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formally trained (her) vs self-taught (me) dancer #tiktoksg #sgtiktok #fyp #foryou #foryoupage #dance #crazyinlove
2.8K Likes, 39 Comments. TikTok video from zain (they/them) (@boizain_): "formally trained (her) vs self-taught (me) dancer #tiktoksg #sgtiktok #fyp #foryou #foryoupage #dance #crazyinlove". Crazy In Love (Homecoming Live).
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언제 들어도 걸 크러쉬!! #BEYONCE #비욘세 #CRAZYINLOVE #CHOREOGRAPHY #DANCE #FYP
3. 8K Likes, 9 Comments. TikTok video from WAVEMONSTER (@wavemonster): "언제 들어도 걸 크러쉬!! #BEYONCE #비욘세 #CRAZYINLOVE #CHOREOGRAPHY #DANCE #FYP". Crazy In Love (Homecoming Live).
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Crazy In Love - Beyoncé Choreography: @Ysai Castro Session: @ZEROstudioph As the Queen Bey gears up for the release of Act I Renaissance , it was a quick fun night dancing to Homecoming’s Crazy In Love 🐝 #dance #beyonce #crazyinlove #zerostudioph #fyp
TikTok video from G E L Ö (@antonsalanga): "Crazy In Love - Beyoncé Choreography: @Ysai Castro Session: @ZEROstudioph As the Queen Bey gears up for the release of Act I Renaissance , it was a quick fun night dancing to Homecoming’s Crazy In Love 🐝 #dance #beyonce #crazyinlove #zerostudioph #fyp".
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Iconic stomp 👏🏾 #beyoncetiktok #crazyinlove #endoftime #dancing #queenb #fyp #fyp #yonce #beyonce
TikTok video from QUEEN B 👑💛 (@beyyonncee): "Iconic stomp 👏🏾 #beyoncetiktok #crazyinlove #endoftime #dancing #queenb #fyp #fyp #yonce #beyonce". original sound.
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✨CRAZY IN LOVE✨ dc: me👋🏽 #beyonce #crazyinlove #fyp #foryou #choreography #choreo #dancer #maledancer #performance #queen #live #homecoming #dance
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TikTok video from Juan Diego Díaz (@juandiegorih): "✨CRAZY IN LOVE✨ dc: me👋🏽 #beyonce #crazyinlove #fyp #foryou #choreography #choreo #dancer #maledancer #performance #queen #live #homecoming #dance". sonido original.
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Looking so crazy in love🤗💕 #5pasidebine #misiuneatiktok #beyonce #dance #dancechallenge #crazyinlove #dancersoftiktok
189 Likes, 6 Comments. TikTok video from Caciuc_Cristina (@caciuc_cristina): "Looking so crazy in love🤗💕 #5pasidebine #misiuneatiktok #beyonce #dance #dancechallenge #crazyinlove #dancersoftiktok". original sound.
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48.5K Likes, 1.8K Comments. TikTok video from Corey O’Brien (@corey_obrien): "iconic. @beyonce ❤️ #fyp #dance #beyonce #crazyinlove". Crazy In Love (Homecoming Live).
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Katha Joshipura
part 3 of the surprise dance I performed for my hubby at our wedding ❤️ tried to dance like the Queen 🐝 for my King 🤗 #bridedance #beyonce #bollywood #bhangra #southasianweddings #crazyinlove #loveontop
25.4K Likes, 78 Comments. TikTok video from Katha Joshipura (@kathajoshipura): "part 3 of the surprise dance I performed for my hubby at our wedding ❤️ tried to dance like the Queen 🐝 for my King 🤗 #bridedance #beyonce #bollywood #bhangra #southasianweddings #crazyinlove #loveontop".
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Crazy in Love, 7/11, Telephone
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Every Beyoncé song is a dance song in the right circumstances. But the queen also has a rich history of explicitly making Dance Music — that is, songs that draw on the sort of music meant to get people moving in clubs. (To say nothing of her remarkably intense choreography, a staple of her performances since her work with Destiny’s Child.
) Her new album, Renaissance, is reportedly a house-influenced record; the first single, “Break My Soul,” is evidence as much: a house-pop track built off a synth line recalling Robin S.’s instantly recognizable “Show Me Love.” Judging by the credits — among the names: Donna Summer, Nile Rodgers, Honey Dijon — Bey could have everything from disco to Miami bass to futurepop in store. But before we get to groove to those songs, let’s take a journey back through her catalogue of dance.
