Beyonce’s low budget music video for her single “1+1” off her album ‘4’ debuted earlier today. In the opening scene, Beyonce appears in close up as her skin shimmers under the hot lights, giving the illusion that she’s covered in bacon grease.
Bey’s normally coifed lacefront is damp and lays matted on her face. The overdone visuals are redundant rather than sensual and seductive as intended. The entire video treads a fine line between campy and cheesy as the director borrows heavily from Bey’s previous videos.
There’s the obligatory lacefront caught in the wind tunnel scene.
Then there’s the Bey wearing full makeup in the shower scene.
It seems Beyonce and her director had great ideas for the video, but they couldn’t pull their ideas off with the budget they had to work with. I guess that explains the bacon grease?
Your commentary is hilarious!
This was the extended version of the commercial for her perfume ‘Heat’! This has absolutely NOTHING to do with the song but when u wanna release videos for all of your songs on every album you create I guess you run out of ideas!
lol an exaggerated commercial ad lol.
Well u know she cant do anything orginal.
“bacon grease” lmao.
AuntieSandra, AuntieSandra….
This commentary right here…….
“Bacon grease”. “The obligatory lacefront caught in the wind tunnel”.
“Redundant, campy, and cheesy”.
Me guessy you no likey??
beyonce bores me. talented but boring
Umm…yeah…the post commentary… A little bitta this
mixed with a whole lotta that 
The video is stripped down of all bs so the focus can be on the song….which is grown and sexy.
*Now back to your regularly scheduled programming*
Although I love Beyonce, I expected alot more from this video. To me It’s boring and she’s clearly lip-syncing. I thought artists sing in the videos to make it look more real??
What in the greasy hell is this!?!?!
Yeah…I hate to admit it but…(coughs)Bey let us down here…
At least she looks good
Rip off of “how does it feel” by DeAngelo
LMFAO @ illusion of bacon grease. Sandra, you are hilarious!
the song is wack. the video is wack. her vocals sound forced….wack.
Lil Wayne’s “How to Love” video is better, more substance….
My opinion won’t be liked, so I will keep it to myself.
LOL @ this write up.
I asked myself “why is she so greasy”…
None the less, there were parts of the video i liked. Mostly when she was interacting with the male.
I love this song and the simplicity of the video. It did remind me of “How does it feel” video
I don’t get the comparison to the D’Angelo video, he was ass naked, she clearly wasn’t. I loved that she wore her wedding ring in this video, that doesn’t happen too often.
Oh Miss Sandra, you have me laughing my assp off right now. Your commentary is PRICELESS: “Bacon grease, lacefront caught in the wind tunnel”?
Hey Everyone
LOVE THIS VIDEO!! PROUD BEY STAN
The Good – I like this song
The Bad – this video
The ugly – her eyebrows and she was very greasy/oily I cldnt tell if it was supposed to be sweat/grease or sparkles
TGIF
Bey has no sex appeal. She reminds me of corky.
Aunty San- now you know Bey gets you got under the collar!
therapist1911 says:
LOL @ this write up.
I asked myself “why is she so greasy”…
None the less, there were parts of the video i liked. Mostly when she was interacting with the male.
I love this song and the simplicity of the video. It did remind me of “How does it feel” video
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YALL
CANDI
@eb
u are a foowell!!!!
i love the song and the video is cool, but nothing groundbreaking. I don’t get the d’angelo comparisons either.
HAPPY FRIDAY!
I like the song too, but this video was a waste of the low budget they spent on it, sorry girl. I thought it reminded me of one of her l’oreal commercials, I was waiting for a box of hair dye to pop up at the end.
MORNING PEOPLE
ITS FRIIIIDAY!!! HAPPY B-DAY CAAANDI!! :2dance:
It’s Fun Friday Good Morning everyone!!!
The video was boring nothing special about it at all. I still heart this song one of my favorites of the album..
Note: All artist lip sync in videos. No one every sings live in videos. In movies when you see people dancing in music scenes there isn’t any music every playing the editors go back and add the music later hence why everyone looks of beat or like they can’t dance.
Happy B-day Candi
Morning people !!!!!!!!!
