Beyonce has shrine dedicated to Beyonce

Beyoncé has to remind herself of just how much (and why, and how) she rules the world. To that end, the pop star keeps a meticulous, borderline-crazy sounding “archive room” in her midtown Manhattan office.

According to a GQ article: "There, across from the narrow conference room in which you are interviewing her, is another long, narrow room that contains the official Beyoncé archive, a temperature-controlled digital-storage facility that contains virtually every existing photograph of her, starting with the very first frames taken of Destiny’s Child, the ’90s girl group she once fronted; every interview she’s ever done; every video of every show she’s ever performed; every diary entry she’s ever recorded while looking into the unblinking eye of her laptop.


In a sample “diary entry” she urges herself to embrace her fears: “Stop pretending that I have it all together. If I’m scared, be scared, allow it, release it, move on. I think I need to go listen to ‘Make Love to Me’ and make love to my husband.” She also obsessively studies tapes of her performances, critiquing every last detail, and employs a “visual director” who has followed her around 16 hours a day since 2005, recording nearly her every move, and keeps the tapes in a collection “loosely modeled on NBC’s library.”

Some of this, of course, has gone into the HBO documentary about her life coming out in February, but we have to wonder what will be done with the rest. Will there one day be years worth of all-Beyoncé-all-the-time video available for public consumption? The mind boggles.

Read more at ONTD: http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/74647688.html#ixzz2HelYUahw

“I now know that, yes, I am powerful. I’m more powerful than my mind can even digest and understand.”

If what her mind can or cannot digest and understand is the deciding factor here then she may need to be only ever-so-slightly powerful to overwhelm those pretty neurons.

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[Edited 1/11/13 0:20am]

shorttrini said:

If the music business was more about talent and less about visualization and gimmicks, would we even be having this debate? I have said it before and I will say it again, Beyonce has fallen victim to over exposure. Which is due to the fact that there isn't that much talent in the industry as there once was. Now, when someone with a "mililiter of talent" comes on the scene, there are those who want to see them more and more. The end result is, overexposure. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Had this been the 80's, when the industry was more competative, an artist like her would have just been another artist and nobody would have paid her much mind.

she worded it wrong...................

She wants us to understand that she is a powerful woman

based on her accomplishments as a musician, mother, friend, lover, etc, etc, etc, and woman

we may not b able to sing or dance but i think all women r powerful and with the right attitude they can do it all

realising this is when u truly understand

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oh dear

ThisOne said:

she worded it wrong...................

She wants us to understand that she is a powerful woman

based on her accomplishments as a musician, mother, friend, lover, etc, etc, etc, and woman

we may not b able to sing or dance but i think all women r powerful and with the right attitude they can do it all

realising this is when u truly understand

I think people know what she means, they just want to blow it the hell up into something else

Oprahs Super Soul Sunday, Joel Olst.... self awareness empowerment

like saying people only use a fraction of their mind(I know the jokes come) but if we realized the full capacity of it and used it etc etc

uPtoWnNY said:

vainandy said:She makes my asshole want to shit.

That about sums it up.

vainandy said:

uPtoWnNY said:

vainandy said:She makes my asshole want to shit.

That about sums it up.

But she knows how to throw down a damn party,memba?

Beyonce says she is more "Powerful Than She Can Understand"

Whatever Beyonce wants she gets!!

Plus Prince adores her............

mjscarousal said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

It's pretentious but shit, when you got teenage boys and girls crying over your existence, you got power.

So do Drake, Justin Bieber and Lil Wayne have power? Because more teenagers and kiddies cry over them

When you have people camping out your hotel or your damn house or committing suicide over your ass, MOBBING you EVERYTIME you step out the door, YOU HAVE POWER.

Beyonce is just hype, dont feed into.

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There is no absolute. Power is relative; different types, degrees, etc.

How much one has is an question. And how long that person's power lasts is another.

uPtoWnNY said:

She talks like someone with an 8th grade education.

You're insulting to all those 8th graders.

Stymie said:

alexzander said:

I agree. She puts in a lot of work and it shows. Overexposed? yup. Are some of her songs annoying and bad? yup. But I think she's got a great voice and she never seems unprepared.

Except when her no-talking ass does interviews.

HAPPYPERSON said:

Beyonce has shrine dedicated to Beyonce

Beyoncé has to remind herself of just how much (and why, and how) she rules the world. To that end, the pop star keeps a meticulous, borderline-crazy sounding “archive room” in her midtown Manhattan office.

