B’Day Anthology Video Album is a video album, released by the American R&B singer-songwriter Beyoncé, it was released alongside B’Day Deluxe Edition on April 3, 2007.


The B’Day Anthology Video Album was a Wal-Mart exclusive product in the United States but is now sold in other stores. This DVD contains the music videos already shot to promote the singles released from the album ("Deja Vu", "Ring the Alarm", and "Irreplaceable"). In addition to those videos, Beyoncé also went on to record music videos to many of the rest of the tracks.

Minor clips of all these videos were shown on MTV's TRL on the day Beyoncé went there to premiere "Beautiful Liar". These small clips were also shown on BET's 106 & Park while the singer was there to premiere "Upgrade U". The compilation DVD was also promoted by a BET and a MTV Hits special which premiered the videos with Beyoncé's commentary about the filming process and/or the lyrics
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In late March, the music videos which were previously unseen by the public leaked on the Internet. On April 2, the full-length videos for "Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix)", "Kitty Kat/Green Light", and "Suga Mama" premiered on BET to promote the B’Day Anthology Video Album which was released on the following day. The videos have garnished thousands of views on YouTube and other video sharing sites even though this clearly violates the terms of use of those sites.

Another flagrant copyright infringement is the fact that this video album contains the track "Still in Love (Kissing You)", a cover of the song "I'm Kissing You" originally performed by Des'Ree. Des'ree filed a lawsuit against Beyoncé on April 18, 2007, alleging Knowles never obtained proper clearance to use the song. Des'ree claims the terms her team submitted to Knowles for use of the song were not satisfactory, and as a result the former Destiny's Child star ignored copyright law and recorded her own version. The terms stated Knowles couldn't retitle the song or film a video using the track. Des'ree is seeking $150,000 in damages.


In the DVD feature "Anthology Behind The Scenes", Beyoncé said that,

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First it was just "Green Light" and "Upgrade U". Let's sneak in "Kitty Kat". We might as well put in "Suga Mama". We gotta do "Get Me Bodied", that's the dance record. Gotta do something for "Beautiful Liar", that's the song with Shakira, of course we know we gotta do a video for that.

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Beyoncé added,

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If I had another week I probably would have shot three more videos.

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Déjà Vu: During the making of the video for "Déjà Vu", Beyoncé recalled being in swamps dodging alligators, snakes and bees. She revealed that she "decided to go to Louisiana because it has a soul that a studio can't give you. We were in the swamps. Literally, there were alligators, snakes, bees, and wasps. The song is about her seeing unreal images because of the absence of her lover. It was 105 degrees. All of that sweat in the video is real. That's not some spritzer. That's real."

Ring The Alarm: The video starts with Beyoncé on a table in an interrogation room set in a milieu similar to the one in the film Basic Instinct, lit with a bright red flashing light. Further perpetuating the comparison to the film is the image of a body covered with a white sheet, suggesting perhaps Beyoncé's character is being investigated for murdering someone. She wears a white skirt and turtleneck also made to resemble Sharon Stone's wardrobe from the movie. The scenes cut between her dancing violently on the table shouting out the lyrics and her sitting on a chair wearing a coat. There are scenes of her at her beach side home and then dancing in a corner wearing army camouflage clothing. She is also seen crying towards the bridge of the video.

Irreplaceable:The video is a simple story where Beyoncé's boyfriend is packing his belongings and leaving her house. Between cuts, she is seen dancing, looking at herself in the mirror, huge curlers, a high-waisted skirt, and lipstick, singing with her band, and enjoying herself. The video ends with Beyoncé's new boyfriend at her front door. The background music in the video varies from the album version; it contains more musical instruments. This video also featured a guest appearance by model Bobby Roache. During the video, Beyoncé is seen leaning on a 2007 Jaguar XK.

Listen: Beyoncé is seen in an original photo shoot in clothing she seems to be unhappy in. During the bridge she is finally tired of people changing her image so she removes all her excess clothing and goes up stairs to the roof where she finishes the song.

Kitty Kat: The half-day shoot for "Kitty Kat" was a breeze - except for getting the cats to cooperate. The theme of "Kitty Kat" is Knowles walking an over-sized cat. Knowles wanted the video to be very sexy and sassy. She imitaded cat movements and crawled for most of the video while wearing cheetah print clothes, shoes and earings. The video was shot on green screen to give the appearence of Knowles riding the cat. They used a plastic cow with black fur on for the model cat.



Suga Mama: Beyoncé opens up the video acting like a masculine women while smoking a cigar. She then removes her hat and coat and begins pole dancing. Knowles is also seen dancing on a "sugar cube". Beyoncé had never ridden a mechanical bull before until they started shooting. The man who came with the bull was playing a game. Every time they called 'Action!' he made it go faster and because Beyoncé tried to do tricks too complicated for a novice she kept falling off. So they shot those scenes at 12 frames a second, with her singing twice as fast, so that she wouldn't have to be on the bull for as long.

Freakum Dress: 30 dresses were made for this 18-hour shoot in New York by Tina Knowles (eight dresses for Beyoncé). Sometimes Tina would have to make dresses on the spot. The dresses Beyoncé and her dancers wear constantly change in the video to the beat of the song. Beyoncé borrowed the glasses she wears at the podium from her makeup artist, Francesca. The director for the video was Ray Kay who also shot "Soldier" for Destiny's Child.

Beautiful Liar: Beyoncé and Shakira made up choreography in 40 minutes for this two-day shoot, so Shakira taught her a bit of belly-dancing. In the video Beyoncé & Shakira are seen as oppisites (Beyoncé having sunrise in the first verse while Shakira has sunset). In th breakdown at the end of the video the women do an arabic style belly dance like mirror reflections of each other.

Flaws and All: Beyoncé did her own hair and makeup for this clip shot in inexpensive Super 8 film, in which she emulates Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot and Barbra Streisand. The video features a black and white theme and a grainy film texture. Knowles does not actually mime the lyrics but acts out parts of the song and poses. The camera shots are all still placing Beyoncé in the middle of each shot taking focus away from the background. Several of the scenes used in the video had been shot in 2006 for a B'Day promotional add by Wal-Mart.