First Look: Beyoncé, ‘Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)’
Get your Freakum dance on
Last Saturday we got our first look at Beyoncé‘s new music video for If I Were A Boy and today we get our first look at her other new music video for Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It). Each video has a very distinctly different message but they deffo show that Beyoncé is more than just a crooner or a dancer … she’s also a schizophrenic:
MTVBeyoncé has two new songs on the radio — and two new videos as well. Why two, you might ask? Because one of them is not really Beyoncé: It’s Sasha. As B hinted in a letter to fans earlier this month, she wants to show “the many sides” of herself, and she’s doing that via two completely different videos, even if they are both in black and white. One video is pure Sasha — her onstage persona — and the other is stripped-down Beyoncé. “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” is an upbeat dance track, and as such, the video is about dancing. B is joined by two look-alike dancers, befitting her alter-ego theme. They click their heels, almost as if they’re tap dancing, to give the song some extra beats, but despite all the hip-and-leg shaking going on, they want you to look at their hands. More specifically, their ring fingers. And since Beyoncé didn’t even want an engagement ring, according to what she told Essence magazine, this is your first clue that this song is really from Sasha’s heart, not Beyoncé’s. The video for “If I Were a Boy,” the Beyoncé side of the two, however, is the more meaningful one — and it comes with a twist that requires repeat viewing. Beyoncé and her boyfriend say a few words (“intimacy,” “honesty,” “commitment”), and then they start saying the words together: “You.” “Me.” “Us.” … The message might hearken back to what Ciara sang when she and B were going through a tomboy phase in their video clips, but this time, Beyoncé makes you feel it. Without the video, you might not.
In case you missed watching If I Were A Boy the first time around, you can watch it online right here as well. After the jump, check out B‘s video for If I Were A Boy …
I dunno. Single Ladies is hot. Sasha or whoever the hell Beyoncé thinks she is, girl is tearin’ it up! If I Were A Boy is more artisitc, I think. I don’t know which one I like more … do you?
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OMG that first video – Single Ladies – imho – total crap! Visually, watching them dance around is fun but the song just did nothing for me. The second video though – If I were a boy – is awesome. The ‘twist’ toward the end really took me surprise and almost drew tears…she sings of pain and sounds like she means it. Fabulous.
Has anyone heard whether or not those two back-up dancers in B’s Single Ladies video are MEN or not?
Sasha Fierce is super FIERCE. I LOVE this video!!