Wearing clothes that feel comfortable without societal expectations for how men should dress. Not wanting a permanent change but rather a short glimpse into a different life.Ĭasually getting up and starting the day without much thought or intention.
The song is also responsible for establishing Beyonce's alter ego, Sasha Fierce, whom she discussed in several interviews. In 2008, "If I Were a Boy" became an instant hit, charting in several countries' top ten, including the UK and the US.
He offered the song to Beyonce's team, and she decided to record it.
The lyrics of the song were initially written by BC Jean and produced by Toby Gad. The song is an exploration of the difference in expectations, options, and experience, based on gender. She shows the freedom men enjoy in their relationships while women, on the other hand, have to cope with being taken for granted. Beyonce examines the limitations of womanhood in a patriarchal society in contrast to the societal advantages offered to men. She chooses to explore what it means to be a man in a world where men are free to do as they please without social consequences that women would receive for the same behavior. In "If I Were a Boy", Beyonce reflects on the differences between male and female experiences in relationships, imagining what life would be like if she were a man. You don't understand (yeah, you don't understand, oh) It's a little too late for you to come back 'Cause he's taken you for granted (granted) When you lose the one you wanted (you wanted) Waiting for me to come home, to come home Good luck finding the nog in August though.So they'd think that I was sleeping alone And as a gift for you, we’ve assembled 65 Christmas songs so incredibly catchy, you just might want to listen all year round. But festive cheer has found its way into pop, hip-hop, R&B, metal, punk, indie… you name it. There is, of course, something of a Christmas canon: ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ and ‘Fairytale of New York’ are great songs… which is good, as inevitably you’re going to hear them about a million times this holidays. But even more cynical later generations of pop have produced plenty of gold. There are plenty of keepers from the ‘40s-‘70s heyday of the Christmas record as an art form. Love them, hate them, or just accept them as a sort of immutable fact of life, Christmas songs are a thing, and as December 25 gets inexorably closer and closer they’re a thing that becomes increasingly inescapable.Īnd although there’s been a fair amount of disposable novelty rubbish written over the years, the reality is that a lot of Christmas songs are bangers.
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