So, it's the least expensive video I've done. We'd spent all the budget on the video for (the previous single) If I Were a Boy, and with this song, we didn't even have a treatment. So it's like the most urban choreography, mixed with Fosse - very modern and very vintage. So it was a strange mixture, kind of like the song, which is almost like a nursery rhyme, the 'oh-oh-oh's, and the sinister chords. And I said, 'This is genius.' We kept a lot of the Fosse choreography and added the down-south thing - it's called J-setting, where one person does something and the next person follows. They had a plain background and it was shot on the crane it was 360 degrees, they could move around. Beyoncé explained to The Sunday Times that the idea for the promo was a 1960s film of a Bob Fosse routine, Mexican Breakfast, which featured his wife, Gwen Verdon. The video has become an internet phenomenon with thousands of homemade versions posted on YouTube. In the 'Single Ladies' video, which features Beyoncé and two look-a-likes dancing, the Texan singer and her pals are pointing in the direction of their wedding fingers, as they urge ladies to find a man who 'should put a ring on it.' The dancing was inspired by the legendary choreographer and director Bob Fosse. Both this and 'If I Were a Boy' were released with accompanying black-and-white videos directed by Jake Nava, who also did the clips for Beyoncé's 'Crazy In Love' and 'Baby Boy.'

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