Either I needed to dutifully consume this object of conversation and develop an opinion about it or I needed to develop a defense of why I hadn’t yet done so. It’s just that Beyoncé released “ Formation” on a Saturday, and then performed it at the Super Bowl on Sunday, and as of Monday I hadn’t gotten around to it, for reasons that are incredibly uninteresting: I happened to have been doing other stuff, which seems as if it’s probably among my rights as an American.īy then, though, the song had become such an intense focus of discussion at the digital water cooler - to the point where it felt difficult to turn on a computer without someone’s views about “Formation” and its various sociopolitical valences reaching out and grasping for your throat - that my not having heard it acquired some kind of political dimension. It’s not as if I made some principled choice not to listen to it.
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