Aug 18
Sorry, B.
I have unabashedly loved Beyoncé since 1999, and that love has only billowed with each passing year. Increasingly bizarre and untethered songs? +1. Jay-Z association? +1.
If I thought about Solange Knowles at all (and I didn’t) it was in a Ashlee Simpson-to-Beyoncé’s-Jessica-circa-2003 kind of way. But! I have read two things this week that point to Solange being awesome (she goes to dive bars! She is uninterested in talking about her sister, and the thoughts in her mind are “visual art, the history of prostitution in Chicago, and architecture”!) and the campaign to position Solange as the Knowles sister that you want to get drunk with is working on me.
The video of her single is un-embeddable, but this is sort of natural anyway: