Saturday Night Live//Videophone

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In a digital short Saturday following Melissa McCarthy's monologue, "Saturday Night Live" poked fun at "The Day Beyonce Turned Black," showing white people who just didn't understand Beyonce's new song "Formation."

The sketch starts out with a voiceover intro referencing the day that Beyonce surprise-dropped her latest single and performed it at the Super Bowl with Coldplay and Bruno Mars the next day: "For white people, it was just another great week. They never saw it coming. They had no warning. Then, the day before the Super Bowl, it happened."

The video, in the form of a horror movie trailer, shows white people freaking out to Beyonce's lyrics about black culture as they realize the pop superstar is black.

People begin to act as if it's the end of the world as they know it and are forced to leave the country in masses after they discover other popular black actors — even Kerry Washington.

One person starts to panic about Washington's starring role on "Scandal," saying, "But ... she's on ABC."

But in the end, the video showed that white people still had one star to hold on to. "Mom, is Taylor Swift still white?"

(cedits: CNN)


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CHAPTER SONG- Videophone (extended remix)

[Beyonce]

Shawty, what yo name is?

Them hustlers keep on talkin'

They like the way I'm walkin'

You saying that you want me

So press record, I'll let you film me

On your video phone, make a cameo

Tape me on your video phone, I can handle you

Watch me on your video phone, on your video, video

If you want me you can watch me on your video phone

I love how you approach me

Fresh white with your pants hangin' grown man low

Everything you sayin' soundin' good to me

No need to convince me anymore

Swag up, it's right, one blade, it's tight

And I smell your cologne in the air

Baby you doin' somethin' right

You just cancelled every other man here

You say you like my bag and the color of my nails

You can see that I got it goin' on

I wanna make sure you remember me

So I'ma leave my number on your video phone

I got no time for frontin'

I know just what I'm wantin'

If it's gonna be you and me

When I call, they better see me on your video screen

Them hustlers keep on talkin'

They like the way I'm walkin'

You saying that you want me

So press record, I'll let you film me

On your video phone, make a cameo

Tape me on your video phone, I can handle you

Watch me on your video phone, on your video, video

If you want me you can watch me on your video phone

[Lady Gaga]

You my phone star

And I'm happy when my lights flashin'

'Cause you on my receiver

Hubba, hubba

Honey, baby is so sexy that he should win an Oscar

And when you miss me, just remember that I always got you with me

I'll be your Gene, you'll be my Brando

I'ma put you in my move if you think that you can handle (Can you handle it?)

I know you like that (Can you handle it?)

Turn you into a star, I got it like that (Can you handle it?)

Baby don't fight it, (Tell 'em, B), 'cause when I miss yo call (Can you handle it?)

I hit you right back on my video phone (You like what you see?)

Them hustlas like my fashion (You wanna video me?)

They like the way I'm walkin' (You like what you see?)

You sayin' that you want me (Go on and video me)

So press record, I'll let you film me

On your video phone, make a cameo

Tape me on your video phone, I can handle you

Watch me on your video phone, on your video, video

If you want me you can watch me on your video phone

Can you handle it?

Can you handle it? (Tell 'em, B)

Can you handle it?

Can you handle it?

You like what you see? (Can you handle it?)

You wanna video me? (Can you handle it?)

You like what you see? (Can you handle it?)

Go on and video me (Can you handle it?)

You like what you see? (Can you handle it?)

You wanna video me?

You know them Gs, they be hollerin', 'specially them hot ones

Brooklyn, Atlanta, Houston, to New Orleans

When they see me, they be like "Yo B, let me call you"

You breakin' my focus, boy, you cute and you ballin'

You like it when I shake it?

Shawty on a mission, what yo name is?

What, you want me naked?

If you likin' this position you can tape it on your video phone

Hustla keep on talkin'

You like the way it's poppin'

You sayin' that you want me

Press record and baby, film me

On your video phone, make a cameo (Film me)

Tape me on your video phone, I can handle you (Film me)

Watch me on your video phone, on your video, video (Film Me)

If you want me you can watch me on your video phone

Uh, uh, uh, ah, uh

Uh, uh, uh, ah, uh

(If you want me you can watch me on your) Video phone

(credits: AZ Lyrics)


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