Will the Hot Fire Fighters Come?

Beyonce - Ring the Alarm

This is not a new release video, but it's the current "song of the moment", so deal with it.

I like this song/video cuz it features B getting all ghetto and angry. It's that Number One Diva side mixed with a solid dose of homegirl. Nice. The video itself isn't anything specially. Pretty solid music video material, but nothing spectacular. I kinda enjoy the whole interrogation angle and her getting all up in the grill of some sort of police. I also love the knit long sleeve crop top... reminds me of her circa Destiny's Child. I also like the contrast between her glamoured and sexied up and her with minimal makeup crying. She looks so beautiful, no denying that.
She also gets to try out a nice range of looks throughout the video. This is pretty standard beyonce though. Some are hits and some are misses.

The video is average, but the song makes me feel empowered and gives me a hot swagger when I'm listening to my headphones.

Oh, the name of this post is in reference to the title of the song "ring the alarm" and also there are references to fires and smoke and flames... no hot fire fighters in the video, sad, I know. But I live close to a fire station... so maybe I'll walk past it listening to this song and wearing an awesome outfit later. (by later I mean not today, I'm tired and have to work late)

Why Don't You Love Me?

So, more on the fun videos being released. Beyonce takes fierceness and sexiness to a whole new level:

I like her choice in this video. The last two videos she's done have been very digitally produced songs with Lady Gaga (don't get me wrong, love the Gaga), but it was a nice contrast to see the grainy, aged quality to this video. I also really enjoy the simplicity and the fact that it was just Beyonce. Following up Telephone needed to be something totally different. The story line, the characters, the style of costumes, everything is Telephone, while epic, could have easily gotten old quick if B didn't mix things up.
Going for the 50's pin-up / housewife in lingerie look was also a sexy, in a totally different way, choice. Even her voice and the style of the song was reminiscent of Dianna Ross and The Supremes. The details were all there. Even the scenes of her in the hotel room, drinking a martini, smoking and crying are some how just such an iconic sex symbol of the past. She's got the strong but needed - innocent, but definately not - vibe going on. And she's working it.

I think she's a babe, and often comes off as a total Diva, and this video holds true to form. But she's also a talented lady, and I adore the aethetics of this video and think she made some clever choices.

And I want the wardrobe... especially all of those shoes...

Don't worry B, I love your pin-up glamour in this video and the way you always keep it sexy and mix it up. Enjoy boys and girls.

Beyonce - Why Don't You Love Me