If you want to know what makes Beyonce get out of bed in the morning, it is probably the thought of making $1.6M that night performing at a show. So far during her Mrs. Carter tour she has been earning about $1.6M per show just from the ticket sales. Doing the math it looks like she will gross about $100M for the whole tour and you can usually add another 50% for merchandise which means her gross will be about $150M. Not bad work if you can get it. This is what kills me when someone like Mary J Blige can't pay her bills. Is she Beyonce? No, but she can go on tour and make $100M if she goes out on the road and plays three times as many shows. Instead she just stays home and spends more money and does nothing to solve her issues. When Lauryn Hill needed money to pay her taxes she went out on the road and made the money in a week. Singers who have a following should never ever have money issues. Toni Braxton? Go on the road and play shows. I think someone like Toni misses the day when people bought records and she could stay home and get huge paychecks without hitting the road. Different world. Can't be lazy any longer.
Vadge doesn't it, so why not everyone else?
ReplyDeleteDont care for her professionally or personally, but hey, mazel tov! Take the money and run.
ReplyDeleteAnd enty is right, singing ladies, hit the riad to rake in the cash!
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DeleteAll that money and she can't buy good fake hair?
ReplyDeleteWendy Williams said in an interview this week that Beyonce needs elocution lessons because she can't pronounce certain words right (i.e., "axsed")...I have to agree.
ReplyDeleteGood for her. I'm sure they need it.
ReplyDelete@MBK and so does Blake Lively; she has that same pronounciation problem.
ReplyDeleteIs Bey still on tour because she wasn't on the Ms. Carter tour that long. Even if tickets went for 300.00 each I still don't see that affording her over a mil per show being that she has to pay the vender a huge fee as well, plus others involved.
@nevermindthat, she's grossing that kind of money. She'll probably net (after paying vendor fees, payroll, expenses, etc.) about 40%... then she'll have to pay her agent and manager their cut.
ReplyDeleteHer music is so annoying. I can't stand her vocal gymnastics. Also, those pictures of her really make her look like a dude in a wig...and also like Rita Ora. Interesting.
ReplyDelete@Auntliddy - I agree, her music isn't my style, but good for her. She's an intelligent woman who works very hard.
ReplyDeleteMy only beef with Beyoncé is this: If she has so much money, why in the world is she shilling for Pepsi? Sugary soft drinks are a huge contributor to childhood obesity, particularly in minority communities. Isn't there a healthy product she could attach her name to instead?
Wonder how much of that she gives to the Poor and other deserving charities?
ReplyDelete@the dude just curious, but how much do you give to charity?
DeleteThe Dude, that would be Zero Point Zero.
ReplyDeleteI say "asxed" and I'm a college graduate. I'm from Baltimore and a wonderful professor of mine told me to never change the way I talk, cause it's my unique accent. Sure, some words sound odd but it hardly means I'm not educated. Just a lil southern!
ReplyDeleteMary's problem has never been being 'lazy' or earning money. That wasn't Toni's problem either. Mary doesn't pay bills that she accrues and her shitty husband blows the money as fast as she earns it. she's owes a stylist 500k right now. And that's just ONE person, there are plenty others lined up to collect.
ReplyDeleteOmg! I had no idea she was in that deep. Her hubby has always given me the creeps.
DeleteWait, that rhymed... anyway I hope Mary drops him. No more drama Mary!
she's looking whiter everyday and those pictures certainly don't help.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but if you say things like "axsed" or "warshing" (oh, how I hate that!), that's not an accent. It's a basic inability to speak properly, and no matter how many diplomas are on your wall you will seem to the whole world to be grossly uneducated.
ReplyDeleteAs for these idiot singers, WTF? If someone would pay me millions of dollars to SING SOME SONGS, then lead me to the mic.
It is an accent. Have you been to Baltimore? Its a matter of opinion because I think people sound weird when they pronounce aunt as "ant" or how in Philly they say "wooder" instead of "water".....Barbara Walters talks funny and people make fun of it, but nobody would ever say she was uneducated. Everyone has certain words they mess up because of regional differences. Now its not like im talking to people saying uneducated yhings like "I be" or "we was" or "her said" so chill.
Delete@greenmountaingal I open Beyonce posts just to read your "she looks like a man" comments.. you crack me up!
