LOS ANGELES, United States —
Beyoncé 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.
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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.”
“The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way,
will be replaced,” a spokesperson for Beyoncé told AFP via email.
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.
But disability campaigners noted that the word is
derived from “spastic”.
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.
In June, US singer Lizzo re-recorded her song
“Grrrls” to remove the same term following complaints that it was derogatory.
Australian disability campaigner Hannah Diviney said
the inclusion of the word by Beyoncé “feels like a slap in the face to me, the
disabled community & the progress we tried to make with Lizzo”.
“Guess I’ll just keep telling the whole industry to
‘do better’ until ableist slurs disappear from music,” she tweeted.
Beyonce’s eagerly anticipated seventh solo studio
album “Renaissance” was released Friday, drawing mainly positive reviews with
its nods to disco and electronic dance.
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 Beyoncé’s rap mogul
husband Jay-Z.
In an Instagram post published soon after the
album’s release, Beyoncé said creating the album “allowed me a place to dream
and to find escape during a scary time for the world.
“My intention was to create a safe place, a place
without judgment,” she wrote.
“A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. A
place to scream, release, feel freedom.”
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