Hola Rene, EB and Daisy
Pardon my typos on
SHE DO LOOK EXTRA GREASY
WHATS THE PLAN FOR THE WEEKND FAM
I didn’t watch the vid because i can’t imagine she did anything outside of her normal steelo…half nekkid (usually in bathing suit type attire or a short Tina Turner-ish shimmer skirt), wind machine on full blast, shaking and gyrating, etc…
#illpass
Good morning Lakes, Brown, WUT WUT, Snooty, Vero, Rene (Kelis), Speakin, Daisy, BNatural, Eb, Daisy, Tainted, Yard, Cocoa, Therapist, Yerekesbabe, BigMOUTH, AND ALL THOSE I MISSED.
Good morning, TRUE….
*LaKErCHiC@*! says:
WHATS THE PLAN FOR THE WEEKND FAM
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Chuck E Cheese’s for a 4 y/o’s birthday party.
Lord please spare my nerves…and some lil kid’s neck…
#iwillfightakid
Morning all!
<—- Blue Mountain & Kahlua
Free Sassy
Free MIRS
FREE YSO
HEEEEY LTL (your initial’s remind me of Jeffrey Osbournes group back in the day)……..FOR SOME REASON!
The song is cool, the video was too. I see the D’angelo reference, since she was all greased up, strippin, and feeling herself in the beginnin of this slow song. I actually like the Obama secret handshake better though.
Good morning Fam! Happy Friday
Hey Luscious
Good morning Tatted Diva aka the makeup maven with the cute face and the just wanna pinch ’em cheeks!
Morning Tat and all the lovelies of SR.
The video got better as it went on…it started out kind of lame, but I like the visual effects throughout…
Morning everyone!
@TRUE UGH SOUNDS LIKE MY WEEKND I TRY TO HAVE A DRINK OR TWO IN MY SYSTEM BEFORE I STEP FOOT IN CHUCK CHEESE THE SCREAMING KIDS
<<why it look like it hurt?
@TAT HEY MORNING
@LOLITA
Morning Fe Fe and Tatted
PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA @ Tru! YOU JUST MADE MY DAY!
*running my fingers WILDLY through BBW’s locks while whispering naughty nothings in her ear!*
GOOD MORNING, BBW!
<—- (refrained from slipping you the tongue)
“giving the illusion that she’s covered in bacon grease.”
you do too much Sandra
GOOD MORNING, FEFE…..
@ True They sell wine and beer at our Chuck E. Cheese’s hopefully they sell it where ur at.
Morning @Tatted @Snooty @Luscious @BBW @Wut @LTL @TruGemini….and anyone I missed!
Two things that annoy me about this song/video:
1. Her use of the word Algeeba….I know we’ve discussed this before but they should have edited that to sound more crisp.
2. Her constant need to reach out toward the camera, start shaking a bit, and then draw her fist back like she just grabbed something….Bey does this on every video and every live performance she does…
Anyway, Happy Friday and
to @Yall and @Candi!
It was cool. I really liked the parts where it looked blue-ish and her skirt/scarf/whatever was blowing and the parts with her and the guy.
I didn’t like the part where she looked greased up with “bacon grease”
Tatted
what you know bout L.T.D.
I Have never been so much
In love Before
What a difference
A true love made in my life
So nice
So right……………
Good morning Tatted
*Only u know how to rub the locks like that! *whispering don’t fight it in ur ear.
Morning Tatted
Happy Birthday Candi girl
@Dasiy….lol at the good, bad and ugly
LUSCIOUS LOLITA AKA SUGA WALLS says:
Tatted
what you know bout L.T.D.
I Have never been so much
In love Before
What a difference
A true love made in my life
So nice
So right……………
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Brown, I’m old school…..LOL – Actually, my wifey and I danced our first “dance” @ our wedding to that song!
@ BBW – *i’m done fighting it…can’t fight it any longer!*
I didn’t like the video
but I still love that song 
HURRICANE!
it’s Friday
Brown
The video didn’t make me like the song any better. It’s still a
There was just too much going on between the strained voice, chicken grease, fairy dust, Serengeti yaki and her “I lick windows” mouf steez.
Morning brown
SANOOTS!!!!!!
LadyLioness says:
The video didn’t make me like the song any better. It’s still a
There was just too much going on between the strained voice, chicken grease, fairy dust, Serengeti yaki and her “I lick windows” mouf steez.
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The video was a waste! She’s lost all kind of creativity. She looked naked in the early part of the video that’s where the DeAngelo refrences are coming from. I really need her to consult with her father b/c he had all her work from songs to videos on the up and up!
