This is the one where people don’t like Beyonce.

Posted December 9th, 2009 by Mike Lawson

After the recent Grammy Nominations, I’ve heard a bit of criticism about Beyonce’s Single Ladies getting nominated.  The primary criticism is that her song Get Me Bodied from the album B’Day is too similar to Single Ladies. If you don’t know the song, here’s Get Me Bodied:

And here’s Single Ladies:

There’s definitely a similarity.  It’s all hand claps and “post-breakup sass” as Entertainment Weekly said.  And Allmusic said that Single Ladies is a “dire ‘Get Me Bodied’ retreated.”

And Frank DeCaro said that the two songs are so similar that Beyonce doesn’t deserve a Grammy for Single Ladies.  Which I don’t agree with.  I guess that DeCaro’s opinion is that Single Ladies is a second chance.  But I don’t care how many tries it took her, Single Ladies stands on its own.  It’s catchy.  The theme of female empowerment (which Beyonce does so well…to the left, to the left) has people comparing this song to Aretha’s RESEPECT and Gaynor’s I Will Survive.  And the music video…hello?  That choreography is responsible for the first huge “dance craze” of the internet.

Rolling Stone called this song the #1 song of 2008, and MTV called it #2.  Who cares about Get Bodied.  This song deserves a Grammy.