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Celeb News: Beyoncé's tour praised in New Zealand and Australia
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Bey's head must be bursting from all these praise.She truly deserves it and much more for being the best performer alive.
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Bey's head must be bursting from all these praise.She truly deserves it and much more for being the best performer alive.
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I completely agree, she deserves the praise tho, she just works harder than the other girls. 
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Haha, amazing! I don't expect any less from the King B.
I love how you used this thread title to lure in the haters. Australia doesn't put up with weak performers.
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Fierce Queen Bey rules Melbourne
Queen Bey's Mrs Carter Melbourne concert was a celebration of fierce, womanly independence by a master at the top of her game.
It was a powerful mix of newer songs from her most recent album, 4, such as Love On Top and Party, and classics like Crazy In Love.
Just when you thought the showstopper moment had happened at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday night, Beyonce whipped out another.
Early on, a line of fire sprung up on stage as Beyonce sang Naughty Girl.
Then there was the ballad 1 + 1, where she lay atop a piano wearing a glittering purple jumpsuit.
Another wow moment arrived when she glided over the audience suspended in the air, landing on a smaller stage to belt out Irreplaceable and I'm A Survivor.
"Now this is not the show for you to sit down and be cool," she told the crowd after opening her performance with Run The Wold (Girls).
"I want you all to get lost in this night. I want you to sing and dance like children and I want this to be magic."
Beyonce not once let her dance moves, which she manages to make look effortless, impact her incredible voice.
Almost like a headmistress, she commanded the audience to say `Hey Mrs Carter', punch the air and chime in on favourites like Single Ladies.
Beyonce's queendom was filled almost exclusively with fellow female artists, with the exception of the unbelievable dancers, the Les Twins.
She capped off the evening with a tribute to Whitney Houston before finishing on 2008 hit, Halo.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/entertainme...les-melbourne/
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Review: Beyonce
The little girl as princess is a relic. In Beyonce's world there's only one kind of royal worth being, apparently, and that's Queen.
If we were ever in any doubt of where this church singer from Houston, who first flamed into the public's consciousness as a teenager in a '90s girl group, saw herself in pop's pecking order, it was allayed the moment the curtain emblazoned with her personal crest fell to the stage. As a powder-faced Beyonce Knowles-Carter, cinched and winched into a regal corset, moodily moved across huge video screens her crinoline-clad dancers and all-female band emerged with the bombast levels turned up and the woman herself rising from the floor in full hair-fan diva stance.
The natural progression to all this hype, of course, was her ode to female power Run the World (Girls), the bassline crunch and Diplo-styled synths providing the sonic backdrop to the first of her tightly choreographed songs and perhaps even more impressive hair flicking. The crowd, already electrified by the mere sight of the now crumpled curtain, were by this point a trilling mass of (mostly female) voices and stomping feet.
ut whereas Beyonce's onstage queen was decidedly gilt-edged, elsewhere in her two hour-long set she espoused a more humble kind of royalty. Through some quasi-philosophical video segues the packed Rod Laver Arena saw glimpses of a Beyonce in burnished tiara and tattered tutu against the mantra "remember who you are and who you were born to be" or, much later, as a mum to Blue Ivy, charity fundraiser and casual acquaintance of Barack Obama. Other times she was her old alter ego, Sasha Fierce - all crunk and attitude in the underrated Diva or commanding soul revivalist in the mega-hit Single Ladies. Indeed her chameleonic qualities were evident throughout as she gave a nod to some of pop and RnB's greatest names including Tina Turner and Michael Jackson (could that briefest of Human Nature refrains also have come from SWV?) and even channelled more Whitney than Dolly in a rendition of I Will Always Love You, morphing that song into her emotional, endearing set-closer Halo.
By the end of her first Australian show we'd seen her as a Vegas showgirl (Party), a seductress (Naughty Girl), a flying glitter bomb (Irreplaceable, Love on Top) until finally she was a playsuit-rocking riot of colour, animal print pram and all (Grown Woman). And it's in this last bit where the latest Beyonce narrative becomes clear. Her global tour may be called the Mrs Carter Show but she's grown up, definitely in charge and, while she's been many things in her decade-long solo career, for now at least, Beyonce still rules.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/...#ixzz2iSy2mZH7
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Bow Down, Australia - Beyoncé Melbourne Review
Bow down Australia. Because Queen Beyonce has landed and she is about to take you on the amazing journey that is the Mrs Carter Tour.
Beyonce kicked things off on a typically rainy Melbourne night, and while it was cold outside it was absolutely sweltering inside Rod Laver Arena. The floor was packed, and everyone was ready to welcome the lady herself to the stage.
A Mexican wave signaled that the audience was ready to party with Bey. and then we were off on a ride that I hoped would never end.
