The fact that the scenario of the video is not embedded in a narrative fantasy - contrast, for example, this video with her 'Irreplaceable' video - makes it more difficult for a spectator to 'identify' with the image (in terms of placing one'e self in the narrative scenario). The starkness of the background, the use of the moving camera rather than editing, the black and white, the 'three' Beyonces: I think the video is more contradictory than your analysis suggests. Given how different this video is from those that typically highlight women's bodies in a sexual manner, I cannot help thinking that the makers of this video thought seriously about avoiding it. “The queens in the front and the doms in the back,” she sings, connecting this music explicitly to its roots in Black and queer communities, “Ain’t takin’ no flicks but the whole clique snapped.I'm not so sure I agree with your last comments. Produced and co-written by The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, who helped create Beyoncé’s smash “Single Ladies” - and brandishing a prominent sample of New Orleans bounce veteran Big Freedia urging listeners to “release your mind” - “Break My Soul” finds Beyoncé using her growliest voice to describe a search for liberation from a crushing job (“They work me so damn hard”) and a nerve-jangling pandemic (“You said you outside but you ain’t that outside”) over propulsive drums and a soulful piano lick. “I’m on that new vibration,” Beyoncé sings in her new single “Break My Soul,” and indeed she is: The first taste from the pop superstar’s highly anticipated “Renaissance” album is a thumping 1990s-style house jam that arrives just days after Drake dropped his similarly club-inspired “Honestly, Nevermind.”

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