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Beyonce is one of the girls out there that is known to some people as Queen B. She has plenty of songs that embraces that women run the world. The picture below shows her looking like a queen, which at that time she was because she was pregnant and still doing performances. Beyonce will never look weak because of the things that she does.

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Like the Super Bowl and Golden Globes before it, the 59th Grammy Awards ceremony last night (February 13) became a platform for political and creative statements at the intersection of music, race and activism. Here are the moments where those issues surfaced:

Frank's Letter
Last November, Frank Ocean noted the Grammys' tendency to overlook Black artists in the awards' main categories, including "Album of the Year," when speaking to The New York Times about why he did not submit "Blonde" or "Endless" for Grammy consideration. "I'd rather this be my Colin Kaepernick moment for the Grammys than sit there in the audience," he said.

Grammy ceremony producer Ken Ehrlich suggested on the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast Friday (February 10) that Ocean boycotted this year's awards over disappointment from his 2013 performance. Ehrlich produced that ceremony as well, and insisted that he executed Ocean's performance idea "knowing that it was faulty" and despite his own objections. "[Ocean's] feelings about the Grammys right now, I would imagine, probably go back to that [performance] in one way," said Erhlich. "But honestly, it wasn't us."

Ocean addressed that sentiment in a Tumblr post on Saturday (February 11), writing that the performance was "absolute shit" and plagued by "technical difficulties," but that his decision to stay away had nothing to do with that and everything to do wtih the fact that the academy consistently awards White artists over Black ones.

I've actually been tuning into CBS around this time of year for a while to see who gets the top honor, and you know what's really not "great TV" guys? [Taylor Swift's] "1989" getting "Album of the Year" over [Kendrick Lamar's] "To Pimp a Butterfly." Hands down one of the most 'faulty' TV moments I've seen. ...And if you're up for a discussion about the cultural bias and general nerve damage that the show you produce suffers from, then I'm all for it.

Ocean's argument was on display when the "Album of the Year" award went to British singer Adele for "25" instead of Beyoncé for " Lemonade." Adele emotionally declared that despite her gratitude, she could not accept the award over Beyoncé:

The "Lemonade" album, Beyoncé, was so monumental, and so well thought out, and so beautiful and soul-bearing. And we all got to see another side of you that you don't always let us see, and we appreciate that. And all us artists here, we fucking adore you. You are our light.

And the way that you make me and my friends feel, the way you make my Black friends feel, is empowering, and you make them stand up for themselves. And I love you. I always have. And I always will.

Adele also recognized Beyoncé as her "idol" when she accepted the award for "Record of the Year." "I adore you, and I want you to be my mommy, all right?" she said at the end of that speech. Vanity Fair noted that Adele did not physically offer Beyoncé her "Album of the Year" award, and actually had it replaced after accidentally breaking it into two pieces onstage.

Adele's comments sparked various reactions on social media. Many expressed disappointment that she won over Beyoncé in both the "Record" and "Album" categories. Some praised her remarks as a show of solidarity, while others criticized them as tone-deaf:

Grammys took the final L, by getting it wrong, says the winner

- Rembert Browne (@rembert) February 13, 2017

Adele is so humble, I love it. She knew Beyoncé deserved it and let everyone know it. I applaud her :)

- LALA (@AlexxisHackler) February 13, 2017

Adele on Beyonce: "The way u make me feel the way u make my black friends feel is empowering"

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- Kanga (@K_Messias_) February 13, 2017

2013 - mumford over frank
2014 - daft punk over kendrick
2015 - beck over beyonce
2016 - taylor over kendrick
2017 - adele over beyonce

- very festive tweets (@adam_lewis) February 13, 2017

Damn that @Adele. I know you thought you were giving @Beyonce props but asking her to basically be your mammy? Utter BS. #history

- Monica Raye Simpson (@monicarsimpson) February 13, 2017

Did Adele just Mammy Beyoncè- Bye.

- LENA (@LenaPeterX) February 13, 2017

Beyoncé's sister Solange Knowles, who won " Best R&B Performance" for "Cranes in the Sky," reacted to her sister's loss with a tweet to Ocean's Tumblr post.

Beyoncé invoked some of the visual motifs from the "Lemonade" visual album in her performance of that work's "Love Drought" and "Sandcastles." Pregnant with twins, she delivered much of her performance seated.

A Tribe Called Quest perform with Anderson .Paak, Busta Rhymes and Consequence at the pic.twitter.com/Kz35sUTEs7

- Wolé II (@Kingwole) February 13, 2017

Singer Anderson .Paak and rappers Consequence and Busta Rhymes joined A Tribe Called Quest to perform the group's " We the People...." Rhymes called President Donald Trump "Agent Orange," and the ensemble performed the song-whose lyrics lampoon racist and discriminatory political rhetoric-as people representing the various groups targeted by the Trump Administration's policies joined them on stage.

