Beyoncé
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Beyoncé
Shocks Everyone By Releasing Brand New Album Out Of Nowhere - See more
at:
http://www.that1960chick.com/2013/12/13/beyonce-shocks-everyone-by-releasing-brand-new-album-out-of-nowhere-no-publicity-no-promo-new-rules/#sthash.cnOjqxzp.dpuf
Beyoncé
Shocks Everyone By Releasing Brand New Album Out Of Nowhere - See more
at:
http://www.that1960chick.com/2013/12/13/beyonce-shocks-everyone-by-releasing-brand-new-album-out-of-nowhere-no-publicity-no-promo-new-rules/#sthash.cnOjqxzp.dpuf
In the new album, Beyonce collaborated with Jay Z, Drake, Justin Timberlake, Kelly Rowland....and featured our very Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on a track titled Flawless. Beyonce put a portion of the award winning author's speech about feminism and roles women play in the society in the song. Pop meets Literature! Amazing stuff.
Meanwhile Beyonce has filmed 17 new music videos, one of which she released on Facebook last night. You have to be really big to release an album without any promos or prior warning to fans.
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Beyoncé features prominent Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her new album, Chimamanda’s TED speech about feminism & the roles women play on society can be heard on the song “***Flawless”
Chimamanda unfortunately doesn’t appear in the video. But you can read her speech below
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller
We say to girls – you can have ambition, but not too much
You should aim to be successful but not too successful otherwise you will threaten the man
Because I am female I am expected to aspire to marriage
I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important
A marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support
But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same?
We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or for accomplishments,
Which I think can be a good thing
But for the attention of men
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are
Feminist: A person who believes in the economic, social and political equality of the sexes.”
Chimamanda is the author of Half Of A Yellow Sun (which has also been adapted to a movie starring Chiwetel Ejiofor & Thandie Newton), Purple Hibiscus & That Thing Around Your Neck.
Beyoncé
features prominent Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her new
album, Chimamanda’s TED speech about feminism & the roles women play
on society can be heard on the song “***Flawless”
Chimamanda unfortunately doesn’t appear in the video. But you can read her speech & listen to the track below- See more at: http://www.that1960chick.com/2013/12/13/beyonce-shocks-everyone-by-releasing-brand-new-album-out-of-nowhere-no-publicity-no-promo-new-rules/#sthash.cnOjqxzp.dpuf
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller
We say to girls – you can have ambition, but not too much
You should aim to be successful but not too successful otherwise you will threaten the man
Because I am female I am expected to aspire to marriage
I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important
A marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support
But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same?
We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or for accomplishments,
Which I think can be a good thing
But for the attention of men
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are
Feminist: A person who believes in the economic, social and political equality of the sexes.”
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