Beyoncce: A Famous Failure

She has struggled with many things throughout her career. One thing she has struggled with was when she first started singing is that she did not like the songs she was given to sing. She felt like she was being pushed too much into the country-pop direction. She then had to deal with paying pack the investment Mercury had put into her. Reba sought for a release in her contract and went on and continued to produce with Jimmy Brown. She also had to deal with the death of seven of her bandmates and her road manager in a plane crash in 1991.

Beyonce has recently released her new album called "lemonade". Rumors have been spread and I can't tell anyone if this is for sure yet, but the fans are saying that Jay Z cheated on Beyonce and that is what her album is all about. It's all over the world and people are saying it is true. Beyonce's album was a big hit and as soon as some of her songs came out, people started questioning. We won't find out until either one of Beyonce or Jay Z says something. They waiting begins for the truth. All of this has not gotten in Beyonce's way. She has stayed strong and kept going. That is why I love her. Instead of letting it get to her she just decided to take it out with what she loves and writing songs about it. Other people can relate to her or just listen to it because they just love her music. Either way it is great for her because she let it out, but also her fans loved the album. I chose Beyonce for this paragraph because she is an inspiration to me and all other people around the world. She is truly Queen Bee and definitely runs

If an individual wants to be in the entertainment industry, one must know who they are and to develop a tough exterior, in order to overcome adversity and negativity. It is evident that Whitney was a people-pleaser and if she did not please everybody, then it would take a toll on her and as a result, provided her with a lot of distress and pain. For this reason, possibly drew her into a realm of drugs and chaos.

After that song my daughter's fame was sealed, everyone knew my Aaliyah’s name. Now look at my daughter she’s writing songs for movies, right now she’s singing a song for Disney, Dr. Dolittle, and she got the part in, “Romeo must die.” I don’t know what my daughter can’t do. Even though there was that mishap with R.kelly and the marriage licence, i’m so very proud of my baby, my superstar but because Aaliyah is now a singer and actor.

When you hear the name Aretha Franklin what do you think? The woman of soul music, I hope! Not only did Aretha have a successful career, but she was able to maintain her personal life and accomplish what she wanted to. We are going to look at Aretha Franklin starting with her beginning and early career, the success from her career as one of the Queen’s of soul and her personal accomplishments. Let's take a look at Aretha Franklin’s beginning and early career.

Everyone knew Aretha was incredibly talented at a very young age. At twelve years old, Aretha cut her first record on her first solo for Chess Records. After that she went on tour with her father. In 1960, Aretha came to New York and took dancing and vocal lessons (Moritz 132). She signed a five-year contract with Columbia Records one year later in 1961 (Moritz 132). While at Columbia Records, she recorded nine long-playing albums, only selling moderately (Moritz 132). Toward the end of 1966 Aretha turned down an offered renewed contract by Columbia, signing with Atlantic Records instead (Moritz 133). Aretha had “a reputation of being difficult to handle” in the early part of her career according to Phyl Garland of Ebony in 1967 (Moritz 133-134). She caused a small riot when she walked out of a concert in Denver because she was only paid half of what she was promised (Moritz 134).

Etta loved to sing, before she got discovered by Otis, and asked to record for chess. People then started to realize she was going to be a singing star (Weissman, 2006). James, recorded a lot of albums and songs, Some were hits and some were nothing at all, one of her finest albums was Seven year Itch,The best selling album was Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday (Weissman, 2006). Yes, she did go off the charts when new bands started coming out and making new hit songs, but i bet that didn't stop her from keep recording music (Hodgkinson,

In 2009, K. Michelle's began her music career, when she had signed a deal with jive records. She is well known for varies of songs throughout her music career. One of her well known singles today is

“ All I Could Do Was Cry” and “ Rather Go Blind” rings many bells even up until today's time. She signed with Chess Records in 1960 and she became very popular. “ Something’s Gotta Hold On Me” was a gospel ballad Etta did which has been used in movies such as “The Color Purple “ , “Burlesque” . Also sampled in 26 songs and covered 5. This showed me a lot of her music was well liked and amazing. In 1967, Etta recorded with “Muscle Shoals “ house band which they got the album “ Tell Mama” and is well known . 1973 critics have good feedback from her album which resulted in a Grammy Nomination. After her contract was up with Chess Records Etta left and signed with Warner Brothers , few years later

Beyonce’s dad helped her become very successful in life. She was in a very famous group called Destiny’s Child with her cousin, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. After being in Destiny’s Child for 9 years, Beyonce decided to

Beyonce is an African American female artist making incorporating empowering messages for women around the world. She is creating work that speaks to an audience that might not receive authentic mainstream. Beyonce ultimate goal is to visually and sonically entice wisdom through her music. Recently in a shocking video release, Beyonce debuted a new song “Formation” as well as a politically charged music video. This song was an uproar in the music industry worldwide. Millions of people around the world negatively viewed this song as a controversy. The music video and song caused many people to debate and cause a worldwide conflict.

In March 2011 Beyonce officially decided to make her dad her manager (“Beyonce”). Destiny's Child came back together for a while but decided the could do more own their own. Beyonce and Destiny’s Child members are still friends and Beyonce is still very successful. The beginning of Beyonce’s career is amazing but so is her accomplishments and where she is

Due to some issues her other band members had to quit music, meanwhile Rainie pursued as a solo artist and attained new heights of fame.

Following her arrest in early 2000, Whitney began having accountability issue with her career. She was consistently late or would miss interviews, photo shoots and rehearsals altogether. In one incident, she was suppose to perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but pulled out

The biggest issue standing in her way was how to obtain her success, and then be able to maintain it instead of fading away like many other celebrities do as they get older.