I've seen this phrase used to bash women everywhere. Sometimes we're happy and sometimes we're the meanest creatures on earth. Although we don't wake up every day in the same mood. Whether those struggles are proving ourselves in a work environment or living through the pain of being on our periods, we manage. It references how we overcome our daily struggles. It's a constant battle to not get caught up in an image that someone else wants to create for us.īasically "I Woke Up Like This" references the confidence that we women have. We women are told to rule the world, but then the world tries to place us in a box. There is the dialogue from Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. There's so much in the song "Flawless" that describes what "I Woke Up Like This" means. I'm from that H-Town, so she has always been one of my musical idols. She talks about how when we were growing up we wanted to be her, which most of us did. ![]() She speaks on being in the game forever, which she has been. There's a part where she shows off her wedding ring. In the songs "Flawless" Beyonce references so many things that we women use to call ourselves whole. She is not talking about what a woman's physical appearance at all. It has nothing to do with the clothes we women wear or the lack of clothes we wear. When Beyonce says "I Woke Up Like This" it has nothing to do with makeup, good hair, having those nails done, or those feet looking pretty.
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