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Beyonce is soon going to perform in Northern Africa for the first time and Islamic conservatives in Egypt are slamming her concert as an “insolent sex party” that threatens the country’s “social peace and stability” and encourages “vice and debauchery”. Some lawmakers are protesting the show, calling for a governmental ban on the singer’s so-called nudity concert. A Facebook campaign in support of the conservatives stand is actually at 10,000 members. The show will go on though. Beyonce will perform at the Red Sea Resort of Port Ghalib, 100 miles south of Cairo, and security will be tight to protect not only the singer but the fans as well.

It seems the singer’s performing plans have once again become trapped by the incessant ramblings of religious men. Beyonce apparently wants to embark upon a noble quest: performing in Egypt. She’s never been there before, but it doesn’t look like she’s going to be welcomed with open arms. Some Islamic conservatives think that Beyonce’s concert is a godless procession of carnal pleasures… actually, there are quite a few of them. But Byonce, brave soul that she is, will go through with her concert. Let’s see just how conservative these people are, if the show sells out, then there might just be a few extra fireworks.

The MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 took place in Berlin, Germany at the O2 World arena. The show was hosted by Katy Perry,

MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 Winners List:

Best Video
Beyonce – Single Ladies

Best Female
Beyonce

Best Group
Tokio Hotel

Best Push Artist
Pixie Lott

Best Male
Eminem

Best New Act
Lady Gaga

Best Alternative
Placebo

Best World Stage Performance
Linkin Park

Best Song
Beyonce – Halo

Best Rock
Green Day

Best Urban
Jay-Z

Best Live Act
U2

Best European Act
maNga

I have some exciting new for all you Lady Gaga fans. Not only is the singer’s new single ‘Bad Romance’ already available on iTunes but a detailed track list for her album ‘The Fame Monster’ has been released. The list goes as ‘Bad Romance’, ‘Alejandro’, ‘Monster’, ‘Speechless’, ‘Dance in the Dark’, ‘Telephone’ featuring Beyonce’, ‘So Happy I Could Die’ and ‘Teeth’. Yes, Beyonce will be on one of the Princess of Pop’s tracks! Lady Gaga was recently filming a video for Beyonce’s ‘Video Phone’. I wonder if they filmed a video for ‘Telephone’ too. By the way, I’m having a slight chuckle at the titles of their songs.

Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson lead the nominations at this year’s American Music Awards

2009 American Music Awards Nominees Are:

ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Kings of Leon
Taylor Swift
Lady Gaga
Eminem
Michael Jackson

POP/ROCK – Favorite Male Artist
Eminem
Michael Jackson
T.I.

POP/ROCK – Favorite Female Artist
Beyonce
Lady Gaga
Taylor Swift

POP/ROCK – Favorite Band, Duo or Group
The Black Eyed Peas
Kings of Leon
Nickelback

POP/ROCK – Favorite Album
Fame – Lady Gaga
Number Ones – Michael Jackson
Fearless – Taylor Swift

COUNTRY – Favorite Male Artist
Jason Aldean
Darius Rucker
Keith Urban

COUNTRY – Favorite Female Artist
Reba McEntire
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood

COUNTRY – Favorite Band, Duo or Group
Rascal Flatts
Sugarland
Zac Brown Band

COUNTRY – Favorite Album
Unstoppable – Rascal Flatts
Fearless – Taylor Swift
Foundation – Zac Brown Band

RAP/HIP-HOP – Favorite Male Artist
Eminem
Jay-Z
T.I.

RAP/HIP-HOP – Favorite Album
Relapse – Eminem
Blueprint 3 – Jay-Z
Paper Trail – T.I.

SOUL/R&B – Favorite Male Artist
Jamie Foxx
Michael Jackson
Maxwell

SOUL/R&B – Favorite Female Artist
Beyonce
Keyshia Cole
Keri Hilson

SOUL/R&B – Favorite Band, Duo or Group
The Black Eyed Peas
Day26
Mary Mary

SOUL/R&B – Favorite Album
I Am…Sasha Fierce – Beyonce
The E.N.D. – The Black Eyed Peas
Number Ones – Michael Jackson

SOUNDTRACKS – Favorite Album
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Hannah Montana 3
Twilight Soundtrack

ALTERNATIVE ROCK – Favorite Artist
Green Day
Kings of Leon
Shinedown

ADULT CONTEMPORARY – Favorite Artist
Daughtry
Jason Mraz
Taylor Swift

LATIN – Favorite Artist
Aventura
Luis Fonsi
Wisin Y Yandel

CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATIONAL – Favorite Artist
Jeremy Camp
Brandon Heath
Mary Mary

Beyoncé Knowles ordered chicken soup from room service during her stay in Sydney, Australia – to help battle a cold.

