The music video for Beyoncé's "Run the World (Girls)" uses a hybrid of narrative and performance styles to convey messages of feminism and female empowerment. It employs various elements from Lacey's Repertoire, including characters, narrative events, iconography, setting, and technical codes. The video portrays Beyoncé leading a "female army" against a male army, using grand props, costumes, and epic desert settings to emphasize strength and dominance in a role reversal that highlights women's power. Through its nonlinear narrative, editing, lighting, and other technical aspects, the video effectively communicates its themes of female uprising and empowerment.