# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/21 "2011-05-25T05:51:54Z")
Bad, but not nearly in the “So bad it’s good” category. YMMV. Nice to see the '80s “Mad Max” aesthetic is back, though! ---
**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, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/22 "2011-05-25T06:16:32Z")
That’s ok, I love it more than enough to make up for all of you. (And it’s pretty clear to me that she’s just trying to work a little Gaga.) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/23 "2011-05-25T06:35:14Z")
Well, let’s just say this isn’t the worst musical interpretation I’ve seen in the last few days. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/24 "2011-05-25T10:24:19Z")
It’s a chicken, I tell you! A giant chicken! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/25 "2011-05-25T10:55:14Z")
Awful song. Stupid dancing. “Ooo…they’re _almost swearing_! Radical!” ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/26 "2011-05-25T11:06:42Z")
Don’t forget the bravely pixelated bird flip! That is some good bad dancing, tough. I’d love to see some of the bad imitations going on at clubs when they play this song. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/27 "2011-05-25T11:10:41Z")
0.45mins in: I’m still waiting for it to get good. 1.15mins in: I’m thinking maybe this is never gonna get good. 4.03mins in: Someone lied about something (and BTW, girls run the world yo!). I appreciate the sentiment **Mahaloth** (trying to bring a ray of sunlight to our otherwise dreary lives) but in this case it didn’t work for me. I guess I don’t find it funny when celebs achieve moderate fail. Just sad. No doubt the track will make the charts. ---
**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, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/28 "2011-05-25T12:12:17Z")
I didn’t find it amusing at all; the fact that it is most certainly going to be a huge hit is seriously disheartening. mmm ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/29 "2011-05-25T12:22:48Z")
I couldn’t last the video, it goes from shoulder spasms to booty spasms, right? same ol same ol, advertising the goods, adopting a pseudo femilitia stance. I’m embarrassed for her - Beyoncie needs to get over herself, Rihanna too. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/30 "2011-05-25T12:43:06Z")
She performed the song live with equally silly choreography at the Billboard Awards: [- YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNg9mTiFDq8) (starts about 3 minutes in after the hagiography.) ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/31 "2011-05-25T12:53:32Z")
I like this song. The music I recognize as a dancehall riddim; one of my favorites right now. The dancing is the kind of dancing that a cutting edge, edgy forward thinking workaholic with more ambition than talent would do. Three years from now, Justin Bieber will be doing a watered down version of that herky jerky shit and folks will be eating it up with a spoon. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/32 "2011-05-25T13:13:28Z")
Beyond Thunderdumb. ---
**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, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/33 "2011-05-25T13:20:46Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Three years from now, Justin Bieber will be doing a watered down version of that herky jerky shit and folks will be eating it up with a spoon. I don’t doubt that. But just because folks eat a bowlful of poo with a spoon doesn’t mean you’ll be seeing me breaking out my utensils. mmm ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/34 "2011-05-25T13:26:25Z")
The dance scene in the beginning (her standing behind her “guards”) was a mismash of every dance move ever created by Michael Jackson, it seems. I mean, I even saw some Scarecrow moves from “The Wiz” in there. Michael’s gotta be rolling in his grave. But other than laughing at that, the video sucked. ---
**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, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/35 "2011-05-25T13:32:28Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Awful song. Stupid dancing. “Ooo…they’re _almost swearing_! Radical!” I assumed the swearing was bleeped/silenced for the video. They don’t swear in the actual song? Huh. I’m not sure what to say about the adblocker stuff, folks. I’m on Firefox 3.x and I never get ads on youtube. Until recently, I didn’t even know youtube had ads(I learned about it on the dope). Just skip to 48 s, mute it if you prefer, and giggle at the dancing. ---
**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, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/36 "2011-05-25T13:35:28Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Well, let’s just say this isn’t the worst musical interpretation I’ve seen in the last few days. lol! ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/37 "2011-05-25T13:45:01Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I don’t doubt that. But just because folks eat a bowlful of poo with a spoon doesn’t mean you’ll be seeing me breaking out my utensils. > mmm MMM, I don’t knock you for eating with your hands. Many cultures do that, and it’s not something I turn my nose up at. ---
**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, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/38 "2011-05-25T13:52:34Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > MMM, I don’t knock you for eating with your hands. Many cultures do that, and it’s not something I turn my nose up at. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/39 "2011-05-25T14:09:30Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > 🙂 Seriously, though. It won’t be ‘poo’ by the time Bieber waters it down. By that time it will be much more palatable. Think of it like Haute Couture fashion. What you see on the runway may sometimes be unwearable, but it inspires less forward thinking designers to take the most wearable parts of the collection and make it ready to wear. That is why I kind of dig Beyonce. She takes risks that may seem silly at first but seem to pay off in the long run. All of that being said, I do realize that sometimes dumb dancing is just dumb dancing. ---
**Author:** ![Chum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102/40 "2011-05-25T14:20:16Z")
I hate the song, but I actually like the dancing. And not because I think it’s so bad it’s good/funny. I just like it. But then I’m a weirdo. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce-knowles-new-video-kills-me-i-love-it/583102.md?page=3)