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Diane Warren has insisted she meant "no disrespect" towards Beyoncé after she called out a song with 24 songwriters. The songwriter to the star's tweet was ...

Musician Diane Warren got pulled into a heated exchange with Beyoncé's fans after she questioned how one song could have 24 writers.

"But I have 13 more nominations than U" Warren replied with a cheeky emoji. "Ok, I meant no disrespect to Beyoncé, who I've worked with and admire. asked Warren on Monday. She became a trending topic as she appeared to be referencing Beyoncé's song "Alien Superstar" from her new album Renaissance. Beyoncé has also come under fire recently for problematic lyrics within one of her new songs. Warren was mocked for the amount of award nominations she has, without any wins. I didn't know this, thank U for making me aware of it," Warren replied directly to The-Dream. He responded telling Warren it's all good.

After disability activists criticized the use of an ableist slur in her new song, Beyoncé announced on Monday that she would replace the lyric.

Should it stop at a singer-songwriter changing an offensive lyric, and is it a useful demand to be making? In this case, the conversation about disability, stigmatizing language, and harm is turned over into the hands of crisis managers, publicists, and PR teams — not the ideal place for any social issue to go. In this way, correcting their own record or apologizing invariably takes attention away from the offense itself, and makes a social justice issue about an individual. Public call–outs, then, serve the purpose of calling attention to the problem — but many personalities seek to put a lid on it by merely saying the “correct” thing. But her team released a statement that she wasn’t on most of the trips that the plane took. Earlier this year, Lizzo, too, was criticized for using it in one of her songs and had replaced it, prompting many to question the inherent ignorance of cultural context behind the criticism.

It's on her "Renaissance" album. She follows the rapper Lizzo, who recently took the same word out of one of her songs after complaints from advocates for ...

Disability advocate Hannah Diviney, who pointed out Lizzo's lyrics that lead to the change, wrote on Twitter that hearing the word again used by Beyoncé "felt like a slap in the face to me, the disabled community & the progress we tried to make with Lizzo." Lizzo said in a statement she never wanted to promote derogatory language. "The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced," a spokeswoman for Beyoncé wrote in a statement to The Associated Press on Monday.

Beyonce will remove a derogatory term for disabled people from her new song Heated, a spokesperson said on Monday, after its use was condemned as offensive ...

"A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. 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. 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”.

Songwriter Diane Warren apologised to Beyonce and said there was 'no disrespect' when she questioned 24 writers credited on Alien Superstar.

I didn’t know this, thank U for making me aware of it,’ she responded. However, after facing the wrath of Beyoncé’s Beyhive, she issued the following statement on the social media site: ‘Ok, I meant no disrespect to @beyonce, who I’ve worked with and admire. Diane Warren has insisted she meant ‘no disrespect’ towards Beyonce after she called out a song on the music icon’s new album Renaissance with 24 songwriters.

While Beyoncé's latest album Renaissance has drawn plenty of praise, it's also been the subject of criticism, with fans calling for her to remove an ...

On Monday, prolific songwriter Diane took to Twitter and asked followers, "How can there be 24 writers on a song? That's 23 more than are on mine."

Just say you wanted to be shady." "Samples and multiple interpolations! Diane Warren has responded to "shade" from fans after appearing to call out Beyoncé.

Beyoncé is re-recording a song from her new album after facing backlash online over an offensive lyric.

Lizzo wrote in a statement that she would "never want to promote derogatory language". The singer's publicist told the BBC that the word, which can carry a non-offensive meaning in the US, was "not used intentionally in a harmful way". Beyoncé has now revealed via her publicist that she will be re-recording the song without the lyric.

Rodney Jerkins has revealed the story behind the hit single “Deja Vu”, which features on Beyoncé's second album, B'Day. The R&B producer has worked with a ...

“She has that same type of intensity in the booth.” Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “She attacked things so raw and in your face.

The Beyhive is buzzing over the Renaissance album merch. From durags, to horse hoops and bright yellow tape, here is what's on offer.

