What is it about this song that makes it so great? This song is almost like an angry women anthem and my opinion is that it is. I love the fact that Beyoncé sang it with so much anger and her powerful vocals where what made it even more better. The shows the anger she feels as she sings that if you her you are hurting yourself. The video also shows a recording of Malcom X  speech from May 22, 1962, in Los Angeles to a crowd of black Americans .