Beyonce's 'Love On Top' Video Debuts (WATCH)

Beyonce's new video is a fresh take on a New Edition classic.

Really, it's a lot more simple than it sounds.

The pregnant pop queen dropped the video for her single, "Love On Top," which channels the template of the 80s boy band's "If It Isn't Love" video in both choreography and setting. Beyonce and company kick to the same dance moves that the group -- fresh off the loss of Bobby Brown to a solo career -- cut in '88, and set the whole thing in a simple, bare walled dance studio, just as the R&B group did back during the tail end of the Reagan presidency.

Conspiracy theorists, enjoy this one: the star's baby bump is much less apparent here, though that's more than made up for by her awesome hat. There's something about this song that brings out her sartorial best; remember, it was the first song she performed after announcing she was pregnant at the VMAs, and she was rocking a pretty fancy tux during that rendition.

Check out B's new video above, and New Editions' below.

Comments

[August Stover]

01:41 PM on 10/20/2011

The similarities between the videos are so great that I don't think it's plagiarism, but an homage.

[Marisa Stein]

01:41 PM on 10/20/2011

I am so sick of this cow and her music

[fredfellon]

11:20 PM on 10/20/2011

I cant understand why she has to get practically naked in her video to sell her music

[Marisa Stein]

07:58 AM on 10/21/2011

it's all she's got

[WilliamWalton]

12:22 PM on 10/20/2011

Why does she have to be "stealing" it, HP?

It could just as easily be her paying homage to the band. No wonder there is so much cynicism and animosity in the world.

[youknowwhat]

01:37 PM on 10/20/2011

Well put.

[Marisa Stein]

01:42 PM on 10/20/2011

it's called stealing when you take something original and call it your own, that's theft unless you sample

you have a little bit of brown stuff stuck on your nose there

[WilliamWalton]

04:54 PM on 10/20/2011

Not a big fan of hers, so I don't need to worry about any brown stuff stuck on my nose. Just seems more and more HP tries to make mountains out of mole hills or tries to stir the pot with their headlines/articles.

The article is a few paragraphs long which fails to report whether or not she contacted the band and get permission? In all honesty though, why do any of us really give a crap?

[Calvin Skinner]

10:39 AM on 10/20/2011

Wasn't the bands name New Edition and the song called "If It Isn't Love" WTF get your pop culture news right!

[rp2par]

01:50 PM on 10/20/2011

She'll only do it if she can interrupt someone elses award winning moment.

[SBinF]

09:51 AM on 10/20/2011

Democrat or Republican, Jew or Gentile, people all over the world, can we agree to never, ever use the term "baby bump" again?

[MariaMaria]

10:04 AM on 10/20/2011

I promise.

[Zhana Roiya]

09:38 AM on 10/20/2011

The song is ehh!!! Not memorable or catchy. I don't find myself singing it.....ever again. But, that's just me. The video is good to watch as it goes by but you dont want to revisit..again, it at least I don't. Some famous actress of late said it best. You dont want to be so much in the public eye until theie eyes are rubbed dry. I think I need to get some visine now.

[tchoupitoulav1]

10:00 AM on 10/20/2011

FINALLY!!!! Someone agrees with me! F&F!

[politicalgenius]

08:56 AM on 10/20/2011

Nothing new under the sun...

[Natalie Ross]

05:45 AM on 10/20/2011

Beyonce has absolutely no reason to fake her pregnancy.What does she have to gain from it? She already has fortune & fame, & so many people love her like crazy.She doesn't need to fake anything for anybody. Just because you see things one way then another, doesn't mean it's not really real. I believe her & Jay Z will have a beautiful baby!!!!!!

[Dilemma Onassis]

09:09 AM on 10/20/2011

Beyonce told on herself long before she was even with Jay-Z when she stated, out of her own mouth, that she is TERRIFIED of going through a pregnancy! She is in the business of entertainment and if that means faking a pregnancy to keep her in the magazines and on everyone's mind, don't fool yourself into thinking she wouldn't do it. If it means more money, more interviews, and staying relevant, she has a machine behind her that will make it happen. Not to mention the fact that her assistant, who lived in Brooklyn, suddenly is now living in the Bahamas and is three months pregnant.
Regular people often can't fathom the thought of wealthy people doing things like this because they live on the outside of the celeb world and don't realize how FAKE it truly is. The wool is pulled over your eyes because you're being entertained by them so you deny anything that might cast a shadow on the illusion. But at the end of the day, that's all it is.

[Zhana Roiya]

09:43 AM on 10/20/2011

Amen to you and so well put. The illusion for the masses is a much sweeter pill to swallow than the truth. If they only knew...they would no longer be entertained by them. They still believe the Fakery to be the actual portrayal of the people they love. And yes.....the truth is far more darker than the reality. I could tell so many stories and expose so many lies and untruths,...but then.....I'd rather people dig for their own truth and find out for themselves....or not!

[Zhana Roiya]

09:44 AM on 10/20/2011

Money buys so many things....

[rockyroad]

02:37 AM on 10/20/2011

Reinflation is not an option.

; ?{

[rockyroad]

02:35 AM on 10/20/2011

The amazing deflating body belly.

This gig is up. . . . Beyonce may feel compelled to play it out . . . but, we all saw your belly collapse. It was not an optical illusion.

Protest all you like. I saw it. The emporess has no baby.

Think up some viable excuse and move on.

Once that "baby" escaped your "belly" . . pfffut . . . there's no way of putting it back in.

[rockyroad]

02:32 AM on 10/20/2011

Humm.

Fake.

[mamas1224]

02:08 AM on 10/20/2011

There's a bump, but no baby LOL

[madisonlike60]

03:12 AM on 10/20/2011

Maybe she needs to do one of those nude pregnant covers for Vanity Fair. Everybody else has!

[martha high]

01:12 AM on 10/20/2011

these are some weird people Jayz ,Kenya , and Beyonnce running together.

[Barbara0817]

12:49 AM on 10/20/2011

Shes kinda like Janet Jackson , I like Her. Very talented Young lady . I wish Her and Her baby a good long happy life and Her husband too.