MUSIC VIDEO: BEYONCE – “DANCE FOR YOU”

A currently very pregnant Beyoncé serves up the sexiness in her brand new video, “Dance For You,” the last video from her fourth studio album, 4. The video was a big surprise for fans, included on the deluxe edition of her “Live At Roseland: Elements of 4″ DVD video anthology, which is slated to hit stores next Tuesday, November 29th.

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120 Responses to MUSIC VIDEO: BEYONCE – “DANCE FOR YOU”

  1. BrandonJD

    Choreography is on point! No complaints here.

  2. Terri

    SHE DID THAT!!!! Very pleased with the direction she took for this song =).

  3. Sasamina

    Sex, sex, sex…if you’ve seen one video by Beyonce, you’ve seen em all. Although Beyonce is a great performer (can’t take that away from her if you tried), she just don’t excite me. It’s like she tries too hard even when she don’t have to, especially at this point in her career. A nasty strip tease? Save that shit for the bedroom! I mean REALLY!

    • I AM GREAT

      AMEN ,Beyonce ppl need to wake up , Bey has what it take’s to Grow !!!

      Why ,do they make her look like she just can’t do better !

      Beyonce HIRE someone else !

    • LadyA

      I feel the same way. Not hating, I can just see the kids though all over youtube with this one. Smh

    • MIA

      ummmm, the song is only talking about dancing sexy for ur man. I mean if u wanna do that wearing a turtle neck and all that stuff, then do u mama. But I for one loved it. Sexy is the only way this video could have been expressed.

    • LadyA

      @MIA I understad your point on this also. But since everything she does is deemed “sexy”, did we really need a video for this song? Instead of people being “sexy” on their own terms, a whole lot of females will be trying to reproduce this video for their man. LOL!

    • Tysheen

      I Love Beyonce but the video seems boring to me. It reminds me of her “Ego” video a little bit.

    • Forrealtho

      @Mia ROTFL DEAD! @ (I mean if u wanna do that wearing a turtle neck and all that stuff, then do u mama.) Thnks for the laugh!

  4. @FuschiaLuv

    YOOoooo I LOVEEEee this Video , it’s so sexy and fun done in a tasteful way & I love the song :)

  5. I AM GREAT

    Wow , she looks interesting i am not feeling this song ,or look for her !!

    What’s up with Bey ppl , she can do better guy’s

    • FamuRattler

      i agree. she is usually really on poit with slow joints. this one was just ight. Hey, sumtimes u hit and miss. this is an inbetweeen. she looked good, as usual, tho.

  6. celestialfish

    I just cannot feel comfortable with this song, at all especially after I was introduced to the video, combine that with the images of how heavily pregnant she is…no bey. shoulda done this video months ago.

    • SoCold

      uhm.. pretty sure she recorded this video months before she was even pregnant. and she has no kinda bump in this video so…

    • MIA

      She doesn’t even look pregnant……??? Which video did u click on, lol? Cause you sure seen something not posted in this post.

    • celestialfish

      yeah…. duh thats obvious, I meant she should have released the song and video months ago before her pregnancy got so obvious,it doesn’t make sense (to me) for her previous videos (before she was obvious) she’s so covered up, in this one shes just grindin and sexin everywhere,(When shes so heavily pregnant) and she could have released this after she released 1 on 1

    • Jessica

      @SOCOLD: Thank You!!!! People are getting dumber and dumber every minute,really it’s the water people are drinking for real!! If you people know how to make a music video, she planned this way before she became pregnant. Shoot, Whitney Houston did music videos for The Bodyguard back in 1992 before she was pregnant and did the video for “I’m Every Woman” when she was pregnant at that time also “I Have Nothing” while she was pregnant also. People really get it together. What next, everyone is gonna say she’s having a alien baby just because? SMH!!! This is getting ridiculous. What happened to “listening to the music”? Now its baby conspiracy? Really people?? People are that dense now?? SMH. Seriously people need to read or something.

      Anyways, I like the song, I’m not a Beyonce stan, I like it because of the music, not because of popularity or her status. I like listening the music. That is it. People need to get back to that, not this “oh is her baby bump real?” “oh I thought she having a baby, is it fake”? “oh why there is no baby bumb in her videos”? Like really? People GET IT TOGETHER!!!

    • emily

      @CELESTIALFISH
      But the video WAS done months ago though *confused*
      People complaining about the video..uhm it’s called DANCE FOR YOU…she’s singing about how she’s gonna please her man. What did you expect LOL
      @JESSICA the worst part is NO ONE had doubts about this pregnancy untill that foolish blog started the conspiracy. We’ve seen the bare bump and her face, boobs and ankles are swollen. What other evidence do they want! SMH

    • KEEPINITREALLADIES

      I saw the post of Beyonce and was looking for you Emily (LOL)…Much respect you cleaned up your comments…now its worth reading very good sweetie.

