{"id":1375,"date":"2019-12-15T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T22:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/?page_id=1375"},"modified":"2019-12-17T22:09:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T03:09:42","slug":"brief-analysis-on-the-song","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/brief-analysis-on-the-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief analysis on the song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1457 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-4-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-4-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-4-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-4-700x394.png 700w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-4.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Skin color is a spectrum it\u2019s either you\u2019re light skin or dark skin.\u00a0 The song opens and closes with Guyanese musician Saint Jhn and little Blue Ivy Carter singing &#8220;Brown skin girl \/ Your skin just like pearls \/ The best thing in the world \/ Never trade you for anybody else.&#8221; The lyrics encourage young girls to love their skin particularly in a culture that often upholds lighter skin as <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.byrdie.com\/skin-bleaching\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the standard of beauty.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Sung over an African-infused beat, it&#8217;s the standout track on the curated soundtrack album, and also the kind of song this young Black girl needed to hear when she was Blue Ivy&#8217;s age. To <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/e\/slang\/throwing-shade\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cthrow shade\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> means to criticize someone often in a subtle manner. Rather than take any disrespect, Beyonc\u00e9 references melanin, a natural pigment that serves as the <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/melanin\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">primary factor in determining human skin color<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In addition to <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2671032\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">protecting skin cells from harmful ultraviolet sun rays<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, higher levels of melanin in Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s eyes also serve as a source of pride counter to any criticism.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/message-the-song-is-conveying\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1697 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Screenshot-2019-12-17-at-2.34.33-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"35\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skin color is a spectrum it\u2019s either you\u2019re light skin or dark skin.\u00a0 The song opens and closes with Guyanese musician Saint Jhn and little Blue Ivy Carter singing &#8220;Brown skin girl \/ Your skin just like pearls \/ The best thing in the world \/ Never trade you for anybody else.&#8221; The lyrics encourage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3435,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1375","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1375\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}