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BEYONCE CONCERT TICKETS ON SALE FAN CLUB GETS PRESALE TIX

Beyonce was spotted taking a stroll in Soho with her husband Jay-Z. The singer just announced her North American tour dates and is selling presale ticket for  her highly anticipated concert to Beyonce Fan Club members.

Nearly eight months after dropping her dual-personality smash, I Am ... Sasha Fierce, Beyoncé will finally bring the tour in support of the album to North America. The six week I Am ... Tour is slated to kick off on June 21 with a show at Madison Square Garden in New York and wind down with a four-night residency at Encore in the Wynn Las Vegas July 30-August 2. According to a press release announcing the outing, the singer, currently on tour in Europe, will perform selections from the new album, as well as tunes from throughout her career in a high-tech production backed by her all-female band. Presale tickets for members of Beyoncé's fan club will be available on Monday (April 20) and general-public sales will begin on April 25. In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Beyoncé said one of the hardest parts of the tour is squeezing a decade's worth of hits into a two-hour show and performing the songs in designer Thierry Mugler's elaborate costumes. "I'm never gonna go onstage or do a video and not work until my feet are blistered, and until I'm basically, I can't walk any more," she said. "I always give, and I do that because I know how lucky I am, to do my job." She promised that the new tour will be more "emotional" than her 2007 outing because of the nature of the I Am portion of the double album. "That portion was a lot more real and raw and more sensitive," she explained. "The best part about this tour is I'm working with Thierry Mugler, who is an icon and a legend, and I've been a fan." She also expressed frustration that snippets of the show have popped up online, ruining, she thinks, some of the surprise of the concert experience and possibly convincing some fans not to attend. "It's great because people can get a little sneak peek and say, "Oh, I wanna come to the show," or, "I don't wanna go to that show," [laughs] and I'm fans of people so I go on there and check it out too. But you put so much of your heart and time into the wardrobe ... it's kind of unfortunate that people can see the show months before you get into their city, but that's life." [MTV]

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ETTA JAMES SINGS "AT LAST" ON DWTS RESULTS SHOW VIDEO

Soul legend Etta James sang her hit song "At Last" on last night's DWTS results show. We think Etta James looked beautiful and sounded amazing.  The soul singer had a public feud with Beyonce after she threatened to whoop Bey's behind for singing her song to President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama during the Inauguration. Beyonce has continued to sing the song at the Oscars during a musical number with Hugh Jackman.  Who do you think sings it better Beyonce or Etta James?

This is not a joke: 71-year-old Etta James actually threatened to beat the crap out of Beyoncé Knowles -- and it's caught all on tape! The war is all over Etta's song, "At Last " -- Beyoncé sang the tune at Obama's 1st Inauguration Ball on Jan. 20th ... but last week at a concert in Seattle, James was still pissed. While on stage, Etta told the crowd, "Your President, the one with the big ears ... he had that woman singing my song. She gone get her ass whipped." She continued, "The great Beyoncé ... I can't stand Beyoncé," according to audio from Crown City Media. Ironically Etta didn't kick up this sorta fuss when Beyoncé portrayed her in "Cadillac Records." Reps for Beyoncé had no comment.[TMZ]

BEYONCE "Oscars" "AT LAST" HD BARACK & MICHELLE OBAMA's "FIRST DANCE"

CIARA TELLS HONEY MAGAZINE SHE ISN'T COPYING & JACKING BEYONCE DIVA STYLE SWAG

Ciara is defending herself against style jacking accusations burning up the blogosphere. Cici says that she was inspired by designer Thierry Mugler and not Beyonce.

The blogs are buzzing today about the similarities between the videos for Ciara's "Love Sex Magic" and Beyonce's "Diva," along with leaked footage of choreographer Sheryl Murakami's demo version of B's upcoming clip for "Ego." To put it bluntly, they're claiming that Ciara jacked Beyonce's swagger. Is it true? Reps for both singers declined to comment, but it's awful hard to deny when you look at this composite image of screen grabs from all three videos that's floating around the Internet. What say you, Music Mixers? Is Ciara a Sasha Fierce copycat? Is she capital F fierce in her own right? Or is this all much ado about nothing? [EW]

We must mention that Beyonce looks to the past for inspiration in her videos. Beyonce and her choreographer frequently use Bob Fosse's original style and choreography for inspiration. Is Beyonce's copying different from Ciara's style jacking?

In the past, I have argued stealing for inspiration is good -- there are no original ideas any more -- but a bright and dangerous line has been crossed by Beyonce into what I believe is "choreographic plagiarism." [URBAN SEMIOTIC]

People are talking about the similarities between Beyonce’s choreography and your choreography. I know what you were going for... Right, I got inspired by the Vegas show, but go ahead. What do you want to know? How do you even address that? Have you seen the screen grabs? I don’t think there’s really anything to address. I think it’s very, very funny. And you know what my response is to that? For the ones that have something negative to say? They must have really enjoyed it that much to go and nitpick it, because it’s something they pulled up and was like, “Yo!” There were a couple of things in there that I’ve never seen. I think that it’s important for us as artists to be original and to create something new, so it would be really silly of me to go and create something you’ve already seen. So not one time were any of my references another artist. My references were clearly inspired from shows that I’ve actually seen. It goes to show how creative we can be and how close the worlds are. I did my first video with my metal outfit. I was inspired by Thierry Mugler. Now, from my understanding, Beyonce is using Thierry Mugler for her tour. It just is what it is. It’s very petty to me. When people nitpick something and they say negative things, my response to that is they really must have liked it that much. They just said, “This just can’t be! We gotta find something!” That’s also the definition of a person having too much time on their hands to do nothing. That’s how I look at that. [HONEY]

BEYONCE EBONY MAGAZINE COVER/SPOTTED FILMING MUSIC VIDEO PICS

Beyonce rocks a curly mane and the fist on her April Ebony magazine cover. You look beautiful and fierce Bey!!




