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Title : "The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced. The road to success is always under construction."
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"The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced. The road to success is always under construction."
Said representatives of Beyoncé, quoted in "Beyoncé to cut ableist slur from Renaissance song/Charities question why lyric was released weeks after similar controversy" (London Times).The objected to line — on "Heated" — is "Spazzing on that ass, spaz on that ass."
Who wrote that line? "The song has nine credited writers including Beyoncé and Drake, the Canadian rapper, but it is not clear which of them wrote the lyrics."
What was the "similar controversy" that happened recently? Lizzo used the same word, in the line "Hold my bag, bitch, hold my bag/ Do you see this shit? I’m a spaz."
What's more likely, that Beyoncé's people knew about the Lizzo's controversy or not? And then, what's more likely that they deliberately sought controversy by using the word or that they somehow just muddled into it? All nine of them?
This is the 6th post in this 17-year history of this blog that the word "spaz" has appeared (always within a quote):
April 2006: Tiger Woods got in trouble — but only in Britain — for saying "As soon as I got on the green I was a spaz."
May 2006: The Slate music critic Jody Rosen referred to "American Idol" contestant Taylor Hicks as "the prematurely gray-haired doofus who has spent the past several weeks jerking across the Idol stage like a spaz."
May 2009: Bono wrote a poem about Elvis that had the line "Elvis the ecstatic/ Elvis the plastic/ Elvis the elastic with a spastic dance that could explain the energy of America." British radio issued a language warning, and I noted the different level of offensiveness in Britain and America, and cited the old "Saturday Night Live" character "Chaz 'The Spaz' Knerlman," AKA "Spazalopolis."
December 2018: Someone at Deadspin wrote sarcastically that Elon Musk was "definitely a visionary brain genius and not at all a manic idiot spaz and brazen fraud."
June 2022: I noted that Lizzo apologized for using the word.
ADDED: The OED finds the first published use of "spaz" in Pauline Kael's 1965 "I Lost It at the Movies":
The term that American teen-agers now use as the opposite of ‘tough’ is ‘spaz’. A spaz is a person who is courteous to teachers, plans for a career..and believes in official values. A spaz is something like what adults still call a square.
"Tough" was a compliment at the time, as you can tell from the context, and as I know from memory. It was just another way to say "great."
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Said representatives of Beyoncé, quoted in "Beyoncé to cut ableist slur from Renaissance song/Charities question why lyric was released weeks after similar controversy" (London Times).
The objected to line — on "Heated" — is "Spazzing on that ass, spaz on that ass."
Who wrote that line? "The song has nine credited writers including Beyoncé and Drake, the Canadian rapper, but it is not clear which of them wrote the lyrics."
What was the "similar controversy" that happened recently? Lizzo used the same word, in the line "Hold my bag, bitch, hold my bag/ Do you see this shit? I’m a spaz."
What's more likely, that Beyoncé's people knew about the Lizzo's controversy or not? And then, what's more likely that they deliberately sought controversy by using the word or that they somehow just muddled into it? All nine of them?
This is the 6th post in this 17-year history of this blog that the word "spaz" has appeared (always within a quote):
April 2006: Tiger Woods got in trouble — but only in Britain — for saying "As soon as I got on the green I was a spaz."
May 2006: The Slate music critic Jody Rosen referred to "American Idol" contestant Taylor Hicks as "the prematurely gray-haired doofus who has spent the past several weeks jerking across the Idol stage like a spaz."
May 2009: Bono wrote a poem about Elvis that had the line "Elvis the ecstatic/ Elvis the plastic/ Elvis the elastic with a spastic dance that could explain the energy of America." British radio issued a language warning, and I noted the different level of offensiveness in Britain and America, and cited the old "Saturday Night Live" character "Chaz 'The Spaz' Knerlman," AKA "Spazalopolis."
December 2018: Someone at Deadspin wrote sarcastically that Elon Musk was "definitely a visionary brain genius and not at all a manic idiot spaz and brazen fraud."
June 2022: I noted that Lizzo apologized for using the word.
ADDED: The OED finds the first published use of "spaz" in Pauline Kael's 1965 "I Lost It at the Movies":
The term that American teen-agers now use as the opposite of ‘tough’ is ‘spaz’. A spaz is a person who is courteous to teachers, plans for a career..and believes in official values. A spaz is something like what adults still call a square.
"Tough" was a compliment at the time, as you can tell from the context, and as I know from memory. It was just another way to say "great."
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