Joan Smalls: ‘If You Think Beyonce Is Too Sexy, You Are Too Boring’

 Yonce all on his mouth like liquor!

It hasn’t even been a full week yet since Beyonce dropped her unexpected visual album and already she’s sold 1 million records exclusively through Itunes while leaving stores like Target fuming because they didn’t get a piece of the pie [They refuse to sell her album!]. If you want the predictable, wholesome Beyonce of yesteryear, this album is definitely not for you. The LP is full of provocative and sensual material  (some of which looked as though it could have been made for her hubby’s eyes only), which has ruffled the feathers of some critics who like the old Bey.

Then there’s “Yonce,” which features 3 supermodels [Jourdan Dunn, Chanel Iman and Joan Smalls], 1 Beyonce and a lot of skin and tongue-licking.  During a recent interview on Entertainment Tonight, when Joan Smalls (resident Beyonce-licker) was asked if the visuals were too sexy, she responded:

Noooooo! If you think something is too sexy, you are too boring!

Catch 5 fun facts about the video as told by the director Ricky Saiz, and a ton of pics below:

Beyonce plays somewhat of a madam in the video

I think this is really straight-forward. I wanted to strip down any concrete narrative and wanted it to be more about the girls, doing the performance with Beyoncé taking a backseat as a kind of madam character.
Beyonce wanted all black models for the video
Beyoncé wanted to push that angle — that was her request and concept initially. I think any time you can promote a sense of community and unity and that is natural, you should. All the girls are friends and it was so friendly and there was no ego on set. Everyone was so happy to be there. The girls were incredible. What a great cast. It was spontaneous and not at all contrived.

The Lick was Joan Smalls’ idea
We were going through takes and it was her and Joan and they were close. And Joan went for the lick and we got it.
Beyonce never sings in the video
Beyoncé actually never sings in the video. She almost plays like a madam character and the girls are doing the performing for her in a sense. I think they are so important individually and have their own characters and they each really brought that to the set… [It's] almost like this just happened and we were there with our cameras.

The video was influenced by Madonna and 90′s eroticism
I wanted to do something sexy and provocative, but not so overt. I feel like the Mileys and the Rihannas have that covered and this was more sophisticated. There are a lot of references to nineties eroticism and Madonna videos. We shot it against one wall for the most part, so I was looking a lot of Carlo Molino photos.