Amy Schumer ‘Formation’ Parody Blasted As Racist, Tone Deaf
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zzGzW_1jUgBlack feminists and comedy fans go after “Trainwreck” star and Wanda Sykes for appearing in Tidal video
After a gushing initial response, Amy Schumer?s recent parody of Beyonce’s “Formation” has been blasted by African Americans, feminists and social media users for its appropriation of black culture.
The clip was shot in Hawaii during the filming of Schumer’s new comedy, and features her costars Goldie Hawn, Joan Cusack and Wanda Sykes. The women gyrate to Beyonce’s controversial hit, that contains powerful identifying statements from the singer like, “My daddy Alabama / Mama Louisiana / You mix that ? with that Creole / Make a Texas Bama.”
Twitter isn’t pleased.
“There is no possible excuse for @AmySchumer not to know the cultural significance of #Formation for black women.I hope this hurts her career,” said @peacebang.
“It is weird to me that @amyschumer thought a song about the police killing black people was perfect for a parody,” wrote Twitter user @ndreajohnson.
“Amy Schumer continues to be trash and disrespectful like she doesn’t have access to open conversations about race and black women,” wrote BooksBakesBio.
Not only is Schumer accused of cultural appropriation, she dons a T-shirt with the lyric “Texas Bama,” which Time magazine indicates has a painful and very specific history for people of color in America.
Upon its release in February, “Formation” caused a stir for its references to the Black Lives Matter movement (the “Formation” music video featured police in riot gear confronting a dancing African American boy, and showed a wall spray-painted with the message “Stop Shooting Us”).
The video, confounding as it may be, was an exclusive on streaming service Tidal, for which Beyonce herself is an exclusive artist and her husband Jay-Z is a stakeholder.
Comedian Sykes also caught a bit of heat for appearing in the clip alongside her white costars in the comedy, which is set up at 20th Century Fox.
Representatives for Schumer could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Tidal released it tho. A lot of "? ______" to go around.
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Vote hillary yall
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She should have just simply picked a less serious song from B like bootilicious or love on top.
Schumer has always been an habitual line stepper; she trashed Trump a couple weeks back in like some stand up gig she had and got booed. -
lol @ serious song, that song is about what exactly?
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The Beehive gets excited easily. They protect Beyonce like personal property. They don't let any insult slide. Amy will probably apologize just to get them off her back.
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lol @ serious song, that song is about what exactly?
So u r prepared to disrespect Bey and ride for Amy?
Let's cut to the chase...
Why u hate your sisters? -
Man that video wasnt even racist just women having fun doing stupid things. They need to chill
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Nah ? Amy Schumer and whoever ride with her
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babelipsss wrote: »The Beehive gets excited easily. They protect Beyonce like personal property. They don't let any insult slide. Amy will probably apologize just to get them off her back.
This. Them hoes would hate anything anyone parodies of Beyonce -
these twitter people need to log off
they are celebrities, why do people give this much of a ? to either Beyonce or Amy Schumer. -
Man, ? that unfunny, joke stealing, built like Majin Buu looking ass ? .
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lmao at cultural "significance of formation"
im really starting to hate ultraliberals -
That song has a meaning? It was always just noise to me. Amy Schumer is garbage and I'm all for bashing her unfunny ? , but are people really whining about comedians lampooning some ? . Weird Al basically made his name off of parodying MJ. So MJ can get the biz, but not Beyonce?
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Brother_Five wrote: »
disrespect Bey, how?
Did you ? just disregard the part where it said this was a tidal video -
I've never seen Formation .....do I lose my black card
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She should have just simply picked a less serious song from B like bootilicious or love on top.
Schumer has always been an habitual line stepper; she trashed Trump a couple weeks back in like some stand up gig she had and got booed.
There ain't ? thing serious about that ? song.
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lol @ serious song, that song is about what exactly?
Exactly. After her SB halftime performance and the video all of a sudden now that song ain't about "? her good she'll take you Red Lobster", it's about some black power ? . -
Black women (and other women) love this song and the video is dope
That's more than enough say it's 'serious'
This racist scumbag should go parody some other ? -
She's obsessed with blacks period. It's a good percentage of her whole shtick / shock value. It's a ? song and this is typical of edomites. Nothing 2 C here but they gave her the attention she, her advertisers and network sought from the gate. Black folks led by their emotions again. Some of us will never get it.
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i'm just mad she dragged goldie hawn into this mess.
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She's obsessed with blacks period. It's a good percentage of her whole shtick / shock value. It's a ? song and this is typical of edomites. Nothing 2 C here but they gave her the attention she, her advertisers and network sought from the gate. Black folks led by their emotions again. Some of us will never get it.
I've watched her show and some of her stand up and thats not accurate -
She's obsessed with blacks period. It's a good percentage of her whole shtick / shock value. It's a ? song and this is typical of edomites. Nothing 2 C here but they gave her the attention she, her advertisers and network sought from the gate. Black folks led by their emotions again. Some of us will never get it.
Black people are too obsessed with black celebrities in general. I mean people in general are too obsessed with celebrities, but black people, especially women, seem to take ? personal. -
I keep forgetting most of y'all r just pretending to be black
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how do we know Beyonce ain't have anything to do with this, there's always the possibility that Beyonce picked this song for them to have fun with
The broads are mouthing the lyrics word for word, just maybe, maybe they love the song
Don't know of Amy Schaumer, and nobody that does
I couldn't imagine sitting around my circle and bringing up Amy Schaumer, ? will look at me different
How all these people hate her but know so much about her
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