  7. LadyA

    It just seems like I’ve seen this same choreography done by her many times.

    • BOOM

      Exactly, hair flip, back pop, hip swivel, hair flip…REPEAT!!

    • LadyA

      Don’t forget the fans blowing her hair and the crotch shots.

    • MUSHROOMS & ROSES

      It looks like “Ego” with a hint of “Freakum Dress” and “Check Up On It”. I understand what she was trying to convey through the video because of what the song is about. But, she just comes across as a stripper to me in this video. The dancing was hard and so “extra”. The barely there clothing and the over the top gyrating was just way too much for me. There is nothing epic or ground breaking because we’ve seen it all before. Everyone keeps saying that she looks “classy” in this, but I feel like we’re looking at two different videos, because it’s nowhere near classy to me. But hey, to each his own, right?

  8. Liz

    Maybe Beyonce’s brand is sex. She is a very pretty girl, that can sing. I am not for sure why she sales sex in everything she does. Maybe its because she is a boring pretty girl, that had to spice up her persona. But the video was nothing special, I have seen these same dance moves in almost everyone of her video’s, Beyonce has no growth. She looks pretty and sexy in the video thou.

    • MayneTayn

      And you saw Michael Jackson moonwalk, spin and everything else in most of his videos too. When you’re on TOP, what more growth you expecting?

  9. MIA

    Let’s get over the SEX sells issue. It’s been poppin since Grace Jones and Cher. I mean we can even go back to Marailyn Monroe. I mean really kids, grab ya tittes and grow up a little, like really?…. I cant believe we mad Beyonce is shaking all her good stuff. You go Bey.

  10. MayneTayn

    This is hot right here!! Get it Bey with your sexy pregnant self. Nice cinematography.

  11. Kyla

    The video was very sexy and the leading man was not cute at all but it wasn’t that bad – I liked the dance moves.

  12. Redchainsaw

    The choreograph was dope, if Beyonce sells sex wrf is Rihanna doing?

  13. MayneTayn

    Support Black businesses on BLACK FRIDAY!!!

  14. Chris

    People are extremely jealous of Beyonce… Every pop act out is using sex as their foundation – why when Beyonce doing it, it’s a stigma?

    • Selina

      Because she doesn’t need to that’s why…she can sing and however it is not enough hence we are frustrated with this video!

    • MUSHROOMS & ROSES

      @Selina – You do have a point Selina. Beyonce is already talented enough. So, why rely on the whole “sex” image? She can sing, dance and puts on a hell of a show. I think this is why people get so frustrated with her, because the over the top “sexiness” is not necessary. Let your talent speak for you, not you looks or you body. This is what started pissing me off with Mariah Carey too. She has the singing chops, yet her clothing started get tighter and shorter. What for? She didn’t have to go there. It takes away from your talent, and then all people will focus on or remember about them is their looks and their body.

  15. Chris

    Oh I like that video tho. She is our best entertainer hands down.

  16. bananawaffle

    why was this guy chosen as the lead guy? unless she purposely wanted toe ‘american cowboy with a sexy female’ kinda feel?

  17. Backspace

    SPEAK OF DOUBLE STANDARDS JLO & BEY
    DO THEIR POLE DANCES AND ITS GREAT RIH GAPS HER LEGS AND THEY WANT HER TO COVER UP LIKE SHES A NUN????

  18. Backspace

    @Chris people or not jealous speak for yourself. What people or up in arms about is how her fans talk the other artists down in order to try and lift beyonce up. And since beyonce is such a great entertainer when she do videos like this which is great but she does nto really have to work that hard to prove her love for her man in the bed room. Many artist has been singing grown folks music since almost day one. I see beyonce as a great r&b singer and just like mary j and monica you don’t see them popping and doing all of that and they still get their point accross, see what i mean.