SnootyPooty says:
It’s Fun Friday Good Morning everyone!!!
The video was boring nothing special about it at all. I still heart this song one of my favorites of the album..
Note: All artist lip sync in videos. No one every sings live in videos. In movies when you see people dancing in music scenes there isn’t any music every playing the editors go back and add the music later hence why everyone looks of beat or like they can’t dance.
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SNOOTY NOT ALL ARTISTS LIP SYNCH IN THEIR VIDEOS. I DO RECALL MARY SINGING LIVE FOR “YOUR CHILD” VIDEO.
LIKED THE VIDEO, EVEN THOUGH IT IS VERY REMINISCENT OF HER PULSE AD. I LIKED THE LAST PART MORE SO THAN THE REST. SANDRA, LACEFRONT NO, EXTENSIONS YES.
Morning Fe Fe
Happy Birthday Yall and Candi Go Virgos! Mine is Sept 1st
Good Morning to the rest of Y’all!! LOL
I thought this was a commercial too, when I saw it on the TV last night
Leave Bey alone she’s getting her Meeka Claxton on. Y’all aint know that greasy skin is in this season. :blinks:
KING BEY
Tonight I’m gonna dance for you (ohh ooh ohh ohhh)
Tonight I’m gonna dance for you (ohh ooh ohh ohhh)
Tonight I’m gonna put my body on your body
Boy I like it when you watch me, ah
Tonight it’s going down
I’ll be rockin’ on my babe rockin’, rockin’ on my babe
Swirlin’ my babe swirlin’, swirlin’ on my babe
Baby lemme put my body on your body
Promise not to tell nobody cuz
It’s bout to go down
I only watched this video once and i’m disturbed by it. It looks like she’s portraying a woman in hell hence the bacon grease look (sweat). That second pic you can see the ‘fire’ in her hair. Wow Bey. You’re not fooling me.
The Video is on Fiyah!!! Loves IT!!! It’s very Sensual and SeXy and that is a powerful combination… Get It Bey!!!
Folks can say what they want about the Queen but they can’t deny that Beyonce is Running this Music Shyt!!! She owns the Title: Queen of R&B AND Queen of POP and she is one bad mamajama… If someone doesn’t like it I suggest they Step Up and TRY Do Something!!! That is all
~Good Job to Beyonce, Still taking these girls to school!!!
That is all…
Reads that again…
Not intrested in watching the video this morning just came on here to say Happy B-day to my fellow Virgos mine is Sept 8th
Holds up a mirror
@84
*sangin*
Right back at ya BewBew
If you think otherwise: PROVE IT!!!
All that
Ten Years Stop IT
I-I-I can back it up, I-I-I talk like this cause I can back it up…
Yeeeaaahhh I gotta big EGO, such a huge EGO…
LMAO at 85
Thanks honey. *checks lip gloss and fluffs luscious fro in mirror *
And I look beautiful as usual. *tosses the help a quarter*
@87… You are not Funny
imarie aka lalie says:
I only watched this video once and i’m disturbed by it. It looks like she’s portraying a woman in hell hence the bacon grease look (sweat). That second pic you can see the ‘fire’ in her hair. Wow Bey. You’re not fooling me.
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Agreed. I am not fooled either.
Femme Fatale says:
Umm…yeah…the post commentary… A little bitta this mixed with a whole lotta that
The video is stripped down of all bs so the focus can be on the song….which is grown and sexy.
Cocoabana says:
I don’t get the comparison to the D’Angelo video, he was ass naked, she clearly wasn’t. I loved that she wore her wedding ring in this video, that doesn’t happen too often.
AGAIN
Tainted_Love says:
<<<< ME TOO
Hey Everyone
LOVE THIS VIDEO!! PROUD BEY STAN
LuvnMeIzEz2Do says:
Holds up a mirror
@84
*sangin*
Right back at ya BewBew
If you think otherwise: PROVE IT!!!
All that Ten Years Stop IT
DONT NOBODY LUV YOU LIKE I DO
Bacon Grease or Sweat
LAME
MUNCHOSGIRL says:
LIKED THE VIDEO, EVEN THOUGH IT IS VERY REMINISCENT OF HER PULSE AD. I LIKED THE LAST PART MORE SO THAN THE REST. SANDRA, LACEFRONT NO, EXTENSIONS YES.
Chick stays thanking GOD and the Lord
@ChaCha –
Now I’m doing my happy dance