I never thought much of Beyoncé until lately.

Just another pretty … face, … well m(ass) marketed by the mostly dirty-old-male recording industry. Everything wrong with the status quo. Right?

Maybe I’m wrong.

She could be part of the solution.

Certainly she was great in Dream Girls.

Her song Crazy in Love is one of my favourites of all time.

Now she’s putting together an all-girl band for her upcoming B’Day World Tour. (Doesn’t sound like a bimbo boy toy of Jay-Z to me.)

Older women, with few exceptions, get no respect in commercial pop music. Why doesn’t Joni Mitchell have the same profile today as Bob Dylan or Neil Young? Joni’s just as talented and a lot easier on the eyes.

Rock videos today are almost all soft porn. This can’t last forever. Where do they go next?

I like what Beyoncé is doing. She’s sending up her sexy image in videos like Green Light. (I love the high, high heels.)

Click PLAY or watch the video on YouTube.

Not the greatest song, I admit. But Robert Palmer is grinning from the great beyond.

Come to think of it, Robert Palmer’s classic Simply Irresistible is hard to take seriously any more.

Click Play or …

Watch Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love, as well.