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 MTV Video Music Awards
2014 MTV Video Music Awards
Partition (song)