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    This is an interesting article and music video

    https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/06/do-beyonce-fans-have-to-forgive-jay-z/563021/

    Here are two interesting tidbits from the article:

    The album’s most frustrating track, “713,” ends with Jay celebrating Bey—and the myriad other black women like her—by praising her ability to endure his misdeeds:

    To all the good girls that love hustlers
    To the mothers that put up with us
    To all the babies that suffered ‘cause us
    We only know love because of ya
    America is a motherfucka to us, lock us up, shoot us
    Shoot our self-esteem down, we don’t deserve true love
    Black queen, you rescued us, you rescued us, rescued us
    The dedication scans as adulatory at first, especially because Bey spends her parts of the song reminding listeners “ain’t no way to stop this love.” But the suggestion that there is honor in suffering, that women’s pain is the sole vehicle for male redemption, is exhausting. Who rescues the rescuer? In the circus of Jay’s public redemption tour, has Beyoncé found solace? It’s hard for any outside onlooker to know.

    Here is another interesting part:

    The quickness with which 4:44 was embraced critically—even as Jay admitted on the titular track that the stress of his disloyalty may have caused Bey to miscarry—was difficult to digest, but not surprising. Male redemption narratives have rarely required of their leading figures any meaningful restoration or atonement: The simple act of apologizing is enough to warrant a second act. In Jay’s case, it has been enough to warrant a second “On The Run” tour.

     

     

     

     

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