Instead, she has added a multitude of niche treasures waiting to be stockpiled by devoted supporters – and fast: the line is only available for a week. From opera gloves to horse hoops and bright yellow tape — here is what’s on offer Renaissance Crystal Black Gloves, £104; beyonce.com

Beyoncé: Heated song lyrics on Renaissance album, what is an 'ableist' slur - and did Lizzo use the same word? · In a statement, the singer's representatives ...

This is the result of me listening and taking action. They said: “Pleased to hear that @Beyonce is re-recording Heated to remove the ableist term. She wrote: “I thought we’d changed the music industry and started a global conversation about why ableist language – intentional or not – has no place in music. Words are important because they can reinforce negative attitudes that disabled people face every day. The lyric in question used two variations of the word repeatedly including, “sp*zzn” and “sp*z”. Disability charities and activists h called out the word for being “ableist” and “offensive.”

It comes just weeks after Lizzo came under fire for using the same word in her song 'GRRRLS'

Fellow US star Lizzo faced a backlash when she used the same word in “GRRRLS”, which was released six weeks ago. Beyoncé’s publicist told BBC News the word “not used intentionally in a harmful way”. It comes just weeks after Lizzo came under fire for using the same word in her song “GRRRLS”. Lizzo apologised and quickly rerecorded the track.

We need allies who care enough to shift their thinking, so the onus isn't always on disabled people to point out problems, says the Observer New Review ...

We need them to change the way things are from the inside – to stop intolerance creeping into their work in the first place, not amend things retroactively, too late. We need allies to truly care, to shift their thinking and try to see things the way we might. As Audre Lorde wrote in 1984, it is still “the responsibility of the oppressed to teach the oppressors their mistakes … there is a constant drain of energy which might be better used”. For too long, we have let these things slide. All of them, almost certainly, would argue they do not have an ableist bone in their body; too often, apologies take the form of “sorry if you were offended”. Lizzo and Beyoncé listened to the criticism and changed their lyrics, and will hopefully learn from their experiences. As a form of self-preservation we’ve trained ourselves to laugh off inappropriate or thoughtless comments, to see them as “just a joke”. Even if inside it feels as though a dreadful weight is pushing down on you, pointing out that something is causing you pain can feel like spoiling everyone else’s fun, like you’re being overly sensitive and finding offence where there was none. In her medieval fable Lapvona, Ottessa Moshfegh, usually an incredible and fearless writer, uses her characters’ disabilities – their “clawed hand”, “unseemly disproportion”, being “misshapen” – as a way of evoking eeriness and discomfort.

Activists have criticised the singer for containing an pffensive term used to describe people with spastic cerebral palsy.

Here is a look at the elements that contribute to making Beyonce the demigoddess and how she's changed the course for female vocalists, particularly artists of colour. Soon after realising that she has used a word that has hurt the sentiments of people with disabilities, she apologised and quickly re-released the song. She also said, “There's a feeling of deja vu as it's just a few weeks since Lizzo also had to re-release a song after featuring the same offensive language.” A BBC survey of 2003 revealed that the word was the second most offensive term used against disabled people in the UK. The word "s**z" is considered to be offensive in the UK, while it has a different connotation in the US. After the term was called “ableist” and “offensive”, the singer confirmed that she would re-record the song.

The star's new album Renaissance weaves Black dance music history, feminism and queer thought into an ecstatic masterpiece that defies marginalisation.

Each sound constitutes a dense building block in a seamless, exuberant sonic history of how to live a free life in our Black bodies in spite of enduring attempts to annihilate them. Nearly a decade since Beyoncé pulled Black feminism explicitly to the centre of her repertoire (on her masterful, self-titled 2013 “surprise” album), Renaissance continues to deepen this resolve as it weds cutting-edge pop experimentation with Black feminist liberation principles that speak to our ever-present precarity. To be “un-American” in Beyoncé’s Renaissance age is to be “comfortable in my skin”, as she sings on the slinky Chicago house banger Cozy. The song features trans icon Ts Madison’s soundbite “Black as I want to be” and a verse that not only sets out to “paint the world pussy pink”, but drench it in the colours of Daniel Quasar’s expansive Progress Pride rainbow flag. Into this midst, Beyoncé has unleashed a reclamation of the pleasure to be found in our own flesh. It is the third year of a pandemic in which we continue to struggle to keep our bodies well and gradually learn how to make contact again with other bodies. Oh, to be an “un-American girl” in the year of our Lord 2022.

