"If I were a boy"
“If I were a boy” by Beyoncé Knowles, was released on the 12th of October 2008. Beyonce Giselle Knowles was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She was married to the most well-known hip-hop icon in the United States of America and gave birth to a daughter. Beyonce is strongly showing her girl’s power and women formation in most of her music video. The song “If I Were A Boy” is a post-breakup ballad and a follow-up to her “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)“, the definitive girl power anthem of late 2000. This song shows the image how Beyonce herself being a boy as a way to talk about how she feels as a girl. What is more important is that she is not singing about being just any boy but she is actually addressing a particular boy who has broken her heart. By imagining herself as "a boy," Beyonce opens up the possibility that the song is also about gender in general, not just another heartbreak song. She is able to talk about a specific relationship, but also a