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Female Empowerment
In the first few sentences of this article, it mentions that this song "echoes the female empowerment sentiments...". How does is this song female empowerment? It teaches women that they need a man who can support them. I can understand that it's saying that he's bad because he's relying on her, but that's not female empowerment because the norm is the woman relying on the man for money. I just don't understand why a song saying that she can't be with a man who doesn't give her money is empowering females. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.147.155.149 (talk) 20:45, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * The girl is saying she wants his Bills Bills Bills (a little bit sarcastically), AFTER he's been using her for money:


 * "You're slowly makin me pay for things / Your money should be handling"


 * "Now you been maxing out my card / Give me bad credit, buying gifts with my own ends"


 * "And now you ask to use my car (car) / Drive it all day and don't fill up the tank"


 * "And then you use my cell phone(phone) / Calling who ever that you think at home / And when the bill comes all of a sudden you be acting dumb / Don't know where none of these calls come from"


 * She's not asking to be supported by him, she wants him to pay something into the relationship, because she's carrying him through it. 90.217.8.37 (talk) 13:58, 25 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, if you read those lines about car, gas, phone and bills at face value, she's saying (pretending?) she wouldn't have any trouble with his using the car and the phone if only he paid what it costs - out of his own pocket. That is, she does expect to get supported, albeit a bit obliquely. Presumably they only have one car and in most marriages/relationships people are not counting out who was using the car for every particular mile in order to get it paid. She never actually says in whose name all those bills were signed or incurred. The track is ambiguous.
 * The weak spot of the "empowerment against leeching boyfriends" theory is that the lyrics never clearly state if the woman *is* actually the main breadwinner in the couple, or even whether she earns enough money to support herself, on her own. You could just as well read it as her feeling entitled and thinking "I have a right to be paid for my lifestyle and my costs for work,. nice clothes, home furnishings" and having found another man, a much richer one who is standing in the background. Like, "can you pay the bills I run up, sucker? No, I'm too good and smart for you. But this girl has found herself a new dude who sports a much better lined wallet, and he has pushed you out - goodbye!" That would be especially close if the character in the song is supposed to be a showgirl, a model or a performer who wants to be a star - and with the amount of self-glamourizing in contemporary r'n'b, that would have been an easy, almost unconscious jump-cut to make for lots of people who heard the song.83.254.151.33 (talk) 21:38, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

To remember
The song was covered by Glee.

Just heard Erykah Badu's Tyrone, a single released in late '97, and it sounds open and shut that its lyrics inspired BBB. Erykah's track is better though. 83.251.170.27 (talk) 13:54, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

The producer?
This song was produced by Kevin "Shek'spere" Briggs. The same person who produced No Scrubs by TLC. It states that according to Billboard Book of Number One Hits and Discogs.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.12.254.252 (talk) 05:51, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Please do not change the producer.
This song was produced by Kevin Briggs. The same man who produced "No Scrubs". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajlynnjennings (talk • contribs) 07:53, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

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