What Hilton Als and The New Yorker Got Wrong About Beyoncé

What Hilton Als and The New Yorker Got Wrong About Beyoncé

The New Yorker's theater critic, Hilton Als, published a review of Beyoncé's Formation album and tour this week titled "Beywatch." "The truth is I wasn't much interested in her," he writes late in the piece, "until her sister, Solange Knowles, was caught on camera beating Jay Z's ass in a hotel elevator in 2014."

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Interesting article on feminism and criticism of pop culture figures:

Loved this:

Als is one of my all-time favorites, but his latest represents a very real problem of writing critically about music in the internet era: the notion that all opinions are worthwhile and valid despite any absence of background in the topic. Impulse and emotion have superseded the equal weight of learned experience.