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There’s also Beyoncé’s vamp at the end of “Heated,” which she recites to the crack of a splayed hand fan. This is one of the few mainstream acknowledgments of her bounteous musical might. (Here’s me not touching who the queen is in that scenario.) Pop music has been tattooed with Jones’s influence for 45 years. But there’s her impersonation of Grace Jones’s imperiousness on “Move,” some sharp-elbowed dancehall refraction in which the two of them command the plebes to “part like the Red Sea” when the queen comes through. The sternness she applies to the word “No” on “America” alone would be enough. “Dark skin, light skin, beige” - Madison drawls on “Cozy” - “ fluorescent beige.” Thank the tabloid-TV keyboard blasts on “America Has a Problem.” But Beyoncé herself has never been funnier than she is here. Thank the sampled contributions of Big Freedia and Ts Madison for that.