# Beyonce Knowles' new video kills me. I love it. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102 "2011-05-25T02:29:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/1 "2011-05-25T02:29:17Z")
My wife and I are loyal Soup watchers on Fridays and they found a real gem for us last week. We put it on to bring smile to our faces when we need it. I mean, man, this video is absolutely and unintentionally hilarious. I think the scenes of Knowles dancing are so funny, I can not believe this video is supposed to be real. It looks like a Weird Al video making fun of a less funny dance video. I don’t know. It just strikes us as hilarious. [Here is the original Soup clip.](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xiu1va_the-soup-beyonce-s-new-music-video-5-20-11_fun) [Here is the video, with in my opinion, the most funny dancing section of all time.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBmMU_iwe6U#t=48s) Enjoy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/2 "2011-05-25T02:39:40Z")
Both places asked me to watch some stupid 30 second commercial before the video. I’m sure you’re correct. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/3 "2011-05-25T02:40:18Z")
oh mah gawd THAT VIDEO IS AWESOME (favorited) ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/4 "2011-05-25T02:42:36Z")
My first thought was that choreographer should be fired, my second thought was that Beyonce did the moves anyway. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/5 "2011-05-25T02:43:36Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Both places asked me to watch some stupid 30 second commercial before the video. > > I’m sure you’re correct. 🙂 Erhm. AdBlocker? ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/6 "2011-05-25T02:45:56Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > Erhm. AdBlocker? Nah, doesn’t work on youtube. you watch the ad, or wait the time anyway, before you see the video. It’s fair. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/7 "2011-05-25T02:47:27Z")
BTW, I tried to watch it…didn’t get much past a minute, if that. I like Beyonce, but my god, the song is stupid and so is the video. \>.\< Sorry! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/8 "2011-05-25T02:48:28Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Nah, doesn’t work on youtube. you watch the ad, or wait the time anyway, before you see the video. It’s fair. Uh, it works for me. I’ve never seen an ad on Youtube. It just loads and plays. > [@Taomist](#): > > BTW, I tried to watch it…didn’t get much past a minute, if that. I like Beyonce, but my god, the song is stupid and so is the video. \>.\< Sorry! You do realize the enjoyment is from the horrible hilariouslness right? ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/9 "2011-05-25T02:55:20Z")
Her dancing is always crazy like that. I don’t think it looks good at all, but in the case of this video it is definitely hilariously awful. Whoever thought this was a good concept for a video was seriously on acid. And the joke about Destiny’s Child was awesome, lol. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/10 "2011-05-25T02:57:51Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > Her dancing is always crazy like that. I don’t think it looks good at all, but in the case of this video it is definitely hilariously awful. Whoever thought this was a good concept for a video was seriously on acid. I simply had to post this thread to bring you all joy. Every time I watch the video(starting 48 seconds in), it makes me tear up from laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/11 "2011-05-25T03:00:14Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [Here is the video, with in my opinion, the most funny dancing section of all time.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBmMU_iwe6U#t=48s) That reminds me of _The Exorcist_. It’s like a demon entered her body and started thrashing her around. I couldn’t sit through the whole video so maybe this becomes more clear later on, but I can’t figure out whether the world is a post-apocalyptic wasteland _because_ it’s run by girls, or whether girls only rise to power after everything goes to hell. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/12 "2011-05-25T03:02:27Z")
Girl power rearing its ugly head again? ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/13 "2011-05-25T03:07:43Z")
Looks like a Monty Python sketch. Minister of Silly Dances, anyone? And the song? My God. What a load of feces. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/14 "2011-05-25T03:08:02Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I couldn’t sit through the whole video so maybe this becomes more clear later on, but I can’t figure out whether the world is a post-apocalyptic wasteland _because_ it’s run by girls, or whether girls only rise to power after everything goes to hell. No. Don’t try to understand. Just take in the glory of the horrible dancing section that starts at 48 seconds in. There is just something about it that is horrendous…and brightens my day a lot. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/15 "2011-05-25T03:17:25Z")
Well, I clicked on your link, but it brings me to the ad/beginning of the video. I have adblocker and still get the ads, so I guess there’s something I’m not flipping on/off in adblocker? I’m looking…Blocking the ad manually \ just gives me a blank screen and never moves on to the video. Now I have to figure out how to unblock it… \>.\< ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/16 "2011-05-25T03:25:24Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I couldn’t sit through the whole video so maybe this becomes more clear later on, but I can’t figure out whether the world is a post-apocalyptic wasteland _because_ it’s run by girls, or whether girls only rise to power after everything goes to hell. A little backstory: The hookers who rise up against the pimp dancing their way to freedom at the end of the “Love is a Battlefield” video run off and start their own society under a freeway overpass. Nearly 30 years later, having established an estrogen powered utopian hermitage, the outside world discovers them. The world of pimps and scolding fathers is crumbling under the weight of its own arrogance. They hope to rob this peaceful society of their powers. The Sororal Council rise to confront the interlopers and assert their Artemisian dominance. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/17 "2011-05-25T03:28:14Z")
The feathers on her vest and shoes aren’t helping. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/18 "2011-05-25T04:18:54Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > BTW, I tried to watch it…didn’t get much past a minute, if that. I like Beyonce, but my god, the song is stupid and so is the video. \>.\< Sorry! Yep. Same here. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/19 "2011-05-25T05:03:18Z")
Really bad dancing… really terrible song. Gorgeous Friesian horse at the beginning tho. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/20 "2011-05-25T05:37:29Z")
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