'He's Still My Protector': Tina Knowles Says 'Low Self-Esteem' Kept Her with Mathew Knowles Despite His 'Never-Ending Cycle of Cheating'

Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman

The UK star repeats some of her breakout album’s formula but little of its lacerating insight on a record where the Big Feminist Statements feel frustratingly basic.

'He's Still My Protector': Tina Knowles Says 'Low Self-Esteem' Kept Her with Mathew Knowles Despite His 'Never-Ending Cycle of Cheating'

The dirty laundry pulled out in Tina Knowles’ recently released memoir, “Matriarch,” keeps piling up. Readers were first made privy to the furious responses she received from her daughters, Beyoncé and Solangé, after they learned she and their father, Mathew Knowles, had secretly reconciled before their marriage ended due to his consistent infidelity. Mathew Knowles, father of Beyonce and Solange Knowles, reconciled with their mother Tina Knowle…

Album Review: Self Esteem – A Complicated Woman

“Music is about feeling better, making other people feel better. It’s about solidarity; strength in numbers.” For Rebecca Lucy Taylor (aka Self Esteem) music is community. It’s the banding together to create comfort, to let others hear and be heard, to show other women that they most definitely are not alone. On her previous album, Prioritise Pleasure, Taylor was offering a beacon for those in need. “I just want to let you know there’s a point i…

Self Esteem Revels in Freedom, Empathy, and Pop Know-How » PopMatters

Self Esteem steps into a more grounded and rangy perspective. She's overcome numerous challenges. She's learned to live in the world and her own skin. She's free.