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Beyonce- Ring The Alarm (live at the MTV VMAs)
It’s Beyonce’s B’day (can you believe she’s only 29? That boggles my mind) so let’s look back at one of her finest tracks. “Ring The Alarm” is the one time Beyonce has expressed her fury in the public eye, and it manages to both elevate and humanize her. It elevates her because shit, would you want the rage of angry!Beyonce bearing down on you? She’s like the pop diva version of the Incredible Hulk! But it humanized her as well because it was the first time the audience got to see beneath the happy workaholic diva robot facade Beyonce puts up as her public persona. The shouted and heavily treated vocals transform her voice into a blunt weapon that elucidates the mostly unspoken threats in the lyrics, (sidebar: “You ain’t never seen a fire like the one I’mma cause” is one of my favorite bitchy lines ever), and this dramatic and intense performance matches the song’s tone perfectly while throwing in some excellent Rhythm Nation-inspired choreography.
