Beyonce Knowles- Crazy in Love

Beyonce Knowles- Crazy in Love

Everything about the new Beyonce video seems to be cribbed from Madonna: the burning car and the black saints that recall Like A Virigin (with a new meta level added by the fact that Beyonce is dating the saint in real life); The Fuck Me Harder Bustier which is a direct rip off of Gautiers creation for Blonde Ambtion and being soaked to the skin while dancing through a post industrial wilderness, which was the plot to the Fincher filmed Express Yourself. Even the lighting recalls the banned but boring video for What it Feels Like for a Girl.

Madge may be having trouble on the charts, but she is still is the mother to all of the new pop tarts, and those who love them.

Anthony Easton in FT /New York London Paris Munich • Pop • 421 views