24 Transcendent Moments From Beyoncé's VMAs Performance
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It goes without saying that Beyoncé tore down the house with her performance before accepting the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. The 16-minute medley, which was riddled with songs from her new album, was filled with so many hair flips, so much popping and locking, and so much general fierceness that it felt more like 16 seconds. And don't even get us started on that Blue Ivy appearance. You can, of course, watch the full performance, but we're reliving the most iconic moments in GIFs.
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When She Showed Us Exactly How a Diva Breaks It Down
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When She Became the Physical Manifestation of Waking Up Like This
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When She Sang to Her Own Hand Because We Weren't Worthy
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When She Made Us Entirely Forget About Nicki Minaj's Booty
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When She Doled Out One of the Most Epic Hair Flips Ever
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When She Did This and Everyone Was Practically Electrocuted by the Power of It All
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When She Casually Pulled Out This Sexy Move
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When She Shut It Down Like This
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When She Stopped Being Fierce and Started Being Effervescent and Beautiful
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When This Flawless, Epic, Historical Moment Happened and We Were Just in Awe
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When She Popped It and Locked It Like It Was Nothing
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When This Happened and Our Hearts Skipped a Beat
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When There Were Two Beyoncés Doing the Same Thing, and One of Them Was Giant
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When She Did a Double Hair Flip, Leaving Everyone Bewildered
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When She Rode on Her Surfboard and All Was Right With the World
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When Her Fierceness Was Easily More Than Everyone Else's Combined
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When She Casually Stood Out Among the Scores of Backup Dancers
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When She Looked Exactly Like a Beyoncé Music Video and We Were Beside Ourselves
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When She Stomped It Out Like No One Had Stomped Before
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When She Blinded Us With Her Sequins and Beautiful Hair
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When She Was Silhouetted by Adorable Home Videos
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When the Videos Kept Coming and We Never Wanted the Performance to End
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When We Were Beyoncé, and Beyoncé Was All of Us, and Everything Felt Like It Would Be OK
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