Generations

Last night my 19 year daughter is listening and watching Beyonce on you tube and turns to me and says, "I Love Her" I thought to myself. Wow you do? I began to tell her how rumors were going around that she stole "If I Were A Boy" and she got so upset and said how could I say that. "B" is too talented to steal and that I am just hating.

At that moment I had to realize that she is to my daughter what Mary J is to me. I would probably react the same way if someone said something negative about Mary J. The difference between Beyonce and Mary is that Mary speaks to her fans about real life, every album reflected a different time in her life (the struggle) Mary and I and many of her fans have all grown up together. Just a few weeks ago I saw her at Radio City and every song she sang meant something to someone in the audience most of us stood the whole time. We sang every song with her with the same kind of feeling and passion she did because that song represented for some of us a time in our life that we are glad is over.

Now there are critics out there who say Mary can't sing. I beg to differ but everyone is entitled to their opion. I just know that Mary is reminds me of Billie Holiday you can feel their words as if they were your own.

And I guess Beyonce is that for my daughter.

Lady A