Monica Lewinsky asked Beyoncé for another lyric change

Monica Lewinsky has a small request for Beyoncé. Replying to a tweet from Variety about the singer’s decision to remove an ableist slur from her new album, Renaissance, the 49-year-old activist asked for another edit to the artist’s oeuvre. 

“Uhmm, while we’re at it…,” she wrote on Twitter on Monday night. She added the hashtag “#Partition,” referring to Beyoncé’s 2013 song from her self-titled album, which features a lyric about Lewinksy. 

In case you missed it, on Monday, August 1, Beyoncé agreed to remove a lyric from her song “Heated,” which appears on her latest album, Renaissance. Lizzo removed the same slur from her own song “Grrrls’ after backlash earlier the same month. 

In “Partition,” Beyoncé sings, “He bucked all my buttons, he ripped my blouse / He Monica Lewinski’d all on my gown,” using the former White House intern’s name as a euphemistic verb for a sex act. 

When one user asked why Lewinsky listed “rap song muse” in her Twitter bio – an apparent reference to “Partition,” as well as other songs like Eminem’s “Rap God” – she replied, “because learning to laugh about things which hurt or humiliated me is how I survived.”