Oh, Happy Day! There’s a new Beyoncé video! Check out “Why Don’t You Love Me”:
Things that I love:
- She’s parodying/inhabiting the role of post-war (up through 1970s) housewife, one that we usually seen in the context of being oh-so-very-white.
- It was filmed with a vintagey/Super 8 kind of feel, which somehow contributes to Beyoncé’s even-more-than-usual face-melting hotness.
- This video is ostensibly about a man who wronged/is wronging her, but there are no men in the video. And let’s be honest here, who needs men when we have so much hot Beyoncé to look at?
- That funktastic driving bassline and percussion, combined with the lyrics (“I got beauty, I got class, I got style, and I got ass /And you don’t even care to care”; “There’s nothing not to love about me”) make this a pretty decent “You wronged me and I am ANGRY” anthem, though I’d like to see a little more tooth. “Good Luck” by the Basement Jaxx, you’ve almost got some competition.
- She feather-dusts her Grammys. Yeah, that’s right.
- Did I mention her runny eye makeup? While drinking those giant fucking martinis? Sweet Jesus, that pot roast isn’t the only thing that’s on fire.
