Watch Here
http://www.worldstarhipho...c2ARQXz60R

The intro is a lot like Homeboy and Cat's conversation in Sign O' The Times

not a bad song, not a bad video

love it.

i like her much better like this, stripped down, simple and nice.

Well, I think she accomplished what she wanted with the video. It definitely makes the song more interesting. If not for the video, I never would have heard the song in its entirety.

The song is okay but really melancholy to me so I don't see me wanting to hear it often. I also thinks she starts singing too loud too soon for my tastes. This could easily be an acoustic or very light performance ala Joan Osborne referenced in the other If I Were A Boy thread.

lameless said:

Agreed.

dawntreader said:

The better of the 2 singles.

Well done!

The lines seemed to have blurred between her type of songs and Rhianna's..

They seem to have the same writers and producers..

I am not feeling it at all, not the song and I am not even crazy about the video. It looks and sounds average to me.

BORUSH44 said:

Wow, I just read the comments on that site. WTF?! When exactly did English go out of fashion?

Oh, and "If I Were a Boy" is C-O-R-N-Y! (Tried to find the vomit emoticon, but couldn't. You'll just have to imagine)

BEYONCE EXPLAINS CONCEPT OF 'BOY' VIDEO: 'It's kind of like "Freaky Friday",' she says.
(October 13, 2008)

Photos of Beyonce dressed as a street cop from the set of her video for "If I Were a Boy" flooded the Internet last month. Fans will finally get to see the look in its entire context with today's scheduled premiere of the video on MTV, BET, VH1 and Fuse.

"It's kind of like 'Freaky Friday'," Beyonce tells Billboard of the concept behind her cop role in the clip. "In the beginning of the video, my husband makes me breakfast and he's excited about it, and I kind of don't have time to eat. As a police officer, I have a male partner and the video goes through our days. My husband's at work and has attractive girls flirting with him but he declines their advances. I have a guy flirting with me, and I flirt back."

Beyonce says the clip will bring to life common things that men do to hurt their significant others, like not answering their phone.

"It's about all of the little things that mean so much in a relationship," says Beyonce. "At the end of the clip, you realize that I was acting out his life, and it all starts over again. He was a cop and everything that happened was really him doing the same thing to me."

A video for her other single, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)," will also debut today via MTV, BET, VH1 and Fuse. Both songs were released to radio last week and are the first from her forthcoming, as-yet-untitled album, due Nov. 18 via Music World/Columbia.

http://www.eurweb.com/sto...r47750.cfm

Ok Bey, we get it, you want to be an icon/legend/achieve world domination! Seriously tho, I understand the girl is ambitious but simultaneously releasing 2 singles and 2 videos all at once? Not to mention her 2 upcoming movies--she could end up achieving the opposite effect and overdosing the public on her. Overexposure is never a good thing.

You can hear the song here too in it's original form.

http://www.bcjean.net/

carlcranshaw said:

The Original is better

carlcranshaw said:

She ota sounds like Ashlee Simpson

Is Babyface doing some backup singing on this one?

And yeah the song and video are nice.