Beyoncé is removing an offensive term for people with disabilities from a song on her new record, Renaissance, just weeks after rapper Lizzo also changed ...

Lizzo said in a statement she never wanted to promote derogatory language. "The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced," a spokeswoman for Beyoncé wrote in a statement to The Associated Press on Monday. 'The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced'

Beyoncé is the second artist to remove an offensive term for disabled people from a new song after complaints. Both Beyoncé and rapper Lizzo decided to ...

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“Hey @lizzo my disability Cerebral Palsy is literally classified as Spastic Diplegia (where spasticity refers to unending painful tightness in my legs) your new ...

Did she learn nothing from the Lizzo episode?” “Maybe now we can learn from these incidents, drop words like this one & make sure there don’t need to be any more retrospective lyric changes?” “Honestly fuck Beyonce,” another tweeted. Surely one of ‘Heated’s 11 writers and 10 producers must have known?” someone else asked. The use of the word “spaz” was criticized by listeners. “It’s been brought to my attention that there is a harmful word in my new song ‘GRRRLS.’ Let me make one thing clear: I never want to promote derogatory language,” the statement read. It's hard to believe that could have gone unnoticed by Beyoncé's team.” I already have chronic fatigue I don’t have to energy to explain multiple times why words are offensive.” “This is the result of me listening and taking action. She did the right thing when being met with deserved criticism, and I hope other artists take note.” Lizzo just went through this and corrected it IMMEDIATELY and Beyoncé still thought she could get away with it? “Did Beyoncé not learn from Lizzo first?!

Lizzo celebrated trending on Twitter with Beyoncé, confusing fans who pointed out both were trending for removing an offensive lyric.

Lizzo is right that both she and Bey have released two of the most talked-about albums of the year this summer, with Special arriving mid-July and Beyoncé dropping her highly anticipated Renaissance July 29. but this is a flex bitch,” she wrote in the caption. In a Tuesday (Aug. 2) Instagram post, Lizzo shared a screenshot from Twitter that proved the phrase “Beyoncé and Lizzo” was trending in the platform’s “ Pop” category.

The superstar has agreed to change ableist lyrics on a Renaissance track, and regarding songwriting credits, Diane Warren is just asking questions.

Warren could have been Googling stuff from six years ago if she was really curious as to how there could be 24 writers on a song. It’s a group big enough that it would probably require a reservation at a restaurant that isn’t of the fast-food sort. After being called out for her repeated use of the word “spaz” on Renaissance’s “Heated” (co-written by Drake), Bey’s rep issued a statement to news outlets. After she tweeted, many pounced on Warren, as people do when so much as the impression of Beyoncé criticism is rudely expelled into the world, fouling up the air we breathe. It’s also a word that Lizzo pledged to remove from her song “Grrrls,” after its June release saw backlash. The critically acclaimed set that is headed to No. 1 on next week’s Billboard’s album chart is at or nearing the point of cultural saturation that tends to trigger heavy scrutiny.

Beyonce will re-record the song “Heated” to remove an ableist slur after public outcry from disabled people, and activists are hopeful that it will signal ...

Fox News Calls Beyoncé 'Vile'. Brian Kilmeade and guest Raymond Arroyo teed off on the Renaissance artist for her “X-rated lyrics” and singing about stretch ...

“The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced,” a representative told Rolling Stone. I don’t know.” “Heated” was the source of controversy over its inclusion of an ableist slur in the lyrics, prompting Beyoncé to remove the word “spaz” from the song.

Beyoncé will be editing a track from her album 'Renaissance' to replace an ableist slur in the lyrics to “Heated,” a collaboration with the rapper Drake.