The concert opened with Run The World (Girls), and gave us a taste of what we were in for. Sexy costumes, amazing vocals and lots of incredible dancing. Plus plenty of trademark poses and sultry stares at the audience, as well as a surprising amount of interaction with those lucky enough to be right in front of the stage.
There were plenty of costume changes, ranging from leotards to sparkly jumpsuits and everything in between. Beyonce lounged on a piano, flew through the air, and let some audience members sing the lines of some of her songs. Possibly a mistake, because most of them were pretty bad. All the songs you love were there: Baby Boy, Naughty Girl, Irreplaceable, Love On Top, Crazy In Love, Single Ladies and plenty of other familiar tunes.
Beyonce’s on stage crew is nearly all ladies, apart from two male dancers. The whole band is female, and they’re known as the Sugar Mamas. And they can play. And her dancers are ridic: those girls can move, and they all have great hair.
All too soon it was time for Halo, which meant that it was nearly time to say goodbye to Beyonce. I have to admit, I review a lot of concerts. I often find myself checking the setlist to see how much longer the show has to go. But not with Beyonce. It could have gone forever and I would have been happy.
http://www.thehothits.com/news/42975...urne-australia
Bey-day arrives - Beyonce starts Australian tour in Melbourne
Her first Australian concert on the new Mrs Carter Show world tour was truly something to Bey-hold.
It was filled with non-stop 'because I can' moments that Beyonce makes look effortless.
And an energy and natural talent which would embarrass most of her contemporaries.
"This is not the show for you to sit down and be cool," Beyonce warned the adoring crowd early on.
Very few seats were used.
Watching Beyonce transcend from star to artist has been fascinating. She was at the top of her game when she sacked her father as manager and officially took over creative control.
The resulting album, 2011's 4 did more than merely aim for the charts again.
Fans thought Beyonce would have a new album out in time for this 2014 world tour. Nope.
It's not right so it's not coming out yet. Then again it could be ready to release next week. Such is the mysterious, spontaneous new Beyonce.
Likewise her latest tour has a superstar budget and epic production, but with a maverick creative streak.
The show looks incredible, with state of the art visuals.
But it's the personal touches that make it special - bringing back the all girl band, mixing Bitter Sweet Symphony into If I Were a Boy and paying tribute to her heroes Whitney Houston and Donna Summer.
She's fierce street dancer one minute for Diva, Vegas disco showgirl for Party the next. And there's no holding back letting the dancers do the heavy lifting. And no letting her intense dancing stop her vocal power. Her concert is a master class in performance.
The set list is bold - there's chart toppers (Crazy in Love, Irreplaceable, Baby Boy, Naughty Girl, Survivor) but it's far from a lazy greatest hits show.
4 provides some of the best moments - from the unbridled old school funk of Love on Top to the goosebump-creating emotional vocals on 1+1, as delivered atop a grand piano.
Just after delivering the perfect pop of Crazy in Love Beyonce notes "In ten years time y'all say 'I was at Beyonce concert'." Because she can - and she's right.
With Pink and now Beyonce, we've seen two young women skyrocketing the bar for live entertainment this year.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment...-1226744568207
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Who is the pressed that reported this?
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Beyonce proves she's the queen of the stage at her first Sydney show at Allphones Arena
QUEEN Bey runs the world.
If you didn't know that already, get to one of the ironically titled Mrs Carter Shows in Sydney this weekend.
From the second this flesh-and-blood superstar known universally as Beyonce magically appeared for Run The World (Girls), she owned the hearts of 14,000 Sydney fans.
The girls from the burbs and the boys from the hood were crazy in love with Bey.
What's not to adore? Her megawatt engaging smile proclaims she loves us too.
The powerful God-given voice hits with force and purity of tone even in the middle of an aerobic dance routine. Add the inventive choreography, glamazonian physique and honeyed mane which has its own personality. Chuck in an enviable swag of hits and costumes to die for and you have an unrivalled arena spectacular which must give her peers performance anxiety.
"This is not the show for you to sit down and be cool!" she declared. So we got up and shook it bootylicious-style as ordered.
With camera phones aloft, her fans were determined not to miss a YouTube moment.
She bought time for a costume change or well-deserved breather with video montages that reaffirmed her female empowerment mantra or offered sneak peeks behind the celebrity veil with husband Jay Z, their daughter Blue Ivy or their mate, US President Barack Obama.
The all-female band and dancer ensemble were almost upstaged by the only men on stage, her sexy and oh-so- flexible dance duo Les Twins.
Beyonce also made her own stand, looking fierce and waiting for screams to lift the roof into a performance statement when other artists use them to buy time and instant audience gratification.
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