He was a cop and everything that happened was really him doing the same thing to me.”īoth videos were directed by Jake Nava, who previously helmed Beyonce’s “Baby Boy” featuring Sean Paul. “At the end of the clip, you realize that I was acting out his life, and it all starts over again. “It’s about all of the little things that mean so much in a relationship,” says Beyonce. I have a guy flirting with me, and I flirt back.”īeyonce says the clip will depict common things that men do to hurt their significant others, like not answering their phone. My husband’s at work and has attractive girls flirting with him but he declines their advances. As a police officer, I have a male partner and the video goes through our days. “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. “It’s kind of like ‘Freaky Friday’,” Beyonce tells Billboard of the concept behind the “If I Were a Boy” clip, where she plays a police officer. Her partner, who expresses the feminine stereotype answers. Beyonc answers with the masculine stereotype, her first phrase being intimacy. In the beginning of the music video, the couple express key components to their ideal relationships. The two songs were released to radio this week and are the first from her forthcoming, as-yet-untitled album, due Nov. The song If I were a boy is an incredible example of gender roles and how they are presented. Beyonce will release videos for her two new singles “If I Were a Boy” and “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” via MTV, BET, VH1 and Fuse on Monday (Oct.

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