~Lady Gaga~
Evidence: An artist that came to stardom in the summer of '08, Lady Gaga certified herself as a force when her single "Just Dance" knocked Beyonce's "Single Ladies" from it's 4 week run at the #1 spot on Billboard. But these two ladies didn't become competition, instead they joined forces- after meeting for the second time (the first was at the 2009 MTV VMAs where they both walked away with 3 awards) at Beyonce's ceremony for Billboard Woman Of The Year (where Gaga was also celebrated as Billboard's Rising Star Of The Year), Beyonce asked the daring pop star to work on a song and music video together for Beyonce's single "Video Phone." Then came Lady Gaga's song "Telephone" which features Beyonce. Together these two ladies are a Montser of force to be reckoned with.
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Lady Gaga and Beyoncé have apparently found a quite a kinship in one another and have become good friends quickly. While it might seem that the two superstars would be worlds apart it terms of image, sound and vibe, but at the end of the day there's no question that they're two of the hardest working women in pop music today.
And perhaps those personality traits made it easy for the two of them to bond and collaborate with one another. Since the 2009 Video Music Awards, where both women won awards, their paths have been crossing quite frequently — and they've worked together on two projects so far.
The first to appear will be Beyoncé's clip for "Video Phone." Not many details have emerged about the Hype Williams-helmed video, which was shot in Brooklyn, New York, last month.
The pair also collaborated on a new song, "Telephone," that will appear on the forthcoming deluxe reissue of Gaga's debut LP, dubbed The Fame Monster, which includes eight new songs and is slated for release on November 23 (Gaga's Monster Ball Tour launches in Montreal four days later).
Gaga had nothing but praise for B when she sat down with MTV News for a long interview on Tuesday.
"You know she is such a beautiful person, and I gotta tell you, I just adore her," she said. "I had kind of lost faith a little bit in meeting artists in the business — and then I met Beyoncé."
She also spoke briefly about how much fun the two of them have together. "She is a real, real woman," Gaga said. "I have never laughed so hard on a video set in my life. We had the best time doing 'Video Phone.' "
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Viewers may have been surprised to see a new side of Beyoncé when she assumed the role of good-girl-gone-bad Honey B in the video for Lady Gaga’s “Telephone.” But that was all part of Gaga’s plan, she tells “Big Boy’s Neighborhood.”
“We definitely get along. She’s a good friend of mine and I was so excited to make this video with her. The video in a lot of ways is more about her even than it is about me. It was sort of a pop-art venture for me to bring her into my world. In a way, the video is an attempt for her and I to erase pop music as we know it up until this very point. It’s meant to change the perspective of the world on what a pop music video should be and she’s kind of the vehicle for that. In reality, more people around the world are familiar with her aesthetics than they are with mine. It was something for me to kind of change the way that you see her for one video.”
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Gaga had only the nicest things to say about Queen B. “We’re not competitive at all,” she told Seacrest. “We’re so different, you know, and we respect each other so much. She’s so kind. We get along. She was very courageous in this video. I mean, can you imagine me saying, ‘Okay, now, Beyoncé, now you have to call me a very bad girl and feed me a honey bun’?…She trusted me because she likes my work, and she trusted me because she knew that I love her and that it’s a mutual respect. It ended up being a masterpiece because she was so courageous.”
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What is your attitude towards collaboration with peers in the pop music scene? Is it an idea which scares, excites, or even interests you?
At this moment, I don't want to do any collaborations, especially contemporary ones. I want to stand on my own two feet. This new album is my chance to create what in 20 years will be seen as my iconic moment. That's what you should always aim at. Today, collaborations are about appealing to a wider market and gaining radio plays and album sales, above artistic integrity. She is a real good person, Beyonce, I mean I would say she is my favorite contemporary person in pop music. She is a lovely, lovely person and she is so kind. I don't know how anyone could ever say one bad thing about her, to be honest.
~Lauryn Hill~
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I asked her is she could name any musicians who could redeem music of today, "I listened to a Destiny’s Child song the other day that was beautiful. I always thought Beyonce’s voice was beautiful. I can’t knock the whole industry, Today, what we have is banging beats. The DPs (directors of photography), the art direction, they have reached an all-time high. It’s just the music…It would be great if people were just allowed to be.”
source: 2005 TRACE MAG Interview
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~Leanne "Lelee" Lyons (from SVW)~
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As one of the biggest black girl groups of the 1990s, SWV is credited with mentoring (in some form or another) the then-burgeoning R&B quartet Destiny's Child.
"We let them open up for us back in the day, and they were like our little sisters," Lyons reflected. "What people see in [Beyonce] now, I have seen this in her since she was nine years old ... no one sings 'I Get So Weak' in the knees like Beyonce at 12 years old."
~Leona Lewis~
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Leona Lewis has praised Beyonce Knowles' sense of style.
The 'Happy' singer was thrilled to meet up with the pop superstar at the recent MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) - where both beauties performed to the star-studded audience - because Beyonce is so "nice" and stylish.
She said: "Beyonce was so nice to me - it was great to be in the same show as her. Her style is amazing too!"
~Lil Mo~
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THELILMOSHOW: "The ultimate singer that aint churchy but she gives u a GREAT show is BEY! Nobody and mean NOBODY will ever be the NEXT her!"
THELILMOSHOW: "She plays the game, listens to leaders and she perfects her craft and keeps her life PRIVATE! That's why she's untouchable." http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/4889/lilmo.jpg
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~Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman)~
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Carter said that she listens to and admires many singers including Cheryl Crowe, Beyonce, Pink, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald.
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~M.I.A.~
Evidence: A fearless musician, MIA entered America's mainstream scene when her song "Paper Planes" became a smash on the Billboard Hot 100. From there, a part of her song was sampled and used for a track that featured some of the best and brightest rappers- including Beyonce's husband, Jay-Z.
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What do you think of Beyoncé?
She’s like super. She’s like harder, faster, stronger. In our lifetime, Beyoncé will be a classic, like how people talk about Aretha Franklin.
~Makeba Riddick~
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Shortly after her phone rang again. Columbia Records called about the song and Beyonce, who was prepping her sophomore solo disc, wanted it for herself -- and Jay-Z would put a verse on it.
“Once again I’m like ‘really,’ ” she says laughing. “I didn’t believe it until I was walking in the door to meet her, and that’s when I started getting nervous. I came in the room and from the minute we shook hands it was like we were distant cousins. Like we had known each other in a past life or something because we clicked. I’ve never clicked with an artist the way we did. Same with Rihanna, which was more like a big sister, little sister [relationship]. With Beyonce we were closer in age. We just had a ball and before I knew it three weeks had gone by and the album was done.”
The track, “Deja Vu,” was picked as the first single, and scored Riddick another No. 1 single. Of the 10 tracks on the original album released in 2006, Riddick had her hand in writing half, including singles “Upgrade U” and “Get Me Bodied,” rightfully earning her the nickname of “Golden Girl.”
“It was crazy to me when we were done. That was a whirlwind,” Riddick says. “Every day we would be talking for hours -- that’s how those songs came about. It was fun, that’s how you should make an album. It amazes me how a regular girl from Baltimore from the inner city has the same life experiences as a girl from Houston, Texas. You forget that she’s Beyonce until a L’Oreal commercial comes on.”
~Mary J Blige~
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Hermione Eyre of the London Independent spoke with Mary J. Blige in a Q&A session and asked the singer about being engaged, her watch collection, working with Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs, who she would name as her successor, and who she’s looking forward to meeting in heaven. On the successor question, Blige responded, “So many of ‘em, from Ashanti to India Arie. Although she don’t dress like me, her lyrics are like mine. You see, I’m smart, I pay attention! It would have to be between Beyoncé and Lauryn [Hill] – they are the two that were inspired. They didn’t just copy the whole thing. They took it and did their own little thing with it. I respect that. That other stuff, it’s like ‘you just copied the whole entire thing’ [hoots of laughter]. That’s cool, though. Beyonce – I’m really proud of her. That honey is doing movies, she’s doing modelling, she’s a business woman.”
~Maxwell~
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"Beyoncé killed it" - says he enjoyed Beyoncé the most. (2010 Grammy performance) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eflPbquwk4Q
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~Michael Jackson~
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David Guest: Michael Jackson's best friend,ex-husband of Liza Minelli and promoter.
He counts Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Russell and Beyonce among them. Of the Destiny's Child singer he says: "She is lovely. One of the nicest people I've ever met.
"Her parents brought her up the right way. She blushed when I told her Michael had a crush on her."
~Mike Myers~
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Destiny’s Child star Beyonce Knowles spoke with Entertainment Tonight as well as her ‘Austin Powers Goldmember’ co-star Mike Myers, who had great things to say about Beyonce. “I’ve got shin pads in my hockey bag older than her, and I was blown away by how mature and well brought up and lovely and eager she was,” says Myers. “She knew soul cinema, and that sweetness that’s inside her really came out. I think in many ways she steals the picture.”
~Miley Cyrus~
Evidence (by QBee): Miley and her mother
Miley is a huge fan i saw in one of her vids she said she loves Bee and Bee gave her some clothers from HOD and her mum wants her to be just like Bee.
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Miley Cyrus Wants to Be Like Beyoncé
Miley’s quite a star in her own right by now, but that doesn’t stop the teen Hannah Montana star from looking up to other stars, like the super-successful Beyoncé. Miley says she wants to be like Beyoncé someday and reach the same level of success as her.
“I want to be like Beyoncé,” Cyrus told Seventeen. “She is the ultimate woman.
