[Danger]

Im so mad I cant put formation on my phone. Says some BS about icloud music library

[Wink]

This needs to be on iTunes Asap.

[PrettyHurts]

this should really have been on itunes/apple music/spotify/google play etc already

and the video needs to be listed

i don't want to complain but bey you have 40 stadiums to fill, at least try a bit this time

[www]

This is so annoying! She did this to flawless remix and drunk in love kanye remix.

But this is a lead single and no itunes. And why not listed on youtube? Whyyyy?

[Jeiboy]

She obviously doesnt care no more bout charts it will be on iTunes eventually imo.

[J-esper]

That Superbowl performance

[qurl]

shut the hell up about it not being on iTunes

she clearly doesn't give a **** and ya'll shouldn't easier, like how is it being purchasable going to alter your listening experience or perception of the song??????

[cold summers]

I just can't get over how incredibly dense and conceptual this video is. Like just the sheer scope of topics touched upon is nuts to me. In 5 minutes she manages to hit on:
- the way black New Orleans has been left behind post-Katrina
- MLK having the edges scrubbed off of him through history
- police brutality & solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement
- black gay culture (the Big Freedia sample and the incorporation of bounce music into the production, the way she uses "slay")
- I love how Bey uses Antebellum southern imagery to be thought-provoking. We glamorize **** like southern belles and when Beyonce puts herself - a black woman - in the position of the ~mistress~, it's jarring because it causes people to think about how these southern images we glamorize were impossible to have without slavery and the oppression of black people
- off of that, the historical link between black oppression in the "old" south and how it ties into black oppression today i.e. Katrina and police brutality, how it's all one in the same
- the way the struggle of the video completely subverts the bragging of the lyrics, making it apparent just how hard history has tried to let us not have black cultural leaders like Beyonce
- the way Beyonce so adequately captures the struggle of rising above where you come from in terms of success while trying to hold onto your cultural identity (hot sauce in my bag, swag)
- the overall celebration of Beyonce's excellence as a black woman, and the embrace of both her success and her identity simultaneously because it's uncommon. Beyonce can be black, she can be a woman, she can be in a happy, monogamous relationship, she can be at her professional and intellectual peak, and she can be all of those things at once.

there's just so many ideas here and I'm just so blown away by the scope and ambition and importance of this video. It's just not a level I ever thought Beyonce would try to get to but I'm so, so, so happy that she has.

[GrimGod]

The lyrics are fun but the song goes nowhere with no melody. She doesnt have a big nose or big nostrils and nobody ever said that about her ever? Her nose is no different than any white person actually so I dont get how "empowering" that statement is. I would be even more self-conscious about my nose if hers was considered big.

[keyboardhero35]

Originally posted by cold summers

I just can't get over how incredibly dense and conceptual this video is. Like just the sheer scope of topics touched upon is nuts to me. In 5 minutes she manages to hit on:
- the way black New Orleans has been left behind post-Katrina
- MLK having the edges scrubbed off of him through history
- police brutality & solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement
- black gay culture (the Big Freedia sample and the incorporation of bounce music into the production, the way she uses "slay")
- I love how Bey uses Antebellum southern imagery to be thought-provoking. We glamorize **** like southern belles and when Beyonce puts herself - a black woman - in the position of the ~mistress~, it's jarring because it causes people to think about how these southern images we glamorize were impossible to have without slavery and the oppression of black people
- off of that, the historical link between black oppression in the "old" south and how it ties into black oppression today i.e. Katrina and police brutality, how it's all one in the same
- the way the struggle of the video completely subverts the bragging of the lyrics, making it apparent just how hard history has tried to let us not have black cultural leaders like Beyonce
- the way Beyonce so adequately captures the struggle of rising above where you come from in terms of success while trying to hold onto your cultural identity (hot sauce in my bag, swag)
- the overall celebration of Beyonce's excellence as a black woman, and the embrace of both her success and her identity simultaneously because it's uncommon. Beyonce can be black, she can be a woman, she can be in a happy, monogamous relationship, she can be at her professional and intellectual peak, and she can be all of those things at once.

there's just so many ideas here and I'm just so blown away by the scope and ambition and importance of this video. It's just not a level I ever thought Beyonce would try to get to but I'm so, so, so happy that she has.

Ok but what's with the line about going to red lobster?

[pieuxvu]

11,3M already. Wow!!!

[jambloo]

Originally posted by GrimGod

The lyrics are fun but the song goes nowhere with no melody. She doesnt have a big nose or big nostrils and nobody ever said that about her ever? Her nose is no different than any white person actually so I dont get how "empowering" that statement is. I would be even more self-conscious about my nose if hers was considered big.

It's about Jay-Z (her husband's) nostrils. It's a reference to how Jay Z has stereotypically black features and many people calling him too ugly for her

[Teezy]

Originally posted by GrimGod

The lyrics are fun but the song goes nowhere with no melody. She doesnt have a big nose or big nostrils and nobody ever said that about her ever? Her nose is no different than any white person actually so I dont get how "empowering" that statement is. I would be even more self-conscious about my nose if hers was considered big.

She was referring to her husband's nose, not hers.

[qurl]

Originally posted by keyboardhero35

Ok but what's with the line about going to red lobster?

anglo ignorance at it's literal finest

[Wild]

Originally posted by J-esper

That Superbowl performance

I'm slayed...

[Oxygen]

I got goosebumps when this came on at the Superbowl

[Hollywood.]

The song is growing on me. Still not a favorite, but enjoyable.

[Tom_Ford]

Originally posted by keyboardhero35

Ok but what's with the line about going to red lobster?

Just miss the whole point.

[YUNGKALIMXEL]

Originally posted by GrimGod

The lyrics are fun but the song goes nowhere with no melody. She doesnt have a big nose or big nostrils and nobody ever said that about her ever? Her nose is no different than any white person actually so I dont get how "empowering" that statement is. I would be even more self-conscious about my nose if hers was considered big.

lol

[Zaney82]

The Song has grown on me.