Conor Behan of '' The Independent '' qualified the clip as being " effortlessly sexy " . Jon Dolan of '' Rolling Stone '' described the video for the song as the most NSFW from the album . Brent DiCrescenzo of '' Time Out '' referred to the clip for " Partition " as a classic MTV video . A more negative review came from '' The Verge '' Trent Wolbe who panned Nava 's contribution to the album as uninteresting . '' The Daily Telegraph '' writer Sarah Crompton stated that the video looked suitable for a porn website and described its imagery as " strip club dressed up as a Busby Berkeley musical " . Crompton went on to call the message the video sent " peculiar " and added that the singer should try to become a better role model for young girls . Vivienne Pattison of Mediawatch-uk commented that such visuals showed that Beyoncé had " sold out " and undermined her position as a " role model " and previous " powerful messages that empowered women and girls " . In early March 2014 , Bill O'Reilly criticized the video for " Partition " during his show '' The O'Reilly Factor '' broadcast on Fox News . He said that it represented glorification of sex in the back of a limousine and offered critique that teenage girls are influenced by the singer , adding , " Why would she do it when she knows the devastation that unwanted pregnancies ... and fractured families ... I think Beyoncé , what she has done here , is inexplicable " . In response to these claims , Rutger University 's Kevin Allred argues that " Beyonce is n’t sensationalizing her own body and putting it on display for viewers to gawk at . Rather , she performs the historical objectification of black female bodies and replays that objectification in order to point out that , stereotypically , black women have had few means of garnering attention beyond sexual performances . She goes so far as forcing the viewer to be complicit in this objectification by positioning them as the direct viewer of the show she is enacting . " The video was nominated in the category for Video of the Year at the 2014 BET Awards . At the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards it was nominated in the categories for Best Choreography and Best Female Video
2014 BET Awards
BET Awards 2014
Partition (song)