Friday VicPick video: Shakira, Shakira, Beyonce, Beyonce

Marking her second collaborative effort where the other person she is singing with opens the song by repeating her name, Shakira is being featured in a new duet with Beyonce. The song is called "Beautiful Liar" and the video for it was just released this week, after receiving a lot of preliminary buzz. The song is originally from Beyonce's album, B Day, and the re-recorded duet version with Shakira will be on the re-released version, as initial sales for the record were sluggish. The video marks a rarity in that not only are there two women singing the duet, but their characters actually team up as opposed to fight over a man. I also believe it is the first time there has been so much booty shaking crammed into 3 and a half minutes. I'm a big Shakira fan, so I think adding her to this song and the video are great, and kudos to Beyonce for coming up with the idea for the two to pair up. I had always thought that they shared things in common, both in dancing style as well as looks. For me, Beyonce had always particularly evoked Shakira in the "Baby Boy" music video with Sean Paul. The "Beautiful Liar" video purposely plays on these similarities, as you will find it is often hard to tell the two apart!

Prince Beckham?

While he hasn't officially moved to the States yet, and it still remains to be seen how well his soccer will fair in light of his supposed Hollywood ambitions, it seems that David Beckham is already charging the gates...of Disney that is. In a new ad campaign featuring the slogan "Disney Parks: Where Dreams Come True", the soccer superstar is among a number of famous faces dressed as classic Disney characters in photos taken by the uber-acclaimed photographer, Annie Leibovitz. Beckham portrays the valiant Prince Philip from Sleeping Beauty, atop a white horse bearing sword and shield in the face of the fire-breathing dragon (though the dragon is not visible). Beyonce and Scarlett Johansson, among others, are featured as part of Disney's Year of a Million Dreams. You can check out all the beautiful photographs here. Becks admittedly pulls off the dashing prince thing well, but does this mean we have to refer to Victoria as "Princess Posh" from now on?