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Beyoncé called Jackson’s death a “tragic loss” on a “terrible day.”
“The incomparable Michael Jackson has made a bigger impact on music than any other artist in the history of music,” the 27-year-old singer said. “He was magic. He was what we all strive to be. He will always be the King of Pop!
“Life is not about how many breaths you take, but about how many moments in life that take your breath away. For anyone who has ever seen, felt, or heard his art, we are all honored to have been alive in this generation to experience the magic of Michael Jackson. I love you Michael.”
Beyoncé goes under an assumed name on her current tour: Sasha Fierce.
But the character she displayed in that guise at the tour’s Madison Square Garden stop last night wasn’t noticeably different from the one we’ve long celebrated.
Like that alter ego (who also graces her latest CD, “I Am … Sasha Fierce”), Beyoncé has always been sly, sexy, imposing and confident enough to make Kanye West seem like a recluse.
Never, however, has she distilled that character into something as focused, engaging and nuanced as now.
While past tours, either on her own or with Destiny’s Child, could be shrill exercises in preening, the new tour showed a huge upgrade in charm, humor and chops.
Right from the opening number, “Crazy in Love,” Beyoncé showed off pipes of steely power. As the song’s signature horn riff pumped away, she soared over the melody with athletic ease.
The way Beyoncé used her body intensified the sense of triumph. With her hair teased into Medusa-like tresses, a pelvis in perpetual churn and legs long enough to make Tina Turner proud, Beyoncé’s presence punctuated her singing like an exclamation point.
The show moved smoothly through its two-hour expanse. The costumes didn’t disappoint, including one getup that looked like Barbarella on a safari and another that depicted Beyoncé as an unlikely innocent in white. Read the rest of this entry »
Beyonce sent fans in New York into a screaming frenzy on Sunday night when she brought husband Jay-Z out on stage to help kick off her U.S. tour. The R&B superstar opened her show at Madison Square Garden in her adopted home of Manhattan with her smash hit Crazy In Love and stunned fans when she was joined by rap heavyweight Jay-Z to perform his verse. But that wasn’t all – Jay-Z also treated the packed crowd to a rendition of his song I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me), much to fans’ delight.
Beyonce is not to blame for the cancellation of a weekend launch party in New York for her “I AM…” North American tour, her record label said.
Music World/Columbia Records said the fete scheduled for last Saturday at the Manhattan club M2 was scrapped as a result of a breach of contract by the party’s promoter.
“Beyonce never had a contract with the club itself and no one in her camp dealt directly with the venue,” her label said in a statement. “The superstar was never scheduled to perform, but was to serve as a co-host and introduce singer/songwriter Solange’s performance. Patrons were falsely promised a performance by Beyonce.”
However, M2 owner Joey Morrissey told The New York Post he agreed to pay Beyonce $200,000 for the event, but was informed last Wednesday she wouldn’t be performing.
Morrissey said he is considering suing Beyonce’s camp because he spent $100,000 preparing for a show that didn’t happen.
“They said they were too busy with the launching of the tour and that they wouldn’t have time to do the kickoff party,” the club owner told the Post last week, adding the singer’s representatives offered to have her make an appearance at the party, but not sing at it. “I mean, we sold tables for thousands of dollars for the show, and spent $100,000 renting a soundboard and other equipment, as per their stipulations. What good does her showing up for an hour do me? They’ve been totally unwilling to agree to another show.”
Beyonce Knowles is letting bootleggers know that if you sell stuff with her picture on it, you will get sued. The Grammy winner filed a federal lawsuit today in New York, alleging that various “John and Jane” Does are selling knock-off merchandise outside her concerts.
According to TMZ, the 27-year-old noted that the unnamed assailants have peddled the CDs and other items bearing her likeness “in the vicinity of” her previous concerts around the world. Knowles is convinced that the piracy will continue and is asking the court to deem the sale of such products as illegal.
