In reply to honeychildplease.

Years from now I think she will be seen as an icon, ESPECIALLY because of what you just said: that shes the best artist of this generation. Every generation needs its icons/legends and I believe both Beyonce and Rihanna (unfortunatley but hands down) will be seen as that for tis generation. People already see Beyonce as a legend although I prefer to call her budding legend she aint quite there yet. (not just her fans but people in the industry) can you imagine what its gonna be like years from now. People had the same doubts about Madonna etc in the eighties look at her now. And I don't really think writing is gonna make that hell of a difference cos a couple people you name dropped do not write all their stuff, ten years from now people aint gonna care too much about Beys whole writing credit scam she still co-writes and her music is her music, that will just be a dark area in her CV lol, like every artist has. Its only a big issue now cos shes still in the the depths of her career. The fact that so many new artists are ALREADY saying they are inspired by Beyonce and that she paved the way for a lot of them tells me something. I respect your point though