I can’t stop watching the music video for Beyoncé’s new tune “Single Ladies”:

I’ve watched it about 50 times and could watch it 50 more times. Some of the hidden power of Beyonce’s video is revealed when compared to Grace Jone’s recently released video for the tune “Corporate Cannibal,” a video and song that best expresses the kind of evil at the root of the current collapse of global capitalism.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

58 replies on “Transfixed”

  1. Fnarf, look who originally applied adoration to a person for their great talent in creating the songs and seems ignorant of how songs are made. It wasn’t me. A good song is a good song but crediting someone with song making ability when it’s mostly singing ability really doesn’t hit the mark right.

  2. I don’t know from auto-tune software but I know kick-ass production and fun, effective pop hooks when I hear them.

    Haters are way off on this one…the song rules.

  3. @48 – Continuing in your now quite impressive train of ignorance, trying to slot Bowie in with the big-bootied bore or the little Icelandic penguin when it comes to their “collaborative” methods is about so off the mark as to be ridiculous.

    Enjoy the ass. Just try not to talk about music. Of which you know squat.

  4. Charles – you give me the creeps time and time again but I have to agree with you that that video is transfixing. … Although I think I may like it for reasons other than yourself.

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