{"id":1614357,"date":"2022-08-18T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T16:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1614357"},"modified":"2022-08-18T12:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T16:02:36","slug":"beyonce-owes-everyone-an-apology-how-renaissance-opened-a-pandoras-box-of-victimhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beyonce-owes-everyone-an-apology-how-renaissance-opened-a-pandoras-box-of-victimhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonce\u0301 Owes Everyone An Apology: How \u2018Renaissance\u2019 Opened A Pandora\u2019s Box Of Victimhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbeyonce-owes-everyone-an-apology-how-renaissance-opened-a-pandoras-box-of-victimhood%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1614357&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Beyonce\u0301\u2019s album \u201cRenaissance,\u201d released just three weeks ago, has already been through many iterations.<\/p>\n<p>First, there was the \u201cableist slur\u201d controversy. News about \u201cRenaissance\u201d was almost overshadowed by Beyonce\u0301\u2019s inclusion of one controversial word on \u201cHeated.\u201d This word was so bad that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/01\/arts\/music\/beyonce-lyrics-heated-changed.html\">major<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/08\/02\/beyonce-spaz-slur\/\">news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2022\/08\/beyonce-renaissance-lyrics-ableist-slur-removed.html\">outlets<\/a> didn\u2019t even include it in their headlines about the drama. The offending lyric? \u201cSpazzin\u2019 on that a**, spazz on that a**.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No, the legacy media hasn\u2019t suddenly become concerned with sexual content in pop songs. The word in question was \u201cspaz.\u201d Disability rights advocates complained, and Beyonce\u0301\u2019s team swiftly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harmful-way-beyonce-says-shell-remove-lyric-from-album-following-backlash\">issued<\/a> a statement saying, \u201c\u200b\u200bThe word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced.\u201d (Ironically, this exact drama played out a couple of months ago with Lizzo, who also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/the-language-police-are-after-lizzo\">chose<\/a> to have a song rewritten after backlash over the same word.)<\/p>\n<p>Controversy over, listeners could now enjoy the queen of pop\u2019s new album free from problematic content. Just kidding. \u201cRenaissance\u201d is full of music samples, brimming with the influence of \u201cqueer\u201d and transgender artists, much to the excitement of <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/music\/beyonce-renaissance-tribute-to-black-queer-culture-ball-scene\/\">entertainment writers<\/a>. But when Beyonce\u0301 indirectly referenced Kelis\u2019 hit song \u201cMilkshake\u201d on \u201cEnergy,\u201d the singer complained.<\/p>\n<p>As BBC reports, both songs were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-62405039\">updated<\/a> on streaming services to remove their respective offenses \u201cjust five days after \u2018Renaissance\u2019 was released.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given Beyonce\u0301\u2019s apparent flexibility with her own music, it\u2019s no surprise that yet another person went looking for a lyric change. This time, it was Monica Lewinsky.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tweeting out an article about the \u201cspaz\u201d controversy, Lewinsky <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MonicaLewinsky\/status\/1554129582755721216\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cuhmm, while we\u2019re at it\u2026 #Partition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Beyonce\u0301\u2019s song \u201cPartition\u201d (yes, the one from 2013), the singer crudely references former President Bill Clinton\u2019s affair with Lewinsky, saying, \u201cHe Monica Lewinski\u2019d all on my gown.\u201d A year later, Lewinsky objected to the lyric in an article for Vanity Fair, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2014\/05\/monica-lewinsky-speaks\">writing<\/a>, \u201cThanks, Beyonc\u00e9, but if we\u2019re verbing, I think you meant \u2018Bill Clinton\u2019d all on my gown,\u2019 not \u2018Monica Lewinsky\u2019d.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that was the early 2010s, an age in which artists weren\u2019t cowed by Cancel Culture into changing their music every time someone got offended, rightly or not. (Now, thanks to internet culture and the explosion of streaming over CDs, it\u2019s easier than ever to quietly acquiesce, edit, and pretend the drama never happened.)<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a decade after \u201cPartition\u201d came out, Lewinsky is now hoping to get the lyric change she wants, and why shouldn\u2019t she? It\u2019s almost too easy to act as a censor these days.<\/p>\n<p>But Beyonce\u0301, Lizzo, and other artists who change their lyrics at the behest of their fans have put themselves in a difficult position. Whether they meant to or not, they are now in the business of explicitly choosing winners and losers in their lyrics. Certain people or groups are allowed to complain and be listened to. Others just have to suck it up.<\/p>\n<p>It was always the case that you could complain about song lyrics. Only recently has it been so easy for your complaint to be heard, accepted, and used to implement an accommodation to your preference within a matter of days.<\/p>\n<p>And there are plenty more lyrics on \u201cRenaissance\u201d to which listeners might object. After bragging about \u201cvotin\u2019 out forty-five\u201d on \u201cEnergy,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-news-blog\/2012\/dec\/21\/beyonce-jamie-foxx-antigun-campaign\">gun-control advocate<\/a> sings, \u201cI just entered the country with Derringers \/ \u2018Cause them Karens just turned into terrorists.\u201d Where are the protests about gun control? For that matter, where are the protests from Karens?<\/p>\n<p>If Beyonce\u0301 (or her team, who\u2019s really in charge of responding to these silly outrages) were to address Lewinsky\u2019s tweet, the singer could argue that the statute of limitations has expired. It\u2019s been nearly a decade, for goodness\u2019 sake. You have exactly five days to stir up a Twitter mob about your personal grievance, and after that, you\u2019re done!<\/p>\n<p>But as woke culture\u2019s Overton window swiftly shifts \u2014 even \u201cwoman\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bette-midler-gets-attacked-as-a-terf-after-saying-women-are-being-erased-due-to-terms-like-birthing-people-people-with-vaginas\">isn\u2019t an acceptable word<\/a> anymore when \u201cbirthing people\u201d will do \u2014\u00a0who knows what will become problematic years, even months, down the line. After all, once a punchline, Lewinsky has become widely recognized as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/identities\/2018\/11\/15\/18095050\/monica-lewinsky-clinton-affair-tv-series-interview\">potential #MeToo victim<\/a>. It\u2019s not very intersectional for <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/3181644\/beyonce-reclaim-feminism-pop-star\/\">noted feminist<\/a> Beyonce\u0301 to poke fun at Lewinsky.<\/p>\n<p>The underlying irony in all of this comes from the title of Beyonce\u0301\u2019s latest album: \u201cRenaissance.\u201d The word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/renaissance\">references<\/a> \u201ca movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity,\u201d presumably one that includes a debate of ideas in which both sides present their arguments, not one in which one side complains of hurt feelings and the other side plays along out of fear.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Beyonce\u0301 has changed her recent music \u2014 not even once, but twice \u2014 there\u2019s no way listeners will let her get away with another \u201cmistake.\u201d Expect Beyonce\u0301\u2019s next album, and musical albums from other artists, to go through a few early iterations after their release until they\u2019re appropriately sanitized.<\/p>\n<p>Even then, not everyone will be happy. So if she wants to start choosing who has a legitimate right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyonce\u0301\u2019s album \u201cRenaissance,\u201d released just three weeks ago, has already been through many iterations. First, there was the \u201cableist slur\u201d controversy. News about \u201cRenaissance\u201d was almost overshadowed by Beyonce\u0301\u2019s inclusion of one controversial word on \u201cHeated.\u201d This word was so bad that major news outlets didn\u2019t even include it in their headlines about the drama. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1614797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1614797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}