According to Knowles, she was inspired to write the song on a flight to Japan as she was listening to the guitar riff of Stevie Nicks' song "Edge of Seventeen", which reminded her of a "voluptuous woman".
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Rob Fusari said in 2010 he alone had the idea for the song and had wanted to use a guitar riff from the song "Eye of the Tiger" but after not being able to find it used a similar riff from the Stevie Nicks song "Edge of Seventeen". After hearing Beyoncé claim credit for the song in an interview with Barbara Walters, he telephoned Mathew Knowles,
When I was 17 I did what people told me
Did what my father said, and let my mother mold me
But that was long ago
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First time I fell in love, I didn't know what hit me
So young and so naive, I thought it would be easy
Now I know I got to take CONTROL
...
Got my own mind
I wanna make my own decisions
When it has to do with my life, my life
I wanna be the one in control
what kind of senior year anthem? go awf, queen
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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
Wiz and Amber looked so happy together I wonder what happened
are you really going to recycle this ****** twitter joke like we haven't already seen it?
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