The R&B singer was spotted filming her new music video in Tribeca over the weekend. Check out some pics from the shoot. [PHOTOS SOURCE BEYONCE WORLD.NET]

ETTA JAMES BEYONCE BUTT WHIPPING COMMENTS A JOKE

Etta James is trying to laugh off her comments about not standing Beyonce and saying she wanted to give her a butt whipping for performing her song "At Last" at the Presidential Inauguration.

Is anyone buying that Etta James didn't say what she truly felt about the Queen Bee? 

Listen to the TMZ audio if you missed it. UPDATED VIDEO ADDED.

Etta James insists her recent comments about "whipping Beyonce's ass" were just a joke.
The legendary soul star was addressing an audience while on stage in Seattle last week when she threatened to "ass whip" the Crazy in Love songstress after the singer covered her hit song At Last during President Barack Obama's Inauguration Ball on January 20.

"You guys know your President, right? The one with the big ears? He ain't my President. He had that woman singing my song. She gonna get her ass whipped," Etta told the crowd.

"The great Beyonce, she ain't mine. I can't stand Beyonce.

"She had no business up there singing on a big ol’ President day, singing my song that I've been singing forever."

But James, 71, insists she was just adding a little comedy to her routine.

She tells the New York Daily News, "I didn't really mean anything.

"Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude. ... That's probably what went into it. I was feeling left out of something that was basically mine, that I had done every time you look around."

"Nobody was getting mad at me in Seattle," she said. "They were all laughing, and it was funny."

She said the jokes were "not from a vicious place."

And James isn't worried about offending America's new President with comments about his ears. "He's got other stuff [to worry about] besides Etta James," she said. source

ETTA JAMES BLASTS BEYONCE FOR SINGING AT LAST AT BARACK OBAMA INAUGURAL BALL

The great soul diva Etta James put Beyonce on blast for disrespecting her by singing "At Last" to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the Inaugural Ball.


Listen to Etta James TMZ audio where she disses Beyonce. The performance video of Beyonce serenading the first couple singing At Last is included if you missed it.

Etta James tells her audience...."How is she gonna stand up there and sing my song that I have been singing forever?" 

Etta James has a point because after more than 10 years worth of songs in Beyonce's career she doesn't have her own signature ballad.

Remember a few months ago when Etta James had some nice things to say about Beyoncé's portrayal of her in "Cadillac Records"? Well, apparently the good vibes have dissipated. James unleashed a verbal beat-down on B last week during a concert in which she, believe it or not, threatened to whip the "Single Ladies" singer's butt.

Though she wasn't the first singer to perform it, the 71-year-old James has made the smoldering ballad "At Last" her signature song since it became a hit for her in 1961. Beyoncé sang for President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama's first dance at the Neighborhood Ball two weeks ago. For some reason, that seems to have angered James, who put Beyoncé, and the president, for that matter, on blast during a show at Seattle's Paramount Theatre on January 28.

During the gig, she criticized the singer's performance at the inauguration. "You guys know your president, right? You know the one with the big ears?" began her rant, a recording of which was obtained by TMZ. "Wait a minute, he ain't my president. He might be yours; he ain't my president. But I tell you that woman he had singing for him, singing my song — she's going to get her a-- whipped.

"The great Beyoncé," James went on. "Like I said, she ain't mine. ... I can't stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day, gonna be singing my song that I've been singing forever."  source

BEYONCE HOUSE OF DEREON SPRING 2009 PHOTOSHOOT VIDEO

Beyonce shares her thoughts about her House of Dereon photoshoot in Bermuda. We think Bey is beautiful.

BEYONCE & MARIAH CAREY CELEBRATE NEW YEARS IN ST. BARTS PHOTOS/PICS/VIDEO

Beyonce and Mariah Carey celebrated their divaliciousness and rang in the New Year in St. Barts. Beyonce and Mariah look like beautiful sisters. Check out more party pics with Jay-Z and Mimi's  actor wannabe rapper hubby Nick Cannon.

BEYONCE DIVA + HALO MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERES

Here are the official music videos for Beyonce's third and fourth singles from the album "I Am Sasha Fierce".  Halo features actor Michael Ealey as Beyonce's love interest. Check out the Diva music video and on the set pics of the Queen Bee.What do you think?

Beyoncé shooting "Diva" music video

BEYONCE X-FACTOR LISTEN + IF I WERE A BOY VIDEO

Congrats to Beyonce who just won an award in Spain. The bootylicious singer has been traveling around the world.

Beyonce was spotted in Paris on Thursday where she gave a live performance. She picked up a Los Premios  award in Madrid and sang her hit song "If I Were a Boy". Beyonce then jetted over to the UK to appear on X-Factor to sing a duet with this season's winner Alexandra Burke. Check out the live performance videos.

(LIVE!) Beyoncé - If I Were a Boy @ Premios 40 (Spain)

Beyoncé makes a radiant appearance in the City of Light after a taping of the French music reality show Star Academy on Thursday in Paris. The globe-trotting singer recently taped an appearance at the Kennedy Center Honors. After performing in France,, Beyoncé earns a warm welcome in Spain on Friday: The singer collected a prize for her top 40 hit "If I Was a Boy" at an event hosted by Spanish radio station Los 40 Principales at Madrid's Palacio de los Deportes. source

(LIVE!) Beyoncé - Listen X-Factor (UK)

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