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This Year's Super Bowl Will Be Gayer Than Last Year's
Rich Juzwiak · 02/01/13 05:15PMThe suspense is burning. For the first time in the history of the Super Bowl, people who care nothing about football can experience the same level of investment over the outcome of the big day as sports fans. For my money, the halftime show will be the most exciting of the night's offerings: there is so much riding on Beyoncé's performance. Will she stay true to her word and sing live? Will she reinforce her status as her generation's greatest performer during this relatively vulnerable time in her career? Will she deliver something that erases the Inauguration lip-synching/backing-track accompaniment fiasco? Will she fuck everything up?
Beyoncé Just Held a Press Conference So That She Could Sing the National Anthem Live For Everyone
Caity Weaver · 01/31/13 03:52PMHere Is the List of Songs Beyoncé Plans to Not Lip-Synch at the Super Bowl
Caity Weaver · 01/24/13 06:49PMInaugural Official Confirms to CNN: Beyoncé Lip-Synched, Is a Terrorist
Caity Weaver · 01/23/13 06:13PMBeyoncé's Lip-Synching Makes Aretha Franklin Giddy, Incoherent
Rich Juzwiak · 01/23/13 12:15PMSome went through the stages of grief when word emerged that Beyoncé lip-synched "The Star Spangled Banner" at Monday's Presidential Inauguration. Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul and Saying Weird Things in Public from Time to Time (remember the Kathie Lee beef of 2012?), however, was tickled by the news and may emulate Beyoncé going forward. Or something. Franklin told ABCNews.com that she thought King Bey "did a beautiful job," adding (and here's the weird part):
About-Face: Marine Corps Spokesman Says Beyoncé Lip-Syncing Claims Are False
Neetzan Zimmerman · 01/22/13 06:03PMBeyoncé Lip-Synched: Coping with the 7 Stages of Star-Spangled Grief (UPDATE)
Caity Weaver · 01/22/13 05:10PMBeyoncé Lip-Synched 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at the Inauguration (Update)
Rich Juzwiak · 01/22/13 12:18PMYour Inauguration 2013 Yearbook
Robert Kessler · 01/21/13 05:50PMBeyoncé, President of the United Beyoncés, Rips Out Earpiece Mid-Song and Still Delivers Flawless Performance (UPDATE)
Caity Weaver · 01/21/13 01:55PMThe initial moments of Beyoncé's inauguration performance were fraught with confusion, after she opened her mouth to sing the national anthem and everyone realized that God had replaced the artist formerly known as Beyoncé with an actual living angel whose voice was more heavenly than a thousand Hallelujah choruses.
Today's Song: Destiny's Child "Nuclear"
Rich Juzwiak · 01/11/13 05:05PMYesterday, on the heels of a fake-out by Justin Timberlake that many thought would be his new single but turned out to be a minute-long ponderous YouTube video about him not releasing music, a new ballads collection from Destiny's Child was announced. Sporting 14 tracks that span the group's career, Love Songs will include the previously unreleased Pharrell Williams collaboration, "Nuclear."
Beyoncé to Be Joined On Stage by Her Personal Assistants (the Members of Destiny's Child) at the Super Bowl
Caity Weaver · 01/11/13 01:05PMGQ Interview Confirms That Beyoncé Is Fucking Crazy and Exactly As You Imagine Her
Caity Weaver · 01/10/13 12:48PMA New Justin Timberlake Single Featuring Jay-Z and Beyoncé Might Be Dropping in the Next Few Minutes [UPDATE]
Neetzan Zimmerman · 01/10/13 11:46AMLeaked: Beyoncé and Her Underboobs Cover GQ's Sexiest Women of the Century Issue [UPDATE: Hi-Res]
Neetzan Zimmerman · 01/09/13 10:13AMKanye West Now Writing Twitter Fan Fic in Which He and Kim Are Members of the Knowles-Carter Family
Caity Weaver · 01/08/13 10:35AMAs of Tuesday morning, Kanye West's only tweet is a low-quality Getty Image cropped to just the faces of West, Kim Kardashian, Jay-Z, and Beyoncé. The picture is captioned "FAM." Beyoncé and Jay-Z's real life FAM, Beyoncé's sister Solange, has been cropped out of the image; you can see her in the original here.
Solange Is the Knowles of the Week
Rich Juzwiak · 11/28/12 05:32PMYesterday, Solange Knowles (the singer in the family who isn't Beyoncé) released her excellent EP, True. Coming in at under 30 minutes and sporting just seven songs, it is as restrained as its star's vocals, which are crisp and limber but generally free of melisma. Solange will never not be compared to her sister first of all because duh, and secondly because her tone often sounds like a higher, airier version of Bey's. At this point, though, Solange is yin to Beyoncé's yang. While Beyoncé is so mainstream that her surface perfection will never crack, Solange is the hard-flopping, "fuck"-saying, Dirty Projectors-covering former teen mom who'll steal a coat after modeling it on a runway and then tell a magazine about it.