Shit White People Say About Beyoncé

The recent Internet meme “Shit X Say,” is a genre that burlesques cultural riffs common to a particular subculture. In this spirit, “Shit White People Say about Beyoncé” identifies key tropes in mainstream middlebrow criticism about the pop superstar as featured in a recent cycle of well-publicized events. These discourses’ flagship feature is their declaration of Beyoncé’s formal perfection. When scraped at, however, Beyoncé’s putative perfection is revealed as the dual vessel for a Nietzschean longing for a sui generis will and a Weberian anxiety about the value of labor for charisma.