We Share Our Thoughts On Beyoncé Removing A Slur From Her Newest Song
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🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Birt Show. |
| 0:01.0 | What's trending now? |
| 0:02.0 | No! |
| 0:03.0 | Kristen knows. |
| 0:04.0 | It's the Birt Show's entertainment bus. |
| 0:05.8 | So a song lyric in the song Heated on Beyonce's new album Renaissance is being altered |
| 0:11.1 | following social media backlash. |
| 0:13.6 | So Beyonce was using a word that is considered an ableist slur and it's loose slang for freaking |
| 0:19.4 | out or going crazy. |
| 0:20.7 | But it's derived from the word spastic, which is demeaning and insensitive to people with |
| 0:24.7 | spastic cerebral palsy. |
| 0:27.0 | So according to her team, the ableist slur not used intentionally in a harmful way will |
| 0:34.3 | be replaced. |
| 0:35.3 | And this is the same story we heard with Lizzo. |
| 0:37.2 | Yep, I'm talking about Kim Wren. |
| 0:39.2 | It's the similar situation played out with Lizzo just last month because she used the same |
| 0:43.7 | word in the song Girls. |
| 0:46.4 | And she heard everybody out and she agreed. |
| 0:48.0 | She's like, we're everybody's work in progress and all these learning stuff. |
| 0:51.6 | And she, I thought was had a beautiful message. |
| 0:54.1 | Because I understand how words can hurt as they've been thrown at me my entire life |
| 0:58.7 | and career. |
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