If all goes according to plan, this process will be completed before the kick-off of her North American tour at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden June 21 and 22.
Fans looking to get even more of Beyonce can check out her new CD/DVD, ‘Above and Beyonce.’ Available exclusively at Walmart, the collection includes the Kanye West assisted remix to her single ‘Ego,’ seven dance mixes and videos, plus other exclusive footage.
The ‘I Am Sasha Fierce’ tour will wrap August 2 in Las Vegas
Singer and actress Beyonce, who is gracing the cover of Forbes Magazine Celebrity 100, Forbes special issue, recently ranked in at number four for the ‘Celebrity 100′ list. The star currently is reported to have earnings estimated at $87 million which is from June 2008 to June 2009.
The singers revenue comes from her hard work ethnic which includes the release of a double album, starring in two films, having a performance at the Oscars as well as the Presidential Inaugural Ball earlier this year, a 110-date international tour, a fashion collection and several endorsements. Beyonce Knowles’ endorsements include Nintendo, Crystal Geyser, General Mills, L’Oréal, Giorgio Armani and Samantha Thavasa handbags.
Other celebrities on the list include Angelina Jolie who took the number one spot due to her to being one of the most talked about celebrities. Although her earnings weren’t super high with a reported $27 million, being one of the most talked about is what made her push Oprah Winfrey, the media Queen, to the number two spot. Oprah Winfrey ranked number 2 with $275 million, Madonna is number 3 with $110 million, Tiger Woods ranks number 5 with $110 million, Bruce Springsteen ranks number 6 with $70 million, Steven Spielberg ranks number 7 with $150 million, Jennifer Aniston ranks number 8 with $25 million, Brad Pitt ranks number 9 with $28 million and Kobe Bryant ranks number 10 with $45 million.
Edmontonians should perhaps consider themselves very lucky.
Lucky that the “bootylicious” superstar even decided to grace an Edmonton stage again after her last turn at Rexall Place in 2007 only drew a crowd of 7,800 people, but even luckier that Beyonce would
launch her brand new tour supporting her latest album, I Am … Sasha Fierce, in the City of Champions.
Whether it was a momentous occasion or just an opportunity to work out the kinks in front of a “modest” audience — because, once again, only 8,000 fans turned out — will be left for those who attended to decide.
If Beyonce’s first outing on her I Am tour was no major disappointment, it was still a somewhat muddled affair, one that didn’t clear up where the line between Beyonce and her “alter ego” Sasha Fierce is drawn.
If Beyonce is the soft-spoken side and Sasha is the brazenly hyper-confident persona, the whole concept never really spread its wings properly Thursday night at Rexall.
Opening with some momentous numbers — Beautiful Nightmare and Crazy In Love, which were peppered with touches of Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams, DJ Kool’s Let Me Clear My Throat and The J.B.’s Pass The Peas — you would have thought Sasha was already in the house.
Add a rump-shaking Freakum Dress and, three songs in, Beyonce — ahem, Sasha Fierce — was already in full-blown party mode, shaking her golden sequined, bow-clad tush and flailing her hair about wildly.
If only it had stayed that way.
The quieter, more introspective segment that followed was a collection of moments ranging from mildly corny (Ave Maria and an awkward onstage wedding gown transformation) to supremely boring (Satellite).
Apparently, we were still in “Beyonce” mode. If it took a few moments for Beyonce — uh, Sasha — to regain her mojo, she did manage to pull it off with the help of her 13 musicians and backup singers, a slew of dancers and harder-hitting material like Halo, Irreplaceable, Survivor and At Last.
It wasn’t always perfect, and it did feel like the show dragged on for a tad too long before it finally got to the smashtacular Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Figured…all her shows seem to be the same. She needs to re-invent her style or something…looks like Beyonce Experience pt. 2.
Beyonce puts a ring on Rexall By MIKE ROSS, SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA
Why on Earth would Beyonce choose Edmonton to be the first date of her new world tour?
