--- title: Nina Millin Gives Dramatic Beyonce Reading in Beyocelogues description: Actress Nina Millin does a dramatic interpretation of Beyonce's lyrics canonical: https://time.com/2871779/this-womans-dramatic-readings-of-beyonce-songs-are-pretty-great/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-13T19:31:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:46.093Z og:title: Nina Millin Gives Dramatic Beyonce Reading in Beyocelogues og:description: No need to call the Beygency to complain og:url: https://time.com/2871779/this-womans-dramatic-readings-of-beyonce-songs-are-pretty-great/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nina Millin Gives Dramatic Beyonce Reading in Beyocelogues twitter:description: No need to call the Beygency to complain twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Dramatic Readings of Beyoncé Songs Are Flawless by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jun 13, 2014 7:31 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jun 13, 2014 7:31 PM UTC Upon first hearing that the Beyoncelogues — dramatic readings of Beyoncé’s lyrics, obviously — existed, we were worried. Would actress Nina Millin try to mock Queen Bey’s greatness? We watched, phone in hand in case a call to the [Beygency](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGxe83lXgJg) was necessary, and were overall impressed. Millin gives Beyoncé the Shakespearean gravitas she is owed. “I think I misunderstood how beloved Beyoncé is,” Millin admitted to [_Esquire_](http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/the-beyonce-monologues?click=main%5Fsr)_._ “I think we’re really on to something here.” There are currently three total videos and hopefully more on the way. (h/t: [_Jezebel_](http://jezebel.com/woman-reads-beyonce-lyrics-as-dramatic-monologues-and-i-1590396649)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2871779/this-womans-dramatic-readings-of-beyonce-songs-are-pretty-great/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2871779/this-womans-dramatic-readings-of-beyonce-songs-are-pretty-great/"},"headline":"These Dramatic Readings of Beyoncé Songs Are Flawless","datePublished":"2014-06-13T19:31:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:46.093Z","description":"No need to call the Beygency","url":"https://time.com/2871779/this-womans-dramatic-readings-of-beyonce-songs-are-pretty-great/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","Internet","viral","Beyonce"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/2871779/this-womans-dramatic-readings-of-beyonce-songs-are-pretty-great/","name":"These Dramatic Readings of Beyoncé Songs Are Flawless"}}]}] ```