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Beyoncé, "Why Don't You Love Me?"
Perhaps taking all the Bettie Page references to her hairstyle in the "Video Phone" video to heart, Beyoncé has released a video for "Why Don't You Love Me" in which she plays the retro-pinup role to the hilt, complete with sexily staged household mishaps, a bit where she dusts… her Grammys, bubble-bath interlude, and shots of her smoking. (Gasp!) There is also, oddly, what seems to be an homage to Britney Spears' red-carpet outfit from the 2001 Video Music Awards. The song, however, is quite the banger, even if it was at first sabotaged by the abysmal sequencing of I Am… Sasha Fierce, not to mention the labels' insistence on releasing it in 523 deluxe/platinum/a-plus configurations.
Good video, lousy song. She's capable of a lot more but she's been phoning it in for so long that Imani Coppola should just replace her. Who's gonna notice anyway?
If anyone calls, I'll be in the bath reading Joy of Cooking all afternoon.
Solange wants to know what a (lil) sister's gotta do to get her own decade up in this piece.
Seems like that video took days to get through.
Aiming for Bettie Page, missing, and hitting RuPaul on the way down.
They should've edited out the outdoor sequence; still like (most of) the rest though.
Because you frighten me… your sister is awesome though.
I like her outfits.
Me too. And if I looked that good in a Bettie Page wig (or in fact, at any time in my life) I'd run with it also.
Jay-Z is a lucky, lucky man.
the only thing more awful than that is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_AIGw6PwwA
It's about time 70s soul music made a comeback, but it's too bad her songwriters couldn't do more than beat a riff to death.
You know what ruins the mood of a carefully planned retro-styled production? Someone not knowing how to de-interlace or merge fields in a video!
Two words:
Drag Queen