Who's Beyoncé been stealing from this week?

Barely seven days have passed since Beyoncé unleashed the video for Countdown, and now we have a fresh three minutes of song and dance for Love On Top, a prime nugget of vaudevillian cheese from her latest album, 4. This is the one that has key changes stacked up on each other like mattresses in a warehouse. If Westlife were to cover it, they'd be sitting down and standing up like it was a game of musical chairs.

As we all know by now, Beyonce has been busy "liberating" dance moves from lesser-known choreographers during her recent public outings. First of all, she used a (literally amazing) video screen installation at the Billboard Music Awards that turned out to be based on the work of Lorella Cuccarini. Then last week's Countdown video nabbed portions of a famous Belgian ballet, if there is such a thing.

So who's provided the inspiration for Love On Top? The answers may surprise you.

1) MILTARY HAT + HALT THE TRAFFIC HAND GESTURE

2) "CALL ME" FACE

3) IMAGINATIVE USE OF A CANE

4) RIPPING OFF SKIRT "FOR THE DADS"

5) ENTHUSIASTIC APPLAUSE FOR NO GOOD REASON

Amazing scenes.

Beyoncé - Love On Top

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