Single Ladies: A Deconstruction
lindsay: hey can you explain "single ladies" to me?
lindsay: I've heard the song once
spencer: nope
lindsay: on snl
lindsay: and I've heard the "if you like it" quote many times
lindsay: but I don't get it
lindsay: did Jay Z really like her ring finger? that's the closest I can get
spencer: it's odd considering the secrecy surrounding her relationship with jay z
spencer: she's all loud and proud about get hitched
spencer: telling other girls what to do
spencer: but yeah
spencer: i tried to crack it, but you can't
spencer: its like my humps
spencer: dont waste your time pulling your weave out
spencer: to use a topical word, it's synecdoche
spencer: part for the whole
spencer: or is it metonymy?
spencer: it for it
spencer: the song doesn't work without pointing to what "it" is
lindsay: ah
lindsay: it is two different things
lindsay: if you like a then you should have put a ring on b
spencer: in the first case, "it" is poonanny and "it", in the second case is finger.
spencer: exactly
lindsay: or if you like a-z then you should have put a ring on b
spencer: better
lindsay: I guess either could stand, awkwardly, for "me"
spencer: right
spencer: it's lol cat speak really
spencer: it can has ring?
lindsay: hahaha
spencer: "it" could also be referring to the Stephen king novel. i hear jay z loves him some stephen king
lindsay: HAHAHAHAHA
spencer: also
spencer: break through
spencer: it's an update on the expression, "if you like it so much, then why don't you marry it?!"
spencer: pee wee better be seeing some residuals
spencer: that's it
spencer: the most juvenile phrase ever turned beyonce single
lindsay: whoa!
lindsay: I say that all the time!
spencer: hahaha
lindsay: why didn't I figure that out?
lindsay: This has just blown my mind.
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