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Dissect

S6E3 - Don’t Hurt Yourself by Beyoncé (feat. Jack White)

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.910K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We continue our serialized analysis of Beyoncé’s Lemonade by dissecting its third chapter “Anger,” which features the song “Don’t Hurt Yourself.” Beyoncé flips stereotypical gender roles to command the respect of her partner and reclaim her agency. But how long can her anger sustain? A visual guide for this episode can be found at dissectpodcast.com. Follow us on social media @dissectpodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect.

0:04.0

Long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

0:08.0

I'm Cole Kishna.

0:09.0

And I'm TT Shodia. So, Today we continue our serialized analysis of lemonade by Beyoncée. On our last

0:34.9

episode we dissected the chapter denial. There Beyonce described all the way she

0:40.3

denied herself. She detailed her painstaking, often torturous attempts to

0:44.8

transform for the sake of her husband who she worshipped like a God.

0:48.3

Meanwhile on screen we witness Beyoncé undergo another transformation from a sleeping silent suppressed servant to a powerful life-giving goddess

0:59.6

Specifically Beyonce channeled the YorubaShoon, performing the song hold up while

1:04.6

smashing out car windows with her baseball bat, hot sauce.

1:08.4

At the end of the chapter, Biante's emotional transition from denial to destruction is crystallized as she

1:14.5

stampedes a row of cars with a monster truck. It's here that were presented with

1:18.9

Lemonade's next chapter, the subject of our episode today,

1:22.4

Anger. I can wear her. the subject of her episode today, anger.

1:24.0

I can wear her skin over mine.

1:32.0

Her hair over mine.

1:35.0

Her hands as gloves.

1:39.0

Her teeth as confetti.

1:46.0

We can pose for a photograph.

1:49.0

All three of us,

1:52.0

immortalized. You and your perfect girl. In Tony Morrison's the bluest eye, the novel's black nine-year-old narrator, Claudia McTear,

2:07.0

describes dismembering a toy doll.

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