“You look at her and you don’t think, ‘I wonder what her personal life is like’. You look at her and you go, ‘That girl on the stage is a superstar’.”
She added: “You don’t care about anything else; you only care about her music. So I would hope that would be me in the future.”
— via Digital Spy
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Miley Cyrus opens her 'Can't Be Tamed' closet
Miley Cyrus says, "I like feathers."
And in this new episode of MySpace's The Fit, Miley gives us a look at the wardrobe for her new videoCan't Be Tamed, which includes lots of feather. She also talks about a favorite item in her closet that was a gift from Beyonce.
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"Beyoncé is just, like, a living legend," the 16-year-old told MTV News about why she thinks that B should take home more trophies than Lady Gaga. "So, that's why I feel like everything she is up for, she so deserves it."
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When asked if she could spend a day in anyone's stilettos, whose would she chose? "Beyonce!" said Miley Cyrus. "Her fashion is different. It's out there and fun."
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~Mindy Kaling (Kelly Kapoor on show "The Office")~
Evidence (by samosa278): Kelly Kapoor's twitter is @IAmKellyFierce. The person who plays her, Mindy Kaling is definitely a Bey Stan, not just because of that twitter name. I've noticed on several other occasions haha
1. in the episode Casual Friday, Kelly is wearing a denim jumpsuit and asks if her butt looks good. The jumpsuit was Dereon.
2. she tweeted about Obsessed a lot back when it came out: the sequel to Obsessed is Unhinged, the story of a girl driven mad bc she hasnt seen Obsessed yet | "did you guys see Obsessed 2: Unhinged? Beyonce head butts the hell out of Mindy Kaling."
3. this set of tweets: ETA: na na na hen is a female version of a roosta | na na na chicken is a female version of a rooster | na na na diva is the female version of a hustla
4. @azizansari i'm extremely nervous about tonight and i would feel psychologically calmer if i were to be introduced to Beyonce's "Diva"?
~Miranda Lambert~
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Miranda Lambert is well- known for her strong female anthems such as 'Gunpowder and Lead,' 'Kerosene,' 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' and 'White Liar,' but there's also a softer, more feminine side to the Texas whirlwind that she would like to be able to show off more.
Maybe an alter ego is in store to show that softer side, such as the case with 'Sasha Fierce,' a character created by R&B superstar Beyoncé, of whom Miranda is a big fan. "I feel like the older I'm getting and the more I'm not some crazy kid with a chip on my shoulder as much as I was," Miranda tells The Boot. "I kind of wish I had an alter ego so that I could not have to be in character if I don't want to."
Miranda admits she plays up her tough-girl image because that's part of who she is. "But," she adds with a laugh, " I love to bake cookies. And I love makeup, and I have this girly side that's really only just starting to show because of 'Revolution' and some of those songs. I'm gonna ponder that, because I figure if Beyoncé could have an alter ego, I should follow her because it's always good to follow greatness."
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"I love watching live-show DVDs from other artists before I go on stage," says the chart-topping, Grammy-nominated 26-year-old in an email interview. "I have a great selection and I try to mix it up a bit.
"I'm a big Beyoncé fan and have seen her many times live. I got to meet her at her show in Dallas last year... So I like to see her before I go on, as an inspiration...
~Mo'Nique~
Evidence: One of the first known solo Beyonce stans, Mo'Nique has praised Beyonce along with doing her own routines to Beyonce's songs when she opened for BET in 2004 and again in 2007.
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@ 3:43 'Ima tell you sister, you are truely, you are truely the queen at what you do,...., we love you, we respect you... & keep givin it to us, ...& everytime u move Ima move'
~Monica~
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@MonicaMyLife: "Someone just asked do I like beyonce. I LOVE her. We've been cool since I was 12. And her mom helped develope my style team. Were all close"
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@MonicaMyLife: "@HypnotiqOne- yes bey was signed to Daryl simmons and his studio was next door to Dallas austins so we were around each other everyday"
@MonicaMyLife: "@Above_N_Beyonce- I love bey and shout out to Miss Tina. Stepped in and helped me get things back on track. Lord she gives good advice too."
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~Nelly Furtado~
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Estadão: Your musical approach after Timbaland put your in a place where singers like Beyoncé, Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga are. Do you feel close to these artists or do you consider yourself and exception?
Nelly: We're all musical cousins. We dance and try to make joy. And we have mutual respect for each other. I really admire Beyoncé, she's a complete artist, fighter, innovative. Of course, even because of our different formation, we're not the same. But we like similar things, the mix of it is what makes us apart.
~Nick Jonas~
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But Nick does know who he'd most like to collaborate with if given the opportunity. "Probably Beyoncé. Maybe some type of soulful ballad would be cool," he said. "She's fantastic — definitely a living legend at this point."
~Nicki Minaj~
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@NickiMinaj: "Me & Bey 2nd nite @ Yankee Stadium. Isn't she a dream barbz? :-) http://plixi.com/p/45458087"
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Nicki says she wants to write for Beyoncé- calls her fearless. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wGS7F1mVKA
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Nicki Minaj Sets Her Sights on Beyoncé
There’s no stopping Nicki Minaj. The Young Money femcee can check Mariah Carey, Usher, and Ludacris off her growing list of collaborators, and now she’s eyeing the next prize.
The rising star’s plan of attack includes penning a song for another dominant force in pop music. “I think I could come up with some crazy stuff for Beyoncé,” she tells BET. “I have things that I write for girls, like R&B singers.”
After being co-signed by Jay-Z, Lil Wayne’s protégée wants to share some of her Barbie swagger with Mrs. Carter. “Beyoncé, she’s fearless, and I think that she could embody my crazy swag in a female R&B world,” she reveals.
Beyoncé – “Poison”
When I tell you it gives me life, like, it gives me life. Her voice is effortless. It’s badass, like, “I know I’m the best.” I love the melody, I love the cadence. It’s playful, but it’s just so in-your-face. It’s dope and it’s creative.
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Nicki Minaj Wants Beyoncé To Sing At Her Wedding
"[I'd] have five little flower girls dressed in Hawaiian straw skirts," Minaj says. "Then Beyoncé would sing 'Smash Into You' and I'd cry like, 'Oh God.'"
~Nicola Roberts (of Girls Aloud)~
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"Beyoncé's demure attitude and "Sasha Fierce" persona make her a well-rounded artist; her I Am... Sasha Fierce album gives the best of both worlds. On disc one, her lyrics emphasise how a woman's mind works, and I love that. "If I Were a Boy" is the biggest female empowerment song I've heard in years. Disc two? Wowzer! That Sasha Fierce is all diva. Here, Beyoncé teaches girls to have a little bit of attitude – and why not? Every woman on earth should learn from what Beyoncé is saying. She's an inspiration to me. Go girl!"
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~Nicole Scherzinger~
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'There was a lot of growth between PCD's opening sets for Christina Aguilera (2007) and Britney Spears.
Nicole: I think that best artists are always growing. I know that we've grown tenfold. I know I've grown tenfold. I can't wait to see where I'm going to be at a couple of years from now. Hopefully, I'll be able to take over the world in five years. Be the next Beyoncé. That's what it's all about.'
~Nikki Monninger (Silversun Pickups bassist)~
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We understand that the Grammy committee's not going out and getting demos from the clubs — that it might take awhile for us to get on their radar. It was a fun night and interesting to sit by all these famous musicians, to be in the same row as Ringo Starr and Beyoncé. We felt like the odd band out, but at the same time, it's an honor to be in their realm.
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~The Obamas~
Evidence: President Barack Obama asked for Beyonce's autograph, invited her to preform at his inauguration, and Michelle, along with daughters Sasha and Malia, attended Beyonce's most recent "I Am... Tour" in DC (?).
Beyonce has been praised by First lady Michelle Obama for being "so talented and so real".
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Mrs Obama is quoted in Ebony as saying: "Beyonce is an incredible young woman."
It follows Beyonce's performance of At Last at President Obama's swearing-in celebrations in January.
As she sang the Etta James classic, the first couple danced at an inauguration ball in what has become one of the enduring images of the occasion.
And it would seem that singer left a lasting impression on the White House inhabitants.
The first lady said: "Barack and I have met her on a few occasions, and it was a great honour to hear her sing 'At Last' so beautifully at the inauguration.
"She is so talented and so real, and we just love her."
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When asked what kind of music she likes [Michelle Obama] said "All right, so this is what's in my iPod....I love Stevie Wonder....I've got some Michael Jackson. But I've got some Rihanna, I've got some Beyonce -- I love Beyonce. (Laughter.) Oh, yeah, I love some Beyonce. I've got some new Usher on my CD. I'm trying to relate the things that are on there that you could connect with. Sting, anyone? Sting? (Laughter.) No? What's so funny? (Laughter.)"
~Of Montreal~
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"I fell in love with Beyonce's 'Crazy in Love' and since then, I've always kept an ear out for what she releases," Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes told Paste. "I wasn't that familiar with her Destiny's Child stuff, until [her sister] Solange played me some of the deep cuts. I was truly blown away by the vocal arrangements/performances. I think most people don't realize what an amazingly great singer Beyonce is. She is so much more than a pop star."
"There is a reason why she's the most popular and beloved female vocalist of our time," Barnes added. "I would be fully psyched to work with her."
