Beyoncé fans outraged over her polarizing new video for ”Déjà Vu” may want to direct their online petition to someone else in the Knowles family — her saucy alter-ego Sasha, to be more specific. Okay, I’m not entirely sure there’s any truth behind DigitalSpy’s story in which Beyoncé (at right) claims Sasha hijacked her 2004 Grammy duet with Prince, but it’d be kind of awesome if there was, no? (Hey, maybe Sasha could cut a duet with Xtina — or perhaps Baby Jane.) Anyhow, even if I didn’t kinda dig B’s down-in-the-bayou spazz-out (which I do), who am I — for that matter who are any of us — to mess with Sasha?
I think a better target for a video protest might be one Justin Timberlake (at left), whose ”SexyBack” clip is, at best, a load of hooey, and at worst, fairly offensive. (Check it out at MTV Overdrive, or if that persnickety website won’t work with your computer, find it at YouTube.) To me, ”SexyBack” is a lot like sucky season 4 of Alias (with a Robert Palmer videobot doubling for Sydney Bristow), only set in the same hotel where Madonna filmed ”Justify My Love.” Except it’s also in Germany. And there are scads of ”moody” flashing lights that make this blogger want to seize a little bit. Justin’s dancing, meanwhile, is limited to a couple of pasty finger flicks, and the proverbial dodging of the disco ball. And then there’s the matter of the not-entirely-consensual-looking sex scene. Sure, Sydney rips off Justin’s shirt at one point, but her occasional looks of panic, and the way the bedroom kinda takes on the look of a crime scene, make me just thisside of skittish. Is it only me? And what’s with the barking Doberman? Do-over, do-over!
It;s funny how JT’s video is supposed to be set in Germany, yet was filmed in Barcelona.
I just watched it. I don’t get it.
I’ve watched JT’s vid a couple times now and still can’t figure out what the hell is going on. The door gets taped! And then the tape is broken! And then there’s an explosion! AND THERE’S NO DANCING.
I burst out laughing at the end of the video when he’s jumping out the window and it explodes, and then proceeded to laugh for another good ten minutes afterwards. Oh Justin, what were you thinking? Makes Senorita look like a work of art, and that was my least favorite video, including all the ones from Nsync.
I didn’t buy Justin in this video at all. The spy stuff, the forced sex scene, he looked to be in over his head. Maybe it was that I was reading about Lance Bass. Justin in Sexy Back reminded me of George Michael in the video “Father Figure”
There’s really nothing sexy about JT, his song, or his video. The music is repetitive and boring and the vocals sound like they were recorded by Buffalo Bill while he was sewing together those pieces of skin in “Silence of the Lambs.”
Not only is the video an incomprehensible suckfest, the song sucks too. That is the worst song I have heard for a long, long time. Awful stuff.
i loved Justin the first time i saw him…when he was called Robbie Williams.
He’s trying too hard to crossover to acting.
Both the song and video are bad. The song sounds overproduced, with his voice being filtered through a computer. Computer programs can help make good music, example Thom Yorke’s The Eraser album. His voice sounds natural and never is overwhelmed by the electronica. JT is the opposite. The video is just a muddled mess.
The song is crap. The only redeeming quality of the video is that it did, at moments, remind me of Alias.
Shouldn’t a music video for a dance track with the name of “SexyBack” be fun, intriguing, daring… or–dare I say it– sexy?!?!
This may be the worst music video I have ever seen. There are almost no words to describe it… clunky, un-fun, confusing and downright strange… and it makes absolutely NO SENSE… seriously. What is with the tape on the door?
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let me get over lance being gay then i’ll get back to you
I LUV THE BEYONCE SONG AND VIDEO I HATE THE JUSTIN SONG AND VIDEO!
Beyoncé´s video and song for “Deja Vu” are alright but Timberlakes is the most ridiculous thing I have seen and that includes the shamefully NSync times.