Beyonce live show in Dublin
Here’s some pictures of Beyonce’s live concert in Dublin, Ireland from this past Saturday:
Beyonce outsmarts the media
Beyonce is refusing to confirm rumours she has said yes to Jay-Z’s marriage proposal, insisting the media will be the last to know of any developments in her love life.
The bootylicious singer says she has become accustomed to the fame game, and has learned how to keep her personal life - personal.
Beyonce told Vibe Magazine: “I keep my personal life to myself and it is what it is. And even my personal life - because I don’t talk about it - people try to start things to make me talk about it.
“They say, ‘Oh well, if we say something’s going wrong, then maybe she’ll talk about it, and then we’ll get to find out.’ But I’m smarter than that - I already know the tricks!”
Beyonce performs at the M.E.N. Arena
Beyonce’s world tour continues to receive rave reviews from concertgoers. The Crazy In Love star played the Manchester Evening News Arena last night, and Chris Osuh wrote the following glowing review of the show:
BEYONCÉ is bigger and better than any other solo female artist in the game right now.
Latin belter Shakira may have hips that don’t lie, but her charms haven’t caught the eyes of the beauty companies that pay Beyoncé millions to promote products black girls don’t even use.
Big-voiced Christina may well be a fighter, but she hasn’t had a world No.1 single since 2002.
A few years back the young ladies of Tokyo’s most fashionable shopping section took to over-tanning their faces and dying their hair to look like Beyoncé.
Somehow it seems unlikely the girls of ‘Shibuya 109′ would risk their parents’ wrath to ape Britney’s K-Mart meets Betty Ford look.
The Beyoncé Experience tour is the B-Word’s opportunity to show the world the considerable talents that have seen her outshine the biggest names in pop. On Thursday night at the M.E.N. Arena, she grabbed it with both hands, before dancing all over it on powerful legs.
The show opened with a shower of sparks and the brassy wall of sound that is Crazy In Love. Beyoncé, resplendent in silver, stepped, strutted and writhed across the luminous stage like Ike Turner was lurking in the wings.
Innovative
The song featured an excerpt of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy, setting a precedent for a night of innovative arrangements and displays of rock showmanship from the all-female, all-talent band.
After 15 minutes on stage Beyoncé left it, returning in a bellydancer’s get-up to segue Chaka Demus and Pliers’ Murder She Wrote into Beautiful Liar, her hip-twisting duet with Shakira.
The Arabic thread in Liar’s backing track wove neatly into Naughty Girl, which ended with raucous, call-and-response scatting and showcased Beyoncé’s incredible dancing skills.
Shimmering
One costume change later, this time a shimmering debutante-style dress, and Beyoncé powered out big ballad Dangerously in Love.
The song was a little tainted by an excess of warbling, but nicely followed by a Jill Scott sample, and a pure-voiced, dewy-eyed version of Flaws and All, which in slightly overwrought fashion, ended with an ‘angel’ descending from the rafters.
A Destiny’s Child medley of sex-charged, materialistic ‘girl power’ anthems was lapped up whole by the overwhelmingly young and female crowd, as was Upgrade U and numbers from the film Dreamgirls.
Finally, chart-topper Irreplaceable was given an acoustic makeover before a playful bassist led into the encore, De Ja Vu. At the very end of the night Beyoncé sang ‘Happy B-Day’ to fans and pointed out faces in the crowd, which she claimed were the best in the UK.
The r’n'b beauty had sung and danced for a good two hours, and very well she did too.
Beyonce fed up with fending off false feuds
Singer/actress Beyonce says she’s sick of fending off continued media reports about a false feud between her and Dreamgirls co-star Jennifer Hudson.
“I know there’s a typical rumor every single time I’m involved with any African-American female. Before I even meet them I know the rumor, because that’s just - it is what it is. It’s society, and it has nothing to do with me,” Beyonce told in the June issue of Vibe magazine.
“It’s very unfortunate… But that’s against everything I stand for. I always support women. I love women, and I’m a successful woman, so I embrace talent. It’s frustrating to me. But what do I do? I’ve worked with Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, and they don’t start that. Whenever it’s two black women it’s… unfortunate.”
Crazy in love Beyonce to marry Jay-Z
Beyonce is set to make an honest man of rapper Jay-Z after accepting his marriage proposal during a romantic getaway together in Cannes.
The couple have enjoyed a long-term relationship and are now said to be ready to start a family together.
Beyonce recently said: “I want to get married and really want a family - in a perfect world I’d have two boys and a girl. You know someone loves you by the way he treats you and respects you. Me and Jay respect each other.”
The wedding is set to be held in the fall in Hawaii. A source said: “This will be the hip-hop wedding to end all hip-hop weddings.”
Sources also say Jay-Z promised Beyonce “the biggest diamond she can fit on her finger.”
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