Damn you Warner Music Group! So scared this man is going to steal Beyonce's thunder?!?

*dead

Fixed! I recently heard this video mentioned on NPR alongside commentary of the evolution of music videos due to iPhones and Youtube and whatnot. One of the 'new' tactics is to focus solely on centered images or simplified backdrops (Beyonce's Single Ladies vid was mentioned as an example). The other tactic, with which this video was mentioned, was to throw in as many visually interesting things as could fit inside the frame.

such a beautiful couple! beyonce's performance was quite good, too.

Oh damn - I just loaded the YT vid for Filter's "Take a Picture", which is the background. It starts off with a crashed and burning plane.

Creepy coincidence.

Also, hilarious photo.
"...but what I can say is that this is the douchiest photo ever!

The only people who should be posing for a vanity photo in front of their Lexus and their $1 million Piper PA-36 aircraft are named Jay-Z and Beyonce. And they would have the sense to put some real rims on that Lexus. Bling Bling!"

Thanks for the "promote"! I like this video, too.

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2 votes so far? I wanna see 20 votes.
*promote.

I should warn you, the kia'ing(all that shouting they do) might get a bit annoying after a while(along with people near the camera feeling the need to shout out aswell)

A few bits of info about some of the martial artists:

18 - Chloe Bruce - been on UK TV a couple of times. I think she was also a stunt double for J'Lo in the pepsi advert with beyonce.

11 - Sammy Vasquez - Tragically, may have been the first person to ever die due to injuries sustained in an MMA fight.

10 - Steve Terada - was the guy in the fight scene at the start of the Black Eye Peas video 'Pump It'

4 - Craig Hennigsen - If you watch AGT, he's part of the sideswipe team that got to the semi finals, maybe even the finals, not too sure whe they got to(he was the one who injured his ankle in the previous series)

I just die laughing every time I see Snowball.! I have a couple of song ideas for him. get me bodied by Beyonce' and N'Sync's dirty pop

@ Raven

That's probably because you don't hang around with Paris Hilton-type of party girls. Where have you been all these years? You don't remember the days when media started calling Madonna an ideal feminist, and that somehow got her kissing on stage with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera?? And the day after when people called it 'disgusting', other people defended the action by calling it a 'feminine expression'???

I've had the mortal displeasure of hanging around with a lot of brain-dead college girls, thanks to my party loving roomates. And these girls actually quoted Beyonce (the singer) to prove feminism to me. The whole argument started when they started driveling about what they learned in feminist class that afternoon and how they were 'oppressed' by the men all these years, and how it prevented the female gender to truly 'express' themselves.

The recent rise of 'expressive feminism' clearly had a huge impact on pop culture, and definitely are related to one another. The corporate world merely followed the trends, and all they did was identifying the market and going with the flow. In media, it is used as an excuse to further exploit the already lucrative idea of 'sex sells'. And as individuals, we are no longer allowed to tell them not to do it, because if you did, you'd be 'oppressing' women. And they've been selling sex for quite awhile, but the difference is that this time they've got the philosophic community on their side, so now you've got to argue against feminism when you're trying to limit them.

The MTV and the gangs did capitalize on this and thrived and using it as an excuse to start going with raunchier, naughtier shows without getting backlashed for being immoral. But the point is that the feminist idea was already there to embrace these things. And it was just a matter of time before major celebrities in popular culture started marketing themselves as 'newage feminists' and embraced this idea of woman 'expressing' herself with open arms, by justifying themselves from selling sex appeal, and just ran with it through mountains and oceans.

I mean, today's line of pop artists such as 'the pussy cat dolls' make the old 'spice girls' look like a bunch of Mormons in Halloween costumes. And I would've thought I would at least be 40 when I started talking about the big 'morality' subject and 'young people going too far'. But the transformation of attitude in popular opinion has been so rapid that even a person in their mid 20s like me are starting to fear if we really ARE that decadent.

So tell me, how are they not related?

p.s I'd like to see some female sifters' comments here to see what they have to say about the subject.

(beyonce falling http://youtube.com/watch?v=OWk_k_qC5hE )

Looks like the company that promotes Beyonce is pulling all the youtube postings of the event, so just search around if that link dies.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I hadn't seen that beyonce thing - didn't know there was a connection he was making there. link?

(everyone else see the Beyonce on-stage fall? where she later asked her fans not to post it on youtube? I have no idea how many people see random junk I see on the interwebs.)

I wish her and Beyonce's popularity were reversed.

Man, would I love to see Beyonce and Shakira get Lebanese together.

Damn what a twisted honor.....how could one know that one of the last hits this poor tramp would ever have would be followedby the nose-dive of the century with regard to her utter inability to be a mother, a wife, or anything but a grown-up mouseketeer growing out of her costume........

Poor, sad little girl.......hate to say it, a flaky dipshit.....Love this poppy tune though, and she did keep a spiffy dumper in shape and honed, prior to her fall.....WOOOOF!


compare britanny to other pop-icons' progress:

Aguilara:Hip, stylish,workaholic, will die before she is not the bomb..
Madonna:Half-baked world-view, spirituality from a vending machine, pilates addict, who sounds as vapid as Jane Fonda, and twitches like a ex-meth addict when she opens her mouth.A real creature, ala Tom Cruise


Compare to-
Beyonce: Beuatiful, stylish, talented, and centered....measured sucesss, paced.Loves her mama!
Stefani: Went through her infatuated, girly years, focused, always writing, hits all the way, now a mom, that seems to be handling that with style as well.

My pick for diva of the century......Joss Stone...She got it all!

Another pitchfork top 25.
The band's name, CSS, stands for "Cansei de Ser Sexy," Brazilian for "Tired of being Sexy," a phrase they got from a Beyonce quote.