Let Me Upgrade You.

I was on good ole’ YouTube today and I was just listening to some tunes then something popped into my mind.

“As much as Beyonce is a real popular singer, how come she don’t stand out as an icons who have serious nicknames like

Aretha Franklin – Queen of Soul

Anita Baker – The Songstress

Madonna – Queen of Pop

Mary J. – Queen of Hip Hop

Koko Taylor – Queen of Blues

Tina Turner – Queen of Rock and Roll

Well let’s dissect this in the way it should been dissecting a long time ago for you kids who don’t know these people.

Anita Baker- Beyonce has some songs that are real nice, but she can not put a feeling into them like Anita Baker. Anita Baker not only sang the song, but she lullaby it to a person like a baby sleeping at night. Just to think about it, I have never heard a Beyonce song with any feeling to it. Her best duet with a little feeling into it was not even in her albums, but a soundtrack. (Note: Look for “Everything I Do” feat. Bilal from the Fighting Temptation Soundtrack) B needs to feel those songs and stop sounding like a robot, which leads me to the next icon.

Mary J. Blige – B and Mary J. are in the same era with a talent that most will die for. Mary J. got the title not because she was in the era that started the Biggies and Pacs, but for the fact she lived liked how she sang was enough. Mary J. can tell you her life literally. (Hear ever album and check the chronology of her and you can see the things I am talking about) To just a regular music lover like me and maybe a count of others, B have been living the perfect life since Destiny’s Child. As much Ne-Yo want to vouch for B, for a music lover, you just can’t. Everybody deal with weight gains and so much, but seriously if you want to be taking serious. You have to have experience serious issues. In B’s entire album, I really can’t see it, public or private which leads me to this other icon.

Madonna – You talk about upgrade, B is in the late twenties - early thirties. Madonna that era did it. She was successful female of that era only to be surpassed by another pop icon named Michael Jackson. B literally is in a league of her own, which is good and bad at the same time. The question is can she still emerge herself when she is older. Madonna did it and surpassed it. She did do some crappy movies before she won a Golden Globe Award in “Evita.” That made me thinks “When she gets older, how would she stand out to the next icon.”

Koko Taylor – In all honesty, Koko simplified it all with her genre, she knew she was blues. B is confused if she is Pop or R&B, and you can tell it on her albums. She was plain and simple which leads me to the next icon.

Tina Turner – Though she praised Tina Turner for being the Queen of Soul (which B need to get her genres right.), Tina knew how bring back her roots. B acts like she is scared to say anything about Houston or even towns in Texas. So really that is the reason she was caught with stealing songs. B forgets that the number one rule into becoming an icon is to talk about someone that you have seen or even heard. I guess she became clueless about that and also it is the reason she had so much heat on her on some of the songs that she did not write. Now that mix-up leads me to the last icon.

Aretha Franklin – Basically, it was perfect timing for Aretha, blacks (not African-American) citizen were not treated fairly, wars, rights, and even economical times were in her era and she knew how to adapt. She was a woman that could rally guys and girls to do anything. B can’t even rally herself. If she could, then this post would not be there. B level of “Irreplaceable” cannot even measure to Aretha “Think” and I know as much as “Single Ladies” and “Crazy in Love” were top hits, comparing that to “Respect” or “Rescue Me” is a joke. Those songs are still here and will be until something new (and I mean moving new) comes out.

Out of all, B has the staying power but can she really reach the stars. Stay tuned, I know I am.