Beyonce videos seem to range based on the era. She will have different type videos with her next era.
Dangerously In Love Crazy in Love, Baby Boy, Me Myself & I, Naughty Girl...
More theatrical & sexually oriented. Very urban based as well. Jake Nava directed 3/4 so that makes sense.
B'Day DejaVu, Ring The Alarm, Irreplaceable, Beautiful Liar, Get Me Bodied, Green Light...
More raw, choreography based & grainy affects.
IASF Single Ladies, If I Were A Boy, Halo, Diva, Sweet Dreams B&W Themes, more defined & sleek, videos were made to be iconic
4 Run The World, 1+1, Love on top, Best Thing I Never Had, Countdown, Party All over the place. They were lost in the sauce.
BEYONCE Videos were thematic and meant to tell stories. Less about choreography & production sets.
Platinum Edition 7/11, Feelin Myself More fun, casual, and simpler videos.
I disagree about 4. Looking at those videos , I would say that the critical reception ALONE would make them more iconic than If I Were A Boy , Sweet Dreams (if the video used the icy MJ vibe it would be iconic), Broken-Hearted Girl, Diva, Video Phone, and Ego. She just looked more mature and regal in all of the videos of the 4 era, and the songs sound ready for a stadium.
Even I Care (at Roseland) could arguably be more iconic than the bunch I listed above.
Love On Top, RTW, BTINH (simple, but elegant and Bey looked amazing), Party (with the 90s vibe but needed Andre in the video), Dance For You, 1+1, and Countdown are ICONIC. If Schoolin Life, Rather Die Young, and End Of Time had videos as well, they would probably be iconic as well.
BTINH video is not that bad since it's one her best videos aesthetically but it could've been better.
I mean, it was shot well, it looked nice but the video itself was terrible. Perhaps it that I'm just not a big fan of weddings in general, and then faking a wedding for a music video is worse and feels so cheesy. She looked hot in that lingerie but that's it. The prom scene was cute but not a redeeming quality for the video.
All that plus the song being so bad (I get why they released it after RTW's performance, but really.. we already had like 5+ irreplaceable from other artists, we didn't need another) really does not help.
I love BTINH video, she looks radiant! It's so pretty and colourful. One of my favourites for sure, so I'm surprised to hear people not liking it. Then again I've always liked the song so maybe I'm the weird one.
I disagree about 4. Looking at those videos , I would say that the critical reception ALONE would make them more iconic than If I Were A Boy , Sweet Dreams (if the video used the icy MJ vibe it would be iconic), Broken-Hearted Girl, Diva, Video Phone, and Ego. She just looked more mature and regal in all of the videos of the 4 era, and the songs sound ready for a stadium.
Even I Care (at Roseland) could arguably be more iconic than the bunch I listed above.
Love On Top, RTW, BTINH (simple, but elegant and Bey looked amazing), Party (with the 90s vibe but needed Andre in the video), Dance For You, 1+1, and Countdown are ICONIC. If Schoolin Life, Rather Die Young, and End Of Time had videos as well, they would probably be iconic as well.
What I was referencing is that all of her eras have a uniform feel to her videos. I don't think IASF videos are necessarily more iconic but they seemed to be a connection with them, aesthetically, where they connected. You can connect them with an era.
Visually to go from RTW to BTINH to 1+1 to Countdown and Love On Top. There was no flow between any of them. They were all over the place.
That being said, "Countdown" & "RTW" are some of the best visuals of her career, even though I feel like "RTW" looks rather cheap at times.