According to a GQ article: "There, across from the narrow conference room in which you are interviewing her, is another long, narrow room that contains the official Beyoncé archive, a temperature-controlled digital-storage facility that contains virtually every existing photograph of her, starting with the very first frames taken of Destiny’s Child, the ’90s girl group she once fronted; every interview she’s ever done; every video of every show she’s ever performed; every diary entry she’s ever recorded while looking into the unblinking eye of her laptop.


In a sample “diary entry” she urges herself to embrace her fears: “Stop pretending that I have it all together. If I’m scared, be scared, allow it, release it, move on. I think I need to go listen to ‘Make Love to Me’ and make love to my husband.” She also obsessively studies tapes of her performances, critiquing every last detail, and employs a “visual director” who has followed her around 16 hours a day since 2005, recording nearly her every move, and keeps the tapes in a collection “loosely modeled on NBC’s library.”

Some of this, of course, has gone into the HBO documentary about her life coming out in February, but we have to wonder what will be done with the rest. Will there one day be years worth of all-Beyoncé-all-the-time video available for public consumption? The mind boggles.

Read more at ONTD: http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/74647688.html#ixzz2HelYUahw

She's preparing us for the Beyonce channel.

shorttrini said:

If the music business was more about talent and less about visualization and gimmicks, would we even be having this debate? I have said it before and I will say it again, Beyonce has fallen victim to over exposure. Which is due to the fact that there isn't that much talent in the industry as there once was. Now, when someone with a "mililiter of talent" comes on the scene, there are those who want to see them more and more. The end result is, overexposure. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Had this been the 80's, when the industry was more competative, an artist like her would have just been another artist and nobody would have paid her much mind.

See. Frankly, I'm tired of seeing her shake her ass all the damn time. Get a different ho move for chrissakes.

Shyra said:

She IS powerful.

How can someone who has that much money and has access to as many powerful people as she does not have a ton of power themselves????

SUPRMAN said:

She's preparing us for the Beyonce channel.

She's probably in negotiations right now as we speak. And if she isn't, some of her deranged fans are going to read this and put the idea in her head.

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Is she more powerful than a locomotive?

mjscarousal said:

PurpleCharm said:

When did she take a break? Seems like she has been working non-stop since she came on the scene.

But the problem with some people is they confuse that with work ethic.

Now if she exactly released four solid creative albums I could see someone saying that she works hard at her craft because the music would at least be artistic and would reflect that but all Beyonce has done is whored the spotlight just get easy hits and to stay in the news. I dont think thats work ethic. If you work hard at your craft that means your pushing to be creative not to just be in peoples faces 24/7. She also has aid because of her marketing and record label which means majority of what people think she works hard for, is already handed to her (like mostly everything in her career, awards etc) .

I dont think she realizes how overexposed she is (maybe she does but doesnt care) because in her logic she views it as good work ethic although he does not mean the same thing.

Bands like Mint Condition work very hard at their craft through touring, always pushing and try new things in their MUSIC, writes all their music, plays their music, TOURS ALL THE TIME (more than her to be exact), been doin it for 20 years and it shows although it goes very unappreciated and you will never hear anybody say it.Despite that, they still work hard.

Dumb people think if your not on every damn award show, not always on the damn radio and plastered on magazine covers that means you dont have good work ethic no that means you have a good marketing machine NOTHING to do with work ethic.

Im also offended she had the audacity to imply she has work harder than EVERYONE in the music industry, I am not sure if that was what she was trying to imply (knowing how conceited Beyonce is thats probably what she was and keeping in mind she is not intelligent and ignorant) its disrespectful especially to acts like James Brown, WAR, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, MJ (that were busting their asses way before she was even born ) shit even Mint Condition or ANYBODY who works hard and alot harder THAN HER that she would make a comment like that.

Shes powerful alright....... in her delusional kindergarden education mind.

Notice how she said SHE worked hard in her childhood and basically didnt even acknowledge that she was in a group and that other members helped her along the way but nooooo its all about ME and "I did everything, I worked to get ALL I have, nobody helped me". Sad, Kelly still be in interviews insisting that group was a sisterhood when we really know it was always about Beyonce.

She thinks having the right hair style and having the right lightening is her growing as an artist

Funniest thing I heard in a long time.

ALL ^^^^^^^that and a bag of chips...

HonestMan13 said:

Is she more powerful than a locomotive?

deebee said:

You're all far too hard on Beyonce. She's a remarkable businesswoman and a shining example to young girls of what they can achieve in America.

I mean, take this picture from the GQ shoot: here, she took her trousers and socks off, the people gave her a ball, and she jumped with it while they took some photos. Now, I think that shows young women that if they like jumping, but, like, 'society' tells them they shouldn't be doing that, and says they should be doing other things like reading, learning stuff, developing a sense of personal integrity and all that, she's there to say, no, reach for the skies! Or at least reach upwards. With the ball.