    • concrete looper

      But From Her Album, This Is The ONLY Song That’s Quite “Sexual”, The Others Were Soulful And Had A Lot Of Meaning. It’s Unfair To Use This Video To Diminish Her Work
      “u don’t see them popping and doing all of that and they still get their point accross” You Contradicted Yourself By Using Monica & Mary To Prove Your Point. If You Can Do That, Then Beyonce’s Fans Using Other Artist’s Should Not Be A Problem :)

  19. concrete looper

    I Agree With You On The Leading Man- He Just Sat There Looking So Emotionless- YAWN
    Honestly This Video Isn’t That Bad, The “Sex Sells” Comments Are Biased. Most Of Rihanna’s #1 Singles Are Raunchy, Lack Substance And Are RAW Yet They Keep Topping The Charts. So Beyonce Making ONE Song From Her Entire Album Related To Dancing For Her Lover Shouldn’t Be A Big Deal. The Outfits Were Sexy And Classy, None Of The Ladies Looked Like Sex Slaves And The Dance Moves Were Also Not Too Explicit So Kudos To Her For Passing Her Message Across Decently
    When You’ve Reached The Top Spot, It’s Very Hard To Exceed What You’ve Previously Done Hence The Repetitive Dances And Videos

  20. DiamondLatrelle

    The video and dance routine were decent. Eventhough, it does seems like she is doing some of the same dance routines over and over. I didn’t like her “Leading Man” choice either.

  21. Elton

    Firstly let me just say that, any one who comments on this post shows her some kind fof support whether you like her or not because quite frankly any artist thati did not fancy at all, aren’t even worth my words!

    People are talking about Beyonce does nothing but REPEAT herself in her videos, that is nonsense, foolishnes, bs, all of the effin’ above…..What the hell ya’ll want her to do, dress of like a red headed clown or a nun….It’s a repeat because its HER image and everything that she does is not SEX!!! It’s does make any damn sense for some of these comments…Most people must aint hear about publicity all this talk about beyonce and a fake baby bump ish aint doing nothin more than boosting her image. WTF people looking for a baby bump for in a video like this

    So for all those that want something different let me let you know this…..

    NO!! shes not Whitney Houston!
    NO!! shes not Mariah Carey!
    NO!! shes not Diana Ross!
    NO!! shes not Jennifer Hudson!
    No!! shes not like any other female aritist and never should be compared to any other artist because she is her own person, fake baby bump or not for all you haters that like those kinda rumors!! She’s a great entertainer!! I ain’t a beyonce stan but i know when foolishnees is just too much!

    Now go run and tell that!!! BTW the video was great and as a loyal fan(not a STAN) I loved it, she gave me life!!!

    SN:WTF people talking about its borin and looks like her other videos, wtf they want her to DO….mock somebody else so they can say she stealing……fs

    • Kyrah

      The “She gave me life” comment totally negates your comment about not being a Stan as well as your freakin 3 page letter smh. Plus how can you be a friend of someone you’ve never met…sounds hella stanish lol. Anyway I’m a Beyonce fan but this vid was boring didn’t even finish it, she does have a set formula but most artist do, don’t like the vid move on don’t sit and try and tear her down because at the end of the day your comments have absolutely no bearing on her life.

  22. Lady A

    No one can deny Beyonce’s talent. The lady can sing enough the most difficult of notes with effortless perfection. And she can also move well. Here’s the problem though: while she shows great variety with her vocals, her dancing leaves a lot to be desired. As someone else mentioned, we’ve seen the majority of these moves before, used in similar ways, in videos for Crazy in Love, Check On It, Video Phone, Sugar Mama, End of Time live performance, and the list goes on. Sex most certainly sells but so does art, and while the quality of the video with its 1930s, pinup-whodunit theme was artistic and fitting, for me, the oversexed, typical Beyonce moves cheapened the artistry.

    • twista

      I could not agree with you more. And to add to that, not only was the choreography a bit cheap, it’s all stuff she’s done before. At this point, I think she should seriously consider hiring other choreographers from time to time. She doesn’t necessarily need to fire Sheryl Murakami or Frank Gatson, but she needs new ideas and fresh blood to expand her repertoire.

  23. Jesusbeliever

    Love Beyonce. This video and song are fine. Don’t know if this has happened or not but I’d love to see her release I’d rather die young and/or I miss u as singles. Those are my fav songs along with Love on top.

  24. yomama

    she sells sex better than any other artist,,shes mastered it..
    she gets away with it and on top of it got people thinking its classy its amazing,,

    anything she does from commercials to concerts to videos, she is always moving her body in sexual ways and promoting sex,
    she dances with her legs wide open, she is very calculating and smart and this is what made her millions,..

    she does it with a smile so your fooled into thinking shes just a innocent nice girl….wrong!

  25. Classy!

    I don’t see how it can be worthwhile for her to do so many videos when none of her singles have been hits or generated many sales. It’s like she’s paying for these clips just to keep her name out there bc she can’t be making a profit. I guess she likes looking at videos of herself? Oh well, she has the money to waste…lol.

