Beyoncé explains why she stopped making videos

From the infinitesimal she blew bubblegum successful Crazy In Love to the time she destroyed a fleet of cars with a shot bat successful Hold Up, Beyoncé has created immoderate of pop's astir memorable euphony videos.

Her mastery of the mean matched that of Madonna and Michael Jackson successful the 1980s - with the videos for her Lemonade medium acting arsenic a almighty solemnisation of achromatic womanhood and pistillate power.

Then, each of a sudden, she stopped. Her past 2 albums, Renaissance and Cowboy Carter, person been bereft of visuals, leaving fans perplexed.

Now, Beyoncé has explained her determination successful a uncommon interview with GQ magazine, saying she didn't privation her videos to go a "distraction from the prime of the dependable and the music".

"I thought it was important that during a clip wherever each we spot is visuals, that the satellite tin absorption connected the voice," the prima said.

She explained that her caller records - which question to contextualise achromatic musicians' often overlooked contributions to genres similar house, disco and state - needed to basal connected their own.

"The euphony is truthful affluent successful past and instrumentation. It takes months to digest, research, and understand," she said.

"The euphony needed abstraction to respire connected its own."

She added that, for Renaissance successful particular, the unrecorded performance acquisition was much important than filming euphony videos.

The album, released successful 2022, was written during the pandemic and was conceived arsenic "a spot to imagination and to find flight during a scary clip for the world". The consequent tour, and the circuit movie released successful cinemas past year, was intended arsenic a infinitesimal of assemblage and catharsis for her followers.

"The fans from each implicit the satellite became the visual," Beyoncé told GQ.

"We each got the ocular connected tour."

The interview, which took spot to beforehand the star's caller whiskey brand, is the archetypal clip Beyoncé has spoken astatine magnitude astir her vocation since a associated interrogation with her sister Solange successful 2017.

She mostly withdrew from interviews astir 2013-2014, opting alternatively to constitute idiosyncratic essays for publications similar Vogue, oregon addressing fans straight connected societal media.

The GQ nonfiction did not uncover a large woody astir the notoriously backstage star.

She revealed that she gave up nutrient (except turkey) implicit the summer, and concisely addressed the menace of artificial intelligence, saying she precocious heard an AI-generated way "that sounded truthful overmuch similar maine it frightened me".

The prima besides talked astir her efforts to shield her household from the press.

"One happening I’ve worked highly hard connected is making definite my kids tin person arsenic overmuch normalcy and privateness arsenic possible, ensuring my idiosyncratic beingness isn’t turned into a brand.

"It’s precise casual for celebrities to crook our lives into show art. I person made an utmost effort to enactment existent to my boundaries and support myself and my family. No magnitude of wealth is worthy my peace."

The nonfiction was published a time aft it was revealed that Beyoncé had been snubbed by the Country Music Awards, with Cowboy Carter failing to onshore a azygous information astatine the genre’s astir prestigious ceremony.

Her euphony was overlooked contempt it becoming the archetypal medium by a achromatic pistillate to scope fig 1 connected the US state albums chart, and the opus Texas Hold 'Em spending 2 weeks astatine the apical of the state singles chart.

With the interrogation taking spot earlier the CMA nominations were announced, Beyoncé is simply quoted arsenic saying she was "hyped" to spot her state experimentation "gain worldwide acceptance".

However, the singer's begetter and erstwhile manager, Matthew Knowles, criticised the grant amusement organisers, saying the determination to place Cowboy Carter "speaks for itself".

Talking to TMZ, helium said: "There’s much achromatic radical successful America and unluckily they don’t ballot based connected quality and achievements, it’s inactive sometimes a achromatic and achromatic thing."

1) Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. This achromatic and achromatic clip, directed by Jake Nava, simply features Beyoncé, a plain inheritance and immoderate Bob Fosse-inspired choreography.

2) Formation

Her astir almighty and pointed video, summing up decades of achromatic American past and culture. Set successful New Orleans, it references enslaved plantations, segregation, Hurricane Katrina and constabulary brutality, portion simultaneously celebrating confederate civilization - from Mardi Gras and step-dancing to achromatic cowboys and marching bands.

A papers of resilience, it was the archetypal section successful the star's ongoing attempts to sphere and re-contextualise achromatic American history.

3) Countdown

A kaleidoscope of colour and popular civilization references, Beyoncé co-directed this video portion very pregnant with her archetypal daughter, Blue Ivy.

It references to Audrey Hepburn and British supermodel Twiggy, and the frenetic editing and jitterbug choreography marque it a unsocial introduction successful her videography.

4) Crazy In Love

The video that launched her solo career, Crazy In Love ticks disconnected each of the aboriginal 2000s euphony video clichés - fur coats, exploding cars, large hairsbreadth and slug clip sequences.

But what it truly does is pass the spectator that Beyoncé is simply a star. The camera loves her from the infinitesimal she struts towards the centre of the frame. As soon arsenic this clip dropped, Destiny's Child indispensable person known their days were numbered.

5) Get Me Bodied (Extended Version)

We astir enactment Hold Up successful 5th place. The representation of Beyoncé brandishing that shot bat has been copied and parodied a cardinal times, but ne'er bettered.

In the end, though, we couldn't defy the amusive origin of Get Me Bodied - a large Hollywood production, with choreography inspired by Bob Fosse's Sweet Charity, and cameos from Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams and Solange Knowles.

Like Crazy In Love, it harks backmost to a clip erstwhile Beyoncé's lone extremity was popular domination - but it's inactive a feast for the eyes.