Lemons or Lemonade? Beyonce, Killjoy Style, and
Neoliberalism (Scholarly)

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Summary: This article is about a man breaking down Beyoncé Lemonade album based on the controversy surrounding bell hooks and Lemonade with the neoliberal constraint of digital, feminist, and public intellectual argumentation. The author spends majority of the time arguing that against hook’s problems with Beyoncé. He pointed out how hooks had found many problems with Beyoncé work where there should be no problem. He accuses her of being a kill joy and trying to bring down the feminist who support Beyoncé. The first section of the article is about Neoliberalism and happiness which just details all the things critique hook has said about Beyoncé and the response/effects it has had. He also breaks down Rhetorical Criticism how it can lead to good energy and bad energy. Good energy being open to new discussion and bad energy being closed off room for other discussion like what hook is doing. The second part of the article talks about how a killjoy style disrupt affective orientation to individual happiness to create condition for communal joy. At this point in the article the author is just showing how people respond to hooks negative energy.

Response: Hook's critical work interrogates the systems of oppression rather than the individual woman navigating them. When reading this article and hearing the comment that hook was making about Beyoncé, I felt like she was attacking her base on personal view. In her mind Beyoncé is the enemy so everything Beyoncé say she has a fault. It’s like she’s trying to dig for issues where there is not one. Instead trying to understand Beyoncé when she is talking about issue all people must deal with, Hooks just judge her and critique her because there’s no way they can relate. All of hooks argument seem to ask the question what’s oppression, who is doing the oppression and why does people consider this person as oppress. Which I think are positive, I agree with her viewpoint of looking beyond just the individual and looking at the problem as whole. Despite hooks views on Beyoncé the way she tries to break down issue surrounding social issue is how everyone should try to see it. I may not agree with all her statement about how things should be done and who we should be aware of that we are following like Beyoncé. I do agree with there are social issues that can be traced back to certain things or people if people look past the individual person and focus on the bigger issue.

-Melvin