    • Jesusbeliever

      I have wondered too why she makes so many videos. Back in the day, artists never did that and there was a wide gap between videos. I’m sure she’s making money off of it but it does seem like it would be a break even or that she would spend more money for the videos than the actual profit of shooting them

    • Mrsjones

      She is making another video anthology like she did for b-day, hence why she keeps releasing them.

    • concrete looper

      At This Point, The Last Thing She Is Worried About Is Generating Sales From Her Singles, Her Album Topped Charts Worldwide And She Has Achieved Success Others Can Only Dream Of. That’s Much Better Than Having A Hundred Top Singles. I Mean If Your Single’s Sales Are Doing So Well And You Can’t Have ONE Single Number One Album (Throwing Shade At The Other Chick LOL), Then What’s The Point?

    • Classy!

      I don’t remember this album selling all that great or beyond anyone’s dream. An album that is no.1 for week is no match for 100 #1 songs that will stick with people for a long time.

  26. Tab

    The video and song were boring in my opinion.( which I am entitled to by the way). Its typical beyonce…no clothes on really and gyrating all over the place. I mean what happen to creativity? Beyonce can really dance..so whats the point of this. I guess I miss dancing in videos..like Janet Jackson, hell even Ciara…but this was a waste

    • celestialfish

      exactly, I’m a fan but, combine that with the fact that today she’s heavily pregnant, this video and that pregnant image its really tacky.

    • Mrsjones

      Oh shut up!! She wasnt pregnant in the damn video so get over it!!

    • celestialfish

      you shut up, what is it with Beyonce stans are you illiterate?, do you see anywhere in the text where I wrote that she’s pregnant in the video. OK READ CAREFULLY I’LL WRITE THIS AS SIMPLY AS POSSIBLE IF YOU DON’T GET IT F*CK YOU. Beyoonce has released a this very sexy video called dance for you and shes not pregnant in the video. but beyonce herself “TODAY” is heavily pregnant her sexin and grindin in the video and her pregnancy “TODAY” its a very tacky image. what i’m saying is she probably should have released this video after one on one. GET IT GENIUS

    • LALA

      You used Ciara as an example? Ha. Nobody knows her. And Janet hasn’t been seen since 1998.

  27. Tysheen

    I Love Beyonce but not the video.

  28. Here I Am

    WOOWWW!!! love it. never heard this song lolz, embarrased to say. (guess thats what i get for not buying the album.) choro. is on point-simple but its just nice. GO B

  29. jae_nicole

    I loved this video. It reminded me of her earlier videos. I needed a break from her videos with the over the top choreography. Oh and by the way, from this album this is the only video that was really overtly sexy. I expected 1+1 to be really sexual but it really wasn’t to me. Love on top and Countdown were good to me but I wouldn’t classify them as being too sexy.

    • sweet d

      Countdown not being too sexual??? She’s telling girls tgat if u love ur man grind up on him and show him how u ride it…in Party she tells the boy he can get, but don’t tell nobody and we’lk be knockjng all nite long.

  30. jae_nicole

    Oh and the white boy can get it!!!!!!

  31. The Hater

    I pray that camel seed will cause Bey to sit her butt down for awhile.

  32. anonymous

    reminds me of Jamie Lee Curtis’ striptease in True Lies

  33. tiki

    That crackhead has no respect for artists whose talent outshines hers. One insecure trick!

  34. welfarecase

    This was boring and she was stiff popping too hard… wasnt sexy ciara’s promise video was sexier

  35. Dafinestgrl

    I Love beyonce but …”Bey, who is this damn white man?!”….his
    Old lookin @ss….

  36. sweet d

    This song makes no Damn sense. Really this is the music you droans happily eat up from somebody you call a legend???? So i guess The Dream is a legend too…I know let’s induct Pretty Ricky too. I sorry but it must be something in the water, because if this is the calliber of music that a legendary icon makes; then thank God for Adele, Kelly Clarkson, etc.

  37. rain

    i love she has a handsome white guy in the video
    from yet another cheap low budget video from bey.

  38. What the What

    I’ve never liked Beyonce, but surprisingly, the 4 album was really good. She has definitely shown growth as an artist with this album. However, this video looks cheap. The over the top popping and hair flipping did not match the tone of the video. Fail.

  39. NAILSTAYFLYNY

    So is she his stripper or prostitute? Im confused but this must be before she started showing….

  40. voo

    Notice there are no brown skin girls in this video and B looks like a white women, blond flowing long hair….and the person of interest is a white man…enough said.