In an opinion piece for Hireup that was republished in The Guardian, writer and disability advocate Hannah Diviney expressed her disappointment in Beyoncé, writing that her artistry “doesn’t excuse her use of ableist language — language that gets used and ignored all too often. “The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced,” a Bey-rep said in a statement. It’s more like 9.75’s. Points have been deducted for the use of an ableist slur on track 11, “Heated.” The song, a collaboration with Drake, features the lyric, “spazzin’ on that ass, spaz on that ass.” Determined not to let one offensive moment dull the album’s shine, Beyoncé will be removing the lyric from the track, Insider reports.

Beyoncé's seventh solo album, “Renaissance,” is a rich tribute to the long history of Black dance music, from disco up through ballroom house.

Connect With Popcast. Become a part of the Popcast community: Join the show’s Facebook group and Discord channel. Tune in, and tell us what you think at [email protected]. Follow our host, Jon Caramanica, on Twitter: @joncaramanica. Beyoncé’s seventh solo album, “Renaissance,” is a rich tribute to the long history of Black dance music, from disco up through ballroom house.

With her new album Renaissance, Beyoncé flung open the doors to a nightclub of her own making, a place where anyone can be the hottest person in the galaxy.

Bey dips in and out of outer-space ego and inner-life tension to unite the exceptional and the ordinary on Renaissance. In this context, “Break My Soul,” which felt like working-class cosplay as a single, helps tie together the album’s narrative as a performance that empathizes with lives and dreams beyond her own. We’re all invited — challenged, in fact — to fuck up the night (“Cuff It”), twirl that ass like we came up out the South (“Church Girl”), and go harder (“Thique”). These moments are effective in making Renaissance whole, but “Church Girl,” feels the most powerful and authentic in this vein. You can hear it in the way God is someone you can meet on “Cuff It” and is someone you are on “Cozy.” It’s in the way Beyoncé simultaneously establishes her dominance and your uniqueness on “Alien Superstar.” Renaissance channels the energy and the conceit of the club into a demonstration of self-love. “You have every right to think you are the best at what you do,” Megan told me. Released last Friday, the album traverses eras of dance music to conjure the superhuman confidence and deeply human connection of a night out.

Songwriter Diane Warren got a lesson in music sampling from Beyoncé's fans and producer after questioning the many writers on the song 'Alien Superstar.'

The-Dream replied again, seeming to recognize Warren’s prolific oeuvre, tweeting: “Btw I know it’s not a one on one writing contest you looking for from no one over here…… Others were quick to punch below the belt and compare her signature dark-haired look to that of convicted socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. “well it started because we couldn’t afford certain things starting out, so we started sampling and it became an Artform, a major part of the Black Culture (hip hop) in America. Had that era not happen who knows.

Monica Lewinsky hasn't forgotten about an explicit lyric in Beyoncé's song 'Partition,' which referenced Lewinsky's infamous affair with Bill Clinton.

“I have the right to be frustrated,” Kelis said last week in an Instagram video. Lewinsky’s tweet alludes to an explicit lyric in the Beyoncé hit that name-checks her to illustrate a sexual act. In fact, Lewinsky is so often invoked in music that her Twitter bio reads, “rap song muse.” In response to another “Renaissance” controversy, Beyoncé has reportedly started to scrub a Kelis sample from her song “Energy” from streaming platforms after the “Milkshake” hitmaker publicly objected to it. Lewinsky’s latest appeal to Beyoncé came shortly after a spokesperson for the “Lemonade” artist confirmed that lyrics to the song “Heated” would be altered following a backlash from disability advocates. #Partition.”

Beyoncé has also faced backlash for using the ableist term "spaz" in her song “Heated,” prompting a pledge to change the lyric.

Since Beyoncé released Renaissance, it's been met with some criticism, not just from Kelis. On Monday, songwriter Diane Warren tweeted and then apologized for her confusion over how "Alien Superstar" credited 24 writers. I also know the things that were stolen," Kelis said on Instagram. "Publishing was stolen, people were swindled out of rights — it happens all the time, especially back then." (Kelis isn't credited as a writer or producer of "Milkshake" and so has no legal claim to the song.)