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@xxofMontrealxx: "Started work on a song 4 B.not that she's contacted me.just in case.it's called"He'sMyPartyDrug". sounds like The Time meets Four Tet." http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...OfMontreal.jpg
~Otis Williams (from The Temptations)~
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"Alicia Keys is developing into possibly being an artist of that ilk," he tells Spinner. "I believe Beyonce is another one that's doing great work, not just as an artist, but as a movie star as well. I give a lot of credit to her father, Matthew, for guiding her and making her the superstar she's really becoming. But the strange thing about it -- there aren't too many I can rattle off. When I was coming along, you could rattle off a list of names. But I keep my face buried in 'Billboard' and all kinds of music magazines, and it's sad to say there's not too many that have the work ethic of Alicia Keys or Beyonce."
~Pat Benatar~
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Who do you like today?
I love Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. I think Gaga's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that. Beyonce is doing a real service to girls everywhere by being so classy, and then there's also Sheryl Crow.
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Envelope pushing -- like showing up at a Yankees game and taking off her shirt?
A: "No. That's horrible, I hate rudeness. That's awful manners. I just mean that she just doesn't care. I like to see people going for it, doing things that stick out, like David Bowie. As for singers that I can appreciate are great singers: I think Sheryl Crow is an amazing singer. Amy Winehouse has amazing style. It's not always about the material for me. I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer. Beyonce is so classy and terrific."
source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6661H220100707
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~Patti LaBelle~
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'You're a pioneer in R&B. How do you think the music industry has changed for black women in R&B versus today?
Patti: Versus today... these woman can come out and do anything, sell records and can't do a show. That's the difference! Back in the day we could sing the record, perform the song on stage and give you a great show. There aren't many Gladys Knights left today who are doing it and doing it well. The only one I can say and I know for a fact -- Beyonce kicks butt! '
~Pink~
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"Beyonce is a classy lady. I feel for her, too. It's not her fault at all, and her and taylor did their thing." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ulraTtsqm4
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She says: "I didn't actually meet her but we were in the same area as the other nominees and Beyonce had just performed, she was absolutely amazing and she was literally sitting right next to us and I was like: 'Ahhh, Oh my God!' - she is just amazing."
Pixie Lott has told of her excitement at crossing paths with Beyonce at the MTV Europe Music Awards.
The 18-year-old British singer was nominated for four awards and won Best UK Act and Best Push Artist, but was delighted to breathe the same air as the Crazy In Love star.
Pixie said: "I didn't actually meet her but we were in the same area as the other nominees and Beyonce had just performed, she was absolutely amazing and she was literally sitting right next to us and I was like, 'ahhh, oh my god!' - she is just amazing."
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"Speaking about the 'Sweet Dreams' hit maker, 19-year-old Essex singer Lott said: "Beyonce is an idol of mine.
"She is an all-round talent and pulls it all off – great shows, dancing and acting. And, of course, she has an incredible voice." She gushed.
Pixie was also in the same building as Knowles once, but the pair never spoke.
She recalled to the Daily Star: "Though I was standing right next to her at the MTV EMAs I didn't actually get to talk to her. She is always being so fussed over, so I didn't want to interrupt and barge in."
~Prince~
Evidence (by Superfly Sister): Prince! He said she was the real deal, and an amazing talent. He called himself "such a fan" and said she has impeccable rhythm and pitch. Let's see, he said when rehearsing for their Grammy performance, he had her sing with a live band and he thought it was beautiful and nearly teared up. He applauded her backstage after the performance. He believes she has a real passion for music. And he covered Suga Mama lol. He's a real stan.
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Prince: Oh, I, uh...I pride myself on working with great musicians, and I consider her to be as such. She's an amazing talent, the real deal, so she just fell right into it. It was no problem whatsoever.
Tavis: How did that performance come about? I mean, you decide to do whatever you want to do on your own terms, but how did that actually come to be?
Prince: Well, the producer, Ken Ehrlich, had been hounding me every year to do something, and this year we have a new record coming out, so...and a tour scheduled, so I thought if this was...if this was gonna be the year, then I wanted to do something special. Then the notion of working with Beyonce came about, and that made it extra special 'cause I'm such a fan, so I mean...
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Prince: At least in the movies, a successful actor can get $20 million. It's not like that in the music business. Destiny's Child brought in $93 million last year. How much do you think they themselves actually got? It's totally unequal.
Record executives will say, "Destiny's Child made $93 million last year." You ask them, "Why did Destiny's Child themselves only get $4 million of that money?" I mean, have you heard Beyoncé sing? Puh-leeze! She ain't even 20, and she's got a voice like that! Let's kick it up to $30 million. Is that fair? They won't answer. They'll say, "You don't understand...."
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As the actual Grammy show got under way, Prince and Beyoncé had just set the house on fire and finished an onstage ceremony of sorts that TV viewers didn't see, where P laid his handkerchief out on the floor for Beyoncé to walk on. After the singer obliged, Prince began clapping. You get the feeling if the phrase weren't so played out, Prince would've told her, "You go, girl!"
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Prince also says after working with Beyonce, he can be counted among her legions of fans. "It was cool working with Beyonce because she's a real talent, really cares about music," he said. "She seems to have a relationship with the music that we all have, which means that she does it naturally. When the music starts she'll move naturally, and she has impeccable rhythm and pitch."
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"She seems to have a relationship with the music ... which means that she does it naturally, like really naturally. After one rehearsal we played one of her tunes with my band, because usually she sings with tracks and I wanted to hear her sing with a live band, and it was," Prince said, pausing to take out a handkerchief and act like he was wiping away tears, "you don't even want to know. It was good."
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~Prince Charles~
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Beyonce and her boyfriend Jay-Z will soon be enjoying a bootylicious dinner at Buckingham Palace, at the behest of Prince Charles.
After the R&B diva agreed to perform at the Prince's Trust Urban Music Festival in London next month, it seems the Prince of Wales wanted to show his appreciation by treating her and her partner to some royal hospitality.
According to press reports, the chart-topping couple will be collected by Charles' chauffeur-driven limousine and taken to the palace for a meal of organic foods and fine wine. The 22-year-old and her rapper beau are both receiving etiquette classes to make sure there are no embarrassing faux-pas.
source: http://www.hellomagazine.com/music/2004/04/13/beyonce/
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Prince William Fancies Beyonce
The Sun reports that when Beyonce Knowles was sitting next to the Prince Charles in the royal seats at Party In The Park, he told her that his son William “fancies” her. “I went red in the face and couldn’t believe it!” Beyonce said afterwards. “He was very charming. We spoke for a few minutes and he told me that both his sons have my album. He then said, ‘Between you and me, I think Wills fancies you.’ I’m sure William can’t believe that his father said that and I’m sure Charles will be in trouble when he gets home. I’m thrilled though — Wills is very good-looking.”
source: http://rnbdirt.com/prince-william-fancies-beyonce/4235/
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~Queen Elizabeth (Queen of England)~
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The Queen is a huge fan of Beyonce, but is getting too old for her concerts. “I bring the party to me,” said the Queen from inside the protection of her plastic bubble.
source: http://www.nypress.com/blog-3807-mic...most-ends.html
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~Randy Jackson~
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"Beyonce is one of the most talented people on the planet today." - Randy Jackson
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~Raven Symone~
Evidence (by Marquies): Raven-Symoné = Certified Stan
- In London says before she gets on stage to perform she sings Beyonce songs to warm up, to pretend like she can sing like her, and then get onstage and works hard to put a good show the way she does
- Recently busted out singing Single Ladies in the middle of a videoblog
- Does a dance routine to "Diva" in her current tour
- Attended LA Show
- When talking about her performing something to the extent of "I do my best, but dont put me on the same stage as Beyonce"
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~Rihanna~
Evidence: When she was an up and coming singer, she listed Beyonce as her greatest idol. She was also dubbed the "Bajan Beyonce" for her first two albums.
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It’s hard to believe that Rihanna attended her first major concert only six years ago, and now she’s performing at the same events with the stars she once looked up to.
The 21-year-old singer shared her first concert experience with iTunes. “My very first arena concert was Beyoncé/Alicia Keys/Missy Elliott [in 2004]. I think it was the ‘Ladies First’ tour,” she said.
Despite her bad seats, she will always remember that special night. “I was in like a nosebleed seat, but I was in tears. I could not believe that Beyoncé was right there, and Alicia Keys and Missy Elliott.”
Rihanna was in awe of the artists she now considers her peers. “I was a little starstruck. No, I was very starstruck, but it was so much fun. It was very inspiring and it motivated me so much.”
source: http://www.rap-up.com/2010/01/26/bey...na-starstruck/
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Rihanna knows a pop hit when she hears one—just check the Billboard charts. So what is the sexy songstress listening to these days?
~Robin Thicke~
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"She's just amazing, phenomenal," the tour's opening act, Robin Thicke, said on Monday (August 6). "Me and my whole crew, we're all blown away with what she can do. How she can sing, dance, it's ridiculous. She's a superstar, born and bred."
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"'Irreplaceable' is a well-written, timeless record. And Beyonce's delivery was incredible. I know I'll still be listening to what song 20-30 years from now." - Rodney Jerkins, Songwriter/ Producer
~Rosie Perez~
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Latina actress ROSIE PEREZ struggled through Christmas (05) with a hip injury after trying to dance to her favourite BEYONCE KNOWLES hit on the treadmill at her local gym.
The WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP star was ordered to rest up over the holidays by doctors who treated her after she badly bruised her hip bone in a freak accident.
She explains, "I hurt my hip, I bruised my bones. I was dancing on the treadmill when it was running.
"When I'm on the treadmill I like to do the iPod thing and everything like that and my favourite artist to exercise to is Beyonce - I love her and all of a sudden her song CRAZY IN LOVE comes on and I lost it.
