Freakum Dress

Freakum Dress
Beyoncé
publication	2006
length	3:21
Genre (s)	Contemporary R&B , hip-hop , funk
text	Beyoncé Knowles, Rich Harrison , Makeba Riddick
album	B'Day

Freakum Dress is a song by American contemporary R&B singer Beyoncé from her second album B'Day (2006). The song was written and produced by Beyoncé Knowles, Rich Harrison and Makeba Riddick. Freakum Dress is comparable to the songs from the Destiny's Child era in the late 90s. The song contains musical influences from R&B, funk , hip-hop and dance-pop and contains elements of the 80s go-go. In the song Beyoncé sings about the fact that women with certain clothes can attract the attention of their husbands or men in clubs.

The music video was directed by Beyoncé Knowles and Ray Kay, and it was released on the video album B'Day Anthology Video Album (2007). In the music video, Beyoncé dances with women of different races, sizes and weights. The dresses in the music video were designed by Beyoncé's mother, Tina Knowles. Knowles stated that the main reason for shooting a music video was so that everyone should know what a freakum dress looks like.

Background and concept

“Sometimes a woman needs to remind her husband and ask him why he really loves her or sees her in the first place. All women have their dirty dress in the farthest corner of a wardrobe, at the latest when they put on this dress, the man remembers everything. "

- Beyoncé explains the content of the song Freakum Dress

Freakum Dress was recorded at Sony Music Studios in New York City when Knowles hired Harris to also produce her album B'Day (2006). Beyoncé and Harrison previously worked together on their 2003 hit, Crazy in Love . Knowles arranged Harrison, Sean Garrett and Rodney Jerkins to get additional individual space for the production in the studio. With this plan, Knowles oversaw the production and different excerpts of the song were produced and recorded in each room of the studio. Fox News Channel's Roger Friedman described Freakum Dress and Suga Mama (2006) as Harrison's works reminiscent of Crazy in Love (2003). Harisson is the Indiana Jones of soul music. He makes Beyoncé's soul music timeless. Harrison wrote Freakum Dress to show how a single item (a dress) could question a relationship. In an interview with USA Today , Knowles commented on the content of Freakum Dress : “An outfit that reminds the couple of the best parts of their relationship is always a good secret weapon for women, with this secret weapon she can hypnotize men, elicit questions and die Gaining power over their sexual partner. Such a dress must be in every wardrobe. This subject quickly popped into my mind, so I wrote a song about it and any woman who desperately wants or wants to end a relationship can identify with this song. I wrote this song especially for these women. They will like it. "

In June 2006, Knowles visited Billboard magazine's Tamara Coniff in a New York studio. There Knowles presented many songs from her album, including Ring the Alarm (2006) and Freakum Dress , both songs were considered to be possible single releases, but later only Ring the Alarm was released as the second single by B'Day . Knowles told Coniff that Freakum Dress was one of her favorite songs.

Music and content

Freakum Dress is a contemporary R&B song. The song also contains strong influences from rap and hip-hop music, funk , and dance-pop music. Mike Joseph of PopMatters wrote that the song shows influences from the funk music of the 70s and contains elements of the 80s go-go. According to Phil Harrison from Timeout Magazine, Freakum Dress has a steady “galloping beat”, due to the many musical influences from different music genres, he called the song a “musical multi-genre title” and praised it: “Beyoncé just manages to get into to sound masterful in every genre of music, no other can ever come close to the quality of Knowles. She learned rapping through her partner Jay-Z , makes soul / blues / jazz and funk music , all kinds of urban and R&B music and Knowles is also the best in the pop area, regardless of whether it is acoustic or electronic pop songs. ”Spence D. from IGN Music described the music as "dominant," in which Knowles asks a man's attention and uses women to find a dress that will spice up Beyoncé's sexual life and make it hotter. Freakum Dress begins with an introduction to the song led by Beyoncé in rap chant .

According to Joseph, Freakum Dress is similar in content to Bills, Bills, Bills (1999) and Say My Name (2000) from the Destiny's Child era. Jon Pareles of The New York Times described the song's concept as "a wardrobe designed to impress men". In the song, the female protagonist chooses her best dress to show her personality and to impress men. Jody Rosen of Entertainment Weekly wrote, “It seems like Knowles is giving all women professional advice on how to get men's attention for a long relationship. She sings: 'Been locked up in the house way too long / It's time to get it, [be] cause once again he's out doing wrong […] Wear very skimpy clothes…'. "Joseph said:" Actually, Knowles can do a song wear any dress, not necessarily their most beautiful, and still win men's attention just because of their sexual charms, their sexual charisma and their divine song. ”Sarah Rodman of The Boston Globe wrote:“ After Beyoncé has found her best dress, throws her eyes on hot boys in night clubs to get their attention and make her own man jealous. "

reception

Phil Harrison of Timeout magazine called Freakum Dress an excellent production, he praised Beyoncé's vocals and the beat: "The beat will drive boys and men crazy." Brian Hiatt of Rolling Stone magazine wrote that Freakum Dress was more harmonious and more melodic than Crazy in Love (2003) and the songs from Knowles Destiny's Child era, also because of the energetic beat the song is a good song. Jaime Gill from Yahoo! Music described the song as "great" and "mechanical" while Jon Pareles of The New York Times described the song as "overproduced". In an interview, Jon Pareles said the song was one of Beyoncé's most memorable songs. About.com's Bill Lamb chose Freakum Dress as one of the three best songs on the album, calling it "Power", "Emotional" and "Energetic". The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan said the song reminded him of girls who have nice dresses in their wardrobes.