Dangerously in Love, first and foremost, attempts to establish Beyoncé as a star in R&B, so it’s short on the genre-bending that would later become a hallmark of her style. But we should recognize Queen Bey’s debut solo single, “Crazy in Love,” which became the first song to top Billboard’s then-new Hot Dance Airplay chart, where it stayed for seven weeks.
(Beyoncé has gone on to top the chart 21 more times.) The track comes out the gate as a crowd-pleaser, with a huge horn sample from the Chi-Lites’s “Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)” and hooky “uh-oh” refrain. But it’s the throwback funky percussion and four-on-the-floor chorus that makes “Crazy in Love” a dance favorite.
Beyoncé’s sample of Donna Summer on “Summer Renaissance” won’t just call back to disco’s greatest — it’ll also call back to a time Beyoncé interpolated the “Last Dance” singer. Though “Naughty Girl” isn’t quite a dance track, it did show Beyoncé’s deftness with old musical references, as the song is built around the hook for Summer’s sensual anthem “Love to Love You Baby.” By singing the line herself — in an equally airy upper register to match the legendary performer — Beyoncé brings the track to the present.
Beyoncé has been engaging in cross-cultural collaborations since the start of her career, and some of her best dance songs have been rooted in non-American styles. The hypercatchy “Baby Boy” is a perfect example: Beyoncé slips right into the dancehall–meets–R&B track, trading lines with Sean Paul, who was in the process of establishing himself as one of Jamaica’s most influential crossovers. And of course, that springy beat makes it impossible for listeners to stay still.
The humble cowbell: the anchor of so many great dance songs, from Madonna’s “Holiday” to Crystal Waters’s house-pop masterpiece “100% Pure Love.” That’s what helps “Green Light” make the cut here. The song reteams Beyoncé with the Neptunes, who previously produced her Austin Powers song “Work It Out”; Pharrell Williams has also had a hand in another of her best dance songs, in “Blow.
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Beyoncé’s foray into music for dancing really starts with “Get Me Bodied.” It’s the first song that she released an extended mix of, a practice that dates back to 1970s disco. It also marks the beginning of Beyoncé’s long fascination with bounce music, the high-energy New Orleans style that she’d work with more directly later in her career. And hell, Bey even tells you how to dance to the song in the break and the music video. What more do you need?
Beyoncé teamed up with another dancing queen, Shakira, for this track off the deluxe B’Day. It blends a number of the Latin and Arabic dance styles in Shakira’s wheelhouse, including mariachi, flamenco, and traditional Middle Eastern music (often used for belly dancing, as referenced in the video).
It was all pretty far outside Beyoncé’s comfort zone at the time, but she still runs the show.
It’s the song that created an instantly recognizable dance craze. And if that’s not enough — well, stylistically, “Single Ladies” is also a dance song through and through, returning to Beyoncé’s jittery bounce influence while also incorporating some of the electropop flair that defined the second side of I Am … Sasha Fierce.
But if we’re talking about electropop on Sasha Fierce, we really need to be talking about this song. “Radio” has a huge Eurodance-style drop that would end up all over pop music in the next few years, and it consequently became a hit in the Netherlands. Forget that title — this is one for the club.
As for the Beyoncé song all over American clubs at the turn of the decade? That’d be “Telephone,” her collaboration with an up-and-coming dance-pop artist named Lady Gaga. The song brought Bey to the subcultural world of the New York underground, with its dirty synths and a speaker-breaking chorus. Over a decade later, it’s one of her most enduring dance hits — and that rap verse can still unite a floor like nothing else.
Like how some of the best funk songs are about funk and the best rock songs are about rocking, many of the best party songs are about, well … you know. Beyoncé’s contribution makes good on its titular promise as a low-key dance groover, all based off a sample of “La Di Da Di,” by Doug E.
Fresh and Slick Rick (then known as MC Ricky D). Like a good party, none of it sounds like work, from André 3000’s effortlessly in-the-pocket verse to Beyoncé’s bursting vocals.
Before what’s likely to come on Renaissance, “Schoolin’ Life” was Beyoncé’s best and truest disco song. The 4 deluxe cut packs in the genre signifiers: laser-sharp synths, horn fills, skittering drums, and a massive diva vocal from the queen herself. It’s a song about how Beyoncé just does it better — and she proves it right on this track.
Sure, it might be difficult to dance to “Haunted.” But the song is rooted firmly in dance culture, pulling from some more left-field club styles like trance and the work of Aphex Twin — particularly on the dark first half, titled “Ghost.
