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MTV.com – Monday night was the premiere of Lady Gaga and Beyoncé’s sexy, Hype Williams-directed “Video Phone” video, featuring the two pop stars dancing and posing pin-up style with massive toy guns and matching leotards.
Beyoncé tends to walk a straight and narrow path, but she’s no nun. She’s way too sassy, her dancing is too sexy, and her neck cocks too hard for that. On the superstar’s new DVD, I Am… Yours: An Intimate Performance at Wynn Las Vegas, out Monday, audiences experience a show-stopping event as Sasha Fierce and Bey come out to play.
The only feature on the tracklisting is with Beyonce’ (a song Beyonce co-wrote as well), no word if the recent collaboration Alicia recorded with Drake will appear on a revised tracklisting or re-release.
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Beyone & Lady Gaga - Video Phone (remix) is below. The video is coming 11/23.
CAIRO: In a shocking display of poor diplomacy, Egypt’s chief Egyptologist Zahi Hawass allegedly called American pop-star Beyonce a “stupid person” during her brief tour of the Giza pyramids earlier this week. Writing in al-Shorouk newspaper, Summer al-Gamal said that Hawass became fed up with the pop star’s attitude after she did not show the interest Hawass felt was deserved of the pyramids.
A copycat claim contained in a 2006 lawsuit is expected to land the "Bootylicious" sensation in a witness chair next month as part of a copyright infringement trial to be held in Chicago's federal courthouse.
A Chicago songwriter copyrighted the song "Cater 2 U" long before Destiny's Child came out with a song by the same name. The songwriter also says the lyrics are similar. (AP)
In dispute is a song titled "Cater 2 U" released by Destiny's Child in a 2004 compilation called "Destiny Fulfilled." The video features sultry scenes of the musical trio proclaiming: "Whatever you desire, I'll aspire."
But Chicago songwriter and performer Rickey Allen says it's his song, and a judge has given the green light for a jury to hear his claims against Mrs. Jay-Z.
Allen first copyrighted his "Cater 2 U," -- with the same spelling -- in the mid-1990s. He performed the song locally and updated the copyright three times, as recently as 2000.
Allen's song is about "relieving the stress of a significant other, and getting them to relax." He says Destiny Child's version contains similar steamy lyrics.
When Allen's song says: "I want to rub you down," Destiny's Child asks: "Want a foot rub?"
Allen's lyrics say: "The tub has hot steam rising," and "I'm waiting to soak your body through."
The Destiny's Child song offers to: "Let me run your bath water."
"Do we say [Beyonce's] responsible for copying? Yes. But there's no such thing as innocent copying, even if it's unintentional," said Allen's lawyer, Matt Wildermuth. "The jury will decide the notion that these are simple coincidences."
Allen says he passed a copy of his "Cater 2 U" to Chicago remixer Maurice Joshua, and the two planned to collaborate on a demo.
That never happened, Allen says. But Joshua later spent several hours in a session with Destiny's Child recording a different song, according to court papers. Joshua says he never had a copy of Allen's work.
Lawyers for the threesome say the case has no merit and asked that it be tossed.
It was Knowles who was the source for the idea of "Cater 2 U," her lawyers said in a court filing.
"She is perhaps the most important witness for the defendants," they said.
U.S. District Judge James Holderman has ruled there's enough evidence for the case to go before a jury, pointing to Joshua as the link and saying it's possible he could have provided a copy of Allen's song before they released their hit. The trial was delayed once because of conflicts with Knowles' schedule but is set for Dec. 10.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/music/2009/11/06/1257247733625.html
As Egypt gears for pop diva Beyonce Knowles’ first performance in North Africa, Islamic conservatives are branding her show an “insolent sex party” that threatens the Muslim nation’s “social peace and stability”.
On giant posters palstered across the Egyptian capital advertising the Friday evening concert, Beyonce sports a revealing, flame-covered outfit and grips a set of motorcycle handlebars extending from her hips – a sharp contrast to Cairo streets, where most women wear the traditional Muslim headscarves.
TV ads promoting the show, part of Beyonce’s “I Am …” world tour, have run on Egyptian and Arab satellite stations. The tour, which took Beyonce to the United Arab Emirates last week, had grossed $US53.5 million ($58.66 million) as of October, according toBillboard magazine.
But in Egypt, Islamic lawmakers and their supporters have waged campaigns on social networking web sites, accusing the government of encouraging debauchery and calling for the concert’s cancellation.
“Why are you encouraging this insolent sex party?” lawmaker Hamdi Hassan from the opposition Muslim Brotherhood wrote in a letter to the government. “You are accused of disturbing social peace and stability, encouraging vice and debauchery.”
Another Islamic lawmaker, Ali Laban, called for banning the “nudity concert.”
A Facebook campaign against Beyonce’s concert collected nearly 10,000 supporters.
But the war of words has not derailed the glitzy concert, due hundreds of miles south of Cairo in the luxury Red Sea resort of Port Ghalib.
Organisers said “ultra” security will be deployed to protect the thousands of concertgoers.
Beyonce cancelled her stop in Malaysia last month following opposition from a conservative Islamic party.
Malaysia requires female artists to cover up from the shoulders to the knees and bans any showing of cleavage.
Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, is torn between a growing secular and economically prosperous class and a large mainly conservative, poor population.
The government has been squeezing Islamic conservatives with security crackdowns and administrative measures aimed at curbing outward manifestations of conservatism.
Beoynce’s event organiser Ahmed Beltagi said tourism and police officials cooperated to make the concert happen because they believe it’s a way to promote Egypt as a centre of culture, entertainment and art.
“We are Muslims too … this will not stop Egypt from hosting an award-winning, first class artist,” Beltagi said.
“We should salute her instead of criticising her,” he said of the diva.
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Above are the pics of Beyonce in Egypt. No acts of violence occured. I see she wore a skirt instead of the usual bodysuit...