Bruno Mars teamed up with Prince 's longtime collaborating band The Time for a tribute to the late artist. The Time performed a medley of their songs, "Jungle Love" and "The Bird," then Mars came on stage with a purple outfit and White guitar reminiscent of Prince's own performance attire to sing "Let's Go Crazy."

"Best New Artist" winner Chance the Rapper performed two gospel-inspired songs, "How Great" and "All We Got," from his album, "Coloring Book," alongside gospel singers Kirk Franklin and Tamela Mann-and several white-robed choir members.

The Speeches
Jennifer Lopez, in the ceremony's first pre-award remarks, quoted Toni Morrison while discussing artistic responsibility in turbulent times:

As Toni Morrison once said, "This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self pity, no need for silence, and no room for fear. We do language. That is how civilizations heal."

Michael Jackson's daughter Paris gave a shout-out to the #NoDAPL movement in her own on-stage remarks, and actress Laverne Cox ("Doubt") encouraged viewers to look up Gavin Grimm, a transgender teen challenging a Virginia school board's bathroom policy before the Supreme Court this spring.

The speech Beyoncé delivered while receiving the "Best Urban Contemporary Album" award was not resolutely political, but it did address "Lemonade's" themes of healing and recognition:

We all experience pain and loss and often we become inaudible. My intention for the film and album was to create a body of work that will give a voice to our pain, our struggles, our darkness and our history, to confront issues that make us uncomfortable. It's important to me to show images to my children that reflect their beauty so they can grow up in a world where they look in the mirror, first through their own families, as well as the news, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the White House and the Grammys, and see themselves. And have no doubt that they're beautiful, intelligent, and capable.

Read the full list of winners and nominees here.

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How Artists of Color Put Race and Politics Center Stage at the Grammys

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Like the Super Bowl and Golden Globes before it, the 59th Grammy Awards ceremony last night (February 13) became a platform for political and creative statements at the intersection of music, race and activism.

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In the picture it looks just like the music video to the left. The guy is surrounded by beautiful ladies of different color. the ladies make him look more masculine because they're half naked. If the guy was surround by guys that were wearing the same about of clothes as him then he would be considered gay. Guys now a days try so hard to have a certain look because they want to be looked at a certain way. A guy does not need to be surround by girls just to be masculine, all he needs it to do him and keep it that way.

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I listen to many different types of music, but the one I listen to the most is Mexican music. Depending on the song it can depend on the way the video will be about. The majority of this songs I listen to are about love, so with that being said the videos are either having a girl dressed in a tight dress walking around or pf just the guy singing and dancing. The music I listen to make me feel a bit masculine because I dance to it with girls and I dance to it pretty good, I also sing to it and can bond to other Mexican men because of it. It also helps me with just relaxing and forgetting about the real world and just singing how I feel or how I wish I could feel. Sometimes it is a bit tough being masculine because Im gay and I have my feminine times. As a gay person I feel like every other gay all listen to the same music as in Lana Del Rey and Beyonce and stuff like that. I personally think that music does identify your masculinity and femininity because in the gay community if a guy is listening to Hip-Hop, Reggeton and other "manly" music i feel like they are more masculine then the guys that listen to the opposite.

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The reason I chose this song is because it is the opposite of Video 1. In video 1 they had girls half naked and being all over the guys but in this video the guys are the ones that are almost naked. Both Men and Women can do it, they can have the opposite sex be half naked in there videos to show there masculinity and femininity. Lady Gaga does a god job at showing people that she does not need to do what others are doing to show what she needs to be a girl. In fact because of some of her videos some people were so convinced that Lady Gaga was actually a man, but she is not a man she is a women. I did not choose this song because it is my name I actually do not like this song because of it but because its one of the best ones that shows what i explained in the beginning.

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In this music video you can see that the men here are using really beautiful lady's who have nice bodies. These men use them to show off there masculinity, because whats more manlier then being surrounded by beautiful ladies. If these two guys did not have the girls in there video they would probably be thought of as gay. For example, Ricky Martin and Maluma made a song together and afterwards the word was that they were dating. The rumor started being supposedly they saw the both of them together hugging and doing other stuff and since Ricky Martin is gay and since  Maluma has not had a girlfriend or been seen with one they assumed that he was probably gay to. In today's world there is plenty of gays and they are being more open to who they prefer. The two guys Romero Santos and Ozuna are not gay, and Ricky and Maluma are not dating.

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Romeo Santos - Sobredosis (Official Video) ft. Ozuna

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How do you see music and gender intersecting in the music that you listen to regularly? How are representations of femininity and masculinity constructed through song (and music video)? What do these songs, images, and critical interpretations say about how music and gender work in our contemporary world? How and why do these images matter to you? Please reference 1-2 popular academic articles that speak to your music/artist along with 1-2 songs to construct your arguments.