” At the time, Beyoncé’s spoken-word delivery reminded critics of Madonna’s “Justify My Love,” a song that marked another left turn from a dance great.
That nimble, slinky guitar riff on “Blow” is straight from Prince and Nile Rodgers’s playbook — that is, it’s meant to affect you on a bodily level. It works fantastically on this song, an ’80s throwback all the way down to the accompanying roller-rink visual. (Once again, thank Pharrell, an expert in retro-tinged pop.)
If “7/11” came out today, it’d surely have a TikTok dance to go with it. Can’t you see the hand-waving and ass-smacking already? One of the loosest songs from a notorious perfectionist, “7/11” had a music video resembling a viral clip.
With its ever-shifting trap percussion and Beyoncé’s edited vocals, the track splits the difference between the high-energy SoundCloud rap and pixelated hyperpop to come in the next decade of internet-born music.
“Formation” ups Beyoncé’s past flirtations with bounce as a full-out tribute to New Orleans culture and music, in the video as well as the track itself. (The sample from NOLA’s own Big Freedia preceded her feature on “Break My Soul.”) The single, one of Beyoncé’s most lauded, is way more than just a dance song — it’s a stylistic melting pot that pulls from trap, includes some hard bars from Queen Bey, and features a full damn marching band.
Beyoncé’s skill and history drawing from other cultures makes her uniquely positioned to adapt to trends — like when she hopped on the remix of J.
Balvin and Willy William’s “Mi Gente” as reggaeton was growing in the U.S. The song is actually more accurately described as moombahton, like reggaeton-inflected house, bridged together by clangy percussion and hooky synth lines. It already worked as a dance song, but Beyoncé’s 110 percent contribution made it a song for anyone to dance to, as she so skillfully can.
For a dance song to work, it needs to be accepted as a dance song — that is, people need to actually dance to it when they hear it. That response can even transform a song not explicitly created for dancing, like Maze’s “Before I Let Go.” Beyoncé’s spin on the Black anthem was the cherry on top of Homecoming, full of love for Historically Black Colleges and Black culture at large. With a trap-pop beat from Tay Keith and a smooth-as-hell dance break, her take is familiar enough to please a crowd, but innovative enough to rank among her best work.
Just as Afrobeat began to cross over in the west, Beyoncé made an album-length tribute to African pop on The Gift, her companion to The Lion King — and later, soundtrack to Black Is King, a fabulous showcase of dance on its own. “Mood 4 Eva” is a joyous highlight, bridging Afrobeat with trap for another song about making the most of a night. Childish Gambino actually puts the song’s mission best: “Ancestors in my step / Now I move better.”
Pharrell will team up with her again on the Renaissance cut “Energy,” the first time he and his partner Chad Hugo have worked with Bey since this song.
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" Fighting Temptation " is a song recorded by American R&B singer Beyoncé and American rappers Missy Elliott, MC Lyte, and Free in 2003. The song was used to promote the film. Fighting Temptations (2003), starring Beyoncé. It was composed by Beyoncé, Missy Elliott, Lana Moorer, Marie Wright, Jonathan Burks, LaShawn Owens, Carrim Mack and Walter Murphy. "Fighting Temptations" was released as the lead single from the film's soundtrack album on July 5, 2003 by Columbia Records and Sony Music Entertainment.
R&B funk song "Fighting Temptation" samples Uncle Louie's "I Love Funk Music" (1979). The song's lyrics talk about dealing with negativity in life as well as waiting for the right person before falling in love. The song was received generally positively by music critics. They completed the song's theme, Beyoncé's vocals, and rap verse. "Fighting Temptation" attracted attention mainly in European countries, peaking at number 11 in the Netherlands and peaking at number 50 in Belgium and Switzerland.
The accompanying music video for the song was directed by Antti Jokinen. [1]
Conception
"Fighting Temptation" appeared on the soundtrack album from Fighting Temptations just like in the movies. [2] A total of seven tracks featured vocals from Beyoncé. [3] The latter stars in the film along with a choir consisting of gospel, R&B and hip-hop recording artists. Faith Evans, Angie Stone, Melba Moore, Reverend Shirley Caesar, O'Jays, Montell Jordan, T-Bone and Zane all feature in the film and perform to the soundtrack. [2] "Fighting Temptations" features additional vocals from American rappers. Missy Elliott, MC Lyte, and Free. [4]
Composition
The single's soundtrack was composed by Beyoncé, Missy Elliott, Lana Moorer, Marie Wright, Jonathan Burks, LaShawn Owens, Carrim Mack, Walter Murphy, and Gene Pistilli. Manufactured by Elliott. [4] "Fighting Temptation" is an R&B funk song with a fun vibe.