"I started fantasizing I had the blonde wig... and I had the mini-dress on, I had JAY-Z by my side.. and then bang - I got too excited and I miscalculated the rhythm with the thing going."
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Presenting the first award for Outstanding TV Movie or Mini-Series was Rosie Perez, who revealed that if she "ever became a carpet muncher," Cynthia Nixon and Beyoncé "would be first in line!" which earned her whoops and catcalls from the audience.
~Ryan Tedder~
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"The greatest singers each have their own 'thing' that they do better than anyone else. Beyonce's thing is taking a great song and making it an event. She adds her own personality and vocal prowess like a master chef adds the missing ingredient to his signature dish. Beyonce brings that missing ingredient." - Ryan Tedder, Songwriter/ Producer and Member of OneRepublic.
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~Sade~
Evidence (by myCHERRYmoon): Can we count Miss Sade as a fan? She did come out of the woodwork to see Beyonce in London.
~Sean Garrett~
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"She is graceful and never shows any weakness or frustration despite what may be going on around her. She always has fun with whatever she is doing. A professional but still a sweetheart."
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"She works really hard and I think at some point you've really got to give it up for her," Garrett said of Beyonce. "She's been doing it a long time and she's still at the top of her game."
~Serena Williams~
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For Serena Williams, few things are as important to her as the music she walks out to before facing off against an opponent. It’s the one thing that really gets her going before a big match. So in an effort to find the perfect song to help her set things off, the ten-time Grand Slam champion has teamed up with Ludacris’s website WeMix.com to give aspiring musicians the chance to create the song she’ll use to take the court at the U.S. Open in New York City in August. Artists can submit their unique songs now for consideration (entrants can also submit their song through Williams’s own site, serenawilliams.com).
But before you rig up the Auto-Tune and get to work, know this: VIBE isn’t about to have you throwing a bunch of half-assed songs into the competition. This is Serena Williams, people! So we went straight to the source and asked the 27-year-old Women’s Tennis Association champ to fill in the blanks about her favorite songs, artists and albums. For all you aspiring songwriters (yeah, we know you’re tuning into VIBE.com), check out what she served up. Then, get in the lab and make something guaranteed to get Serena open at the Open.
The music I like is…Hip hop. But I like to go out to everything. I love pop. I love R&B. I’m a little bit of everything.
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But if I’m really trying to get crazy, I put on… Beyoncé! She just has such hot songs. When I’m out and they play her record, it’s just like, “There you go!”
And since now you’re wondering if I can do the “Single Ladies” dance…Yeah, I can pretty much do it.
Thanks, samosa278
~Shakira~
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Shakira also reflected on 'Beautiful Liar' - her "thrilling" 2007 collaboration with Beyonce Knowles.
She added to Britain’s Look magazine: "It was fantastic to work with her.
"She's an amazing performer and very sweet. The song was her idea and I was so thrilled. She's a very determined and focused woman and that's something to admire."
source: http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertain...ce-420520.html
~Sharon Jones~
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AVC: What kind of music do you listen to?
SJ: Mostly old stuff. I just got an iPod, believe it or not. A Nano, nannoo, whatever. [Laughs.] We got those when we did a show for Apple. A showcase for the VIPs. So once I was able to download things, I got the guys to show me how to download some of the songs that were on my laptop. But y’know, I got some Beyoncé songs, and maybe some Jill Scott in there, maybe Erykah Badu. I pick songs that I like. Not whole albums, but there are single songs that strike me, that I like to hear. But I would say that most of it is oldies. The classics.
~Shontelle~
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Working with Beyonce? Shontelle spills the beans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDRc7l5mG60
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For many new artists, the first year after the release of their debut albums are filled with highlights. Getting into swanky parties, meeting some cool fellow artists, maybe flying first class for the first time.
One of the biggest highlights for Barbados-born beauty Shontelle, is getting to tour alongside one of music’s most adored superstars, and her idol, Beyonce. The 24-year-old singer, who found success with her irresistible single “T-Shirt,” opened for the Mighty B on her tour across Europe and the UK last spring.
“That changed my life,” Shontelle told Neon Limelight in a recent phone interview. “Just that feeling that you’ve been embraced by one of the biggest stars in the world, and not just her, but her entire team, that made me really feel like I’m [doing this] for a reason.
“Even when it feels like everything isn’t going the way you want, or it’s moving slow, or it’s come to a stop completely, you have an experience like touring with Beyonce and it reminds you of why you do this.”
Beyonce, who Shontelle describes as “an amazing human being,” made it a point to sit down and meet Shontelle to share some kind words. “She literally looked me in the eye and said ‘You are so beautiful. I see your videos on TV all the time… I hear your voice every night and [it's] incredible. I want you to work really hard because you’re gonna do so well.’ And I’m like ‘Beyonce is telling me this!? Are you serious right now?’”
She says touring with Beyonce was a once in a lifetime experience she made sure to pay close attention to in hopes of picking up some pointers. “I watched how she’s not afraid to experiment. She’s not afraid to try different types of music and different things, and I feel like that’s why her fanbase is so huge.
“I watched her perfectionism. She won’t even hide that. She’ll tell you ‘I am a perfectionist. You had better get this right or I will get mad.’ I watched her soundcheck, her rehearsals, hung out with all of the dancers, the stylists, and everybody has a story to tell about Beyonce.”
Being on the tour with Beyonce, she says, pushed her from just being a fan of the Grammy winning singer to “stan status.” “I can’t thank Beyonce enough. It really did change my life.”
~Sia~
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@SiaMusic: "beyonce is MY QUEEN. i was just talking about the grammy performances."
@SiaMusic: "xtina is my mate.i can't worship friends.i can love and respect them,but if i call them MY QUEEN it's creepy,no? do not fear, i love xtina!"
@SiaMusic: "xtina fans are very very loyal.and sometimes scare me."
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~Simon Cowell~
Evidence: An A&R excutive that hails form England, Simon is known in America for being the ruthless yet honest judge of "American Idol." He is known for also being a judge on the shows UK counterpart "The X Factor," and he introduced the world to Leona Lewis. When Beyonce first started her solo career Simon saw nothing special about the young diva but he has since grown to appreciate and praise her.
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Who are some of your favorite entertainers of the last decade?
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius. Music-wise, certainly in the last year I love Lady Gaga. Mainly because she’s made pop music fun again. I love Christina Aguilera, I think she’s incredible. And Beyoncé is the biggest star we’ve seen in 20 years. And I was very negative about her once—far, far too early on in her career.
~Smokey Robinson~
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"Beyonce is a great talent, extremely charismatic. People are drawn to her like a magnet. She's a down-to-earth young women who, with all that she has accomplished, is not full of herself. She is class personified."
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..."When Destiny's Child came out, they were very polished and sounded great. I knew then that if Beyonce' ever wanted to make a solo record, she could. When you hear her voice you recognize it immediately. There are a lot of great voices, but some people don't have the right material. She's got it all: She writes wonderful songs and is a great singer. She's fashion, she's cosmetics, she's in movies, she's multitalented, and she's nice. This is such an accolade-driven business; people get hyped so much they don't keep their feet on the ground. But she's done wonderful job with that. Her parents put the right thoughts in her mind. I admire her and them. Beyonce's got all the happenings happenin'. There's this thing called IT, and she's got it. She's the bomb."
source: courtesy of BeJay11(and Essence)
Thanks, DC3Fan4eva
~Stacy Kiebler~
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"Beyonce is so gorgeous, talented, and just the whole package. Boy she gets around in those heels pretty damn good" http://i50.tinypic.com/qwzvgl.png
Thanks, Imperfection.
~Stan Walker~
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Australian Idol 'Stan Walker' talks Beyoncé
MTV: You’ve already worked with Guy Sebastian. Who else would you like to collaborate with?
Stan: I want to work with a lot of people, Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Mario, and Usher.
MTV: We hear you’re a HUGE Beyoncé fan…
Stan: She’s musically why I do what I do. She’s an inspiration, she’s incredible. I just love her.
~Stargate~
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"I still remember the first time I ever heard 'Crazy in Love' and watched the video. I was blown away by the whole combination: a great record together with an incredible performance. The energy was so in your face. Beyonce is the total package." - Mikkel S. Eriksen of Songwriting/ Production Team Stargate.
~Stevie Wonder~
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RollingStone.com caught up with Stevie Wonder for a Q&A and asked the singing legend what his favorite song of the moment is. “My favorite song right now is ‘Lose My Breath’ by Destiny’s Child,” he revealed. “I’m a major fan of Beyonce — she has a great voice.
~Stokely Williams (from Mint Condition)~
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Stokely also defended Beyoncé by saying, "Beyoncé is more of an artist than I think people know. She placates toward the commercial side because you gotta make a buck, but I think she is a great artist, more than people know and later on she’ll dive into that and people will see how much depth she’s got. She’s both new and old, she’s got an old soul but she’s in a new age."
~Teedra Moses~
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"I would love to write a song for Beyonce because she has the most amazing voice. Very amazing. I think that when you write a song for someone and they emotionally bring it through better than you can bring it through, then that would be huge and I feel like because of the emotion she has in her voice that she could really do justice to one of my songs."
~Teena Marie~
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With that said, we asked Teena Marie who she enjoys amongst today's recording stars and her reply was somewhat surprising:
"Amy Winehouse and of course I love Alicia Keys, she is a great songwriter. I love Beyonce and I'll say I love Wayne (Lil Wayne). I listen to all kind of music you know. New music and old music. I love the 70s early male vocal groups like 'The Dells,' The Dramatics' and 'The Moments' and stuff like that."
