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Here is Beyonce’s new music video for “Countdown”. First of all, I dislike the song. It seems all over the place, and… I don’t know, I’m just not humming it. It’s not a “get this dumb song stuck in your head” kind of song, which is what Beyonce specializes in. Secondly, the video is all over the place too. Beyonce jacks (“borrows”) classic images from Funny Face, West Side Story, and many other films, plus lots of 1960s styling and the mother lode of wigs, wiglets, hairpieces, bangs trauma add-ons and weaves. I think Bey must have blown through her Wiglet Budget for 2011 with this video. The result is… visually intriguing, but I feel like Bey has done this a million times before (“this” being the 1960s stuff, plus stealing from other works). It just seems kind of boring:
Did you notice what I noticed? The discrepancy with the “bump”? In some of the shots, Beyonce is caressing what seems like a substantial “bump” and then in other shots, it’s barely there. Don’t even yell at me and say it’s just the angles playing tricks with my eyes. Bitch is wearing padding when it’s convenient for her. I really don’t understand WHY she’s doing it when it’s so obvious. It’s like when Katie Holmes was pregnant with Suri – I believed she was genuinely pregnant (just as I believe Beyonce is), but the discrepancies in the size of the bumps from month to month was so disturbing, and so obviously a padding issue. Ugh.
Oh, and Beyonce’s TWEAKED FACE is killing me. It’s killing me that no one major is calling her out on her major face work.
Photos courtesy of WENN.























































