79 years "I Like Funky Music". [4] Heather Fares of All Music wrote that the song's lyrics refer to "celebrating a girl's party in anticipation of true love." [1] According to Dany Boubayer of the British website The Situation, Fighting Temptation contains "the well-known message of striving for the best and fighting negativity." [5] Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine found that Missy sees pleasure and joy in the sins that make people go to church on Sundays, but in reality "party people" are no different from parishioners who sin with their songs and music. [6] Finally, the strong female presence in the song is less than religious arrogance. [6]
Release
During the series of soundtrack releases, Beyoncé commented on the song from Billboard stating, "A lot of the music was written specifically for the film. At first I was worried about the timing of the soundtrack [because] my solo album was supposed to come out long before the movie.
But then the solo album was shelved. " [7] Beyoncé later announced the release of the soundtrack album in a press release:
When you hear the song "Fighting Temptation" and all the music from this movie, you can't help but fall in love with it. You will definitely be emotional. You may become happy or even sad, but your heart will be filled. All the songs are touching and heartfelt, and that's what the movie itself is like. [2]
"Fighting the Temptations" served as a CD single in Germany on July 5, 2003. [8] It was sent to City Radio for broadcast in the US on August 18, 2003. [9]
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Heather Fares of All Music wrote, "[...] the seven tracks Beyoncé plays on her own or with other collaborators are more striking: in particular the film's title track, a wonderfully fun and fun celebration" . [3] Dani Boubayere of The Situation (UK) commented that the soundtrack album "begins with explosive 'Fighting Temptation'[.
..] which pits Princess Beyoncé's sweet R&B vocals against Missy and MC Lyte's hard rap sounds." [5] Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine wrote that Beyonce, MC Lyte and Free don't fight temptation as the song's title says, but seek it. [6]
Performance Chart
"Fighting Temptation" appeared in continental Europe in early 2004. [10] In the Netherlands it debuted at number twenty on the Dutch Top 40 in January 2004. The following week, he climbed to number thirteen, his peak. [11] "Fighting Temptations" peaked at number 37 in its sixth week on the Belgium Singles Chart (Flanders). It ran for seven consecutive weeks until mid-April 2004. [12] On August 29, 2004, the single debuted and peaked at number 42 on the chart. Swiss Singles Chart. [10]
Clip
The song's accompanying music video was directed by Antti Jokinen and features Beyoncé, Elliott, MC Lyte and Free. [13] It was filmed in an abandoned mansion near Los Angeles towards the end of June 2003.
Footage of the performance was flawlessly combined with clips from the film. [13] On set, Beyoncé said:
“Basically it’s kind of like a women’s night because it’s all us women and the song is basically about all the temptations you have with this guy, and you sort of struggle with it. The house came from the movie because it reminds me of the house we shot in for the movie." [13]
Synopsis
The video begins with Beyoncé in a red dress moving across the screen with many changing colors, and then cuts to several shots of Elliot rapping in a white and red tank top and matching hat, Light in a blue dress and a church choir. Elliott is then shown on roller skates wearing a white and black outfit, skating all over the mansion. The footage shows Elliott in bed with a man and Beyoncé at a party with a guy, singing to people. As the song progresses to Beyoncé singing the chorus, she is shown wearing a gold top and black shorts, sitting on a bed and dancing in a room, and at a party, she sings for her lover and blows him kisses.
The song then cuts to McLight's verse and we see her dancing in the middle of a semicircle of men in orange prison jumpsuits. Scenes from the movie and Mac Light are interspersed throughout the ever-changing backdrop.
Beyoncé then sings the chorus again and dances in the background in a red dress. McLight and Free are seen at a backyard barbecue party when McLight's verse starts and she mingles with the party guests with Elliott as the DJ. Once again, Beyoncé returns to sing the song's chorus, now at a barbecue party, with scenes of her dancing in the mansion room and scenes from the film in which she sings on stage in front of a large audience with a group of people behind her. With the end of the final chorus, the song returns to Elliott and Light, with the former sitting on roller skates as at the beginning and the latter in front of a semicircle of men. The video ends with the four of them sitting at a picnic table at a barbecue party, with two little girls clapping their hands on the opposite bench.