~Ted Nugent~
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"Since the Motown greats, I don't think I've ever seen such soul, such virtuosity in every one of those gals and every one of those musicians to the point that I was stunned and genuinely chilled by the soul and dynamic of that Destiny's Child operation."
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~Terius Nash (see: The-Dream)~
~Terrence Howard~
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Terrence Howard was so impressed by Beyonce' Lap dance at the Black Entertainment Television (BET) awards last month, that he was left with a bloodshot eye. The actor confessed he woke up the next morning with bad eye.
The RAY actor tells the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, "Destiny's Child were performing and she (Beyonce) comes out in the audience and pulls me up onstage and sets me down in a chair and proceeds to give me a lap dance for three minutes in front of the rest of the world.
Putting her rear end in my face, pulling on my hair, my head."
~The-Dream (Terius Nash)~
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~Thierry Mugler~
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Thierry Mugler: "I think of Beyoncé as a modern-day warrior. A free spirit and a free woman. I love the way she is climbing steps. But I would not say she is 'ambitious.' She is following her destiny. She will surpass her iconic stature to become a legend. And she speaks highly about her fans. She does not want to disappoint them. She acts as if she had an appointment with them that she does not want to miss."
~Timbaland~
Evidence: He has been rumored to work with Beyonce on songs for album "I Am... Sasha Fierce" though none of them made the final cut. His protege of sorts Keri Hilson has been prepped to be "The Next Beyonce" (even if she isn't)...
~Tina Turner~
Evidence: A legend, Tina was inspired by her performance with Beyonce at the 2008 Grammy's to come out of retirement and embark on a worldwide tour of her own at the age of 68.
~Toby Gad (Writer)~
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"I think it's very obvious what my favorite Beyonce song is. But my second favorite is 'Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It.' It's very sparse yet very creative and the lyrics are intriguing. I don't think I've ever worked with anyone better; I can't wait to work with her again." - Toby Gad, Co-Writer of "If I Were a Boy."
~Tom Hanks~
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Tom Hank's song of 2009 is Single Ladies! Watch the video! ("Because it's infectious! Are you an IDIOT?!") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h33ApIwU2eI
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~Trey Songz~
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Dustin: Oh ok. About collaborations, if you could collaborate with any female artist that is out right now, who would it be?
Trey: Honestly, it would be Beyonce. [Dustin laughs] She is vocally amazing, and not to mention she is easy on the eyes. Outside of her looks, and all that, she is so talented. Like when it comes to singing, her harmonies, her background vocals, her lead vocals, like crispy, always.
~Tricky Stewart (Producer)~
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"It's not unexpected that she is being recognized as the woman of the year. You're talking about a woman who is super talented, tireless-and isn't showing any signs of slowing down." - C. "Tricky" Stewart, Songwriter/ Producer.
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"OMG!! Beyonce!!!!! THE BEST THING COULD HAVE EVER HAPPENED TO OUR GENERATION OF MUSIC!!! I LOVE HER!!!!! SHE DA F'NN BEST!!!!! ♥♥"
"OMG!!! I was screaming when Beyonce hit that stage!! LOVE HER!!!!!!" http://i47.tinypic.com/30ayz28.png
"Her talent is breath taking and her music is inspiring. I absolutely love her!"
"Beyonce is my favorite artist in the world so it would have to be her! She's an AMAZIN entertainer and works extremely hard." http://i45.tinypic.com/2wqyeqv.png
Thanks, Imperfection.
~Truth Hurts~
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93.9 Kiss FM about 9:45am in Washington, D.C. – Truth called in on
the phone and they gave her mad props on her 2nd single, and they
asked her who she was listening too, nowadays. She said “well, I
don’t listen to the radio so if I have or was to buy anybody’s CD,
it’s because I feel they are a TRUE artist!” Russ said “well who’s CD
do you have or are want to buy?” She said “I have Jill Scott, India
Arie, my girl Lauryn Hill, but who I’m really looking foward to
is…BEYONCE KNOWLES!! People really don’t know the talent that this
woman has, the beautiful humanitarian that she is and she’s a sweet-
heart! But people HATE on her because she is up front in your face
like WHAT!..I’m beautiful, talented, sexy, and a business woman!
Beyonce is like an onion..no she doesn’t smell..there are just so
many layers to her, that she’s going to peel off slowly with
everything that she does, and the world is not ready!” <AMEN!!!!
~Tyra Banks~
Former Supermodel, current reality TV producer (America's Next Top Model), talk show host in the lieu of her idol Oprah, and one of the people to bring the word "fierce" into everyday conversations- Tyra Banks has shown great support for Sasha Fierce.
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~Usher~
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"It's a treat for me, I've been wanting for years to do a record with Beyonce," Usher says. "Even though it's a remix it's a really special record for me."
source: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...003421,00.html
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~Vanessa White (of the Saturdays)~
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Vanessa White of the Saturdays on Beyoncé
I've grown up with her since Destiny's Child and watched her evolve into a phenomenon. She's got the moves, the voice, everything. She writes, produces, she's a businesswoman ... She's the female Prince. She's the one person I would love to meet, but I'd be so star-struck I wouldn't say a thing. She changed the face of R&B. No one will ever be able to top her.
~Victoria Beckham~
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Beckham also said she hopes the rumour is true that she will be designing costumes for Beyonce on her tour.
She said: 'Beyonce is so beautiful, and I have so much respect for her. Don't know if that's true, but it would be a huge compliment if it were. We'll see.
~Whitney Houston~
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“Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson and Beyoncé – they stirred my curiosity about coming back and making a record. But that’s only one part of the industry,” Houston says firmly. “To actually sing, perform and have people come to hear a real voice, a God-given gift, is really important to me.”
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~Andie Clockwise~
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Who was your first celeb crush?
Beverly D'Angelo in the first National Lampoon movie. And Elisabeth Shue in "Karate Kid". Now, it's Tina Fey. Beyonce is my all-time crush but I have to stop saying that because she's spoken for now.
~Anya Marina~
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Oh, you have a fascination with hip-hop?
I do! I just find a lot of female music kind of boring unless it's got an infectious beat to it. That's why it's exciting what's happening in music right now. It's great to see so many different female artists headlining the Grammys and being the main acts. Lady Gaga and Pink and Beyonce and Rihanna, they're all doing interesting things and being recognized by people. There's something sort of ... I'm just not that into the sort of lazy rhythm of folk music. So if you throw a beat in there, it's a lot more captivating to me, somehow. It hits me and whatever makes me want to move, I get into it. It's not just hip-hop, there's some great female rock artists out there that I love. Juliana Hatfield, I love Feist, she's awesome.
~Audrea Mae~
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Do you have any musical guilty pleasures?
Oh, yeah: The Pussycat Dolls -- some of their songs seep into my head. And, of course, Beyoncé -- but I think Beyoncé has been around long enough that even the indie kids can't hate on her anymore. She's just a badass. Justin Timberlake; all that corny pop stuff. I love it.
~Christopher Owens (of the San Francisco-based indie rock band Girls)~
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Christopher Owens of the San Francisco-based indie rock band Girls says Beyoncé is "so current people still don’t realize how important she is. I think she’s more important than Diana Ross. She’s a huge part in the evolution of R&B vocals and also as an all-around performer."
~CSS (Cansei De Ser Sexy)~
Evidence: Brazilian group CSS are OBSESSED with Bey,they mention her in almost every interview. Their name was inspired by a Beyonce interview,where she said she is tired of being sexy.
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Seek more insight about the Dirty Projectors from their MySpace page and you'll find a photo of Beyoncé. The bootilicious R&B queen is listed as one of the band's 31,269 friends alongside Vampire Weekend and Grizzly Bear. Like the latter they're into orchestration and in common with the former they're big on African rhythms, only they're considerably weirder and more wonderful than both.
"It's great that Beyoncé's into us because I love her voice, her tunes and her work ethic," says Longstreth, 27, when I catch up with him in Brooklyn. "She and Jay-Z came to see us play (Californian festival] Coachella recently, although we didn't get the chance to meet her. But we're already good friends with her sister Solange and have played with her a few times."
~Dr.Dog~
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What's your musical guilty pleasure?
Oh I got a million of them. I get real into Beyoncé. She always has great songs, she's a great songwriter. There's a lot of crap I like. A few months ago I thought I was into Creed for like 30 seconds and I was like, yeah, I'm into this, and I quickly realized I was not into it at all.
~Forest City Lovers~
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Well, I'm not sure if they could be counted as influences, but I'm a sucker for really slick pop songs. Kyle and I can really get into the Beyonce, Usher and Lights on long overnight drives. Pump up the jams, man!
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Jay-Z and wife Beyoncé came to the group’s set by the Williamsburg waterfront last year, after which Jay told the Post: “It was beautiful. They played right in front of the Empire State Building.”
The HOV-fueled fun didn’t end there, either. “[After the show], they took us out for tequila shots at some dive bar,” Grizzly Bear singer and multi-instrumentalist Ed Droste tells The Post. “I was pretty star-struck by Beyoncé. I’m not going to lie.”
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What's your musical guilty pleasure?
J: Obviously, the Beyonce record, 'I am... Sasha Fierce.' I just bought that for the tour. I've been listening to that back in New York, it's so ing good.
Pete: We're working up a version of 'Halo' that we may have to drop on the world. It's a really good record.
~Holy Rolling Empire~
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Do you have any musical guilty pleasures?
