Beyonce Poised to Take a Break in 2010
Published On: Sunday, January 17th, 2010 with 4 Comments

Beyonce’s New Year’s resolution is at once ambitious and surprising. The multitasking superstar, who was seemingly everywhere in 2009, hopes to spend a good chunk of 2010 not working.
“It’s definitely time to take a break, to recharge my batteries,” says BeyoncĂ©, 28. “I’d like to take about six months and not go into the studio. I need to just live life, to be inspired by things again.”

Not that BeyoncĂ© won’t be visible in the coming months. Just a few days before Christmas, she’s in Long Island City, shooting a pair of commercials for the Nintendo video game Style Savvy, which is introducing items from DerĂ©on, a casual lifestyle extension of the House of DerĂ©on line that BeyoncĂ© created with longtime fashion adviser Tina Knowles— also her mom. The spots will air on Nickelodeon in March, in the week before the Kids’ Choice Awards and during the show.

Before that, of course, BeyoncĂ© will perform on the Grammy Awards broadcast Jan. 31 on CBS, where she’s up for 10 trophies, more than any other artist, including album, record and song of the year. The last is for her slamming manifesto Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), one of 2009’s most ubiquitous singles (3.5 million downloads sold) and its most-streamed video. The album, I Am … Sasha Fierce, has sold 2.7 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

“I still haven’t really digested it yet,” BeyoncĂ© says. The Grammy nominations were announced Dec. 2, two days before her spouse and fellow pop icon Jay-Z turned 40. “I was focused so much on my husband’s birthday — I threw a big party — that I didn’t really think about it. But it’s really an honor.”

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Beyonce: Artist of the Decade
Published On: Sunday, November 29th, 2009 with 8 Comments

It was 10 years ago that BeyoncĂ© Knowles announced herself to the world, with the Destiny’s Child hit Independent Women. Since then the 28-year-old singerhas made the decade’s best single, delivered the greatest live show on earth, sung for President Obama and emerged as our last true star.

Why BeyoncĂ©? Why this stunning 28-year-old singer/performer/actress/businesswoman from Texas now married to one of the decade’s other biggest stars, and worth something like $87m a year to boot, and not, well, take your pick…? Because she made not one but two of the decade’s greatest singles, with Crazy in Love and Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), not to mention her hits with Destiny’s Child; and this was the decade when singles – particularly R&B singles – regained their status as pop’s favourite medium. (But her three solo albums? Pretty fabulous, too.)

Because at a time when the ubiquity of TV talent shows put the onus on those who could cut it live more than ever, she and not any superannuated rock star was arguably the greatest live performer of the past 10 years.

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BeyoncĂ© Talks “Ego”
Published On: Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 with 1 Comment

Beyoncé sat down with MTV recently to talk about her new single Ego and how she got Kanye on the remix! Watch the little clip below.

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Beyonce On NewNowNext PopLab
Published On: Thursday, February 5th, 2009 with 6 Comments

Beyonce did a little interview with Logo’s NewNowNext PopLab and answered some questions! She talks about why she chose to put Sasha Fierce in the spotlight and more. Thanks Morgan for letting us know! Click here to view the videos. You can see them on the side of the video.

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Skyrock French Radio Interview
Published On: Thursday, December 11th, 2008 with 0 Comments

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Beyonce Interviewed by BBC News
Published On: Saturday, November 8th, 2008 with 0 Comments

Bee sat down for an interview with BBC News I believe yesterday. Here’s what is written about the interview:

Singer Beyonce Knowles has said that having Barack Obama listen to her music is ‘the ultimate compliment’.

She told the BBC’s Charlie Stayt that she had been delighted when Michelle Obama and the couple’s two daughters attended one of her concerts. View the video here.

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Interview from ExtraTV!
Published On: Monday, February 11th, 2008 with 1 Comment

Beyonce and Tina Turner pulled off a show-stopping performance at last nights Grammy Awards, and Beyonce gave ‘Extra’ all the scoop at Entertainment Weekly’s Post-Grammy Party.

Thanks to Carlo from ExtraTV for sending this to us!

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