So a very naughty Toyota employee has leaked a new commercial featuring Beyoncé. It’s already been taken down by a lot of websites, but you can still see the video on some YouTube channels like this oneand can we suggest you take a look? It's kind of bonkers.
The advert takes you through Beyoncé’s fabulous life pretty much from conception (we know) to her current Drunk In Love self (a nice circle of life there, don’t you think?). It’s a reimagining of her journey, but the whole thing doesn’t really make any sense because the video makers have been so liberal with the truth.
Firstly, it starts off with Beyoncé dancing in her mother’s womb to XO. While we recognise she is basically superhuman, we still question her ability to prenatally two-step.
Then it cuts to her writing the lyrics to Survivor on a bus. This we have a problem with. Destiny’s Child’s first album came out in 1998 and was very successful from the off – from that day on, I’m pretty certain Queen Bey wasn’t sitting on any public transport, unless by ‘public’ you mean a private tour bus packed full of staff.
Cut to a scene of Beyoncé practicing singing into a microphone, plugged into an amp, in the middle of what looks like a New York, outdoors basketball court. All very reasonable, we supposed, until you realise she’d have nowhere to plug in her amp so it is essentially a very heavy, unnecessary and cumbersome accessory.
Finally, the advert finishes with an inspiring voiceover saying: ‘Everyday I wake up, I make a choice. Not to let the world decide for me. I decide for me, I decide to get going’ and cut to two red Toyotas speeding off into the distance. Now, we’ve seen Beyoncé with a few cars, including this The 1959 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud II convertible and the mini Lamborgini AND a pink Cadillac she bought for Blue. When Beyoncé ‘gets going’ anywhere, I’d be willing to bet it is never in a Toyota.
Thoughts?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.