Beyonce vs. Ciara

I've been meaning to write a post about Ciara's "Ride" video being banned from B.E.T, but never got a chance to. Personally, I like the video, it kind of reminds me of Beyonce's video "Crazy In Love".

My first reaction to her video was somewhat bias, simply because I have younger sisters and I know they watch T.V., especially B.E.T., and I definitely had the image of my 13 year old sister singing, "They love the way I ride it". Then as a young adult, I thought, this song is not so bad, for me!

I do think B.E.T went a little too far by banning the video. There's a lot more inappropriate videos on 106 & Park way worse than Ciara's video. I decided to compare Beyonce's "Crazy in Love" video with Ciara's video "Ride".

They have similar outfits and at the end of each video, they both appear to be drenched in water, LOL. I'm not sure what kind of message that is, but I guess Beyonce is classier than Ciara, LOL.