The song “Heated,” which appears on her seventh studio album, “Renaissance,” was dubbed “ableist” after she used an offensive term.
, the term “spastic” is often used in the medical field when referring to someone with cerebral palsy, a disability that makes it difficult for someone to control their muscles.published in The Guardian“Beyoncé’s commitment to storytelling musically and visually is unparalleled, as is her power to have the world paying attention to the narratives, struggles and nuanced lived experience of being a Black woman,” the author of the article, Hannah Diviney, wrote.
In the original song, the rapper, 34, sang, “Hold my bag, bitch, hold my bag / Do you see this s–t? I’m a spaz.” She also noted that she was “proud” to have taken the steps to “listen and take action,” changing the controversial lyric to “Hold me back.”As for Beyoncé, the outcry over the lyric isn’t the only backlash she’s faced since dropping her new album on July 29.after she sampled her 1999 song “Get Along With You” in “Energy.”
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