I'm a fan of well done music in general. Not speaking for anyone else I personally like to listen to Third Eye Blind. I listen to them a lot, but that's just because I did as a kid, brings a lot of memories back, from the '90s. It's not where I'm going musically, or anything though. I don't feel guilty about liking a lot of Britney Spears songs, or Beyonce songs because they're very well produced. There's a really awesome art behind that.
~Joey Ryan~
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Do you have a musical guilty pleasure? What is it?
I always really liked the Britney Spears song 'Toxic,' that's a catchy little number. Oh! Beyonce. I love Beyonce so much. Beyonce is in a league of her own as far as superstars go.
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~Katie Stelmanis~
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Yeah, for sure. I really like a lot of pop bands. I really like Avril Lavigne. I have some pop star pleasures but I wouldn't really call them guilty ones. I really am a big fan of Beyonce. Lady GaGa is OK. I like her style.
~Kele Okereke (from Bloc Party)~
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Former Bloc Party front man Kele Okereke has said he prefers Beyonce to Indie music these days and embraces popular culture.
Instead of turning his nose up at what is perceived as commercial as many of his contemporaries would, Kele says: “I just love pop music, that’s the reason I’m here, I’m more interested in someone like Beyonce, that’s the truth.”
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~Mandagi, singer of the Temper Trap~
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Meanwhile, in a recent interview with NME.COM, The Temper Trap's Dougy Mandagi revealed that he'd had attended a party in Japan along with Grizzly Bear and Beyonce.
"She had a couple of security guards there but she was literally just sitting at the table next to us chatting to the guys from Grizzly Bear," Mandagi said. "It was all pretty casual, so I thought, 'Oh man, I've gotta meet her.' I saw her getting ready to leave and I kind of just timed my walk across to her and went 'You alright? Hi! I just want to tell you I really love your music!' and she's like, 'Oh, thank you so much!'"
~Matt & Kim~
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I got goose bumps when Beyoncé came out,” Matt Johnson of indie dance-punk duo Matt & Kim said Saturday, to which his band mate Kim Schifino replied, “See? Going in [I was thinking], ‘I bet 10 bucks he brings out Beyoncé.’”
~Randy Jackson~
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"Beyonce is one of the most talented people on the planet today." - Randy Jackson
Thanks, Child Of Dest|ny
~Raven Symone~
Evidence (by Marquies): Raven-Symoné = Certified Stan
- In London says before she gets on stage to perform she sings Beyonce songs to warm up, to pretend like she can sing like her, and then get onstage and works hard to put a good show the way she does
- Recently busted out singing Single Ladies in the middle of a videoblog
- Does a dance routine to "Diva" in her current tour
- Attended LA Show
- When talking about her performing something to the extent of "I do my best, but dont put me on the same stage as Beyonce"
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Raven stanning during a live stream @1:48 - 2:04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV2K2pWvFI4
Thanks, Marquies
~Rihanna~
Evidence: When she was an up and coming singer, she listed Beyonce as her greatest idol. She was also dubbed the "Bajan Beyonce" for her first two albums.
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Beyoncé Leaves Rihanna Starstruck
It’s hard to believe that Rihanna attended her first major concert only six years ago, and now she’s performing at the same events with the stars she once looked up to.
The 21-year-old singer shared her first concert experience with iTunes. “My very first arena concert was Beyoncé/Alicia Keys/Missy Elliott [in 2004]. I think it was the ‘Ladies First’ tour,” she said.
Despite her bad seats, she will always remember that special night. “I was in like a nosebleed seat, but I was in tears. I could not believe that Beyoncé was right there, and Alicia Keys and Missy Elliott.”
Rihanna was in awe of the artists she now considers her peers. “I was a little starstruck. No, I was very starstruck, but it was so much fun. It was very inspiring and it motivated me so much.”
source: http://www.rap-up.com/2010/01/26/bey...na-starstruck/
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Rihanna knows a pop hit when she hears one—just check the Billboard charts. So what is the sexy songstress listening to these days?
~Robin Thicke~
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"She's just amazing, phenomenal," the tour's opening act, Robin Thicke, said on Monday (August 6). "Me and my whole crew, we're all blown away with what she can do. How she can sing, dance, it's ridiculous. She's a superstar, born and bred."
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"'Irreplaceable' is a well-written, timeless record. And Beyonce's delivery was incredible. I know I'll still be listening to what song 20-30 years from now." - Rodney Jerkins, Songwriter/ Producer
~Rosie Perez~
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Latina actress ROSIE PEREZ struggled through Christmas (05) with a hip injury after trying to dance to her favourite BEYONCE KNOWLES hit on the treadmill at her local gym.
The WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP star was ordered to rest up over the holidays by doctors who treated her after she badly bruised her hip bone in a freak accident.
She explains, "I hurt my hip, I bruised my bones. I was dancing on the treadmill when it was running.
"When I'm on the treadmill I like to do the iPod thing and everything like that and my favourite artist to exercise to is Beyonce - I love her and all of a sudden her song CRAZY IN LOVE comes on and I lost it.
"I started fantasizing I had the blonde wig... and I had the mini-dress on, I had JAY-Z by my side.. and then bang - I got too excited and I miscalculated the rhythm with the thing going."
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Presenting the first award for Outstanding TV Movie or Mini-Series was Rosie Perez, who revealed that if she "ever became a carpet muncher," Cynthia Nixon and Beyoncé "would be first in line!" which earned her whoops and catcalls from the audience.
~Ryan Tedder~
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"The greatest singers each have their own 'thing' that they do better than anyone else. Beyonce's thing is taking a great song and making it an event. She adds her own personality and vocal prowess like a master chef adds the missing ingredient to his signature dish. Beyonce brings that missing ingredient." - Ryan Tedder, Songwriter/ Producer and Member of OneRepublic.
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~Sade~
Evidence (by myCHERRYmoon): Can we count Miss Sade as a fan? She did come out of the woodwork to see Beyonce in London.
~Sean Garrett~
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"She is graceful and never shows any weakness or frustration despite what may be going on around her. She always has fun with whatever she is doing. A professional but still a sweetheart."
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"She works really hard and I think at some point you've really got to give it up for her," Garrett said of Beyonce. "She's been doing it a long time and she's still at the top of her game."
~Serena Williams~
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For Serena Williams, few things are as important to her as the music she walks out to before facing off against an opponent. It’s the one thing that really gets her going before a big match. So in an effort to find the perfect song to help her set things off, the ten-time Grand Slam champion has teamed up with Ludacris’s website WeMix.com to give aspiring musicians the chance to create the song she’ll use to take the court at the U.S. Open in New York City in August. Artists can submit their unique songs now for consideration (entrants can also submit their song through Williams’s own site, serenawilliams.com).
But before you rig up the Auto-Tune and get to work, know this: VIBE isn’t about to have you throwing a bunch of half-assed songs into the competition. This is Serena Williams, people! So we went straight to the source and asked the 27-year-old Women’s Tennis Association champ to fill in the blanks about her favorite songs, artists and albums. For all you aspiring songwriters (yeah, we know you’re tuning into VIBE.com), check out what she served up. Then, get in the lab and make something guaranteed to get Serena open at the Open.
The music I like is…Hip hop. But I like to go out to everything. I love pop. I love R&B. I’m a little bit of everything.
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But if I’m really trying to get crazy, I put on… Beyoncé! She just has such hot songs. When I’m out and they play her record, it’s just like, “There you go!”
And since now you’re wondering if I can do the “Single Ladies” dance…Yeah, I can pretty much do it.
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~Shakira~
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Shakira also reflected on 'Beautiful Liar' - her "thrilling" 2007 collaboration with Beyonce Knowles.
She added to Britain’s Look magazine: "It was fantastic to work with her.
"She's an amazing performer and very sweet. The song was her idea and I was so thrilled. She's a very determined and focused woman and that's something to admire."
source: http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertain...ce-420520.html
~Sharon Jones~
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AVC: What kind of music do you listen to?
SJ: Mostly old stuff. I just got an iPod, believe it or not. A Nano, nannoo, whatever. [Laughs.] We got those when we did a show for Apple. A showcase for the VIPs. So once I was able to download things, I got the guys to show me how to download some of the songs that were on my laptop. But y’know, I got some Beyoncé songs, and maybe some Jill Scott in there, maybe Erykah Badu. I pick songs that I like. Not whole albums, but there are single songs that strike me, that I like to hear. But I would say that most of it is oldies. The classics.
~Shontelle~
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Working with Beyonce? Shontelle spills the beans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDRc7l5mG60
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For many new artists, the first year after the release of their debut albums are filled with highlights. Getting into swanky parties, meeting some cool fellow artists, maybe flying first class for the first time.
One of the biggest highlights for Barbados-born beauty Shontelle, is getting to tour alongside one of music’s most adored superstars, and her idol, Beyonce. The 24-year-old singer, who found success with her irresistible single “T-Shirt,” opened for the Mighty B on her tour across Europe and the UK last spring.
“That changed my life,” Shontelle told Neon Limelight in a recent phone interview. “Just that feeling that you’ve been embraced by one of the biggest stars in the world, and not just her, but her entire team, that made me really feel like I’m [doing this] for a reason.
“Even when it feels like everything isn’t going the way you want, or it’s moving slow, or it’s come to a stop completely, you have an experience like touring with Beyonce and it reminds you of why you do this.”
Beyonce, who Shontelle describes as “an amazing human being,” made it a point to sit down and meet Shontelle to share some kind words. “She literally looked me in the eye and said ‘You are so beautiful. I see your videos on TV all the time… I hear your voice every night and [it's] incredible. I want you to work really hard because you’re gonna do so well.’ And I’m like ‘Beyonce is telling me this!? Are you serious right now?’”
