What The Lyrics Really Mean?

The first half of 2016 has started out as the come back year for several artist including Beyoncé, Drake, Fantasia, and Maxwell just to name a few. To jump start the year Beyoncé’ released her latest first single “Formation” that started a lot of commotion. The “Formation” video was released the day before the Super Bowl 50 game. During the Super Bowl 50 half time show, she made a guest appearance along side Bruno Mars plus Cold Play and she gave a stunning performance that was dedicated to the memory of the Black Panthers. The performance and video stirred a lot of commotion due to Beyoncé going back to her roots and bringing light to a lot of the injustice that has been increasing surrounding African American men and women in America. This only fueled even more anticipation for her latest visual album release “Lemonade” on April 23. The album visual was very personal and was presumed by many as dirty laundry being aired out to the world.  Every song on the album charted the hits list, but the one that had everybody attention was the single “Sorry”. The song clearly threw a flag on infidelity with lines stating “I ain’t thinking about you; Sorry, I ain’t sorry” and the infamous line “he better call Becky with the good hair” which alleges that maybe JAY-Z cheated with a white girl. This of course had the beehive going crazy and ripping one individual to shreds who was suspected of the Queen B’s pain.  But since the release of the album Beyoncé nor Jay-Z has truly acknowledge if there was really any truth to the accusation that the albums seem to display. On the other hand, a couple of the songwriters who worked on “Sorry” and “Love Drought” have recently come to the light to acknowledge that the songs had nothing to do with Beyoncé’s relationship at all. On Aug 2. Diana Gordon, the lead writer of the song “Sorry”, cleared the air in an Entertainment Weekly interview stating that the line “Becky with the good hair” is not about anyone in particular. Another songwriter Ingrid, a childhood friend of Beyoncé, who is signed to her Parkwood Entertainment Label, co-wrote “Love Drought”, also did an interview. She explained that the song was written about Beyoncé’s label, due to them lying to her about song submissions. One thing that always holds true to lyrics in a song is the meaning behind the writer’s initial emotions. A song written with real emotion will always produce a hit.