--- title: Someone Went Ahead And Made An Emoji Video for Beyoncé’s “Drunk In Love” description: Did we need a video that uses emojis to illustrate the lyrics' of "Drunk In Love"? Probably not. But we got one anyway, and it's... canonical: https://time.com/12297/beyonce-drunk-in-love-emoji-video/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-04T16:07:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:26.999Z og:title: Someone Went Ahead And Made An Emoji Video for Beyoncé’s “Drunk In Love” og:description: Did we need a video that uses emojis to illustrate the lyrics' of "Drunk In Love"? Probably not. But we got one anyway, and it's... og:url: https://time.com/12297/beyonce-drunk-in-love-emoji-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59b05c51aea60abc/698683e0d0b6f2016030312a/screen-shot-2014-03-04-at-2-24-09-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-03-04 at 2.24.09 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Someone Went Ahead And Made An Emoji Video for Beyoncé’s “Drunk In Love” twitter:description: Did we need a video that uses emojis to illustrate the lyrics' of "Drunk In Love"? Probably not. But we got one anyway, and it's... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59b05c51aea60abc/698683e0d0b6f2016030312a/screen-shot-2014-03-04-at-2-24-09-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Someone Went Ahead And Made An Emoji Video for Beyoncé's "Drunk In Love" by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 4, 2014 4:07 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 4, 2014 4:07 PM UTC Did we _need_ a video that uses emojis to illustrate the lyrics’ of “Drunk In Love”? Probably not. But we got one anyway, and it’s actually pretty entertaining. If emojis aren’t your thing, whatever, just consider this an excuse to listen to Beyoncé. Someone Went Ahead And Made An Emoji Video for Beyoncé’s “Drunk In Love” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/12297/beyonce-drunk-in-love-emoji-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/12297/beyonce-drunk-in-love-emoji-video/"},"headline":"Someone Went Ahead And Made An Emoji Video for Beyoncé's \"Drunk In Love\"","datePublished":"2014-03-04T16:07:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:26.999Z","description":"Did we need a video that uses emojis to illustrate the lyrics' of \"Drunk In Love\"? Probably not. But we got one anyway, and it's...","url":"https://time.com/12297/beyonce-drunk-in-love-emoji-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Music","viral","Beyonce","Parody","emoji"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59b05c51aea60abc/698683e0d0b6f2016030312a/screen-shot-2014-03-04-at-2-24-09-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59b05c51aea60abc/698683e0d0b6f2016030312a/screen-shot-2014-03-04-at-2-24-09-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-03-04 at 2.24.09 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/12297/beyonce-drunk-in-love-emoji-video/","name":"Someone Went Ahead And Made An Emoji Video for Beyoncé's \"Drunk In Love\""}}]}] ```