#KetanjiBrownJackson also accepted 4 tickets worth nearly $4k from #Beyoncé to one of her concerts, & 2 pieces of art worth $12.5k to display in her chambers.
“Justice Jackson is Crazy in Love w/Beyoncé's music. Who isn’t?” said court spox Patricia McCabe.
Justice #Sotomayor reported a turn as a character on a #PBS children’s show “Alma’s Way,” a cartoon about a Puerto Rican girl & her family from the Bronx. The justice was paid ~$1.9k for voice work on 1 episode in which she played herself.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas formally disclosed two trips he took with Republican donor Harlan Crow in 2019, one to Bali and one to Monte Rio, California. The annual disclosure form noted that the trips were “inadvertently omitted at the time of filing” in 2019. The only other justice to report receiving gifts in new filing was Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was gifted four concert tickets from singer Beyoncé in 2023, valued at $3,711. Read more from CBS News.
Linda Martell appeared on two spoken-word segments on Beyoncé’s latest album, “Cowboy Carter.” Martell, a country singer, made history as the first Black woman to play the Grand Ole Opry in 1969. Five years later, the pioneering singer was out of country music. Billboard has more on Martell’s early career, such as her breakthrough single, “Color Him Father” that peaked at No. 22, and the wider audience that is finally hearing about her now. https://flip.it/YNsHGI #Culture#Entertainment#Music#Beyonce
Currently studying for the #cpacc exam and I found the #legal part surprisingly interesting. This topic was also relevant in a workshop I gave, so here's a couple of law suits that are #accessibility related:
Beyoncé has millions of fans the world over, and she can add a massive admirer to the list — Sir Paul McCartney. The former Beatles frontman says Beyoncé's cover of “Blackbird” reinforces the song’s civil rights message, “and would urge anyone who has not heard it yet to check it out.” Read more from Entertainment Weekly: https://flip.it/DhfrOf #Culture#Music#Entertainment#Beyonce#PaulMcCartney#TheBeatles
I haven't heard the album yet, probably won't ever hear it except whenever various songs trickle in through the membranes of my social media bubble. But I can tell you right now, I don't need a bearded white man in the Washington Post to tell me what I ought to think about Beyoncé’s country music album.
"Beyoncé's recent cover of The Beatles classic 'Blackbird' was especially profound to listeners who know that the song pays homage to the Little Rock Nine — a group of Black students who were at the center of the fight to desegregate public schools in the United States."
Beyoncé's eighth studio album was released last Friday. Here's our @Flipboard Storyboard, which collates reviews and deep dives, from Vox's story about "Jolene" and the scorned woman trope to a list of all the artists Queen Bey collaborated with on the album.
"We’d already picked up a good idea of what country means to her culturally, in her few public statements in advance of 'Cowboy Carter,' amplified in the one trillion thinkpieces published during the last two months, many of which really did help spur a vital conversation about Black exclusion and reclamation in one of America’s most important indigenous artforms. But now “Cowboy Carter” is in front of us as a real piece of music, not just a conversation piece. So what does what might already be the most talked-about album of the 21st century actually sound like?" Variety reports:
Tried to passively listen to the new #Beyonce album already this morning and it kept grabbing my attention. Beatles and Dolly, smoke breaks with Willie, genre bending but she’s kind of pissed off about it, Miley Cyrus singing about mortality. There’s a lot going on.
Beyonce is an absolute master marketer. The very best. Even more than Madonna and Lady Gaga. Not since Grace Jones and Kate Bush has there been someone who knows how to move the market, get attention and reinvent herself. EXCELLENT ALBUM. BEY DAY!
Happy #Beyonce Day to all those who celebrate! I just started listening and so far so good!
"Cowboy Carter’s” second track is a cover of The Beatles' “Blackbird.” I'm digging it. The instrumentation is almost exactly the same as The Beatles' version, save for some ✨modernization✨ (bass synths, etc.).
Given that "Blackbird” was originally inspired by the Little Rock Nine, I appreciate hearing a quintet of black women singing it while The Beatles back them up.