Music Video Forms: Hybrid

Beyoncé – Irreplaceable (Hybrid: Narrative and Performance)

 

This music video is a hybrid because it has both a narrative and a performance. The performance appears mainly at the end where she is on stage singing to an audience however elements of performance feature throughout due to editing. There is also a narrative running throughout. This narrative follows the story of a man getting kicked out of a woman’s apartment because she finds out that he’s been having an affair. He loses everything that she bought him and the video ends with her realising that she can do better and finding another man – hence the performance on stage at the end because she’s telling people that she doesn’t need a man and that she can move on.