Mau ®;140800801 said:We Found GOD video>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any Bey video
No one was here for Partition unfortunately. And my opinion on the vid really cooled when I found out that 90% of the visual imagery is just a shot-for-shot recreation of the actual burlesque routines at Crazy Horse.
Let's not pretend that Bey's visual iconography approaches Gaga or even Miley. And if Madonna counts, then so do Janet and Britney.
My overall point being that when people discuss Beyonce, her music videos don't figure into the equation, other than Single Ladies.
I'm talking about individual videos and their impact. Videos with #impact are conversation starters, are undeniable markers of where pop culture is and will be, are parodied and retweeted ad infinitum. They have impact.Beyonce IS a visual icon. Who's the first person to be referenced whenever someone's being fierce, or popping hips, or strutting around any which way? Beyonce's become synonymous with that. Everyone; celebrities, newscasters, tv shows, movies, politicians, hell your aunt and uncle would name drop her name the second they wanna equate someone with being fabulous or feeling his/her oats. And THAT'S iconography.
You're not gonna see a regular mom say her daughter is "sassy like Rihanna." Beyonce IS that aesthetic sis. And it's because of the videos and performances that have diffused that aesthetic to the masses.
Crazy in Love video is iconic as well.
Who wasn't doing the Beyoncé twerk around that time?
I'm talking about individual videos and their impact. Videos with #impact are conversation starters, are undeniable markers of where pop culture is and will be, are parodied and retweeted ad infinitum. They have impact.
You're talking about years of accumulated iconography that have collectively symbolized Beyonce's supremely consistent public persona.
We're talking about two different things.
EDIT: Bitch not you crediting Beyonce for the gay club hair flip strut, were you born in 2003?
We're talking about 2003. I wonder what Rihanna was doing back then
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Gerl you are CHANGING the conversation. Not once did I say that last year's album was not a watercooler moment, nor did I intimate that other artists aren't copying her release strategy.Be that as it may, since we're talking about the two artists in question, obviously the cumulative impact has to be discussed. Yeah obviously only a handful of Beyonce videos have had powerhouse impact, but that's still a handful. I can't really think of a Rihanna video (or Gaga or Miley, as you mentioned) that owned the visual zeitgeist like Crazy In Love or Single Ladies did. Hell even Beautiful Liar.
And BEYONCE as a visual album was a conversation starter. And there have been a handful of artists making visual albums to bank off what she started. If that's not #impact then I don't know what is.
Gerl you are CHANGING the conversation. Not once did I say that last year's album was not a watercooler moment, nor did I intimate that other artists are copying her release strategy.
Not sure what any of that has to do with individual music videos having world-slaying impact.
In any case, you wrote that Beyonce is a "true video artist," but the thing is that her "brand" has historically had very little to do with her videos. Her fierce Tina Turner/Sasha Fierce/"sassy" public persona is all in her stagecraft, which is why the visual raunch of stuff like Yoncé and Partition was such a surprise.
And come on sis, before BEYONCÉ, most everyone would agrih that her videos were about as relevant to the pop music conversation as Mariah or Whitney.
And finally sestra, you know where the bottoms and the twinks learned their fierce body language vocabulary from? Not from Bey, but from this queen.
Don't even play tbh, I know the deal~
Interstellar her OST tbh.
Cornfield Chase
Dust
Mountains
Coward
S.T.A.Y.
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Mau ®;140819260 said:Hopefully Diplo saved ha!
yaaaas gravitise these heauxsi literally just got back from the cinema to find that you're already talking about it in anticipation of my return
my five dimensional impacT
Except that Single Ladies is a thingMau ®;140800801 said:We Found GOD video>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any Bey video
so how bout that St. Vincent ya'll
The BLOW video alone is better than every Rihanna video.
Beautiful Island, lovely people.
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Mau ®;140870920 said:I didn't know CHVRCHES released a video for my favourite track of theirs, Under The Tide.
It's great
I love the video/single edit, it has a bit more punch to it than the album version.
Have you seen the tracklist for the Asian Tour edition?![]()
Agreed.Mau ®;140876161 said:We Found Love is Rih's best song tied with Rude Boy.
I don't see much iconography in the We Found Love video tbh. It's greatly shot, but other than that? Nothing special.
POP video's are great when they have signature dance moves or something that you can imitate.
That's why Crazy in Love and Single Ladies are so iconic. The video's had a lot of signature moves, had a lot of impact and were imitated like crazy.