Is "Beyoncé" just a big rip-off of Lana Del Rey?

[Baby V Alex 2,868]

all i can say is...

 

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASS EVIL YAAAAAAAAASSS U ARE FINALLY ONE OF US YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSS

[PennCentralFan 269]

I agree with your assessment. Lana is very influencial among other artists. Miley has covered her song, Taylor Swift and Ke$ha have clearly been inspired by Lana.

 

But Beyonce is completely copying Lana. This is needs to hit the blogosphere and mainstream media.

[Chiunzhan 1,480]

bye

[DUKE 2,531]

This is needs to hit the blogosphere and mainstream media.

Definitely something that needs to be covered by major media outlets. I hope national television in all countries reports about it! 

[Mileena 2,696]

I agree with your assessment. Lana is very influencial among other artists. Miley has covered her song, Taylor Swift and Ke$ha have clearly been inspired by Lana.

 

But Beyonce is completely copying Lana. This is needs to hit the blogosphere and mainstream media.

 

Alert the President! 

[COLACNT 5,182]

But Beyonce is completely copying Lana. This is needs to hit the blogosphere and mainstream media.

 

thats it 

 

nominating u for january MOTM 

[lmdr 11,219]

Guess Lana Del Rey it's an inspiration for most arstists. Katy Perry got inspired from Lana in "Legendary Lovers" and you can see Gaga changed her the rythm of her songs in ARTPOP to a more 'slow' album. 

[YUNGATA 14,959]

o god. just u wait for when this hits tumblr #regret

[FROGGO 2,806]

Definitely something that needs to be covered by major media outlets. I hope national television in all countries reports about it! 

[silver starlet 1,379]

this just proves that lana is a fake ass bxtch. all hail beyonce 

[Arzi 1,982]

Finally someone said it 

[Miguel3Zero 202]

this just proves that lana is a fake ass bxtch. all hail beyonce 

Miming to the national anthem on the presidential inauguration all hail

[Coney Island King 26,295]

Shaking and holding myself over this thread x

[Wryta Thinkpiece 3,345]

@@evilentity

[pinkbubbles 42]

Cleptoncé strikes again.

[evilentity 13,357]

Thank god for the troll faces at the end, I swear I was going to write a really long post...

I went on a huge rant & was ready to post until I saw the troll faces 

i was about to call you a delusional fuck.

Ha, I would have loved to have read these responses.

[trayertrash 7,218]

I went into a great amount of detail about Lana's underwater pose being the same as Aaliyah's in her rock the boat video & found videos that someone could claim Lana copied by her various poses & shit.   

[evilentity 13,357]

Tbh I did think of the beginning of Pretty Hurts being similar to Ride and Heaven being Summertime Sadness lol

Obviously I was just being facetious with this whole thing, and didn't notice a lot of the similarities until I went looking for them, but some of them struck me watching "Beyoncé" the first time through: The general theme of the dark side of beauty queens in "Pretty Hurts", the faux-Lynchian style of "Haunted", and the plot of "Heaven", though not any specific images from those videos. Some specific images that I did notice the first time through were Beyoncé at the gas station in "No Angel", Jay-Z smoking and the sequined flapper headdress thing in "Partition", and some of the Rosalita-esque scenes. But the black & white close-up underwater face shots in "Rocket", the Pieta pose in "Mine", and the Coney Island setting of "XO"-- strong Lana parallels in three consecutive videos-- started feeling downright eerie.

 

Anyway, go watch all these videos if you haven't. They're really good. I highly recommend them.

[FKAbrandon 389]

I went into a great amount of detail about Lana's underwater pose being the same as Aaliyah's in her rock the boat video & found videos that someone could claim Lana copied by her various poses & shit.   

I'd love to read that

[Divisive Princess 3,781]

I figured this was going to be a thread bullshitting us, but when I actually started reading it there was a lot of points that I think are pretty valid even though I know this was a joke.