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Three-year-old devastated to learn he is not a ‘single lady’

A hilarious new viral YouTube video is at last offering definitive proof that adult women are not the only people who like to revel in being "single ladies."

Nashville, Tennessee dad Carlos Whittaker was in the car with his wife and three kids, when the children started demanding that he play Beyoncé's "Single Ladies". He obliges, and the kids go nuts, wiggling and singing along. No one is happier than his 3-year-old son, who bounces with joy in his car seat.

Whittaker, who films the whole thing, turns to the boy and says, "Your not a single lady, buddy!" The comment is made in good fun, and Whittaker laughs as he says it. "I thought he would laugh and keep singing," the musician dad wrote underneath the video. "Man was I wrong."

Instead of ignoring his father, the boy first looks around, horrified at the revelation, and then bursts into a stream of tears. Whittaker immediately takes it back — "Yes you are, yeah you are, you're a single lady, sorry buddy, I was just kidding." He tries to get his son to sing with Beyoncé again, but the damage is done, and his sister and mom reach over to console the heartbroken non-single lady. The dad turns to the camera: "I'm a horrible father."

This isn't the first time a parent has captured their child busting moves in the backseat and shared it with the world — the interweb is so ripe with these videos it's practically a YouTube genre.

In this one, featuring the music of Kid Cudi, a little girl gets down and funky to some pretty heavy beats, while in this video, a little boy actually starts rocking out to Wacka Flocka Flame while he is still asleep, and wakes up grooving in time to the music.

A lot of these backseat homemade baby music videos have hits in the millions. The lesson? Forget high-priced video producers and tempramental musicians; just get a kid with a sense of musical timing and an iPhone video camera!

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