Beyoncé Celebrates “Beyoncé” in Typical Beyoncé Fashion

A soft piano plays an undulating riff, like waves. Beyoncé speaks. “I sometimes wish I could just be anonymous and walk down the street like everyone else…” and so begins the short film, Yours and Mine, that Beyoncé, the person, has released to commemorate the one year anniversary of Beyoncé, the album. The eleven-minute short features black and white footage culled from the 14 music videos she so shockingly dropped on this day last year. While mostly instrumental remixes play in the background, Beyoncé reveals her manifesto on life, love, growing up, pain, and loss. The film re-imagines her Grammy-winning album as a strange self-help video: Beyoncé our wise guru, imports her wisdom over the sights and sounds of a slowly falling waterfall. It’s an acid trip without the psychedelic visuals, a 60’s acid trip with our guru Beyoncé as our guide. “People feel like they lose something when they get married, but it doesn’t have to be that way.” No, it doesn’t. A surprise revelation comes after she re-asserts her feminist beliefs: “I consider myself a humanist.” A humanist and a feminist—if there was ever a document that would incite the creation of a religion based on the teachings of Queen B, this would be it. “You can’t put your finger on who I am—I can’t put my finger on who I am,” she says at the beginning, and after watching this video, I agree, we cannot put our finger on her because she is not real. She is a spirit, an energy put on this earth. She even says so herself when she says, “I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is temporary.” All hail the goddess, queen Beyoncé, literally a being from another world.

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