Bill Gates Isn’t That Excited About Beyoncé Name Dropping Him In “Formation”

Today we learned that the world doesn’t revolve around Beyoncé to everyone, because it turns out Bill Gates didn’t even know she name dropped him on “Formation.”

The jaw-dropping news comes courtesy of WIRED, who discovered that Bill Gates first learned of the mention via an email from a colleague:

Yeah, I hadn’t realized that she did that until somebody in the office actually sent me a copy of the lyrics and I said, “Are you serious? This is kind of a strange set of words here.” I’m surprised—I’m not sure she said those words at the Super Bowl, though, did she?

I guess it’s nice that people consider me successful. I actually haven’t met Beyoncé. I know Jay-Z, because when I did some humor right when I was retiring from Microsoft—he was nice about participating in…