Two words: Paid rehearsal. If something went wrong at Rexall Place last night, who cares? It’s Edmonton. Work out the kinks in the hinterland before upcoming dates in places like Vienna, Prague, Paris and London. Makes sense, doesn’t it? It may also explain the “no media” rule in force at the show last night. You wouldn’t want some kind of bootylicious wardrobe malfunction on the front page of the Edmonton Sun, would you? Or maybe you would.
Well, anyway, media ban or not, we can still buy a ticket – lots were available – and review the show. One word here: Spectacular.
I don’t know what she was worried about, if indeed she was. There were no kinks, not a single bad note or missed cue was evident. Drawing just 8,000 fans, far less than is expected at Britney Spears in two weeks, the show had all the high-production bells and whistles you’d expect from the African-American queen of all media. As with her tour in 2007, there was also the extra-large all-girl band, the phalanx of backup dancers drilled in the latest artful choreography, songs spanning a remarkable career – solo and with Destiny’s Child – in a wide range of musical styles, not to mention a remarkable vocal range, and of course the riveting presence of the star herself.
The tour is called I Am … to support her latest double album I Am … Sasha Fierce. So in addition to seeing Beyonce’s alter-ego (that would be Sasha Fierce), which as far as I can tell is just the uptempo side of this ridiculously gifted artist, we can fill in the blanks in that loaded ellipsis at will. I Am … the new Tina Turner. I Am … one hell of a singer. I Am … blessed with a great butt. And so on. Sure, it’s a bit of a self-centred title for a tour, but in what was basically a celebration of all things Beyonce, who else would you want in the spotlight the entire time? Her image – in one revealing costume after another – filled the video screens. Her voice filled the arena. The extra-large all-girl band filled the spaces between, buying time for costume changes.
There was little that was subtle about this show, but some of the Canadian musical homages were appreciated – like a snippet from Sarah McLachlan in her a version of Ave Maria, or a blast from Alanis Morissette’s You Oughta Know in If I Were a Boy, the latter seeing Beyonce decked out in some armour-plated get-up like Aunty Entity in Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome. Like I said, she’s the new Tina Turner.
You might also quibble with some of the robotic wrinkles that weighed down the second half of the concert, though the flying through the air routine was entertaining in a Cirque du Soleil sort of way.
Beyonce can sing traditional R&B if she wants. She proved it late last night – wailing on the Etta James classic At Last, which she performed for the inauguration of U.S president Barack Obama.
There weren’t a lot of traditional R&B moments like that last night. Based on the new material, she seems more interested in reinventing the wheel and doesn’t seem clear on which way she’s going to go. With talent like this, it could be anywhere. It just doesn’t have to be everywhere.
The audience, which was forced to wait in the concourse for a full half hour while the band finished its soundcheck, got shafted on the opening act. It was just a mere four songs from 2006 Canadian Idol winner Eva Avila. She even seemed to forget the words to her own latest minor hit, from her second, album: Damned, as in “damned if I do, damned if I don’t.” There’s a message in there somewhere.
Last night, Beyonce released her 2 new music videos to iTunes. She released Diva and Halo music videos. You can click on the links below to purchase. I did add the videos on Youtube after the break, but most likely they will be taken down. Diva/Halo Read the rest of this entry »
GREAT NEWS!! You no longer have to wait to hear the album. Beyonce has put the whole album up on her myspace for all of her fans to listen to it.
‘I am happy that my fans will get to listen to my new album first at MySpace.’ Beyonce says in a statement. ‘I have put my heart and soul into I Am… Sasha Fierce and cannon wait to hear the feedback from the fans.’
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Singer and actress Beyonce, who is gracing the cover of Forbes Magazine Celebrity 100, Forbes special issue, recently ranked in at number four for the ‘Celebrity 100′ list. The star currently is reported to have earnings estimated at $87 million which is from June 2008 to June 2009.