And, as a businesswoman, she's shown that if you take your trousers off and stand next to stacks of merchandise, those companies will give you lots of money. (Obviously, you have to be famous, or else they'll probably just quietly ask you to leave the store.) And when you've got lots of money, you can make it to the White House to meet the President.

I salute her.

She has no power over me.

There are plenty of ladies on the ORG who are more powerful than Lady B will ever be.

She is delusional at best to believe in her own hype.

You can believe in yourself without putting yourself on a pedestal (Are you listening Beyawnce?)

Mediocre voice, mediocre performer, mediocre actor. Beyonce=meh.

She is great at marketing (like Madonna). There is where her real talent lies.

kewlschool said:

She has no power over me.

There are plenty of ladies on the ORG who are more powerful than Lady B will ever be.

She is delusional at best to believe in her own hype.

You can believe in yourself without putting yourself on a pedestal (Are you listening Beyawnce?)

Mediocre voice, mediocre performer, mediocre actor. Beyonce=meh.

She is great at marketing (like Madonna). There is where her real talent lies.

kewlschool said:

She has no power over me.

There are plenty of ladies on the ORG who are more powerful than Lady B will ever be.

She is delusional at best to believe in her own hype.

You can believe in yourself without putting yourself on a pedestal (Are you listening Beyawnce?)

Mediocre voice, mediocre performer, mediocre actor. Beyonce=meh.

She is great at marketing (like Madonna). There is where her real talent lies.

Luvs her

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

kewlschool said:

She has no power over me.

There are plenty of ladies on the ORG who are more powerful than Lady B will ever be.

She is delusional at best to believe in her own hype.

You can believe in yourself without putting yourself on a pedestal (Are you listening Beyawnce?)

Mediocre voice, mediocre performer, mediocre actor. Beyonce=meh.

She is great at marketing (like Madonna). There is where her real talent lies.

Luvs her

Good 4 him.

kewlschool said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Luvs her

Good 4 him.

Exactly. Like that means something.

^Co-sign.

mjscarousal said:

PurpleCharm said:

When did she take a break? Seems like she has been working non-stop since she came on the scene.

But the problem with some people is they confuse that with work ethic.

Now if she exactly released four solid creative albums I could see someone saying that she works hard at her craft because the music would at least be artistic and would reflect that but all Beyonce has done is whored the spotlight just get easy hits and to stay in the news. I dont think thats work ethic. If you work hard at your craft that means your pushing to be creative not to just be in peoples faces 24/7. She also has aid because of her marketing and record label which means majority of what people think she works hard for, is already handed to her (like mostly everything in her career, awards etc) .

I dont think she realizes how overexposed she is (maybe she does but doesnt care) because in her logic she views it as good work ethic although he does not mean the same thing.

Bands like Mint Condition work very hard at their craft through touring, always pushing and try new things in their MUSIC, writes all their music, plays their music, TOURS ALL THE TIME (more than her to be exact), been doin it for 20 years and it shows although it goes very unappreciated and you will never hear anybody say it.Despite that, they still work hard.

Dumb people think if your not on every damn award show, not always on the damn radio and plastered on magazine covers that means you dont have good work ethic no that means you have a good marketing machine NOTHING to do with work ethic.

Im also offended she had the audacity to imply she has work harder than EVERYONE in the music industry, I am not sure if that was what she was trying to imply (knowing how conceited Beyonce is thats probably what she was and keeping in mind she is not intelligent and ignorant) its disrespectful especially to acts like James Brown, WAR, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, MJ (that were busting their asses way before she was even born ) shit even Mint Condition or ANYBODY who works hard and alot harder THAN HER that she would make a comment like that.

Shes powerful alright....... in her delusional kindergarden education mind.

Notice how she said SHE worked hard in her childhood and basically didnt even acknowledge that she was in a group and that other members helped her along the way but nooooo its all about ME and "I did everything, I worked to get ALL I have, nobody helped me". Sad, Kelly still be in interviews insisting that group was a sisterhood when we really know it was always about Beyonce.

She thinks having the right hair style and having the right lightening is her growing as an artist

Funniest thing I heard in a long time.

THIS x 1000!

Stymie said:

Cinny said:

Wow, that is a BIG pat on her own back.

I am truly curious about the hard work she's done.

Yeah... I'd like to see her spend a day pulling 50lb. soiled linen bags out of SF Chinese restaurants (my former job...). Then we can talk about hard work...