Ingrid Burley, who co-wrote the 'Lemonade' cut, reveals in a new interview that the song was actually inspired by her bosses at Parkwoord Entertainment who once lied to her about Bey.
- Jun 16, 2016
AceShowbiz - Not every song on Beyonce Knowles' "Lemonade" was written with Jay-Z in mind. While many have been speculating that the album is about the singer's marriage and her husband's alleged infidelity, a songwriter behind "Love Drought" recently revealed that the track had nothing to do with the rapper.
The song features lyrics like, "Ten times out of nine, I know you're lying/ But nine times out of ten, I know you're trying," which sound like Bey's trying to forgive her husband. However, songwriter Ingrid Burley said in a new interview with Genius that the lines were actually about her personal problems with Bey's label Parkwood Entertainment.
Burley, who's signed to the label, explained that she was frustrated after finding out two years ago that two of her bosses had lied to her. "Two of the people who were running the label at the time lied to me and told me that Beyonce wasn't currently listening to any new music," she told Genius.
An A&R person later told her at a writing camp that Beyonce WAS listening to new music. "I couldn't get out of her head the fact that they just lied to me," she said, adding that she wrote the song in 30 minutes while feeling angry. "I had to internalize that and the only way I could really get over it was kinda, like, hehe, she's gonna sing this song I wrote about her label one day!" she explained.
