{"id":80250,"date":"2022-08-03T13:27:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=80250"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:27:25","slug":"beyonce-to-remove-offensive-lyric-after-disabled-community-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=80250","title":{"rendered":"Beyonce to remove offensive lyric after disabled community outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Beyonce will remove a derogatory term for disabled people from her new song “Heated,” a spokesperson said Monday, after its use was condemned as offensive by campaigners.<\/p>\n

The US pop megastar will re-record the track from her latest album “Renaissance” on which she originally sang the lyrics “Spazzin' on that ass, spazz on that ass.”<\/p>\n

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“The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced,” a spokesperson for Beyonce told AFP via email.<\/p>\n

Co-written with Canadian rapper Drake, the dance track appears to use the word “spaz” in the colloquial sense of temporarily losing control or acting erratically.<\/p>\n

But disability campaigners noted that the word is derived from “spastic.”<\/p>\n

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spasticity is a movement disorder involving stiff muscles and awkward movement, suffered by 80 percent of people with cerebral palsy.<\/p>\n

In June, US singer Lizzo re-recorded her song “Grrrls” to remove the same term following complaints that it was derogatory.<\/p>\n

Australian disability campaigner Hannah Diviney said the inclusion of the word by Beyonce “feels like a slap in the face to me, the disabled community & the progress we tried to make with Lizzo.”<\/p>\n

“Guess I'll just keep telling the whole industry to ‘do better' until ableist slurs disappear from music,” she tweeted.<\/p>\n

Beyonce's eagerly anticipated seventh solo studio album “Renaissance” was released Friday, drawing mainly positive reviews with its nods to disco and electronic dance.<\/p>\n

Other collaborators on the album — which leaked online in the days prior to its official release — include Nile Rodgers, Skrillex, Nigerian singer Tems, Grace Jones, Pharrell and Beyonce's rap mogul husband Jay-Z.<\/p>\n

In an Instagram post published soon after the album's release, Beyonce said creating the album “allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world.<\/p>\n

“My intention was to create a safe place, a place without judgment,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

“A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. A place to scream, release, feel freedom.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beyonce will remove a derogatory term for disabled people from her new song “Heated,” a spokesperson said Monday, after its use was condemned as offensive by campaigners. The US pop megastar will re-record the track from her latest album “Renaissance” on which she originally sang the lyrics “Spazzin’ on that ass, spazz on that ass.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":80251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n