Without any doubt, Beyoncé
is giving us Marilyn Monroe’s realness in the latest edition of Out Magazine,
her first magazine cover of 2014, and instead of taking the opportunity to soak
up all the glory, she shared her feature story with her team.
In the issue, which features a 50's blonde bombshell-inspired
spread, Bey talks about her latest record-breaking hit album Beyoncé and how
she used the record to start a dialogue about women being sexual, confident and
mature without being demonized. She also said she makes music to empower all
people, not just women, and working on this last record was freeing for her.
See excerpts below:
On how she created a sexual liberation conversation with her
latest album
I’d like to believe that my music opened up that
conversation. There is unbelievable power in ownership, and women should own
their sexuality. There is a double standard when it comes to sexuality that
still persists. Men are free and women are not. That is crazy. The old lessons
of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than
that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist whatever
you want to be and still be a sexual being. It’s not mutually exclusive.
It was much freer than anything I’d done in the past. We
really just tried to trust our instincts, embrace the moment, and keep it fun.”
As an illustration she singled out the video for “Drunk in Love,” a fan
favorite. We were in Miami for Jay’s concert, and it was just the two of us,
on the beach, amazing weather, and one outfit! It’s beautiful in its
simplicity. If you want something to feel real and urgent, you can’t overthink
it.
On if she intentionally set out to make an album that
feminist as well as the LGBT community could identify with
While I am definitely conscious of all the different types
of people who listen to my music, I really set out to make the most personal,
honest, and best album I could make. I needed to free myself from the pressures
and expectations of what I thought I should say or be, and just speak from the
heart. Being that I am a woman in a male-dominated society, the feminist
mentality rang true to me and became a way to personalize that struggle…But
what I’m really referring to, and hoping for, is human rights and equality, not
just that between a woman and a man. So I’m very happy if my words can ever
inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority…We
are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be
just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.
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