Pop megastars reframed commercial wealth as revolutionary destiny

Evidence

Beyoncé’s and her husband Jay-Z’s self-positioning as pop royalty reframed the entire narrative of culture into a story of their destiny. … Jay-Z, from the comfort of Maybachs and opulent mansions, positioned his wealth as revolutionary while complaining that any labeling of him as a “capitalist” was akin to a racial epithet. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 638

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the death-of-the-sellout arc — in an omnivore monoculture, wealth signaling is laundered as counterculture authenticity.