14 DAY TRIAL // Beyonce has released the full video for the single “Partition,” off her fifth studio album, also called “Beyonce.” It may be dubbed the “Clean Version,” but it’s anything but suitable for work or for those too easily offended.
In other words, if you’re one of those saying that Beyonce has crossed the line into filthy territory, away from the female empowerment she’s been campaigning for all along, you’d better skip this one.
“Partition” is a song about a woman who is so crazy in love and just basically crazy for her man that, even though it took her 45 minutes to get all dolled up for a special night out on the town, she gets down and dirty with him in the car, on the way to the fancy restaurant.
It includes lyrics obviously meant only for grown-ups’ ears and the visuals for it match it word for word, if you will. The video was shot partly at the famous gentlemen’s club Crazy Horse in Paris, with Beyonce dancing with the dancers there, as husband Jay Z is looking on, casually smoking a cigar.
You will find the full video available at this YouTube link but *please be advised that discretion is recommended because of language and imagery that might offend.
In one of her most recent interviews on the topic of her much racier image, Beyonce referred to this video and explained that she wanted desperately to shoot it at the Crazy Horse. Moreover, she wanted badly to get in shape and learn the routine so that she could dance with the girls.
You see, Jay took her there once, and she was in such awe at how the girls looked and how they moved, that she told herself she wanted to be one of them: she wanted Jay to look at her the way he did at those dancers. Mission accomplished.
Beyonce has also recently addressed the controversy around her image switch, shutting up all those who think she’s selling out by showing more skin. She’s not doing it to sell albums, she’s doing it because she wants to… so it’s her choice, her prerogative.
“Now I'm in my 30s, and those children that grew up listening to me have grown up, and I always felt like it was my responsibility to be aware of kids and their parents and all these generations. And I felt like, in a sense, I could not express everything. I've done so many things in my life, in my career, that I feel like at this point I've earned the right to be me and to express any and every side of myself,” Beyonce said.
And this bored but naughty housewife Beyonce is also Beyonce.