Ring The Alarm

Album: B'day (2006)
Charted: 11
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is about a woman who is not happy with her man, but doesn't want to break up with him for fear that another girl will benefit from what she taught him, and it would make her extremely jealous if she sees another girl on his arm.
  • This is one of four tracks Swizz Beatz produced for the B'Day album. He also worked on Beyoncé's 2005 single "Check On It."
  • Beyoncé explained: "I didn't want to write some 'angry' song. Swizz's track had that tough vibe, like the guy had cheated, and I wanted to write something honest. If you're in a relationship, even if the man's cheating and you end up not wanting him, the thought of another woman benefiting from the lessons you taught him."
  • Inspired by the 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct, the music video was shot by "Deja Vu" director Sophie Muller in a hangar on the Brooklyn waterfront in New York City. Beyoncé worked with an acting coach for two months to recreate Sharon Stone's famous interrogation scene from the film. She told USA Today: "I treated the video for 'Ring the Alarm' like a movie scene. I was thinking, 'I've got to make my acting coach proud."
  • Before she was releasing records of her own, Teyana Taylor was already a fixture on New York's teenage dance-battle circuit. At just 15 years old, her reputation was strong enough that Beyoncé's team hired her to teach Beyoncé the "Chicken Noodle Soup" dance for the "Ring The Alarm" video.

    Taylor ended up choreographing the entire video, a breakthrough moment that launched her career as a dancer and then singer.

Comments: 4

  • Kiwi from Riverdale, GaShe is wonderful I just loved it and Iwatch it all the time Nice

    -Serect
  • Wade from Katy, TxThis is the song that Beyonce was singing where she fell down the stairs.
  • Christal from Gera, Mii think that this song expresses what she wants in life and how pople are
  • Melanie from Milwaukee, WiI'm a beyonce fan at heart but her dance moves a little scary in this video. She ooks great but scary dance moves.
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