Monica Lewinsky Asks Beyoncé To Scrub Lyric About Clinton Affair After Renaissance Drama
03.08.2022 - 03:29
/ perezhilton.com
Monica Lewinsky hopes she can convince Beyoncé to change her tune once again!
As we reported, the superstar’s team recently announced she’d be changing a line from her song Heated from the new album Renaissance after activists blasted it for containing an ableist slur.
Now, the former White House intern is hoping she can convince Bey to edit another one of her tracks — one that Lewinsky likely hasn’t been singing along to over the past nine years.
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Taking to Twitter on Tuesday, the 49-year-old shared a Variety article about the music icon changing the line and added additional feedback of her own, writing:
As fans know, the 2013 track makes a direct reference to Monica’s infamous affair with former President Bill Clinton while he was in office. Bey sang on the track:
It’s no surprise Lewinsky is still salty about Bey turning her name into a verb for, well, you know — but members of the Beyhive didn’t think the Grammy winner should budge this time.
Fans replied to Lewinsky’s tweet, writing:
For what it’s worth, Monica replied to a fan and revealed that she never directly reached out to Bey’s team.
As for the Heated drama, activists pointed out that the line in question, “S**zzin’ on that ass, s**z on that ass,” is ableist, with writer Hannah Diviney saying in a piece for The Guardian:
(For those you don’t know, s**z is a slang derivation of the term “spastic.”)
The Break My Soul hitmaker addressed the controversy in a statement from her team, telling Variety:
This all comes after Lizzo made the same move in response to getting backlash for using the term in her song Grrls from her new album Special.
Back in June, fans called