The web is buzzing about the lyrics of Ms. Kelly Rowland’s new single, where she admits to being a victim of domestic violence and being jealous of Beyoncé. We’re sure the song is a cathartic release of Rowland’s experience but it’s also very smart marketing ploy–tell the people what they want to hear.
Read the full lyrics below.
Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
When you’re soaked in tears for years it never airs out
When you make pain look this good it never wears out
This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
When my sister was on stage killin’ it like a M***
I was enraged, feelin’ it like a M***
Bird in a cage
You would never know what I was dealin’ with
Went our separate ways but I was happy she was killin’ it
Bittersweet she was up, I was down
No lie, I feel good for her but what do I do now?
Forget the records, off the record
I was going through some B**
Post-Survivor, she on fire
Who wanna hear my B**
Meanwhile this N** puttin’ his hands on me
Swear ya’ll don’t know the half of this industry
Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
When you’re soaked in tears for years it never airs out
When you make pain look this good it never wears out
This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
And it’s almost been a decade
I’m behind them black shades
Rollin’ up like it’s all good
Ridin’ up out that Escalade
Fix my makeup
Get it together, Kelly get it together
Then we make up
Well get it together, n** get it together
Kinda lucky I was in her shadow
Phone call from my sister, what’s the matter
She said, oh no baby you gotta leave
I’m on the kitchen floor
He took the keys
I was mad at everybody
I mean everybody; yeah her, her, her, her everybody
Five years later I got my shit down packed
Think I had it good and they don’t know how bad
Fooled everybody accept myself
Soaking in this hurt
Bathing in the dirt
Dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
When you’re soaked in tears for years it never airs out
When you make pain look this good it never wears out
Dirty laundry ..dry
So here I am in the spin cycle
We coming and we going
Nobody can notice
And I was trapped in his house
Lying to my momma
Thought it could get no worse
As we maximize the drama
Started to call them people on him
I was battered
He hittin’ the window like he was me until it shattered
He pulled me out
He said don’t nobody love you but me
Not your momma, not your daddy and especially not B
He turned me against my sister
I missed ya
Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
When you’re soaked in tears for years it never airs out
When you make pain look this good it never wears out
This dirty laundry, dirty laundry
Love is pain and pain is love
He had me f** up
Love is pain and pain is love
He had me f** up
