Beyonce‘s new album Renaissance has been in stores for more than a week and it officially has topped the charts for the first week of release!
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Beyoncé confirmed she will remove an "ableist" lyric used in a song on her new "Renaissance" album following online backlash from the disability rights community. The 40-year-old artist will change the word "spaz" from the 11th anthem on the catalog, "Heated," to another, as yet undetermined, term. "The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced," a representative for Beyoncé told Fox News Digital.
Beyoncé heard the calls to change an "ableist" and offensive lyric on one of her songs on her new "Renaissance" album.The award-winning artist is pictured at the Grammys in 2021. (Kevin Winter) In the song, which is co-written by rapper Drake, Beyoncé sings the line: "Spazzin' on that ass, spazz on that ass." The word has often been used to negatively reference people with disabilities. The 16-track album, which officially debuted on Friday, is her first solo release since "Lemonade" in 2016 and marks her seventh studio album.
"So @Beyonce used the word 'spaz' in her new song Heated," Hannah Diviney tweeted. "Feels like a slap in the face to me, the disabled community & the progress we tried to make with Lizzo. Guess I'll just keep telling the whole industry to 'do better' until ableist slurs disappear from music." "Yes, and me a Black Autistic person was also called "spaz" growing up to describe ME as irritating and annoying," another user wrote online against people defending the word.
Beyonce‘s new album Renaissance has been in stores for more than a week and it officially has topped the charts for the first week of release!
Beyonce has made several changes to her most recent album Renaissance, only days after its release. The 40–year-old singer removed a lyric that was called "able-ist" and has now also removed a sample of Kelis' hit song Milkshake.MORE: Beyoncé stuns fans in silver disco dress amid album leakIn a statement, a representative for Beyoncé confirmed that the lyric in her song Heated, where she uses a derogatory slur, will be changed.WATCH: Beyonce makes history as women dominate at 63rd Grammy Awards"The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced," the statement read. Disability activists criticized the singer's language including disability charity Sense, which called her use of the word "disappointing".The track Energy has also removed the sample of Kelis' Milkshake after the singer shared her anger at not having been asked for permission beforehand.
Monica Lewinsky asks Beyoncé to remove her name from “Partition” now that she is eliminating a word and a sample from her latest album Renaissance. Reports of Queen Bey deleting a word considered an ableist began circulating all over social media, something the former White House intern took as an opportunity to send her request.“uhmm, while we’re at it...
Beyoncé is righting her wrongs!
Monica Lewinsky added her voice to the Beyoncé backlash and pleaded with the singer to remove a lyric from her 2013 song, "Partition," which addressed the scandal involving former President Bill Clinton. Following criticism from the disability rights community about Beyoncé using an "ableist" term in a new song on her "Renaissance" album, Lewinsky asked fans to look more into the singer's history with offensive remarks. "Uhmm, while we're at it… #Partition," Lewinsky tweeted Monday to her million followers, referencing lyrics from the song released on Bey's self-titled, fifth studio album.
If you ask Monica Lewinsky, while Beyoncé is at it, she might want to take a look at her back catalogue.
Beyoncé announced that she’d be removing an offensive song lyric from her new tune “Heated” following criticism from disability advocates and users on social media.The track — from her seventh studio album, “Renaissance” — was called out for being “ableist” for the singer’s use of the word “spaz,” with the artist singing: “Spazzin’ on that ass, spaz on that ass.”The lyric caused major backlash online, with Beyoncé’s team confirming it will be removed.“The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced,” reads the statement, obtained by Variety.Now, 49-year-old Lewinsky — who made headlines worldwide in the mid-1990s when she had an affair with then-President Bill Clinton, now 75, while she worked as a White House intern in her early 20s — tweeted to suggest that Beyoncé change a lyric from her 2013 song “Partition.”“Uhmm, while we’re at it … #Partition,” Lewinsky wrote on Monday, commenting on an article about the “Heated” lyric.Beyoncé, 40, references the infamous affair in the song “Partition,” singing: “He popped all my buttons, and he ripped my blouse / He Monica Lewinsky’d all on my gown.”Lewinsky’s tweet was met with mixed responses. Some called her out for comparing a sex scandal to being disabled.“Girl it’s been nearly a decade.
Bad Bunny has been hanging tight at the top of the Billboard album chart for a consecutive seven weeks, but everything is likely to change next week when Beyoncé makes an appearance with her newest album "Renaissance." Beyoncé released her seventh studio album, "Renaissance" last week as the first part of her trilogy.The album is likely to be a number one hit for the singer. On its first day of release, there were a projected total of 275,000 and 315,000 sales and streams, according to Hits Daily Double.
Beyoncé should have listened to Lizzo!
Beyoncé is making a change to her lyrics in the song “Heated” from her latest album, , following backlash from the disabled community.On Monday, a rep for the singer told ET, “The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced.” On the song “Heated,” Beyoncé sings, “Spazzin’ on that a**, spazz on that a**,” which has been labeled as ableist by members of the disabled community. According to theNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes, spastic is defined as “a condition in which there is an abnormal increase in muscle tone or stiffness of muscle, which might interfere with movement, speech, or be associated with discomfort or pain.
Beyonce will change the lyrics of her new song Heated following a backlash from fans and a UK disability charity. The singer's representatives have confirmed that a 'deeply offensive' term, which they say was “not used intentionally in a harmful manner”, will be replaced.
essay in The Guardian. It has led to the rewriting of the song lyric.
Beyoncé is set to remove an offensive album lyric which uses an albeist slur from her new album ‘Renaissance’.The star faced a backlash over the use of an offensive term on her new track ‘Heated’, where she sings: “Sp***in’ on that ass, sp** on that ass,” towards the end of the song.While used colloquially in the United States with a similar meaning to “freak out” or “go crazy”, the term emerges from the word “spastic”, which is used medically to describe the spasms one might experience from a condition like cerebral palsy. The term is often used in a derogative manner to describe those with disabilities, especially cerebral palsy.Now, following the backlash, the star’s publicist told Sky News the lyric is now set to be replaced and that it was not “used intentionally in a harmful way.”Disability equality charity Scope had described the use of the “deeply offensive term” as “appalling”, while disability advocate Hannah Diviney said the singer’s status as one of the most famous musicians in the world did not “excuse her use of ableist language”.“So @Beyonce used the word ‘sp**’ in her new song ‘Heated’.
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.
Zack Sharf Beyoncé’s seventh studio album “Renaissance” debuted July 29 to universal acclaim, but one lyric in the song “Heated” left many listeners outraged on social media. The song includes the word “spaz” during a verse in which Beyonce sings: “Spazzin’ on that ass, spazz on that ass.” In the medical field, “spastic” refers to a disability that makes it difficult for people to control their muscles, especially in their arms and legs.
With all the commotion and excitement surrounding her new album, everyone wants to know: how much is Beyoncé‘s Renaissance about to sell?
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn the past 48 hours, the only noise louder than the Beyhive has been coming from R&B singer Kelis, who is outraged that Beyonce sampled her 2000 song “Get Along With You” without informing her. The sample appears in “Energy” from Beyonce’s just-released album “Renaissance”; the officially credited writers and producers of “Get Along With You” are the Neptunes, a.k.a.
Beyonce‘s highly anticipated album Renaissance has finally arrived!