Thanks to Life Is But A Dream we now know that she listens to her own music before having sex with Jay-Z.
It happened two years ago, and wrote a song about it. We hear just a verse of it. It's very powerful, and feels different from what she's done before, even when trying to be more personal. Like many songs she recorded for 4, it did not make the final cut.
"My dad knew that I needed his approval," says Beyoncé. "And I think my father wouldn't give it to me, because he kept pushing me, and kept pushing me, and kept pushing me."
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