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Music videos
Music videos for "Yoncé" and "Partition" were released on December 13, 2013 on Beyoncé.

"Yoncé"
The video for "Yoncé" was directed by Ricky Saiz, and features models Jourdan Dunn, Chanel Iman and Joan Smalls. Filming took place on the streets of Brooklyn, New York and featured Knowles and the models dressed in leather, fishnets, and straps, posing against a brick wall, with cameras showing flashes of skin, close-ups of lips, and erotic tongue flicks. Saiz used the video for George Michael's "Freedom" as a reference point, after Knowles' initial concept of a "contemporary, street version" of the video. "Freedom" similarly featured the lip-sync performance of contemporary supermodels, including Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, and Cindy Crawford. Allison Davis of The Cut called the "Yoncé" video, "contemporary, gritty and voyeuristic" with "nineties-era eroticism and subtle sexuality", referring to the visual as "two minutes and four seconds of fashion and sex", whilst Zayda Rivera of New York Daily News praised the "flawless" delivery of "sexual innuendos", "seductive moves" and the "flaunting of a whole lot of curves" in the clip.

"Partition"
The video for "Partition" was directed by Jake Nava and was shot at the Parisian cabaret club, Crazy Horse. It features Knowles' husband Jay-Z, and the Crazy Horse dancers. In a video commentary to the album, Knowles said: "The day that I got engaged was my husband's birthday and I took him to Crazy Horse. And I remember thinking, 'Damn, these girls are fly.' I just thought it was the ultimate sexy show I've ever seen. And I was like, 'I wish I was up there, I wish I could perform that for my man...' So that's what I did for the video."

Initial reaction to the video was mixed, with Knowles receiving criticism for the overt sexuality of the visual, which features her "cage danc[ing] for her husband" and "writhing around on the floor in her underwear", which Vivienne Pattison of Mediawatch-UK believed showed that she had "sold out" and undermined her position as a "role model" and previous "powerful messages that empowered women and girls". Contrasting reviews hailed the explicit nature of the video, with Alice Newbold of The Telegraph stating how it showed Knowles as "one sassy lady on a mission to show she's back in the game". Knowles later clarified the reasoning behind the visual, namely her 65 lb weight loss after the birth of her daughter Blue Ivy, wanting to promote the idea of still having dreams and being sexy after giving birth.

Personnel
Credits adapted from Beyoncé Knowles' website.


 * Beyoncé Knowles – vocals, production, vocal production
 * Timbaland – production
 * Jerome Harmon – production
 * Justin Timberlake – production, background vocals
 * Key Wane – production
 * Mike Dean – additional production
 * Boots – additional production
 * Stuart White – recording, mixing
 * Chris Godbey – recording
 * Ann Mincieli – recording
 * Bart Schoudel – recording
 * Ramon Rivas – second engineering
 * Matt Weber – assistant engineering
 * Terius "The Dream" Nash – background vocals
 * Niles Hollowell-Dhar – additional synth sounds
 * Derek Dixie – additional synth sounds, mix consultation
 * Hajiba Fahmy – spoken words recording
 * Tony Maserati – mixing
 * James Krausse – mix engineering
 * Justin Hergett – assistant mix engineering
 * Chris Tabron – assistant mix engineering
 * Matt Wiggers – assistant mix engineering
 * Tom Coyne – mastering
 * Aya Merrill – mastering