to mental health services, statistically enter university at lower rates, drop out of school at higher rates, receive a higher prison sentencing on average and lose most family court cases while having almost zero affirmative action supports it can be hard to succeed. I am of course referring to straight white men and the fact that it’s almost a taboo to talk about the fact that this group faces issues as well and doesn’t have the ‘privilege’ that Feminists like to hark on about.

Beyoncé: who runs the world? Girls! Just not the girls working in the sweatshops making my ivy park workout gear for a dollar a day. yeah, not them.
Hard to take any suggestion that Beyoncé has ever been hard done by seriously.

Jesus, this article makes Donal O’Keeffe seem like Robert Fisk in comparison.

Beyonce is an absolute fraud. The adoration she receives through sh*te music and little else is mind boggling

Go easy on the author. She’s young and impressionable.. All she has are multi-millionaire musicians to guide her on what’s wrong and what’s right in the world. If the Grammy committee is oppressing Beyonce and Rihanna, then we must take note! Maybe the men, women and children living under systemic violence in the Congo or in South Sudan might be able to help?

I heard Adeles next album is called 69.

Da phuq is this shit??

I thought the recent articles of Ms Mary Cate Smith (male aggression/rape culture) & Ms Martha Ryan (lip fillers & self esteem) were the total pits until Ms Elva Carri came along…enough is enough!

I am fed up of these self hating white people who demand that I hate myself for not being black.

You start an article with “I LOVE BEYONCE…” and that’s as far as I get. I’m not in the mood for the ramblings of a half-wit on the brilliance of another half-wit

Beyoncé should put her ar$e away. Both her Adele and the entire room full of nob ends at the grammies are so far removed from reality that they can’t see their ar$e from their elbow (apart from in the endless selfies they post to their tribes of gullible minions who think they genuinely give a sh!t about them) Bruno Mars was the only decent musician on that stage.

Man of colour,
When ever i hear this i think of the blue guy in Startrek.

Gender quotas…Now race quotas…A mediocre world filled with people in positions they were born into as opposed to earning…if ur good enough u should win period. If not, back of the line talentless hack!

I look forward to waking up on a Sunday morning to see what tripe the Journal is serving up.

Mmm..anyway leo for the leader

Beyondè had a song a while back-’I'm a survivor’……….I’ve often wondered what it was she survived.
She used to be in group called ‘Destiny’s Child’ which originally had four members and when three began to feel like the magic number, the fourth member got unceremoniously dumped out of the band. That was an all girls band, they took the decision to dump number four out. Not much sign of solidarity among women there.

This article set fire to my brain

Yeah Beyonce because rich people are best positioned to lecture everyone else about privilege..Christ

I wonder in Beyonce actual wrote that, or did she get 50 people to write if for her?

The author’s biggest problem is that she takes these baublefests seriously, and even worse, she brings her SJW white self hatred to the party.

‘Beyonce’s boundary breaking work of genius’?! Hahaha!! The credit for whatever ‘genius’ there is should go to the numerous writers who actually come up with her music. Remember reading an interview with Sia, where she spoke about herself & a producer being invited to a massive house in the Hampton’s for the weekend to write for Beyonce. Turned out that there were a number of writers/producers paired off in different rooms in this house, all challenged with coming up with Beyonce’s ‘genius’. At the end of their weekend’s work she just turned up and chose the best songs. I never fail to be amazed by some people’s rush to put her on a pedestal, as if she’s a more creative & just downright better person than all of us. Whatever about the issue of whether or not there’s race bias at the Grammy’s, I find it hard to feel sorry for somebody who, combined with her husband already has plenty of Grammy’s, as well as shed loads of money, a fantastic lifestyle and other people working really hard to create her music.

Like Hillary, she thought the white house was hers ., and was fully entitled to get that position, because of who she is . Beyoncé is no different . A multi millionaire ego is a fragile thing . God love them .

The Grammys as I understand, are decided essentially, if unofficially on sales. I think Adele sold more, therefore pumps more cash into the industry and that is what the Grammys reward. No sane person including Beyonce and Adele should take them seriously. If there is racism in the Grammys it should be easy to work out, but let people that care about the Grammys worry about that. This article is drivel by the way.

Author you have been suckered by the most convoluted industry in the world.

Virtue signaling meets race-baiting. Nice.

The Trump train or right wing train rolls on. All the left ever has to do to keep the right going is be condescending identity politicing shites that they are .

Is this a Waterford whispers article?

“don’t call me a lovely girl, I’ve sold 20 million records!!!”

Omg what nonsense haha

Well said Elva! I’ve become more and more aware of my white privilege as I get older and travel more and have tried (though not always succeeded) to call out when I’m benefitting from it unjustly. I’ve also had more support from female friends and mentors than male, and I think you’re right that women are more likely to recognise other types of injustice since we’re so used to dealing with misogyny. It’s absolutely on all of us to recognise our position of privilege and use it to try and (1) draw attention to injustice and (2) fix it. Even if you are met with a tidal wave of butthurt white male tears

Cringe.

Vomit.

… Indeed. In all seriousness, these comments are a bit of a garbage fire, aren’t they? Perhaps the journal should take a leaf out of the Irish Times’ book and move to a subscriber-only commenting model. The quality of the comments has increased hugely there now – you actually get real engagement and discussion.
But then I suppose where would the trolls go. Back to 4chan maybe? Is that still a thing? :D

while I’m not a fan of Beyonce & have no interest in the grammy’s I think most people commenting don’t get the meaning of the article.
it’s about standing up for others who deserve better whether they are man/woman black/white/asian/south American/anything else.
We as women tend to have to deal with misogyny (not from everyone) from a young age & learn to spot discrimination of all types earlier, so we are trying to use our voices to change this.
& like it or not celebrities have a better platform in which to achieve real equality for ALL!

Adele’s call out to Beyonce was a great moment but not shocking to me. I see women make acts like this for eachother all the time. But it was great to see it on centre stage where ego is normally dominant. When I first heard the phrase white privilege it kind of made me twitch-I didn’t understand it-then I realised the twitch was discomfort because of course we all know what it means and that it exists, has existed, since white explorers left European shores centuries ago. Beyonce may have an ego but it doesn’t prevent her from collaborating with different artists to create great music and visuals. And if Lemonade doesn’t make you sit up and your jaw drop, well…I don’t have time to explain it to you…

It’s now Wednesday and I still can’t get over how awful this opinion piece is. I’m still commenting. I actually came back to say it…I’ve never ever done this before.