She says touring with Beyonce was a once in a lifetime experience she made sure to pay close attention to in hopes of picking up some pointers. “I watched how she’s not afraid to experiment. She’s not afraid to try different types of music and different things, and I feel like that’s why her fanbase is so huge.
“I watched her perfectionism. She won’t even hide that. She’ll tell you ‘I am a perfectionist. You had better get this right or I will get mad.’ I watched her soundcheck, her rehearsals, hung out with all of the dancers, the stylists, and everybody has a story to tell about Beyonce.”
Being on the tour with Beyonce, she says, pushed her from just being a fan of the Grammy winning singer to “stan status.” “I can’t thank Beyonce enough. It really did change my life.”
~Sia~
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@SiaMusic: "beyonce is MY QUEEN. i was just talking about the grammy performances."
@SiaMusic: "xtina is my mate.i can't worship friends.i can love and respect them,but if i call them MY QUEEN it's creepy,no? do not fear, i love xtina!"
@SiaMusic: "xtina fans are very very loyal.and sometimes scare me."
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~Simon Cowell~
Evidence: An A&R excutive that hails form England, Simon is known in America for being the ruthless yet honest judge of "American Idol." He is known for also being a judge on the shows UK counterpart "The X Factor," and he introduced the world to Leona Lewis. When Beyonce first started her solo career Simon saw nothing special about the young diva but he has since grown to appreciate and praise her.
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Who are some of your favorite entertainers of the last decade?
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius. Music-wise, certainly in the last year I love Lady Gaga. Mainly because she’s made pop music fun again. I love Christina Aguilera, I think she’s incredible. And Beyoncé is the biggest star we’ve seen in 20 years. And I was very negative about her once—far, far too early on in her career.
~Smokey Robinson~
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"Beyonce is a great talent, extremely charismatic. People are drawn to her like a magnet. She's a down-to-earth young women who, with all that she has accomplished, is not full of herself. She is class personified."
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..."When Destiny's Child came out, they were very polished and sounded great. I knew then that if Beyonce' ever wanted to make a solo record, she could. When you hear her voice you recognize it immediately. There are a lot of great voices, but some people don't have the right material. She's got it all: She writes wonderful songs and is a great singer. She's fashion, she's cosmetics, she's in movies, she's multitalented, and she's nice. This is such an accolade-driven business; people get hyped so much they don't keep their feet on the ground. But she's done wonderful job with that. Her parents put the right thoughts in her mind. I admire her and them. Beyonce's got all the happenings happenin'. There's this thing called IT, and she's got it. She's the bomb."
source: courtesy of BeJay11(and Essence)
Thanks, DC3Fan4eva
~Stacy Kiebler~
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"Beyonce is so gorgeous, talented, and just the whole package. Boy she gets around in those heels pretty damn good" http://i50.tinypic.com/qwzvgl.png
Thanks, Imperfection.
~Stan Walker~
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Australian Idol 'Stan Walker' talks Beyoncé
MTV: You’ve already worked with Guy Sebastian. Who else would you like to collaborate with?
Stan: I want to work with a lot of people, Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Mario, and Usher.
MTV: We hear you’re a HUGE Beyoncé fan…
Stan: She’s musically why I do what I do. She’s an inspiration, she’s incredible. I just love her.
~Stargate~
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"I still remember the first time I ever heard 'Crazy in Love' and watched the video. I was blown away by the whole combination: a great record together with an incredible performance. The energy was so in your face. Beyonce is the total package." - Mikkel S. Eriksen of Songwriting/ Production Team Stargate.
~Stevie Wonder~
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RollingStone.com caught up with Stevie Wonder for a Q&A and asked the singing legend what his favorite song of the moment is. “My favorite song right now is ‘Lose My Breath’ by Destiny’s Child,” he revealed. “I’m a major fan of Beyonce — she has a great voice.
~Stokely Williams (from Mint Condition)~
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Stokely also defended Beyoncé by saying, "Beyoncé is more of an artist than I think people know. She placates toward the commercial side because you gotta make a buck, but I think she is a great artist, more than people know and later on she’ll dive into that and people will see how much depth she’s got. She’s both new and old, she’s got an old soul but she’s in a new age."
~Teedra Moses~
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"I would love to write a song for Beyonce because she has the most amazing voice. Very amazing. I think that when you write a song for someone and they emotionally bring it through better than you can bring it through, then that would be huge and I feel like because of the emotion she has in her voice that she could really do justice to one of my songs."
~Teena Marie~
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With that said, we asked Teena Marie who she enjoys amongst today's recording stars and her reply was somewhat surprising:
"Amy Winehouse and of course I love Alicia Keys, she is a great songwriter. I love Beyonce and I'll say I love Wayne (Lil Wayne). I listen to all kind of music you know. New music and old music. I love the 70s early male vocal groups like 'The Dells,' The Dramatics' and 'The Moments' and stuff like that."
~Ted Nugent~
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"Since the Motown greats, I don't think I've ever seen such soul, such virtuosity in every one of those gals and every one of those musicians to the point that I was stunned and genuinely chilled by the soul and dynamic of that Destiny's Child operation."
Thanks, Rucking Fetard
~Terius Nash (see: The-Dream)~
~Terrence Howard~
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Terrence Howard was so impressed by Beyonce' Lap dance at the Black Entertainment Television (BET) awards last month, that he was left with a bloodshot eye. The actor confessed he woke up the next morning with bad eye.
The RAY actor tells the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, "Destiny's Child were performing and she (Beyonce) comes out in the audience and pulls me up onstage and sets me down in a chair and proceeds to give me a lap dance for three minutes in front of the rest of the world.
Putting her rear end in my face, pulling on my hair, my head."
~The-Dream (Terius Nash)~
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~Thierry Mugler~
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Thierry Mugler: "I think of Beyoncé as a modern-day warrior. A free spirit and a free woman. I love the way she is climbing steps. But I would not say she is 'ambitious.' She is following her destiny. She will surpass her iconic stature to become a legend. And she speaks highly about her fans. She does not want to disappoint them. She acts as if she had an appointment with them that she does not want to miss."
~Timbaland~
Evidence: He has been rumored to work with Beyonce on songs for album "I Am... Sasha Fierce" though none of them made the final cut. His protege of sorts Keri Hilson has been prepped to be "The Next Beyonce" (even if she isn't)...
~Tina Turner~
Evidence: A legend, Tina was inspired by her performance with Beyonce at the 2008 Grammy's to come out of retirement and embark on a worldwide tour of her own at the age of 68.
~Toby Gad (Writer)~
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"I think it's very obvious what my favorite Beyonce song is. But my second favorite is 'Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It.' It's very sparse yet very creative and the lyrics are intriguing. I don't think I've ever worked with anyone better; I can't wait to work with her again." - Toby Gad, Co-Writer of "If I Were a Boy."
~Tom Hanks~
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Tom Hank's song of 2009 is Single Ladies! Watch the video! ("Because it's infectious! Are you an IDIOT?!") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h33ApIwU2eI
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~Trey Songz~
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Dustin: Oh ok. About collaborations, if you could collaborate with any female artist that is out right now, who would it be?
Trey: Honestly, it would be Beyonce. [Dustin laughs] She is vocally amazing, and not to mention she is easy on the eyes. Outside of her looks, and all that, she is so talented. Like when it comes to singing, her harmonies, her background vocals, her lead vocals, like crispy, always.
~Tricky Stewart (Producer)~
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"It's not unexpected that she is being recognized as the woman of the year. You're talking about a woman who is super talented, tireless-and isn't showing any signs of slowing down." - C. "Tricky" Stewart, Songwriter/ Producer.
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"OMG!! Beyonce!!!!! THE BEST THING COULD HAVE EVER HAPPENED TO OUR GENERATION OF MUSIC!!! I LOVE HER!!!!! SHE DA F'NN BEST!!!!! ♥♥"
"OMG!!! I was screaming when Beyonce hit that stage!! LOVE HER!!!!!!" http://i47.tinypic.com/30ayz28.png
"Her talent is breath taking and her music is inspiring. I absolutely love her!"
"Beyonce is my favorite artist in the world so it would have to be her! She's an AMAZIN entertainer and works extremely hard." http://i45.tinypic.com/2wqyeqv.png
Thanks, Imperfection.
~Truth Hurts~
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93.9 Kiss FM about 9:45am in Washington, D.C. – Truth called in on
the phone and they gave her mad props on her 2nd single, and they
asked her who she was listening too, nowadays. She said “well, I
don’t listen to the radio so if I have or was to buy anybody’s CD,
it’s because I feel they are a TRUE artist!” Russ said “well who’s CD
do you have or are want to buy?” She said “I have Jill Scott, India
Arie, my girl Lauryn Hill, but who I’m really looking foward to
is…BEYONCE KNOWLES!! People really don’t know the talent that this
woman has, the beautiful humanitarian that she is and she’s a sweet-
heart! But people HATE on her because she is up front in your face
like WHAT!..I’m beautiful, talented, sexy, and a business woman!
Beyonce is like an onion..no she doesn’t smell..there are just so
many layers to her, that she’s going to peel off slowly with
everything that she does, and the world is not ready!” <AMEN!!!!
~Tyra Banks~
Former Supermodel, current reality TV producer (America's Next Top Model), talk show host in the lieu of her idol Oprah, and one of the people to bring the word "fierce" into everyday conversations- Tyra Banks has shown great support for Sasha Fierce.
