We might like to think that these days, our values are a little bit different than in the days when it was basically fine to refer to a woman as a "shrew." But the fact that Beyoncé unveils a bad-girl character instead of getting "tamed" doesn't really explain why one of the defining dance songs of our millennium is playing with a stereotype that dates back to at least the 1500s, if not Biblical times. Beyoncé literally splits her album-and her personality-in two, and "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" is the signature song for the bad-girl side of the cut. In Beyoncé's I Am…Sasha Fierce, the so-called "good girl" singer seems to make a move in the other direction, unveiling her "bad girl" alter-ego to the world and singing about getting rid of the obligations placed on her by men. In the famously patriarchal Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew, the main character Kate gets "tamed": she is converted from being angry and independent to being a "good girl" and professing her obedience to her husband. "Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere."- Mae West
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