Monica Lewinsky Calls For Beyonce To Change Lyrics About Clinton Scandal

Because this term isn't typically as widely used or controversial in the United States compared to the United Kingdom, Variety reported that Lizzo wasn't aware of its status as a derogatory term for people with neurological diseases and was happy to change it.

This prompted an essay in The Guardian from Hannah Diviney, the writer who initially brought the problems with Lizzo's original "Grrrls" lyric to her attention.

In it, she wrote, "Beyoncé’s commitment to storytelling musically and visually is unparalleled, as is her power to have the world paying attention to the narratives, struggles and nuanced lived experience of being a black woman [...] But that doesn’t excuse her use of ableist language – language that gets used and ignored all too often."

According to Variety, Beyoncé's team responding by saying, "The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced" and it indeed was.

As she tweeted out on August 1, "Uhmm, while we’re at it…#Partition."

For those who are unaware, this referred to the following line from the song "Partition" off Beyoncé's self-titled album in 2013: "He popped all my buttons, and he ripped my blouse/He Monica-Lewinksy’d all on my gown."

In response, she told one user, "I have learned to find humor in painful/humiliating things. enjoy the view from your high horse."

And when questioned why she chose Beyoncé out of the hundreds of artists who referenced her scandal, she replied, "Of all the musicians who’ve done this, she was the one i was the most disappointed by… because i was such a fan."

At the time of this writing, no official response from Beyoncé or her team has surfaced in the wake of Lewinsky's tweets.