![]() Shooting in Paris, director Jake Nava populated the scene with models, actual London Rudeboys, and members of something called the Parisian Anti-Racist Skinhead Alliance. The accompanying video dramatizes that spirit via a multicultural punk-rock mosh pit. But the meaning behind it, to say ‘I just woke up feeling good,’ is what it’s about.” “It’s not to be taken literally,” said musician The-Dream, who co-wrote the song along with Beyoncé, Chauncey Hollis, Rey Reel, and Rashad Muhammad. ![]() By then, “Bow Down” had been reengineered into “***Flawless,” with the song’s original back half replaced by a TEDx talk snippet from author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a rap from Beyoncé, and an instantly viral refrain about rising in the morning looking perfect. That track reemerged in December on the self-titled “video album” that she and her team created in secret and released sans forewarning-prompting an Internet freakout and enormous sales. And look in the mirror and say, 'Bow down, bitch' and I guarantee you feel gangsta.” Imagine a person that doesn't believe in you. "I went into the studio, I had a chant in my head, it was aggressive, it was angry, it wasn't the Beyoncé that wakes up every morning," she told iTunes Radio. ![]() ![]() That’s how she later explained the controversial six-minute sonic experiment called “Bow Down/I Been On” that she posted online in March of 2013. Before she woke up flawless, Beyoncé woke up mad. ![]()
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