the meaning of the song if i were a boy
If I Were a Boy "If I Were a Boy" was written by BC Jean and Toby Gad.[2] It is the opening ballad of the I Am ... disc of the double album I Am... Sasha Fierce. It is the only song on either disc that BeyoncÃ© did not co-write.[3] Most of the lyrics were written by Jean, who was inspired by the break-up of a romantic relationship.[1] One day Jean and Gad visited a pizzeria in Times Square in New York City.[1] Although tempted, Jean refrained from eating pizza because she was dieting. She then thought that if she were a boy, she would have eaten without regret.[1] After reflecting on the idea, she concluded that she would have been a better man than her past lover.[1] Gad captured Jean's ideas on a pocket recorder, and they went to the studio the same day. Once there, she wrote the lyrics and melody in about 15 minutes. She then recorded the song in less than half an hour, with Gad on the guitar.[1]
The Boy Is Mine (song) The official music video uses the radio edit version without the intro. The video begins with the girls in their respective apartments, watching television on their long couches. While Brandy watches an episode of The Jerry Springer Show Monica accidentally turns Brandy's TV, with her remote, to an old romantic movie which Monica watches on her own TV. Whenever one of them turns the channel, the other's TV stays on that channel and they soon tire of the back and forth. They then start to sing the song. The next scene shows the two discussing their problem among their separate groups of friends. The "boy" himself (played by Mekhi Phifer) then appears outside the two girls' apartments, which are next to each other; all their friends walk by him as they exit their respective friend's place. The girls are in their pajamas in the next scene, and then each phones the boy over to make him decide whom he wants to be with. After Brandy and Monica fight with the song's lyrics, the man comes to the left apartment, frustrated over whom to choose. The door opens, showing Brandy. Then it swings a little wider to reveal Monica as well. The boy is taken aback, and the door is slammed in his face.