I caught the video for this Shakira/Beyonce collaboration for the first time today. Funnily enough, it’s hard to tell the difference between Shakira and Beyonce. It’s a bit like that sex scene in The Devil’s Advocate where the woman morphs between Keanu’s wife and his co-worker….

Anyhoo, you don’t pair up these particular singers without having one hell of a hot track to play, and Beautiful Liar is red hot! You’ve got a smouldering Eastern-influenced track which opens with one or the other panting some lyrics.

Beautiful Liar is going to be all over the radio in the next few days like a rash, so get ready for the onslaught. As usual, the eye candy element is not lost on me. There are others who feel the same way:

Beyonce’s been trying her damnedest to look Latina for quite some time now. A few years back I turned on Saturday Night Live and thought I was looking at Jennifer Lopez. She’s been Beyonce K. Starr ever since. In this video, I can’t even always tell who’s Shakira and who’s not… until they start moving.

Final thought: I can’t remember Beyonce collaborating with a female artist in her post-Destiny’s Child career, so this is a notable event! Anyway, with its hypnotic beat and diva-grade singers, Beautiful Liar definitely earns the rank of Stripper Music! Congratulations girls!