Many revisions are tied to language concerning race, gender and sexuality, as well as religion, said Jocelyn Neal, a professor in the music department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lyrics, whether they’re part of a cover song or updates of an artist’s own music, are altered for different reasons. Why song lyrics change – and what’s different this time The chatter surrounding these tracks is also connected to larger discussions around what we expect from certain artists, particularly Black women, as well as how society interprets and preserves entertainment and cultural touchstones. Contemporary artists, including Taylor Swift, have revisited previously recorded songs and altered lyrics with negative or offensive connotations, citing personal growth.īut Beyoncé and Lizzo’s recent revisions are notable because of the conversations they’ve sparked around the subject of ableism and the speed with which critics of the offending lyric were able to convey their views. Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” was a risqué nightclub tune before it was sanitized for mass consumption. However, in the UK, the term is more immediately construed as a slur against the disabled community, particularly those with spastic cerebral palsy.Ĭhanging song lyrics is nothing new.
It can describe being “in the zone” or “going all out” in African American Vernacular English – or being in a state of excitement that is either negative or positive, said Nsenga Burton, a cultural critic and professor at Emory University. The word, derived from “spastic,” has different cultural connotations – in the US, it’s mainly a colloquialism to describe losing control. It then appeared on “Heated,” a track on Beyoncé’s highly anticipated album, “ Renaissance,” which dropped last month.
The term in question, “spaz,” first appeared on “Grrrls,” a single released by Lizzo in June. Lizzo took to Instagram to announce she had edited the lyric, noting, “I never want to promote derogatory language.” Beyoncé’s team issued a similar response within days of her album release, stating, “the word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced.” Findings indicate that distinct intervention strategies are needed to change implicit and explicit attitudes towards green vegetables.Įvaluative learning Green vegetables Implicit attitudes Self Self-referencing.Some of the stars behind summer’s hottest new music found themselves in hot water when listeners and disability advocates spoke out against a lyric viewed as an ableist slur.īacklash came quickly, and the artists were just as quick to respond. This study is the first to demonstrate that a self-referencing task is effective in changing both implicit attitudes and readiness to change eating behavior. In the absence of a persuasive message, the self-referencing task increased on readiness to change among participants with more negative pre-existing explicit attitudes. A three-way interaction with pre-existing explicit attitudes was also observed.
The persuasive message increased explicit attitudes and readiness to change, but did not alter implicit attitudes. Implicit attitudes increased after repeatedly pairing green vegetable stimuli with the self in the self-referencing task but did not change in response to the persuasive communication. The outcomes were implicit and explicit attitudes as well as readiness to increase consumption of green vegetables. absent) × 2 (persuasive message: present vs. Participants (N = 273) were randomly allocated to a 2 (self-referencing: present vs. The study targeted individuals who explicitly reported they did not like or only moderately liked green vegetables. We tested the impact of (a) an evaluative learning intervention that uses the self to change attitudes (i.e., a Self-Referencing task) and (b) a persuasive communication in modifying implicit and explicit attitudes towards green vegetables and promoting readiness to change. Although correlational studies have demonstrated that implicit and explicit attitudes are both important in predicting eating behavior, few studies targeting food choice have attempted to change both types of attitudes.
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