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One Explanation of Drunk in love - Dream - 04-19-2014
One Explanation of "Drunk in Love"
This song is very complicated, and it involves a lot street slang for sex. It’s metaphor-heavy and will take a lot to deconstruct. First, cake refers to a woman's assets, and it also refers to oral sex on a woman. As in Rihanna’s "Cake Cake Cake" ("Birthday Cake") song.
"Drunk in Love" is definitely about a power struggle but a very sexual one about who’s taking charge.
Hold up, stumble all in the house, time to back up all that mouth
So we start with Beyoncé talking about how she’s going to put it on Jay-Z, and she starts first thus the reference to her mouth. So basically she needs to use her mouth for more than just talking.
That you had all in the car, talking 'bout you the baddest bitch thus far
Jay-Z is making a reference to Beyoncé starting the sexual exchange
Talking 'bout you be repping that Third, I wanna see all that shit that I heard
Sounds like Beyoncé is pretty sure of her love-making skills, and Jay-Z is calling her out on it.
Know I sling Clint Eastwood, hope you can handle this curve, uh
Now, Jay Z is bragging about his package (i.e. sling). Sounds like he’s getting served as referenced earlier by Beyoncé’s mouth. At the same time, the song is taking a turn, throwing us a curve1, now Jay-Z is taking charge.
Foreplay in a foyer, fucked up my Warhol
So this doesn’t need any explanation; he’s serving her and she’s losing control.
["Warhol" indicates an expensive painting by the famous painter. ]
Slid the panties right to the side, ain't got the time to take drawers off
Also this needs no explanation; they’re in the heat of the moment.
On sight,
catch a charge I might
Beat the box up like Mike in '97 I bite
Box is slang for vagina. Beat it up is slang for rough sex, but he’s also using a Mike Tyson2 metaphor. Mike Tyson bit Holyfield’s ear off in ’97, so we’re back to an oral sex reference of bite the cake. Eat the cake. Nibble the goods.
I'm Ike Turner, turn up, baby, no, I don't play
He’s serious about what he's doing to her and is about to take her to the next level. Turn up is the highest, as in climax. This is also yet another reference of beating3 the cherry up, or as Beyoncé puts it in another song called BLOW, he’s turning the cherry out. (I know. This is all so vulgar)
Now eat the cake, Anna Mae said, "Eat the cake, Anna Mae!"
Now this is where everyone is confused because how these lines are understood depends on determining who is talking in this section. I think a closer look at the punctuation is the key to how to read this line. "Now eat the cake" is figuratively what he’s doing (oral sex). Notice Anna Mae says "eat the cake" not Ike. Beyoncé is flipping the script and telling the male to eat it well. Rihanna says in the song "Cake Cake Cake," "I’m a make you my bitch." In this moment, it seems like Beyoncé is making Ike (i.e. Jay-Z) her bitch. She’s calling him Anna Mae4.
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It could also mean that Jay-Z has won control through his sexual oral skills. He now has control, and Beyoncé is turned up and turned out5 and will do whatever he tells her to do. She has reached climax, and he can have his way with her. Thus the line SAID, “Eat the cake, Anna Mae!”
I'm nice
Now that he has control of the situation, he’s nice, and it’s sweet love making.
I did not make this I just wanted to show you guys this because it seemed interesting to me.