Three weeks after celebrating her second B’Day, Beyoncé is pulling the plug — at least for now — on the re-release of her recent solo LP. Thanks to a pending lawsuit over her cover of Des’ree’s “I’m Kissing You” on her B’Day - Deluxe Edition album and video anthology, the singer and her label have agreed to stop distributing the albums and DVDs with that song.

When Beyoncé previously sat down with MTV News to discuss the new material featured on B’Day - Deluxe Edition, she mentioned that the interpolations — which is incorrectly called “Still in Love (Kissing You)” on the reissue — wasn’t originally intended for release and that she had just recorded it because she “always loved it.”

“It was one of my all-time favorite songs,” she said. “It gives you this emotion — I don’t care who you are, you just feel it. So I just did it for myself — a lot of songs, I do like that — and I let people hear it and they were like, ‘You are crazy, you have to put it on the album.’ So I did. It was a last-minute decision.”

Indeed, Beyoncé’s team’s paperwork — included in the copyright-infringement suit filed in New York’s Manhattan Federal Court last week — depicts a rush to get permission to use the track granted, with letters sent back and forth up to and including the day of the deluxe edition’s release. According to the suit, Beyoncé’s team originally sought clearance on February 13 to use “interpolations” of the Des’ree song, which became a hit when it appeared in the Leonardo DiCaprio/ Claire Danes movie “Romeo + Juliet” in 1996. Lawyers for the two sides (Beyoncé and Des’ree’s publishers the Royalty Network) started talking, and by March 3 — a month before Beyoncé re-released her album — Beyoncé’s side had a “confirmation letter and license request” ready to submit.

On March 5, the Royalty Network’s lawyers answered by submitting a counter proposal in which they granted permission — within certain limits. For one thing, they would allow use of the song, but not in video form. They would also allow use of the song only if the title were not changed. The Royalty Network’s lawyers at Epstein Levinsohn Bodine & Weinstein said in the complaint that “despite follow-ups,” they didn’t hear back from Beyoncé’s camp. And on March 27, according to the complaint, they discovered that Beyoncé and her record label planned to proceed with her re-release containing the song in question anyway. In a letter they wrote to Beyoncé’s lawyer and her distribution group Sony, the Royalty Network called the move “completely unacceptable.”

“First, no agreement has been reached in connection with [the song],” the letter read, “and Sony has no right to proceed … absent an agreement. Second, the retitling of the composition puts TRN at risk for claims from more than one third party, and this is a risk that [Beyoncé] and Sony were or should have been aware of in light of the circumstances surrounding the discussions relating to this potential license.”

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Beyonce Knowles has been a very busy bee.

She’s currently on the first leg of her world tour, which kicks off on the heels of the re-release of her “B’Day” album in a deluxe format. The reissue features the addition of some new songs, including some Spanish versions.

On top of that, she put together a companion DVD called “B’Day Anthology Video Album,” and she filmed eight music videos to go along with it in just two weeks.

Now she tells Access how she was able to accomplish such a feat.

“It was difficult, but it was a lot of determination. Not only from myself, but my whole team.”

She explains that it all came down to being prepared. Everything from choreography, to fittings, to hair and makeup design were done ahead of time.

“I basically shot the videos with my personal videographer, and sent it to the director so they knew exactly the shots we wanted. It was just a lot of preparation, so by the time we started to film the videos,” she says with a snap of her fingers, “we did it.”

As for the reason behind the Spanish recordings, Beyonce says that after performing in Spanish at the Latin Grammy awards with Destiny’s Child five years ago, they got a lot of positive feedback from their Latin fans. That positive reaction, coupled with her love for the culture, eventually led to recording the new tracks.

The funny thing is, Beyonce doesn’t speak Spanish. “It’s been a challenge,” she says of getting the language right. “I had to learn everything phonetically. It was a little frustrating because I’m used to getting my vocals done really, really fast. But we did it, and it’s been an incredible response.”

Perhaps the greatest response is over the song “Irreplaceable,” which has not only proven to be a mega-hit for Beyonce, it’s also become an empowering anthem, of sorts, for women.

“It’s amazing,” she remarks. “I know sometimes we need to hear songs like ‘Irreplaceable’ so we can remind ourselves that we’re strong and worth being treated the way we deserve to be treated. I didn’t write the record, but I instantly knew it was a hit. I’m so happy it’s kinda become this anthem.”

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