From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible

episodes. I'm Cole Kushna and I'm T. T. T. Shodia. So, Today we continue our serialized analysis of lemonade by Beyonce. On our last episode, we

unpacked the chapter Accountability, which featured the song Daddy Lessons. There, Beyonce reflected

on her upbringing in order to examine the roots of the curse she inherited.

Specifically, she looked at her relationship with her father, who is depicted as a hard-nosed cowboy who commands Beyonce to shoot men like him.

With his gun and his head held high he's on me

on me to cry, oh my daddy said shoot,

oh my daddy said chute, oh my daddy set the chute.

Through daddy lessons, Beyonce discovers that her father

had been socialized as many men are,

to be a strong, powerful protector who shows no sign of weakness.

Beyonce herself had adopted some of these characteristics as lessons her father passed down to her.

Through displays of strength, masculine posturing, and stoicism,

we saw her demand justice from her cheating partner. The justice she sought

was retribution. She wanted her partner to feel the same pain he

inflicted upon her as a punishment for his crimes. That desire for

retribution manifested in anger as Beyoncé threatened to return the favor of his infidelity.

You can watch my fat-ass Twist boy.

As a gun to the next day boy.

In apathy, Beyonce relished her ability to lie about her whereabouts and make her

partner wonder where she was for a change.

Now I'm the one that's lying and I don't feel bad about it. It's exactly what you get to stop interrupting. These examples indicated Beyonc

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