
The line was a reference to former President Clinton’s 1998 affair with the London School of Economics and Political Science graduate, who was a White House intern at the time. “Thanks, Beyoncé, but if we’re verbing, I think you meant ‘ Bill Clinton-ed all on my gown,'” Monica Lewinsky wrote in a May 2014 essay for Vanity Fair, referencing a NSFW line in the pop star’s 2013 song “Partition.” In the song, which describes a steamy tryst that takes place in the back of a limo, the Grammy winner sings, “He popped all my buttons, and he ripped my blouse / He Monica Lewinsky-ed all on my gown.” The controversial lyrics on Beyoncé‘s seventh studio album, Renaissance, are far from the first scandal she’s faced.