ReplyDeleteBeyonce may be alot of things, but a man she is not. Each person has their own idea of what beauty is though :-)
Lol thank you I do think Beyonce is pretty, but sometimes she looks like a man in drag to me. I have an over active imagination :)
DeleteTouring isn't easy. It's hard work. I think she's earned evey penny. And she's providing jobs for a variety of people. After she pays everyone and taxes it's still good money but I agree with about 40% take home. And I didn't even mention the comedy provided by this tour! Go Bey!!
ReplyDeleteKels and others: Certain words and pronunciations can be specific to regions. Axed is a southern term such as Liberry (instead of library). It all depends on whether you find the colloquialisms quaint or not. Personally I have always prn aunt like ANT. Some people go shopping and take a bag whereas others take a sack.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest problem is when it is such an aberration of the correct pronunciation that people like to point out how it sounds uneducated and asked vs. axed is one of those. (BTW I am from CLT- NC.)
No, "axed" isn't an accent, an accent. An accent is a change in inflection or pronunciation of the word. "Aksed" is changing the word itself. Also, I'm sorry if it offends you that people who share speech patterns with the uneducated are deemed uneducated, but that's life. Perhaps it has something to with growing up in Maryland makes you "southern".
ReplyDeleteAnd Murphy's law of commenting strikes again. I believe it goes "if you're trying to call someone out for being a buffoon, your comment will make you look like an illiterate jackass".
ReplyDelete*maybe it has something to do with education when you think Maryland is souther. Jesus. Lets hope autocorrect didn't screw me too.
In Toni Braxton's defense, she said on her reality show that she has lupus, which is a pretty debilitating disease, and limits the amount of touring she can do.
ReplyDeleteHere we go with shading Southern people again. UGH, it's f*cking annoying.
ReplyDeleteDeliberately mispronouncing words because its cute or regionally acceptable is asinine. It makes speaker look ignorant. If one knows the right way to pronounce something, then do it!!
ReplyDeletelet's not shade Southerners ya'll! We all have colloquialisms from our regions, it doesn't mean anyone's uneducated or stupid. Being from California, I definitely get a valley girl accent, with my melodic emphasis on certain words. You guuyyyyyssssss! we toh-talleee gadda go to the maWWL sooon, thad be soooo fUN!!!! I know riiiightt?!" ( not that I say that phrase ever, just making a point) Blatant stupidity is annoying in itself, no matter if there's an accent, mispronuniciation or not. Empress of Socks is so right, I've learned over time that anything other than a kind comment, be it snark or just correction, will start a war and just make you look like a a jerk.
ReplyDeleteI use to foam at the mouth for a Beyonce concert. I have not missed one tour
ReplyDeletethis one...eh not so much
This is suppose to be a tour for her new album, she snuck in a worldwide tour for "4".
Im over saturated of her , Maybe if it was new material but i dont want to hear the same old shit
My great-grandmother (and her entire family) all said 'warsh' 'vittles' 'varmints,' etc. They were rural Missourians (they would have said "Mizuren"). It was an accent, plus colloquialisms, not stupidity.
ReplyDeleteThose people, besides being well read and highly artistic, could grow anything, build anything, cook anything, and fix anything. And I still use the home remedies she taught me.
That being said, Beyonce can dance and that is about all I'll grant her. She'd have to pay ME a SUBSTANTIAL sum to attend one of her shows.
ReplyDeleteI am not a Beyonce fan. This meme pretty much sums up why. I like Single Ladies but it has to be Dan Finnerty's version.
ReplyDeleteMary is always on tour. She neeneeds a new manager, financial planning leslessons and to live less expensively. Toni's Vegas deal was cancelled due to insurance issues. I bet the touring would be hard on her physically and she would have a problem getting insured.
ReplyDeleteMary is always on tour. She neeneeds a new manager, financial planning leslessons and to live less expensively. Toni's Vegas deal was cancelled due to insurance issues. I bet the touring would be hard on her physically and she would have a problem getting insured.
ReplyDeleteBeyonce looks like a blow-up doll in that picture. It's probably intentional unfortunately. And the pepsi symbol is just ugh.
ReplyDeleteI used to like Beyonce back in her Destiny's Child days, but now I just can't with her. Takes herself too seriously and covers up her actual talent with terrible vocal gymnastics.
When states are divided by NE, west, etc. Maryland is categorized as south. And growing up in DC, I know how to pronounce words like ASK. Regional accents are pronouncing the-ater or theatre. Ax is what you use to chop down trees in the wood, not a regional accent.
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