![]() Beyoncé wasn’t the main writer of “Irreplaceable,” but she still took full ownership of the song. Still, public perception works in funny ways. Ne-Yo, an artist who’s already appeared in this column, wrote all the lyrics for “Irreplaceable,” and he’s never been shy about saying it. A whole condo! Nothing but condoms! Also, Beyoncé didn’t write “Irreplaceable.” She’s got writing and production credits on the song, but she mostly just made small changes to the track that was presented to her. He’d already told the world that he had a condo with nothing but condoms in it. For one thing, there is absolutely no way that Beyoncé could fit everything that Jay owns in a box to the left. “Irreplaceable,” the third and biggest single from B’Day, is clearly not about Jay-Z or Rihanna. ![]() It’s an 8.) Beyoncé followed that track up with the harsh, sirens-blaring fuck-you-up anthem “Ring The Alarm.” People heard “Ring The Alarm” as a song about Rihanna the perception was so strong that Matthew Knowles, Beyoncé’s father and then-manager, felt like he had to make a statement indicating that “Ring The Alarm” was not about Rihanna. Whether or not Jay really was cheating, Bey was going to capitalize on that perception.īeyoncé came out with her second solo album B’Day just before her 25th birthday in 2006, and the first single was “ Deja Vu,” the reunion of the “ Crazy In Love” team of Bey and Jay-Z. Beyoncé has always been a master of making sure her music and her image are in conversation with one another, and her catalog is full of cheating songs. For pop stars, public perception is all that matters. With rumors like that, though, it doesn’t really matter if they’re true. At the time, the rumor was that Jay was cheating on Beyoncé with Rihanna - which, if true, would presumably wipe out any Beatle/Clapton/Fleetwood Mac configurations to become the most star-studded love triangle in the history of popular music. Jay had signed the young Barbadian phenom Rihanna, who has been in this column once and who will be back many, many times. Two years earlier, Jay was temporarily retired from rapping, and he was working as president of Def Jam Records. Beyoncé and Jay-Z didn’t get married until 2008. When Beyoncé released “Irreplaceable,” rumors were flying. Sadly, nobody told the subject of “Irreplaceable,” the longest-reigning #1 hit of Beyoncé’s entire career. ![]() But if you’re living that sponge life, then you should really do everything in your power to avoid finding everything you own packed up in a box to the left. ![]() If you’re a boxcar hobo or a practicing communist, then there’s not really any advice I can give you. More likely, you’re just permanently subsisting on the goodwill of the other people in your life. Maybe you’re a boxcar hobo, or maybe you’re in some sort of communal living situation where private property doesn’t exist. Somewhere, things have taken a rough turn. If all of your earthly possessions could theoretically fit into a single box, then you are probably not doing terribly well for yourself. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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