Beyoncé to remove offensive album lyric following backlash

Beyoncé has shared a second preview for the visual element to her latest album, ‘Renaissance’, dropping a teaser for its opening track, ‘I’m That Girl’.Much like last week’s “cliquebait” video for ‘Break My Soul’, the new clip features shots of Bey in highly stylised and visually compelling outfits, surrounded by fittingly lavish set pieces. This one offers a little more content, though – while the ‘Break My Soul’ clip ran for less than 40 seconds before cutting to a black screen, the visual part of the clip for ‘I’m That Girl’ runs for just under two minutes.Around 35 seconds in, we see a quick montage of Bey in 21 aesthetically disparate settings.

Beyoncé has reached another milestone on the back of her seventh album, ‘Renaissance’, becoming the fourth woman in history to have 10 songs top the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart.As reported by Billboard themselves, the outlet established the chart in 1958, with only three other women having solo releases top that chart 10 or more times since then.Aretha Franklin reached the milestone twice in the peak of her 63-year tenure, racking up 20 Number Ones between 1967 and 1985. Janet Jackson follows closely with 16 inclusions, while Mariah Carey ties with Bey at 10.Bey’s achievement comes from the success of  ‘Renaissance’ lead single ‘Break My Soul’, which reached Number One on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart this week.

Beyoncé will join Roland Isley of the Isley Brothers on a new song.The track, which is set to arrive this Friday (August 12), is a re-work of ‘Make Me Say It Again Girl, Pts. 1 & 2′, lifted from the Isley Brothers’ 1975 album ‘The Heat Is On’.

Beyoncé’s seventh album, ‘Renaissance’, a news anchor in Philadelphia snuck 15 of the R&B titan’s song titles into a live-broadcast traffic report.“Traffic is getting ‘Heated’ and it’s starting to ‘Break My Soul’ just a little bit,” NBC 10’s Sheila Watko said in her presentation last Tuesday (August 2), referencing two songs from ‘Renaissance’. She noted later in the broadcast – which earned the approval of Bey’s own mother, Tina Knowles – that she’d planned to do to a reference-laden report on the album’s release date (July 29), but couldn’t do so since there was a crash that day and she “had to be serious”.To the groans – and one emphatic “ooh!” – of her co-hosts, Watko continued in her report: “We’ve had a ‘Formation’ of traffic cones all morning … that’s still blocking two right lanes, you might want to move over ‘to the left, to the left’.”Celebrating her effort, co-host Keith Jones declared: “Sheila Watko, you ‘Run The World’.”Take a look at the full report below:Yesterday (August 8) saw ‘Renaissance’ debut at Number One on the US’ Billboard 200 chart.

Beyoncé’s just-released seventh album, ‘Renaissance’, has topped the Billboard 200 chart in the US, continuing her unbroken streak of albums debuting at Number One.All seven of the artist’s studio albums have peaked in the top spot, however, the release of ‘Renaissance’ is notably significant in that it’s already become Bey’s highest-charting album in every major market. In addition to the US, it’s debuted at Number One in the UK, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand. It’s likely to top the Canadian chart as well, however data for that is yet to be released.‘Renaissance’ also came in at Number Two in Germany, beating her last album, 2016’s ‘Lemonade’, by one place.

LF SYSTEM fend off some tough competition from none other than Beyoncé to secure a fifth consecutive week at Number 1 in the UK with Afraid To Feel.  

Beyoncé claims her fourth solo UK Number 1 album with RENAISSANCE this week, marking her first chart-topper in six years. 

Shading Queen Bey. Monica Lewinsky called out Beyoncé for her lyrics about her affair with Bill Clinton. The Renaissance singer wrote lyrics referencing Monica’s affair with the former President of the United States.

Beyoncé’s new song ‘Heated’ – which the singer has since edited to remove the offensive term – suggesting that she also change a lyric on her 2015 hit ‘Partition’.Released as the third single from Beyoncé’s self-titled 2015 album, ‘Partition’ features a lyric that name-drops Lewinsky. Referring to Lewinsky’s infamous scandal with former US President Bill Clinton, Bey sings on the track: “Oh, he so horny, yeah he want to fuck / He popped all my buttons, he ripped my blouse / He Monica Lewinsky’d all on my gown.” Lewinsky first addressed the lyrics in a 2014 article written for Vanity Fair, wherein she said: “Thanks, Beyoncé, but if we’re verbing, I think you meant ‘Bill Clinton’d all on my gown’.”Now, she’s revived talk of the reference on Twitter, responding to the news that Beyoncé would change an ableist lyric on the song ‘Heated’, which appears on her just-released ‘Renaissance’ album.

heated over Beyoncé’s use of an “ableist” slur. Virtual hellfire is currently consuming social media, owing to controversy sparked by Queen Bey’s use of the term “sp – – z” on her new “Renaissance” track “Heated.”On her rhythmic rump-shaker, Beyoncé, 40, croons, “Sp – – zin’ on that ass, sp – – z on that ass/ Fan me quick, girl, I need my glass.”And disability advocates are calling out the vocal voluptuary for her lyrical mis-Bey-havior. “So @Beyonce used the word ‘sp – z’ in her new song Heated. Feels like a slap in the face to me, the disabled community…” penned one Twitter user in a now-viral tweet.In the UK, “sp – – z,” which is derived from the word “spastic,” is viewed as a derogatory slight against people with cerebral palsy —  a congenital disorder of movement, muscle tone or posture caused by abnormal brain development during gestation. However, in the US, the term is often casually used to suggest that a person is going to wildly let loose or has expertly completed a major feat.  Representatives for Beyoncé told The Post, “The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced,” adding, “The road to success is always under construction.”In June, pop songstress Lizzo, 34, was also virtually blasted by digital detractors who called for her cancellation after she sang, “Do you see this s – – t? I’m a sp – z,” on the track “Grrrls.”Following the backlash, Lizzo released a statement on Twitter, apologizing for her verbal flub, and vowing to remove the lyric from her song. “It’s been brought to my attention that there are [sic] is a harmful word in my song ‘GRRRLS,’ ” the “Truth Hurts” songstress wrote on Twitter.“Let me make one thing clear: I never want to promote derogatory language.

Beyoncé’s chart RENAISSANCE continues in abundance today – as her seventh solo record sets its sights on becoming her fourth UK Number 1 album. 

Beyoncé has faced backlash for the use of an offensive term in one of her brand new songs. And since its release, a UK disability charity is urging her to remove the word from the track, Heated, altogether. The song features on the American singer-songwriter's highly anticipated seventh studio album, Renaissance, which was released last week.

Singer Beyoncé has faced a backlash for the use of an offensive term in her song Heated, with a UK disability charity urging her to remove the word. The track features on the American singer-songwriter’s highly anticipated seventh studio album, Renaissance , which was released last week.