  41. rpnt09

    People are so heavily opinionated when it comes to Beyonce (one of the biggest pop/r&b divas of the world), but even negative press is press. So keep hatin! As long as her name is in yals mouth. This video was sexy and on point!

    • LALA

      YES! Exactly! I don’t think some of them (haters) get it… Bey’s still sitting on the throne.

    • Daizy

      Janet don’t ever have to be seen or heard from again. She don’t have nothing else to prove, she had the luxury of longevity in the game for over 30 years. Janet is pop royalty she is from the most famous family in the world. Don’t get it twisted honey.

  42. Corve

    I love this video…says sex but tasteful sex. Very clever the way it was executed. Def a guy choreographed this.

  43. tertra114

    i really like the song!

  44. tertra114

    NOW THIS IS WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT BEYONCE!!!!!! that beat is BANGIN!!!

  45. Breezy08

    This video is not my favorite but at the end of the day Beyonce is truly an entertainer!!

    Check out my music!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7rkyFt83eQ

  46. nana

    I’m a little dissapointed with this video for several reasons:

    - The song isn’t that great, I thought it was more of an album filler and the video doesn’t really sell it
    - There is no story to the video. Who was the middle aged white man? He didn’t look very interested in what she was doing. I am assuming she is a call girl of some sort which comes across as tasteless to me
    - The fact that she is pregnant and gyrating and showing close-up shots of her crotch is awkward and kinda disturbing(Even if she really “isn’t showing” as some put it)

    Well…that’s my 2 cents. I think the album is impressive, however, she might want to re-brand her overly sexual image as she embarks on this new phase in her life.

  47. Side Eye 'n this video

    Beyonce is a superstar, no one can ever take that from her……however…..at this point in her “established” career she can tone it down. Married with a baby bump, it’s time to sit back and enjoy her millions. As she stated, “The world is ours”. I think she actually believes that! So if it’s so…sat down and let them young girls gyrate half naked on stage. Ciara did it better anyways.

  48. justbecause

    Is they going to let this sh’t show on t.v. bad influence on young people this is not right I only watch a little of it and I thought I was in the strip club people you better you children and run from this video and if this was a dark skinned women doing this and all of them where black the would raising hell right about now

  49. yomama

    she makes music for videos and videos for men,,,
    what chick wants to sit there & watch this with her man all the time for the past 10 years…go sit down already and do your private dance for your actual husband,,,
    she got what she wanted tho all the attention
    great job

  50. Rachel

    This video looks like the same sh** you see from Beyonce. I’m not surprised. I did not need to see the up-close shots of her crotch gyrating and she needs to tone it down.

  51. missre

    ok isn’t she suppose to be like 6-7 months pregnant now…how is she doing all this shake, rattle and roll and back bends and stuff…something fishy…i think i could appreciate it more if she wasn’t giving the “baby” shaken baby syndrome.

  52. jonblaze_ct

    LOVE the song. The deepness of her voice is hot.

  53. poor_baby

    Mommy I want to be a married hooker just like beyonce when want to grow up…that’s riight baby..pop it for not only ur man..but all men…having mrn lust after u is ok baby~

  54. I AM GREAT

    WHERE’S JAYZ FOR HIS WIFE ??? ! Jayz and bey seem to have a VERY open marriage and Jayz seems more like an undercover husband !!! Beyonce seems so lost !

  55. Lis

    Why do some people start a comment off with, “Ummmm” like it’s going to distinctly clarify a point you’re trying to make? No where in proper speech or grammar is it acceptable, and it quite frankly just makes you sound even more unintelligent!

  56. snookii cx

    its awsome to say she is preg in the video lovin it :)

  57. Madame X

    She sure like showing her cooch all the time.

  58. Trevez

    People needed to do some film history before watching this if they don’t know what Noir detective films look like. The white guy is the detective and Bey is the femme fatale.

  59. truthfullyspeaking

    This is why I don’t like Beyonce. How nasty? Why are you doing sexual dance moves in front of a man and the camera? Really? You people, who like the video, don’t think that is degrading? I am only 21 years old and even I don’t support the sex sells. You people, who don’t mind the sex sells, must be the same ones who like porn and like watching people have sex in movies. I found this video to be a bit disturbing, and that’s why I skipped through it. I think it’s embarrassing and shameful of her to do videos like this and I don’t care what anybody says about my comment. Call me a hater all you want. And she’s pregnant? I wonder what her child is going to think about all of her hoochie music videos when he or she is old enough to understand them.

    • ME

      Lemme tell u that ur wrong. Sex does sell honey. Clearly. However, I do NOT watch porn and find something else to think abt when they’re having sex in movies. Broaden ur horizens boo.

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