In the beginning of the video, my husband makes me breakfast and he’s excited about it, and I kind of don’t have time to eat. Upon describing the video, Beyoncé (2008) states, “It’s kind of like Freaky Friday.
The song then ends with the powerful lyrics “but you’re just a boy”. She makes him a lavish meal, he takes one bite and leaves for work, and flirts with his partner. The next morning, we as an audience see the roles revered. The husband answers “I said it ain’t like I am sleeping with the girl”. He responds “what?” silence is met and the roles are reversed.
Her husband gets upset and upon returning home they have a blow out and she responds “why are you so jealous, it ain’t like I am sleeping with the guy. Days later, the couple goes to a party and she is dancing with an intense degree of sexual tension with her partner. She goes out with her friends, does not tell him and ignores all of his calls as he stays at work late. She goes to work and flirts with her partner throughout the day, while her husband goes to work, and proceeds to search for gifts for her.Īttractive women invite him out and he declines and ignores the obvious attention. Beyoncé’s husband cooks her a homey breakfast, she takes a bite and proceeds to leave, showing no degree of gratefulness. In this video, the typical gender stereotypes are reversed. Her partner, who expresses the feminine stereotype answers with “honesty”. Beyoncé answers with the masculine stereotype, her first phrase being “intimacy”. In the beginning of the music video, the couple express key components to their ideal relationships. The song “If I were a boy” is an incredible example of gender roles and how they are presented. Many of her songs dictate just that, Beyoncé’s song “If I were a boy” is the most significant of her songs because it reiterates to the gender binary, gendered bodies, gender performance, intersectionality and gender inequality. The singer, dancer, entrepreneur, and actress never looked back and throughout her success she instilled in her fans from the beginning the importance of feminism and the importance of race. Her platform increased, and her fame exploded. After reaching some success Beyoncé later broke off from the group and started the path for her own solo career. Her father quit his job in the cooperate world to help manage the group. Beyoncé Knowles started her music career at a very young age with a group compiled of her childhood friends.
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