R AND P - Analysis of Beyonce's

Artist - Beyonce

Title of song- If I were a boy

Date of Release- October 12th 2008

Director of music video - Jake Nava 

Genre - R 'n' B / Soul 

There is a strong link between the video and the lyrics to the song, Beyonce is performing whilst also narrating the storyline. The basic plot to the music video is Beyonce and her partner switch places were Beyonce becomes a boy she then takes the stereotypical role on as the bread winner as she becomes a police woman. 

In the beginning of the video, beyonces husband makes her breakfast and he's excited about it, and she kind of doesnt have time to eat. She has a male partner and the video goes through their daily routines. Her husband's at work and has attractive girls flirting with him but he declines their advances. She has a guy flirting with her, and she flirts back.

Beyonce said that at the end of the video, viewers would realize the husband is a police officer and what the female character, had been doing throughout the video is what her husband had actually done to her all along.
MTV News writer Jennifer Vineyard's analysis of the concept concluded, "when we first saw it from a different perspective Beyonce's, behavior seemed more abnormal. And when it's the guy doing everything she just did in the previous scenes, it becomes all too familiar—which is Beyoncé's point.