This is the word that Beyoncé will change from the lyrics of ‘Heated’ for being offensive to people with disabilities

Just one weekend after releasing her album ‘Renaissance’, Beyoncé has announced that will change the lyrics of one of his songs because it uses a term that is offensive to people with disabilities, especially those who are paralyzed.

The song that includes this term is ‘Heated’, where the singer use the word “spaz”associated with a pejorative use that, however, seems that the American included with a completely different connotation.

While in common English “spaz” refers to people with some kind of motor paralysisespecially the people who have difficulty controlling your limbsin vernacular English, the slang spoken by the african american communitythe word also means “lose control”, “shake” or “go crazy”.

So when Beyoncé sings “Spazzin’ on that ass, spazz on that ass,” she meant “shaking her ass.” Even so, her explanation has not convinced many of her followers and other groups of hers, especially from the United Kingdom, who during the weekend protested the lyrics of the song.

“Beyoncé’s commitment to musical and visual storytelling is unparalleled, as is her power to bring the world’s attention to the stories, struggles and experience of being a black woman (…) But that does not excuse your use of discriminatory languagewhich is used and ignored too often”, denounced the activist Hannah Diviney in the influential British newspaper ‘The Guardian’.

Following the uproar, Beyoncé’s team confirmed to the media that “the word, used without intention to hurt, will be replaced“.

The truth is that she is not the first artist who has to re-record a song for this matter, since last June Lizzo published a new interpretation of her single ‘Grrrls’ because in the original version it said that it was “she a ‘spaz’. “I don’t want to promote the use of derogatory language. As a fat black woman in America, many terms have been used against me and I understand the power of languageLizzo said in her apologies.