The superstar ordered the soup at her Sydney hotel before her two recent concerts in the city, according to reports.

The 28-year-old first put in a call for the chef’s special at 2am last Wednesday, September 16, and the same time the following day.

Meanwhile, Beyoncé’s bodyguards are said to have enjoyed the hotel’s spaghetti bolognaise.

Beyoncé is currently on a ten-date Australian tour, her first visit Down Under for two years.

She next performs in Adelaide on Tuesday, September 22.

In the October issue of O Magazine, Jay-Z discussed selling crack as a 13-year old in his run down Brooklyn neighborhood, his so-called divine intervention and his marriage to Beyonce. The rapper spoke on dealing drugs, saying “You become addicted to the feeling, the uncertainty and adrenaline and danger of that lifestyle.” Apparently, he was saved from that kind of life due to being shot at while dealing on the streets, in what he’s calling as his divine intervention. Jay-Z also talked about his youth and moving up, saying “You become addicted to the feeling, the uncertainty and adrenaline and danger of that lifestyle.”

MTV Video Music Awards 2009 winners:

BEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Beyonce, Best Video of the Year

BEST NEW ARTIST
Lady Gaga

BEST MALE VIDEO
T.I. featuring Rihanna, “Live Your Life”

BEST FEMALE VIDEO
Taylor Swift, “You Belong With Me”

BEST POP VIDEO
Britney Spears, “Womanizer”

BEST HIP-HOP VIDEO
Eminem, “We Made You”

BEST ROCK VIDEO
Green Day, “21 Guns”

BEST VIDEO (THAT SHOULD HAVE WON A MOONMAN)
Beastie Boys, “Sabotage”

BEST BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO
Matt and Kim, “Lessons Learned”

There has been a lot of talk about celebrities making a Michael Jackson tribute album and it seems that things are finally moving along. Some of the big performers planning on recording the tribute album include the likes of Madonna, Beyonce, Mariah Carey, Robbie Williams, Whitney Houston, Usher, Shaheen Jafargholi, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and Lionel Richie. According to The Daily Star, Mariah will sing ‘I’ll Be There’, Shaheen will sing ‘Ben’, Madonna will sing either ‘Beat It’ or ‘Billie Jean’, and Robbie is lined up to sing ‘Man in the Mirror’. The album can prove to either be a success or just one big mess.
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Beyonce is mad and she’s waving a lawsuit in the air to prove it. The singer is going after a couple of unknown suspects for hawking bootlegged goods outside her concerts. Er, how is that going to work if she doesn’t know who to sue exactly? Beyonce filed the lawsuit in New York, against John Does, to stop selling knock off CDs and merchandise, especially outside her Madison Square Garden concert. Yeah, good luck with that. You would think that she would just be smart about it and have extra security to check every suspicious looking guy instead of suing people she doesn’t even know the names of.

According to the London Paper, Beyonce recently had a bit of a scare during the after-party for the London stop of her ‘I Am…’ tour when a fan managed to infiltrate security and get backstage. A witness said “A man barged through the backstage door just as Beyonce was walking past. He cried out her name with his arms outstretched before security bundled him back out again. He said he wanted [just] to see Jay-Z to give him a demo tape.” The crazy things people do when they want to get famous. Oh well, the guy just got his few minutes of fame with this one.

Beyoncé has revealed there was more hype around her performance on The X Factor than when she performed at President Barack Obama’s inauguration.

The 27-year-old singer sung some of her tracks on the British talent show before performing a duet with contestant Alexandra Burke, who went on to win the show.

Talking about her performance on The X Factor, she said: “The day after I performed, I’ve literally never had so many people say they watched me. Every single person I met said: ‘I saw you on The X Factor.’ And I was like: ‘This is weird.’

She added: “Even appearing at the inauguration of our President wasn’t the same.”

Beyoncé also performed at this year’s Oscars ceremony but she said she was more nervous for her performance at Obama’s inauguration.

She said: “I have to say the inauguration was more nerve-wracking than the Oscars.”

