SO I WAS watching some Solange videos on YouTube when I looked down in the comments section and noticed some hateful words about her sis, Beyonce. I love both Beyonce and Solange, They each have their own styles and I see them as two individual artists. However a lot of people are pitting the two against each other and saying that Solange is "realer" than Beyonce.
Okay. I can see how they think Solange is a little more outside of the box than Beyonce. She writes songs about personal things in her life whereas Beyonce writes music for a wider audience. Solange is willing to rock a shaved head when Beyonce would go under massive scrutiny just for taking off her wig.
Beyonce has diva qualities, yes. And her career is much longer and more prominent than her younger sister's, but I wouldn't say that either one is realer than the other.
Which brings me to another point:
How the hell do we define real anyway? Just because an artist becomes successful in terms of record sales, worldwide acclaim and Grammy wins, gets more radio play or decides to vary their style in some way, we as the audience take it upon ourselves to question their authenticity.
"Oh [insert artist here] was good before they went mainstream!"
You can't be mad at an artist for blowing up. Why do fans abandon musicians for gaining popularity?
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