The first couple of passages of “Violent Crimes”, i.e. its intro and chorus, leave something to be desired in terms of understandability. But such challenges are to be expected considering that this song comes from an...
“30 Hours” is not the easiest Kanye West song to make concise sense of. For instance, he more or less rambles for about three minutes during the outro. But the interpretative consensus is that this piece is...
“Partition” may be the most-overt sex song of Beyoncé’s that we’ve covered in this blog. And for starters, the “partition” referred to in the title is – you know that sliding window that separates...
There are parts of Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” album, disses if you will, which many analysts, in some instances hastily, attributed as being aimed at Beyoncé’s husband, Jay-Z. Well if such is the case, then the same has...
What the title of this song (“Cozy”) points to, as relayed in the lyrics, is the vocalist being ‘comfortable in her skin’. As we have noted in the past, such themes are part and parcel...
“I’m That Girl” is a multi-faceted piece. Beyoncé, at this point in her artistry, never seems to say just one thing in her songs. Rather there’s a myriad of ideas being thrown about, though another thing...
There’s a lot going on in “Alien Superstar” lyrically, as to be expected from a contemporary Beyoncé song. Knowles is the de facto queen of R&B and is known to be deeply entrenched in a...
There’s two things that need to be acknowledged about Kanye West. One is that his personal life is very much part of the public domain, if you will. Secondly, he tends to talk about his...
In traditional ‘hood slang, “heat” or “heater” is most commonly used as a synonym for a gun. So even though Travis does appear to use to term “heat” in an alternate context at the...
Brad Paisley is a country singer based in Tennessee who identifies himself “as a white Southerner”. Historically, Tennessee is recognized as being one of the most racist states in America. And he designed “Accidental Racist” as a...
