{"id":19,"date":"2014-03-26T08:50:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T12:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2014-03-26T09:01:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T13:01:30","slug":"pairings-jean-grae-and-beyonce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Pairings: Jean Grae and Beyonc\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_84295\"  width=\"480\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X9gE4ybCp_c?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_38249\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pZ12_E5R3qc?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I have to admit it, I like Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s &#8220;Partition.&#8221; But the more I listen, I can&#8217;t help but be reminded of \u00a0an earlier song by Jean Grae, &#8220;Love Thirst.&#8221; I find it interesting the way each woman visually represents sexual fantasy. I love Grae&#8217;s gritty, New York City, back-of-the-taxi (in nun&#8217;s habit&#8211;I love it, lapsed Catholic that I am), the\u00a0<em>Taxi Driver<\/em>\u00a0nod, and Grae&#8217;s contrasting breathiness as she inhales before whispering&#8230;&#8221;so high&#8230;&#8221;. It&#8217;s dark, seedy, sexy&#8211;and strangely romantic.<\/p>\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s\u00a0fantasy takes us to a different place that I can also appreciate. The beat is hard driving. The lyrics are more explicit. The desires expressed are also different: &#8220;take all of me&#8221; and \u00a0&#8220;I just wanna be the kind of girl you like&#8230;&#8221; There&#8217;s a lot happening in Beyonce&#8217;s video, but fantasy often takes us in divergent territories. Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit it, I like Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s &#8220;Partition.&#8221; But the more I listen, I can&#8217;t help but be reminded of \u00a0an earlier song by Jean Grae, &#8220;Love Thirst.&#8221; I find it interesting the way each woman visually represents sexual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,6,9,12,10,11],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-beyonce","tag-black-women","tag-desire","tag-fantasy","tag-jean-grae","tag-love"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techandsensibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}