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Even as royalty, there’s going to be a few who won’t approve of the way you let your reign play out.

Beyonce has stirred up plenty of controversy with her new single “Bow Down”, and apparently it’s ruffled a lot of different people’s feathers.

Some are arguing that the 32-year-old superstar’s new song goes against her female empowerment attitude being that it says “bow down b*tches” on the hook.

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It all started when blogger Raheil T. of the Washington Post reviewed the song and stated:

Two years later, she returns with a song that is anything but empowering in that it promotes female subordination and division. […] While intentionally deciding to have an all-woman band was a cutting-edge and progressive decision for Beyonce to make, why would she undermine it by releasing a song that says she reigns supreme over other women? As a mother and sister, how does she not see a problem in referring to women as “b–ches” and “tricks”? Does she get a pass for being domineering and crass whenever her alter-ego Sasha Fierce decides to resurface?
Then, Wendy Williams went on her talk show host and discussed Beyonce’s feminism attitude in comparison to the song with some of her team:

If you need to say bow down, then there’s no need to bow down. It’s like, if you call yourself a diva, then you’re not really a diva. There’s certain things that don’t need to be said. A few weeks ago she was singing at the inauguration, then she was performing at the Super Bowl. You’re on a Pepsi can for goodness sakes. To tell b-words to bow down and then you’re saying girls run the world? The thing about Jay-Z — here’s how I think, if she wanted to say something slick, she couldn’t said it on his album where she just popped in the studio and did a verse. And that’s it.

Do you ever wonder if Sasha and Malia will be listening to this CD? And how do you align yourself with the president and then say…?”

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Even Rush Limbaugh has come out to state his disapproval for the song, including his dislike for Bey’s new attitude since she got married:

“[Destiny’s Child] songs were attempts to inspire young women not to take any grief from men. She’s done a 180.[…]Beyoncé, now having been married, having been impregnated and giving birth to Blue Ivy … she’s got a new song, ‘Bow, Down B——’ … Beyoncé is now saying, ‘Go ahead and put up with it!’ You know why? I’ll tell you why. Because she married a rich guy. She’s even calling herself Mrs. Carter on the tour … She has shelved Beyoncé.
Even though there’s a lot of negativity coming her way over the song, feminist site Feministing defended the veteran singer by saying:

Women do not have to be humble, nice, and modest all the damn time! She has been running sh-t as a performer, as a singer, as an artist for quite some time now, all the while with people telling her that her music isn’t good, that she’s anti-feminist, that she’s a narcissist, that her baby isn’t hers, that she sucks because she lip synced, that she isn’t black enough, that she isn’t a good role model for women, that she’s a hypocrite, the list goes on. I think Bey is long overdue to demand some f-cking respect, from men and women alike. And no, she didn’t have to say it in a “nice” way.

And those self-affirming, self-glorifying lyrics? Those descend from a tradition of self-glorifying verses that the creators of hip hop took to in rap battles and cyphers. That is the culture of hip hop to say: I’m the sh-t. Respect it. Bow down to it.

At least not everyone is trying to come at Bey’s neck!

Either way, it looks like she’s backing her work up, and we can’t get mad at that. Check out the Wendy Williams’ panel above.