via maura:

• Beyoncé as M.I.A./Missy Elliott hybrid.

• Beyoncé as absurdly painted gun-toting Bettie Page successor.

• Beyoncé and GaGa, differentiated only by their shoes (above), dancing and dancing and dancing until one of them drops.

Everything else was pretty unneccessary! I know one doesn’t go to Hype Williams for videos that tell stories, but talk about 15 pounds of Technicolor shit in a five-pound bag.

(Also the song made me wish that I was hearing “Ring The Alarm” or “Diva” instead.)

There is too much going on there, isn’t there? “Ring the Alarm” was nice. Why was it canceled again at the last minute? Was it “too good” as far as Beyoncé singles went or was it the Sharon Stone-Basic Instinct video motif that was its undoing?