Next, in one of my less than proud moments, I thought it might be a new shorthand way of calling someone-affectionately (insofar as a once demeaning term can become affectionate)-a bitch. Maybe this was another way to show she was ruling the world, by adding a letter to her nickname and subtly dropping this into 20 percent of America's texts from boyfriend to girlfriend, full-on NSA style? She is known for her impressive musical riffs, epic hair flips, and power struts, among other things, so this offered a reasonable progression, in my eyes. When I first saw the word "bae," I assumed, tragically and incorrectly, that it was yet another derivative of Beyoncé. What is this? And why does everyone seem to know about it but me? One day, like you, receding into the depths of the Facebooks and Twitters, I began to see sporadic "I love you bae" and "#BaeBeLike" and "Thanks Bae" and "#BAEcation" messages. I embarked on a small informational quest to find out just why all the kids are calling their kid boyfriends and girlfriends "bae," and I'm still not sure if I know.
Really, even the dictionary isn't sure where to go from here. "Come Get It, Bae" is here to trample your ears at your next barbecue, even though nobody really knows what "bae" is or where "bae" came from. Here it is, the dawn of "bae," word of indiscriminate origin and now 1/4 of the title in the new Pharrell and Miley Cyrus music video.
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