What is the meaning behind “Feelin’ like an animal with these cameras all in my grill Flashin’ lights, flashin’ lights”? Drunk in Love by Beyoncé (Ft. JAY-Z)
- by imrk
- April 10, 2023
The constant flashes of paparazzi cameras make her feel like a zoo animal – an attraction for others' entertainment, at the sacrifice of her freedom. Even zoo animals get fed up with the cameras sometimes: Felix the polar bear (shown below) once had his way with an expensive camera that a visitor dropped into his enclosure at a zoo in Nuremberg, Germany. Beyoncé’s “brother”-in-law Kanye West has used lights – including flashing ones – as a leitmotif for fame throughout his music. In fact, in Kanye’s remix of this song, the “flashing lights” line is interrupted by a sample from Ye’s “Flashing Lights” .