to think Beyonce isn't a great dancer?

[Ubertwat]

DD is in a play where her and a few friends do a dance routine to Beyonce's 'Crazy in Love'.

I'm not a fan of Beyonce on many levels and I just don't get why lots of people talk up what a great dancer she is. Perhaps the choreography she's consistently had isn't great but am I missing something?

She seems very heavy footed to me with very little grace and fluidity. All she seems to do is shrug her shoulders up and down, booty pop and whip her head around from side to side.

DD is constantly going on about what a great dancer Beyonce is but I just can't see it. I did dance for many years but I'm no expert so maybe I am missing something.

YANBU. She seems clumpy to me. Not that I actually know anything about dancing mind.

YABU. Bey is the queen of everything.

All I know is that I couldn't do what she does!

YABU.

YABU. Beyonce is Queen of the World. Or should be.

Arfarf Yes, that's what I struggle with as well. I was watching a few videos without volume because her voice goes right through me and I was thinking I've just seen this exact same dance in another video!

Palcum and maybe I don't mean to be goady at all but can you please tell me why you think this? I just don't get the hype around her at all.

My DD calls her 'Queen B' which makes me squirm a little inside but she refuses to explain to me why she has this opinion.

uber I just adore her. I can remember being a teenager and feeling like shit about myself and every time I put a Beyonce song on it made me feel better. Still the same now - when I've had a bad break up or I feel a bit pathetic I put her on spotify and it makes me happy.

Just a personal thing really!

One thing she can do is dance.

She is shit though, buys song writing credits.all her songs are ready made.

She did that girls run the world song, that was written by 8 guys and she bought herself a writing credit.

If you see her in a show capacity, or on YouTube, then she dances well.

Her style is Jazz Ballet and Hiphop, but she puts her own stamp on it. She trained in Ballet.

If you watch the behind the scenes stuff then you see a wider range of actual dance.

The Music Videos are a performance and as a Performer, she's is one of the best around.

I suppose it's what you look for in an artist...she is a real performer and completely dominates the stage, her songs are huge pop songs that are technically perfect songs in that they all have a catchy chorus and bridge.

She may not be the best dancer, ((but a hell of a lot more capable than me), but there are lots of world famous musicians that have a less than perfect voice, Robbie Williams, Elvis Presley just to name a couple. They are incredible performers and no one would doubt their talent and awesomeness.

Birds Oh yes, it's the live performances I meant, not the music videos because I know they're heavily edited and choreographed.

Yabu

Whoa. I take it you've never seen her perform live? She's amazing. I wasn't a fan until my sister dragged me along. Jesus. That woman can dance. For fucking hours too.

I read one time that apparently the dance she does in the video for Single Ladies is incredibly difficult to pull off so for that alone YABU.

I tried learning the single ladies dance on the basis that if Katy Brand can do it then so can I. Err... No. I got the pointy pointy floor bit down but couldn't move fast enough for the rest. Still. Provided a laugh for me and some friends. :o

Well she's marginally better than me, I suppose.

I never had 'formal' dance training because dance class was £2 a week (which was a lot of money in Nottingham in the 80s) and Brownies was 20p. So I had to go to Brownies, but my friends that did both taught me All The Moves, oh yeah.

It's not my sort of thing. All that stomping around with a pained look on her face just makes me what to phone a midwife for the poor lass.

OP practice the moves yourself and see if your 'training' convinces you otherwise. Being stompy is part if Hip Hop dance. She's not as great as say someone like Ciara, but there are NO other performers as famous as Beyonce that can come anywhere close. Out of interest, who do u rate otherwise?

Apologies OP, mixed you u with another poster re 'training'.

Saucy I do also worry that whipping her head around all the time is going to give her a headache, not to mention the risk of her rats tails hair having her bloody eye out.

River The dance to Single Ladies was a knock off from West Side Story

HeSaysYOLO I don't know any other modern singer's dance abilities to be honest. I remember Ciara being amazing back in the early 2000s- is she still around?!

I like the dancer Maymouna.

I only know about Beyonce's supposedly amazing dancing because of DD.

You sound quite catty now op. I don't understand what the need is for some people to tear down females, critiquing each attritibute they posess, particularly if they have some self belief in their talents and abilities.

completely agree poppy