{"id":500,"date":"2016-02-15T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/?p=500"},"modified":"2016-02-15T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T20:29:00","slug":"beyonces-formation-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/2016\/02\/15\/beyonces-formation-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s Formation Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Formation (Explicit)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LrCHz1gwzTo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think by now and after the super bowl everyone knows about Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s new single, Formation. It is a powerful new song accompanied by a powerful video where Beyonc\u00e9 publicly puts herself behind the black lives matter movement. Sadly the responses to the\u00a0video have been very controversial. People are for some reason upset that she has announced her support for the movement. They have even brought up things like white lives matter too, which in my opinion is an ignorant statement. This video is incredible because it perfectly illustrates the power of pop culture in things as important as social movements. The best part is that there was a follow up SNL video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;The Day Beyonc\u00e9 Turned Black&quot; - SNL\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ociMBfkDG1w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Day Beyonc\u00e9 Turned Black is an incredible satire about the public reaction to Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s video. It was as if the public did not know she was black. The fact that she took a stand to represent herself for some reason shocked people. This video illustrates how silly it is that people were confused by Beyonc\u00e9. It also shows how important SNL as a media publication is in bringing social issues to a public audience. By making this controversy comedic it is more captivating for a large audience to view. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=formation%20beyonce%20music%20video&amp;src=rela\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> blew up with posts and comments reacting to the video. What do you guys think about the video, the responses and SNL&#8217;s satire?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think by now and after the super bowl everyone knows about Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s new single, Formation. It is a powerful new song accompanied by a powerful video where Beyonc\u00e9 publicly puts herself behind the black lives matter movement. Sadly the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/2016\/02\/15\/beyonces-formation-video\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}