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Ultimately, though, whether or not Jay Z cheated on her is irrelevant. Not only that, but women want their music to reflect their social and political beliefs, she writes in her book Sing Us a Song, Piano Woman: Female Fans and the Music of Tori Amos. "Any study of women and gender and music shows that women respond more positively when they can see themselves reflected in the music they are listening to," Trier-Bieniek says. Her audience recognizes the unfaithful lover narrative in women's music, and Trier-Bieniek supports Bey's play to that audience. "It's a tradition in black women's blues to talk about the no-good man that eventually you go back to because you believe in the love," says Janell Hobson, an associate professor of women's, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Albany and a Ms.
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The rumors of infidelity that Lemonade inspired, especially the infamous lyric in Sorry about "Becky with the good hair," overshadowed the album's nod to female solidarity. Lemonade resonated with the masses by touching a common nerve - a woman's feelings of betrayal - and linking it to a historical African-American narrative of triumph over tragedy. "We get really uncomfortable in this society especially when black women do that." "She wanted to talk about her experience and use her own words and her own story and her own history," says Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, a gender and cultural scholar at Valencia College and editor of The Beyoncé Effect: Essays on Sexuality, Race and Feminism. As the Grammys would seem to hint, although many lauded Lemonade's celebration of black feminism, others were uncomfortable with such ardent advocacy - a far cry from her safe Destiny's Child days.