Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Featured On Beyonce’s New Song “Flawless”
Beyonce shocked fans & the music industry alike when she dropped her brand new visual album without any promotion or prior announcement on midnight Friday 13th December.
There are a number of cameos on Beyonce’s new self-titled album — husband Jay Z, Drake, Frank Ocean, even daughter Blue Ivy. But the most interesting cameo is Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who’s TEDx talk speech “We Should All Be Feminists” is sampled on “Flawless.”
Adichie says on the new track
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller / We say to girls – you can have ambition, but not too much/ You should aim to be successful but not too successful otherwise you will threaten the man / Because I am female I am expected to aspire to marriage / I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important / A marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support / But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? / We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or for accomplishments / Which I think can be a good thing / But for the attention of men / We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are / Feminist: A person who believes in the economic, social and political equality of the sexes.