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Hän on myös lanssannut whisky, joka kutsutaan Sir Davis, jonka kutsutaan hänen isänsä. Tämä on yhdistyö Moet Hennessyn kanssa, ja se seuraa hänen isänsä Jay-Zin, joka aloitti yrityksen LVMH, joka omaisi Moet Hennessyn vuosia sitten. Hänen champagne, Amanda Brunac, oli hänen suurin osallistuminen häneltä 2019, kun Forbes arvioi, että se olisi tarvinnut hänelle $310 miljoonaa. Mutta jatkuu nähdä, onko Beyoncén whiskyn tarpeeksi turvallinen.

And in a way, there was, because it was basically Beyonce's cowboy era. Exactly. Well, I mean, unsurprisingly, brands also wanted to help Beyonce capitalize on this new aesthetic. Levi's paid her an estimated 10 million for a series of commercials, and she got an estimated 50 million for a special halftime show for Netflix's first Christmas Day NFL game.

But what next for Beyonce? She said, I can only work on what liberates me. It's fame that can at times feel like a prison. So when you don't see me on red carpets and when I disappear until I have art to share, that's why.

Sometimes you've had a career, you rinse it a bit too much, and it's hard for her to fly much higher. Let's see how her altitude in terms of fame and earning power goes from here. Well, remember, she's currently in the middle of recording that trilogy of albums. Cabo Carta was the second one. The rumor is that the third album will be a rock album. It could come out at any minute. It could be a surprise drop.

She's not particularly high on the wealth stakes. She's currently about 3,300th in the world today, but there are very few music billionaires. Obviously Taylor Swift is one of them, but all in there's probably less than 10 in the world. She came from a bit of money. Often we talk about how far they come from rags to riches. We know that she started out in a very comfortable, pretty successful middle-class household in Houston.

Kyllä. Ja myös yksiköiden kanssa he tykkäsivät käsittämään rahaa, eivätkö he? En voi ajatella, että he olivat todella vahva yksikö, eivätkö he? Voit tehdä koko podcastin siitä, kuinka nämä kaksi yksiköitä ovat avanneet kasvamaan yhdessä ja saamassa lapsia, eikö? Koska hän oli niin vanha, kun he tutustuivat.

He was older. He came from, you know, we've done the episode on him. He literally came from the housing projects of New York. And she comes from this nice middle class background. How those two have continued to go on and create a business despite the infidelity, despite Becky with the good hair and had three kids. I mean, it's really intriguing. But yeah, they do love to spend it.

I feel like as someone who spent personally quite a lot of money on Beyoncé tours, I feel like I have to give her slightly more. So maybe I'll give her a six out of ten. Okay. All right. What about controversy? I mean, one of the most written about women in history, probably. A lot of think pieces about whether she's a feminist or not discussed. Yeah. I mean, it is interesting because obviously she'd had that whole run the world girls era where, I mean, the lyric is literally girls, we run the world. And she stood in front of a giant screen that basically said feminist and

and included spoken words from Chimamanda Ngozi Adiches' We Should All Be Feminists' essay. If you remember that and you can look it up, it's at the VMAs. And there is an argument to be had that, you know, Beyoncé is this feminist icon. She's shown young women and girls, especially black women, that you can be the star, you can be the mogul, in the same way that Jay-Z is. Yeah, not just the star, but the mogul. That's an important distinction, isn't it? Right, the black Bill Gates, basically. But then, you know, there's also a strand of feminism that says, actually,

All you're doing is kind of kowtowing to the temple of capitalism at the end of the day. You're just telling people that you can do it through, you know, hard work, through making money, when that maybe isn't how society is set up, especially not for people of color. So I think it's an ongoing tension in her work, really. You know, I think Beyonce, when you listen to her, when you

Kuunnellaan, että hänellä on melko vahva ajatus siitä, mitä hänen feminisminsa on. Hän sanoi, että en ole varma, että ihmiset tiedättävät tai ymmärtävät, mitä feministi on, mutta se on hyvin yksinkertainen. Se on joku, joka uskoo, että hänellä on yksinkertainen oikeus naiselle ja naiselle. Kertoisitko joku, naiselle tai naiselle, että hänet haluaa 75 senttiä, kun hän tarvitsee dollarin? Mitä luulet, että vastaus olisi? Luulen, että se on melko lähellä.

I think I would give her a two out of ten. I mean, she's not, you know, in the grand good bad billionaire stakes. Three for me, two for you. Okay, power. If she called up the White House, would the president pick up? Oh yeah, definitely. Any president. Mr. President, Beyonce on line one. You'd take it, wouldn't you?

Not a million of miles away from Swiftonomics, which is the exact same thing which happened when Taylor Swift's eras to a road into town in various cities around the world. And can she influence things like fashion? I mean, her forays into fashion didn't work that well, but she can influence the look for Cowboy Carter. Exactly. I mean, my God, I don't think I've ever seen as many cowboy boots as I did when Beyonce's to a road into town. So power, I'm going to give a pretty high rate. I'm going to give a seven.

Luulen, että annan häneltä yhden. Luulen, että annan häneltä noin 8. Kun sinä et ole vain, onko se monimuotoinen, kun sinä olet vain ensimmäinen nimi, kuten Cher, Madonna, Beyoncé. Tai jopa kirja. Kyllä, tai B. Se kertoo paljon siitä, kuinka paljon voimaa sinulla on. Legacy, hän sopii paljon rekordista.

Kyllä. Suurin osa Grammy-vaihtoehtoja on ollut 35, mikä on hienoa. Tietysti hän on ollut iso osa vanhaa yhteisöä. Hän on ollut kutsuttu todella influenssiviksi. Hän on ollut kutsuttu, että hän on inspiroitunut ympäri musiikkia. Hän on popularisoitunut feminismin ympäri ihmisiä, jotka eivät ole enää ymmärtäneet sitä. Hän on sanonut...

Luulen, että jos minä tein sellaisen yksilöllisen naisen tanssin, jossa olet näin... Niin ihmiset tietävät sitä. Ja se on mahtavaa, että jotain käsitellään niin syvästi yhteiskuntaan, maailmalle ja kulttuuriin. Todella pieniä ihmisiä on saanut tehdä sitä kestävästi ja luulen, että Beyoncé on yksi niistä. Joten viimeinen kysymys tietenkin on sinulle. On Beyoncé hyvä, huono vai vain yksi billionaire? Mitä ajattelet?

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Meillä on nainen, joka on historiallisesti suosittu suomalaisen filminjohtajan. Hän on saanut ihmisiä epäilemään. Se on tietenkin Steven Spielberg, filmimogel, joka on muodostanut cinemaa. Hän on tavallaan inventoinut blockbusterin. Se on Steven Spielberg seuraavassa esityksessä Good Bad Billionairein.