Beyoncé considers gender roles in "If I Were a Boy"

Come out, come out. Whoever you are.

All i've got to say is that i LOVED the comic strip

I hadn't even thought of that, and I've heard the song quite a few times now. The clip still confuses me a little though, I just keep having this Midsummernight's Dream flashback (wasn't that the one with a girl who plays a guy who plays a girl.. or the other way around...?) 

You didn't even take your clothes of, yet you've never looked more naked.

So I totally loved this song for all the same reasons when I first heard it - also because I have always been one of the guys growing up and think that guys have each others backs way better than girls do - she had to kill it with the last verse - i think we should change the song

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."

the comic strip has me feeling super nostalgic...smh

i love alice with long hair...and shane looks like such a lothario.

come on over to the gay side Bee!!!

~birds flyin high~

Gahahaha~!!

I totally loved your version better! But I also love the line original line,

"If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man."

Somehow when a girl says that, it sounds very sexy...or maybe it's just me.

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Ciara had this song first. Sorry Beyonce. I give you L for late.

Good call stunt double, but i totally won on this one.

Feels like i've been run over in traffic...

lol but Beyonce did put her spin on it to make her own... 

feeling love sick

The video always gets me confused...because I'm expecting (or secretly hoping) that Beyonce would be trying to get a girl....I keep thinking well if she WERE a boy she'd really would be chasing girls and so it would make sense for her love interest (cop partner) to be a girl....Just my take on it!!

I think Beyonce put her own spin on the topic because I dont even think about Ciara's song when I listen to Bey's.  I think they both did a great job...but I give the edge to Ciara because she went all out...Like she really thugged it out with the baggy pants and sneakers and all that...Beyonce just did her usual sexy, tight fitted clothes.

personally, i like ciara's song better. not to mention this...

thoughts?

i loved the gay thing much better :P..

I heard the subtext in this song immidiately! :D I thought: This song is so GAY!

But when I really listened to the lyrics I thought: You don't HAVE to be a boy to love a girl, Beyonce! But, ok, I still like the song.

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I found this song quite sexist, with its implication that all men treat women poorly and are "players" and women never behave in the same way. (Admit it: we've all known lesbian players... and straight women who are players too.) It really bothered me.

It was cool that someone noticed the similarity to Shakespeare's gender play which, by the way, shows up in a lot of his plays.

On another note, why oh why was Beyonce not on afterellen's top 100 hottest women list? She is uber-hot, in my opinion, and she was certainly on my list (as was Pam Grier, whom I also think is totally overlooked as a hottie).

In case some of you didn't know all ready, Beyonce ripped the song from up and coming singer/song writer, BC Jean. I loved BC Jeans version before Beyonce got a hold of the song. Here's the original version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdjtO4iKU-A

 But I must say, your L Word version of the song beats them both. :P

I really don't agree with "the moral being that she wants to be a boy so her boyfriend can be a girl so that she (as him) can treat him (as her) like poop, to see how he likes it for a change."

I think that the moral in this story is that she could do all those things (chase after girls etc.) if she was a boy, but she wouldn’t, because she knows how it hurts to love a man who does those things. It criticises the way many men behave (taking women for granted), She thinks that, if she could, she would love a woman better.

According to the official single info "If I Were a Boy" credits Toby Gad and BC Jean as the composers.

The first time I heard this song I was like...'wait, is this meant to have a gay vibe?' but then I quickly realised it was Beyonce, and hope was lost...

After those wonderful L Word annotations I feel like I wasn't entirely wrong ^^

The closer you get to the light, the greater your shadow becomes, but don't be afraid...

The first time I heard this song I was like...'wait, is this meant to have a gay vibe?' but then I quickly realised it was Beyonce, and hope was lost...

After those wonderful L Word annotations I feel like I wasn't entirely wrong ^^

The closer you get to the light, the greater your shadow becomes, but don't be afraid...

For a lol moment..I like Ciara's video better, because of the dancing and choreography, but I think Beyonce's version does a better job provoking Le Cock into thinking. Although, If I were a gay version beats out both:) 

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"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"

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