The Interesting Thing About Beyonce’s “Video Phone”
What a difference a decade makes!
I recently reunited with one of my favorite singles from Beyonce’s 2008 smash hit, I am…Sasha Fierce, “Video Phone,” which was actually delivered a year later, but that didn’t deter its immediate popularity.
The video of the extended remix of the track, featuring newly-crowned Lady Gaga at the height of her career, who would go on to recruit Bey’s flawless skills for the infectious 2010 single “Telephone,” is quite a treat.
The vibrant aesthetics heighten those choreographed performances, and 10 years later, it’s hard not to be smitten by the early displays of Bey’s signature moves, that have since been exquisitely perfected with splashes of the seasoned sophistication and primed endurance that compelled her epic masterpieces; Lemonade and Homecoming.
But the notable aspects of Beyonce’s “Video Phone”has to be the glaring passages of time, and how that produces the uncontrollable tendencies of nostalgia that tend to collide with the polarizing forces of pesky…
