Chapter 6: Beyonce: Getting Out Of Relationships Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (I am... Sasha Fierce Oct 2009) Beyonce leaves her boyfriend after he takes too long with a proposal. She goes out that night, knowing that he will be at the club, lookin' fly and flirts with other boys. She wants to make him jealous and sorry that he let a good woman like her go. Telephone (The Fame Monster Feb 2010) Beyonce, trapped in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend, does not have the strength to leave him, so she busts Lady Gaga out of jail, fresh off killing her abusive boyfriend, to help her leave him once and for all. Beyonce poisons her boyfriend and is, at long last, set free from her male constraints. Reinvention Beyonce has gone through a lot of reinvention of late. From her double album featuring new persona Sasha Fierce to her 2 collabs with out there artist Lady Gaga, Beyonce is certainly trying something new. Her latest album, portrays Beyonce as dual-personed, Beyonce the regular down to earth woman and Sasha Fierce, who is as her name says. With her new album Beyonce has coupled themes of music videos about female independence from men and stylized videos featuring 3 "female" dancers in black and white photography. Her latest reinvention comes with her new relationship with Gaga. Beyonce, like other artists, is exploring the futuristic side of music with increased sound mixing and effects. Additionally, since Beyonce's been chilling with Gaga her wardrobe has been mirroring some of the blonde's wild outfits. Dichotomy The dichotomy represented by Beyonce in Single Ladies and Telephone is about leaving men and not being able to leave them. In Single Ladies she's a proud, independent woman who has no problems leaving her man and then rubbing his nose in it. In Telephone the case is reversed, while the video and the lyrics don't exactly go hand in hand, Beyonce is, for all intents and purposes, portrayed as the protagonist in the video. Unable to stand up to her abusive boyfriend, she sees no other option than to murder him. Again, both very powerful statements about how women relate to their partners, but also two very polar ideas. Can a woman break up with a man without being remorseless or a femme fatale? Regardless there must be a better solution than "can't live with them, can't live without them."