
The effect, intentional or otherwise, is a resonant depiction of the way a person often replays certain events in their mind after having their trust betrayed. In what the singer described at the time as her most difficult video to film, the plot of the song plays out in reverse, revealing the inciting incident that leads to her character’s discovery of her partner’s infidelity at the very end. And much like certain parts of her 2016 visual album, something about the subject matter of this 2003 single inspired one of her most innovative music videos to date.

“Apeshit” with Jay-Z as The Cartersīefore Lemonade, “Me, Myself and I” was the quintessential cheating song in Beyoncé’s discography. Here are the 10 best videos she’s released along the way. Throughout her near-20-year solo career, Beyoncé has established herself as music’s most important visual artist this side of Michael Jackson and Missy Elliot. With all this, smart money would bet that the imagery from her forthcoming Renaissance album, due July 29, will raise the bar again.

Even her Emmy-nominated Homecoming concert doc is worth mentioning, as clips from that Netflix special have been viewed more times than most artists’ actual music videos.
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For The Lion King: The Gift - the soundtrack she curated for the live-action remake of the original movie - she wrote, directed, and starred in a companion film that streamed on Disney+ (2020’s Black Is King). The first time she did something like this was when she released music videos for every song on her sophomore album, B’Day, as a straight-to-DVD anthology in 2007. Yet, despite the part she’s played in this new normal (the industry is just now recovering from when she killed the album rollout in 2013), Beyoncé is one of the last titans left still showing up for interviews, documenting her shows, and creating cinematic experiences out of four-minute songs.Įvery track on Beyoncé’s last two albums, her 2013 self-titled LP and 2016’s Lemonade, came accompanied by a music video - the latter of which was packaged as a film and premiered on HBO. This means no cover stories, no concert films, and very few music videos. Artists who can afford the cost of mystique would rather be heard than seen. In general, the modern rules of music supremacy support this reclusiveness is more valuable than visibility these days. Today, whenever there’s new material from certain luminaries - Drake, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar - fans are lucky to receive one visual per album. Sometime after MTV and BET became best known for Ridiculousness and Baby Boy reruns, making YouTube the final frontier for music videos, artists and audiences began to devalue the practice of bringing songs to life. She’s a throwback to a different generation in this regard. With every album she drops, multiple meticulously crafted visuals are a given. Nearly two decades since the heyday of countdown shows like TRL and 106 & Park - back when big-budget music videos were thought to be key components of superstardom - Bey has remained committed to a medium her peers seem to only have a casual interest in now. But more than that, she’s a prolific one. “Renaissance” is the first drop of new solo music from the artist since her 2016 “Lemonade” the forthcoming album’s secondary title, “act i,” suggests that it will be part of a larger or multi-part project.Beyoncé is an accomplished visual artist. The 28-time Grammy winning singer has 268 million followers on Instagram, 56 million on Facebook, nearly 25 million YouTube subscribers and 15.5 million Twitter followers.īeyoncé is the only artist in history to have all of her first six studio albums reach the top of Billboard’s album charts. In joining TikTok, Beyoncé expands her already formidable social media presence. The album will feature both dance and country-leaning tracks, Variety has reported, with contributions from hit songwriter Ryan Tedder, who co-wrote her 2008 hit “Halo” as well as hits for Adele, Taylor Swift, the Jonas Bros. “Break My Soul” is the first single from Beyoncé’s forthcoming seventh solo studio album “Renaissance,” which is set to arrive on July 29. Y’all release the wiggle made me so happy! Thank you so much for all the love for BREAK MY SOUL! – Love B - #RENAISSANCE #BREAKMYSOUL