She added: “I was nervous at the Oscars as well, especially all that choreography and all those songs squished into the five minutes, but you know it’s nothing like the inauguration.”

“That was just… mind-blowing… Everyone could feel it, it was something spiritual.”

Source: Splash News

It was earlier reported that Beyonce skipped out on an exclusive museum tour to go shopping and instead sent a lookalike to the museum in her place. The singer wasn’t being a diva though as a radio station in Vienna had arranged for the private tour of the Albertina art museum as a prank. The station sent the Beyonce lookalike to the museum as part of an elaborate on-air bit that ended up crashing and burning the minute museum employees realized they had been set up. The radio station manager said “We’ll call the Albertina to say we meant no harm. It was a great museum tour.”
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Beyonce must have Oscar envy because the singer and actress decided to don a gold print on black creation at the 2009 Academy Awards this past Sunday. The dress was curve enhancing and showed off her body beautifully. Other than that, it was pretty boring. I expected more from her considering her fashion is pretty over the top when it comes to fabulous on most days. The sad part, her mom Tina Knowles made this dress. I know how big Beyonce is on family but this is the Oscars we’re talking about. She should have gone with a more notable designer instead of her mom if she wanted to be on the best dressed list.

EW has a new movie still of Beyonce from her upcoming movie ‘Obsessed’ which is due out on April 24. The director of the film, Steve Shill, said that he did some research for the film saying “We did look at girl fights on YouTube. There’s a lot of hair pulling, shouting, and rolling around on the ground. We didn’t really want to do that.” The film is about the successful career of asset manager Derek (Idris Elba), his beautiful wife Beth (Beyonce) and their son. They are put in jeopardy when temp worker Lisa (Ali Larter) starts to stalk Derek.

It looks like Kanye West wants to be the president of Beyonce’s fan club. In fact, he’s such a big fan that the rapper actually thinks that Beyonce is better than Tina Turner! No one is better than Tina! During a recent interview, Kanye said that Beyonce “is just as great, if not greater, than artists we had in the past. She’s probably greater than Tina Turner.” For a guy who speaks of great art, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about when it comes to Beyonce and Tina. Kanye also adds that “Nobody really wants to recognize that Beyonce is a fucking living legend.”

TRL held its final show inside the MTV Times Square studio in New York City. The finale of the show was called Total Finale Live and was hosted by TRL’s original host Carson Daly along with Damien Fahey. The show also featured performances from some of the most notable names from the past decade including Beyonce, Fall Out Boy, 50 Cent and the Backstreet Boys. Justin Timberlake, Mariah Carey, JC Chasez, Taylor Swift, Kid Rock, Hilary Duff, Diddy and more were also at the studio in support of the finale.

It has recently been announced that Beyonce will be performing at the 2008 American Music Awards. This marks the third time that the singer will be performing on the AMAs. Beyonce is the latest addition to the already stellar list of previously announced performers which include Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Leona Lewis, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys, Ne-Yo, Mariah Carey, Coldplay, New Kids on the Block, Pussycat Dolls, Pink, The Fray and Annie Lennox. Annie will also receive the special Award of Merit. I wonder what type of tribute they will be making for her. The AMAs will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast live from the NOKIA Theatre in LA live on Sunday, November 23 at 8PM ET/PT on ABC.

Beyonce impressed a lot of people with her fine figure and spectacular dance moves in her latest ‘Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)’ music video. Apart from being impressive, the video also happens to be tranny friendly. It’s being said that one of the two “ladies” that Beyonce was dancing with could actually be a guy. Bossip reports that the “chocolate chick” could actually be one of the choreographers for the video, Jaquel Knight, in drag. Well, they certainly got me fooled. I can’t believe there’s a tranny in the video! They are so sneaky! If I didn’t find out about this, I would have never really thought about it even after watching the video many times over.

Beyonce was spotted as she flew out of Heathrow airport in London on Thursday. She was on her way to see her hubby Jay-Z play a gig in Cork, Ireland. The 26-year old curvaceous singer is currently working on her third album. Super producer Rodney ‘Darkchild’ Jerkins recently spoke with Rap-Up TV about the release saying that Beyonce’s album is tentatively scheduled for a November release. He also says that he’s working with her on some mid-tempo songs but the album will also have up-tempo cuts. It’s a new direction for Beyonce as he says “It’s gonna be big, big pop songs.”