Should singers change their lyrics to stop offending people?
She may be the reigning queen of pop but that hasn’t stopped Beyonce from becoming a target of activists over offensive language in her latest release Renaissance.
The chart-topping album includes the track Heated where Beyonce uses the ableist slur spaz. She has since changed the lyrics.
But it comes weeks after Lizzo was also slammed online for using the word in her track Grrls, leading her to change the lyrics.
The brouhaha has also started conversations around the fact that both artists who have been attacked for the language have been women of colour despite the fact men have used ableist language in their lyrics for decades.
But now rapper Eminem has also been called out.
Today on Please Explain, culture news editor, and host of our sister podcast The Drop, Osman Faruqi joins Nathanael Cooper to talk us through the controversy.
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