<p id=”par-1_49″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/beyonce/”>Beyoncé</a> famously made Jay-Z uncomfortable after <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/jay-z-admitted-listening-lemonade-uncomfortable.html/”>he heard her <em>Lemonade </em>album</a>, which focused on their marriage issues at the time. But before then, there was another song that Beyoncé worried would make her husband uncomfortable. So much so that she initially wasn’t sure she wanted Jay-Z to hear it.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-beyonce-was-briefly-ashamed-of-herself-for-recording-this-song”>Beyoncé was briefly ashamed of herself for recording this song</h2>
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<p id=”par-2_70″>Beyoncé has a wide variety of songs under her belt. But few of her records left her red-faced like her 2013 record “Partition.” She created the hit song for her self-titled fifth studio album, <em>Beyoncé</em>, which she recorded soon after giving birth to her first child, Blue Ivey. The hit song was known for its raunchy lyrics, which the Grammy-winner admitted was inspired by an earlier time in her life.</p>
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<p id=”par-3_84″>“It takes me back to being in my car as a teenager. It takes me back to when <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/jay-z-admitted-beyonce-easy-impress-met.html/”>me and my husband first meet</a>, and he tries to scoop me and he thinks I’m the hottest thing in the world,” she said in her documentary<em> Liberation</em> (via <a href=”https://people.com/celebrity/beyoncs-embarrassed-to-play-songs-from-her-new-album-for-her-mom/”>People</a>). “I kinda had this whole fantasy of being in the car, and this whole movie played in my head. I didn’t have a pen and paper. I got to the mic, I’m like, ‘Oh, press Record.’”</p>
<p id=”par-4_18″>However, she admitted that she was concerned showing both her mother, Tina Knowles, and Jay-Z the the song.</p>
<p id=”par-5_41″>“I was so embarrassed after I recorded the song because I’m just talking s***,” she said. “I’m like, ‘I can’t play this for my husband!’ I still haven’t played it for my mom. She’s going to be very mad at me.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-beyonce-s-partition-was-inspired-by-her-and-her-husband-s-real-life-trip-to-a-strip-club”>Beyoncé’s ‘Partition’ was inspired by her and her husband’s real-life trip to a strip club</h2>
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<p id=”par-6_50″>Beyoncé “Partition” song was accompanied by an even raunchier music video that featured Jay-Z. The video was heavily inspired by a trip she and the “99 Problems” artist took <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/jay-z-went-strip-club-proposing-beyonce-inspired-music-video.html/”>to a strip club</a>. It gave the singer the opportunity to perform the way the strippers did for Jay-Z that day.</p>
<p id=”par-7_67″>“The day that I got engaged was my husband’s birthday and I took him to Crazy Horse and I remember thinking, ‘Damn, these girls are fly,’” she said. “I just thought it was the ultimate sexy show I’ve ever seen. And I was like, ‘I wish I was up there. I wish I could perform that for my man,’ so that’s what I did for the video.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_21″>Additionally, the video gave Beyonce the opportunity to show off her own post-pregnancy body, which served as inspiration for mothers everywhere.</p>
<p id=”par-9_77″><a></a><a></a>“I was very aware of the fact that I was showing my body. I was 195 lbs. when I gave birth. I lost 65 lbs. I worked crazily to get my body back. I wanted to show my body. I wanted to show that you can have a child and you can work hard and you can get your body back,” she said. “Just because you become a mother, it doesn’t mean you lose who you are.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_46″>Beyoncé also enlisted the help of Jake Nava, who’s directed several of her videos. Some of the music videos they created together were “Crazy In Love,” “Flawless,” and “Naughty Girl.” But for “Partition,” Nava confided that Beyoncé wanted to be more daring than she’d ever been.</p>
<p id=”par-11_61″>“When Beyonce called me about working on the Partition video, Beyonce was sort of seeking to be even more risky then she’s been in the past” he said on Beyonce’s <a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryQlrfVUQfQ&ab_channel=Beyonc%C3%A9″>Youtube channel</a>. “The fact that Jay Z was in the video was really exciting. She wanted to kind of make it feel seductive… I tried to capture genuine intimacy between them.”</p>