Beyonce's appreciation & why she sampled Chimamanda Adichie's work
Beyonce
has explained why she sampled the work of award winning author
Chimamanda Adichie in a track in her new album. Beyonce put a portion of
Chimamanda's speech
about feminism and roles women play in the society in the song,
Flawless.
“I
was scrolling through videos about feminism on Youtube and I ran across
this video of this incredible Nigerian author, Chimamanda Adichie.
Everything she said is exactly how I feel,” Beyoncé explains
"My
message in this album was finding the beauty in imperfection. I had
this image of this trophy and me accepting these awards and kind of
training myself to be a champion and at the end of the day when you go
through all of these things, is it worth it? I mean, you get this trophy
and you’re like, ‘I basically starved, I have neglected all the people
that I love, I’ve conformed to what everybody else thinks I should be
and I have this trophy. What does that mean?"
"The
trophy represents all of the sacrifices I made as a kid, all the time I
lost being on the road in the studios as a child and I just want to
throw that s**t up!
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