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“Countdown”: Beyoncé’s Feminist Reversal of the “Catalog Song”

November 27, 2011 · by Robin James · in beyonce, catalog aria, countdown, feminism, feminist, lloyd, mozart, young money

In this post I argue that Beyonce’s “Countdown”—both as a song and as a video—critiques a canonical, but quite misogynist, style of song. The “catalog song” is a centuries-old format: a dude ticks off a list of all the women…

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