Beyonce's Line 'Becky With the Good Hair' Is Finally Explained
Diana Gordon (who formerly went by her stage name, Wynter Gordon) was the main co-writer on Beyoncé's "Sorry," the song that launched an internet witch hunt for "Becky with the Good Hair," (the woman listeners believe Jay Z cheated on Beyoncé with). But Gordon tells Entertainment Weekly the lyric wasn't meant to identify anyone. "I laughed, like this is so silly. Where are we living? I was like, 'What day in age from that lyric do you get all of this information?' Is it really telling you all that much, accusing people?"
Gordon and Beyoncé never anticipated the internet's huge reaction to Lemonade either. "I don't think [Beyoncé] expected it. I saw her at her Formation tour. She had a pajama party; we laughed, we danced, we hugged it out. But I didn't say much about it [Lemonade in interviews] at the time because I wanted to give her space."
With Beyoncé's "Daddy Lessons," specifically, Bey really made the song her own. "The idea started in my mind, but it's not mine anymore. It was very funny and amusing to me to watch it spread over the world. If it's not going to be me saying it, and the one person in the world who can say it is Beyoncé, I was fucking happy. With Beyoncé, I feel like the songs we worked on were specifically for her."
This is because when writing, "Beyoncé is a scientist of songs. I've never seen anyone work the way she works. She definitely changes the song structures. She can take two songs, say, "I like two lines, I like the melody then let me use that for a verse and a bridge and write the whole middle." It's more of a collaboration. You never know what she'll like. I came to her with a bunch of songs and she was like, 'I like that verse, I like the idea.' But she definitely doesn't take things as is, at least not from me."