Mike Joseph of PopMatters praised the whole concept of the song, but described the lyrics as "too radical". Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine said ironically that Beyoncé Knowles had invented a new term for the pop lexicon with Freakum Dress . USA Today critics praised the sexual image of the song and Beyoncé: “When Ms. Bootylicious [Beyoncé Knowles] sings about compressing a jelly in 'Freakum Dress', the performance in the music video becomes wilder and hotter than any other video. “Darryl Sterdan from the Jam! praised the beat and chorus of the song. Allmusic's Andy Kellman described Freakum dress as a "roaring and marching" song. He called Freakum Dress one of the best dance songs Beyoncé has ever sung. Prefix Magazine 's Norman Mayers voted the song best on the album. Rach Read wrote for TeenToday: “ Freakum Dress is fast, furious and fantastic.” On September 9, 2007, Freakum Dress reached number 25 in the American Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Charts.

Music video

Concept and shooting

The music video was directed by Ray Kay and Beyoncé Knowles, the music video was shot for their B'Day Anthology video album and released that same month: it was one of eight music videos that were shot for the video album within two weeks. Danielle Polanco and Jonté Moaning were responsible as choreographers, they used retro dance choreographies from the 1980s, from which the music video was also inspired, which uses neon lights in many scenes, which are reminiscent of the retro 80s. Knowles explained to MTV about the concept of the music video: “It is possibly the most extravagant music video and the metallic clothes are so beautiful, they have so much color. I had to make a music video for this song. Everyone wanted to know what a freakum dress looks like, you can't really explain it. Everyone can interpret the music video differently, so we had so many women of different races, ages, heights, physiques because we all have those clothes; we take them off if it gets too tight when closing. "

After Beyoncé made the first music videos, she called her mother, Tina Knowles. Tina Knowles designed over 30 dresses and outfits for the music video for Freakum Dress , eight of them for her daughter Beyoncé. Because of the limited time, many dresses were sewn in a short time with simple means, so that these dresses could only be used for the music video. She borrowed the glasses that Knowles wears in the music video from her make-up artist Francesca Tolot. The music video was shot within 18 hours, including dancer Ebony Haith from America's Next Top Model, Cycle 1 . During the music video, Knowles fized her hair in a neon mirror, the room Knowles was in was surrounded by neon doors, catwalks and objects. The music video premiered on Black Entertainment Television's 106 & Park and other American music channels before the video album was released.

content

At the beginning of the music video, Beyoncé is dancing in front of an object. Then Beyonce gets up, she blushes, takes her lipstick and sits down next to two men in a room full of mirrors. The men then give Beyoncé their outfits, she goes to her women's group. With the women's group, Beyoncé then performs erotic-sexual dances on the objects. Later Beyoncé dances with men and walks on a catwalk . Towards the end, Beyoncé starts a strong sex-inspired dance where she keeps changing her clothes. In the end, her dancers portray paparazzi, they take pictures of Beyoncé and want to do interviews with her, and finally Beyoncé waves her hair.

Appearances

Beyoncé Knowles sings Freakum Dress on her I Am… tour .

Beyoncé Knowles never sang Freakum Dress on television, but on her The Beyoncé Experience tour in Los Angeles and on her I Am… tour , including the Odyssey Arena in Northern Ireland , The O2 Arena in London , Athens in Greece and Sydney in Australia . On August 5th, 2007, Knowles sang the song in Madison Square Garden in Manhattan , where she said right at the beginning of the song: "Stop, I ain't ready yet - wait, let me fix my hair ...". Jon Pareles of The New York Times praised the performance and said: “Beyoncé doesn't need any distractions from her singing, which can be airy or brassy, ​​close to tears or shameful, rapid fire plunging into staccato syllables or sweet melisma. But she was in constant motion, wrapped up in fashionable costumes [...] ”.

When Knowles sang the song in Sunrise, Florida on June 29, 2009, she was wearing a glittering gold leotard . As she sang, animated pictures appeared on the screens in the background, and her dancers were also shown on the screen. Freakum Dress was also featured on Beyoncé's live album The Beyoncé Experience Live (2007) and on the deluxe edition of the live album I Am… World Tour (2010).

Web links

• Beyoncé Freakum Dress (Official Video) . MTV

Individual evidence

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