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~Andie Clockwise~
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Who was your first celeb crush?
Beverly D'Angelo in the first National Lampoon movie. And Elisabeth Shue in "Karate Kid". Now, it's Tina Fey. Beyonce is my all-time crush but I have to stop saying that because she's spoken for now.
~Anya Marina~
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Oh, you have a fascination with hip-hop?
I do! I just find a lot of female music kind of boring unless it's got an infectious beat to it. That's why it's exciting what's happening in music right now. It's great to see so many different female artists headlining the Grammys and being the main acts. Lady Gaga and Pink and Beyonce and Rihanna, they're all doing interesting things and being recognized by people. There's something sort of ... I'm just not that into the sort of lazy rhythm of folk music. So if you throw a beat in there, it's a lot more captivating to me, somehow. It hits me and whatever makes me want to move, I get into it. It's not just hip-hop, there's some great female rock artists out there that I love. Juliana Hatfield, I love Feist, she's awesome.
~Audrea Mae~
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Do you have any musical guilty pleasures?
Oh, yeah: The Pussycat Dolls -- some of their songs seep into my head. And, of course, Beyoncé -- but I think Beyoncé has been around long enough that even the indie kids can't hate on her anymore. She's just a badass. Justin Timberlake; all that corny pop stuff. I love it.
~Christopher Owens (of the San Francisco-based indie rock band Girls)~
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Christopher Owens of the San Francisco-based indie rock band Girls says Beyoncé is "so current people still don’t realize how important she is. I think she’s more important than Diana Ross. She’s a huge part in the evolution of R&B vocals and also as an all-around performer."
~CSS (Cansei De Ser Sexy)~
Evidence: Brazilian group CSS are OBSESSED with Bey,they mention her in almost every interview. Their name was inspired by a Beyonce interview,where she said she is tired of being sexy.
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~Dirty Projectors~
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Seek more insight about the Dirty Projectors from their MySpace page and you'll find a photo of Beyoncé. The bootilicious R&B queen is listed as one of the band's 31,269 friends alongside Vampire Weekend and Grizzly Bear. Like the latter they're into orchestration and in common with the former they're big on African rhythms, only they're considerably weirder and more wonderful than both.
"It's great that Beyoncé's into us because I love her voice, her tunes and her work ethic," says Longstreth, 27, when I catch up with him in Brooklyn. "She and Jay-Z came to see us play (Californian festival] Coachella recently, although we didn't get the chance to meet her. But we're already good friends with her sister Solange and have played with her a few times."
~Dr.Dog~
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What's your musical guilty pleasure?
Oh I got a million of them. I get real into Beyoncé. She always has great songs, she's a great songwriter. There's a lot of crap I like. A few months ago I thought I was into Creed for like 30 seconds and I was like, yeah, I'm into this, and I quickly realized I was not into it at all.
~Forest City Lovers~
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Well, I'm not sure if they could be counted as influences, but I'm a sucker for really slick pop songs. Kyle and I can really get into the Beyonce, Usher and Lights on long overnight drives. Pump up the jams, man!
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Jay-Z and wife Beyoncé came to the group’s set by the Williamsburg waterfront last year, after which Jay told the Post: “It was beautiful. They played right in front of the Empire State Building.”
The HOV-fueled fun didn’t end there, either. “[After the show], they took us out for tequila shots at some dive bar,” Grizzly Bear singer and multi-instrumentalist Ed Droste tells The Post. “I was pretty star-struck by Beyoncé. I’m not going to lie.”
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~Harper Blynn~
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What's your musical guilty pleasure?
J: Obviously, the Beyonce record, 'I am... Sasha Fierce.' I just bought that for the tour. I've been listening to that back in New York, it's so ing good.
Pete: We're working up a version of 'Halo' that we may have to drop on the world. It's a really good record.
~Holy Rolling Empire~
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Do you have any musical guilty pleasures?
I'm a fan of well done music in general. Not speaking for anyone else I personally like to listen to Third Eye Blind. I listen to them a lot, but that's just because I did as a kid, brings a lot of memories back, from the '90s. It's not where I'm going musically, or anything though. I don't feel guilty about liking a lot of Britney Spears songs, or Beyonce songs because they're very well produced. There's a really awesome art behind that.
~Joey Ryan~
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Do you have a musical guilty pleasure? What is it?
I always really liked the Britney Spears song 'Toxic,' that's a catchy little number. Oh! Beyonce. I love Beyonce so much. Beyonce is in a league of her own as far as superstars go.
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~Katie Stelmanis~
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Yeah, for sure. I really like a lot of pop bands. I really like Avril Lavigne. I have some pop star pleasures but I wouldn't really call them guilty ones. I really am a big fan of Beyonce. Lady GaGa is OK. I like her style.
~Kele Okereke (from Bloc Party)~
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Former Bloc Party front man Kele Okereke has said he prefers Beyonce to Indie music these days and embraces popular culture.
Instead of turning his nose up at what is perceived as commercial as many of his contemporaries would, Kele says: “I just love pop music, that’s the reason I’m here, I’m more interested in someone like Beyonce, that’s the truth.”
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~Mandagi, singer of the Temper Trap~
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Meanwhile, in a recent interview with NME.COM, The Temper Trap's Dougy Mandagi revealed that he'd had attended a party in Japan along with Grizzly Bear and Beyonce.
"She had a couple of security guards there but she was literally just sitting at the table next to us chatting to the guys from Grizzly Bear," Mandagi said. "It was all pretty casual, so I thought, 'Oh man, I've gotta meet her.' I saw her getting ready to leave and I kind of just timed my walk across to her and went 'You alright? Hi! I just want to tell you I really love your music!' and she's like, 'Oh, thank you so much!'"
~Matt & Kim~
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I got goose bumps when Beyoncé came out,” Matt Johnson of indie dance-punk duo Matt & Kim said Saturday, to which his band mate Kim Schifino replied, “See? Going in [I was thinking], ‘I bet 10 bucks he brings out Beyoncé.’”
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~Ryan Adams~
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Beyonce and Mariah Carey were also name-checked. "That new Beyonce single ['Single Ladies'] is pretty amazing," he said, "and that video is out of control. So unbelievable. Somebody said that supposedly she and [Jay-Z] got married under the cloak of night and that nobody knew. I don't really know if that's true or not but if they did, congratulations to them.
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~Samantha Shelton~
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What's your musical guilty pleasure?
That would have to be like total commercial pop music. Like 102.7 KIIS-FM style. To be more specific Ke$ha, Lady Gaga and Rihanna and all of the major pop stars. Oh and Beyonce is amazing. I don't know if it's the junior high girl in me, but I love it. I just can't help it.
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~Talk Normal~
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What are your musical influences?
Andrya: In the beginning we were into more musical bluesy stuff like Geeshey Wiley, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Soundhouse and people of that ilk. We both like the Preachers, P.I.L. I like Robert Wyatt, Beyonce, Kanye ... we could go on!
~The Big Pink~
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It’s always interesting when a seemingly “serious” band pronounces their love of light-hearted pop music, like you guys appeared to do by covering Beyoncé’s “Sweet Dreams” during a recent BBC Radio session. Are you, in fact, smitten by pop music?
I don’t thing there is anything light-hearted about Beyoncé. I think she is the real deal, a 21st century star like Aretha Franklin or Tina Turner.
~The Law~
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Who was your first celebrity crush?
Gosh, there's been so many of them. Beyonce is a current crush. Christina Aguilera. There's definitely something about a girl who can sing. The funny thing is that in Austin, Beyonce's younger sister [Solange Knowles] is going to be on the same bill with us at Ace's Lounge.
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~The XX~
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The xx may be the 'it' band of the blog-reading set, but they are also huge fans of a more mainstream 'it' girl: Beyonce.
"I think she's one of the most exciting performers of our generation," vocalist/bassist Oliver Sim tells Spinner, echoing recent statements from fellow indie acts Arctic Monkeys and Of Montreal. "I went to see her in concert in May, and she is an amazing performer with an amazing voice. It's gotten to a point where it's undeniable."
While it might seem surprising that the new indie darlings would be enamoured of the commercial hit machine that is Ms. Knowles, the UK three-piece don't make distinctions when it comes to genre. And it makes sense -- all the members of the xx are just 20 years-old, from a generation of mixed-up genres where cheese-tastic pop can live next to the latest hipster-approved underground track.
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~Yellow Fever~
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What are your musical guilty pleasures?
I guess Top 40 stuff, but I don't know if I should feel guilty about that. I mean, everybody likes Beyoncé; she's a really good singer, and a lot of her songs are real concentrated and catchy. I don't think one should feel guilty. It's Top 40 music, but I'm not ashamed.
Usher: 'Beyoncé is the queen'
Brandy (funny): she was asked to choose a word to describe Beyoncé, she then thinks deeply, shakes head & go 'Beyoncé is beyond words' + all her tweets
Jennifer Hudson: admitting she has always been the biggest DC/Beyoncé stan:
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~Mandagi, singer of the Temper Trap~
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Meanwhile, in a recent interview with NME.COM, The Temper Trap's Dougy Mandagi revealed that he'd had attended a party in Japan along with Grizzly Bear and Beyonce.
"She had a couple of security guards there but she was literally just sitting at the table next to us chatting to the guys from Grizzly Bear," Mandagi said. "It was all pretty casual, so I thought, 'Oh man, I've gotta meet her.' I saw her getting ready to leave and I kind of just timed my walk across to her and went 'You alright? Hi! I just want to tell you I really love your music!' and she's like, 'Oh, thank you so much!'"
