Although Beyoncé is familiar with the distinctions for her songs and music videos, her latest achievement is worth mentioning.
"Rolling Stone" released its list of the 100 best music videos of all time and Beyoncé took first place with the video for "Formation".
"Formation" was a surprise release that was revealed in the first week of Black History Month 2016, in February, one day before the appearance of Queen Bey in the halftime of the 50th Super Bowl.
If the visual album "Beyoncé" established her as one of the greatest artists of all time, the video of "Formation" that was released suddenly (as well as the album "Lemonade" that followed) made her one of the most important artists of all of the times ", notes" Rolling Stone ".
The "Formation" music video, directed by Melina Matsoukas, was inspired by important Black personalities in the story and referred to the "historical impact of slavery on the love of blacks and what it has done to black families", as she described the director in "The New Yorker" in 2017.
"I wanted to show that these are Black people. We triumph, we suffer, we drown, we are beaten, we dance, we eat and we are still here ", he added.
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The "Formation" video was posted in New Orleans and examined different interpretations of the city's past, present and future after Hurricane Katrina, creating a celebration of the pride and resilience of the Black community.
The Guardian's Syreeta McFadden noted that the video depicts the archetypal Black women of the American South "in ways we have not often seen represented in popular art or culture."
"Formation" was also the most searched song on Google for 2016. It also received six nominations at the MTV Video Music Awards and was nominated for three Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Music Video. category in which he won the award.
Five minutes was enough for Beyonce to present the best music video of all time, according to "Rolling Stone".
