Beyoncé Simmers Down

BeyonceContrary to popular belief, Beyoncé Knowles is not angry.

After the debut of her rage-filled video for "Ring the Alarm," everyone wondered if she had flipped her diva lid. Beyoncé tells Elle magazine that she just "didn't want to do another album full of love songs. I did that last time. It's boring."

Miss B nixes rumors that the song is about her boyfriend, Brooklyn rapper Jay-Z, cheating on her with pop star Rihanna: "There's nothing to read into. Sorry to disappoint you!" Okay.

Beyoncé does reveal that her public image is the calculated hard work of many people. "I have a team and we've been working together since I was 15, so every show, earring, every shade of eye shadow is all something that comes from me and my team." You don't say.

Beyoncé let go of her mad-as-hell persona to give a raw and honest performance in the upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls." Knowles' acting coach, Ivanna Chubbuck (don't you?), admits that the bootylicious star wrestled with demons. "We went really deep. It was like therapy." Get me a couch.

Read the entire interview in the December issue of Elle magazine.



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1. I think it is painfully obvious when you listen to Ring The Alarm, rthat there was some hostility in her life at the time, and with Jay Z basically priming Rhianna, who is almost a carbon copy cut of of Beyonce with longer legs and a few less years, you best be sure that is what most women call a threat. I do not buy it for a second that she never had any hard feelings torwards Rhianna and Jay's proffessional relationship.

Posted at 3:49PM on Nov 7th 2006 by mimi

2. for some reason she just rubs me the wrong way...not sure why?? don't really like her music, every song of hers all sounds the same too, but it looks like in that picture that she got has gotten some serious "enhancements", because if i'm not mistaken they weren't that big before....

Posted at 3:50PM on Nov 7th 2006 by jride

3. I love the new sound. I'm tired of Black girls having to sing the same old love songs and songs about the same old things. Why can't women be different and angry in their music like men? Ring the Alarm rocks! As far as "enhancements", push up bras do wonders...Beyonce has always been very "healthy" in all areas....

Posted at 3:54PM on Nov 7th 2006 by SouthernNYC

4. Hearing the song, 'Ring the Alarm," I just knew someone was going to bring out the "angry black woman stereotype." Can't it just be a song? Can't it just be a song about a woman scorned? Is it because she a black singer, and there's a wel-known stereotype about the "angry black woman?" I am so tired of black women not being able to express themselves in this society without someone pulling out a stereotype. It's just an awesome, angry song. I'm glad Beyonce went against the grain and did this one.

Posted at 4:20PM on Nov 8th 2006 by bigchele77

5. "Can't stand the way she sings...
but iI love to hear her talk!"

Posted at 4:49PM on Nov 7th 2006 by The Band: "Up on Cripple Creek"

6. The song's about Jay-Z . . I doubt if he'll marry her (he purchased a car instead of a ring for B' B Day) and her hair on that cover is AWFUL. Please give the horse's back their tail . . .

Posted at 6:39PM on Nov 7th 2006 by Simplicity

7. She should be arrested for cruelty to animals. What a horrible person.

Posted at 6:40PM on Nov 7th 2006 by sosad

8. can't stant the way she is acting now ,she has accomplish a lot she can give rahina a chance stop playahating you sound like a angry wife who is about to loose her man grow up

Posted at 6:44PM on Nov 7th 2006 by dede

9. this woman comes off as trashy and cheap

she needs to stop lettng her mother guide her career, and get a litle class and dignity

Posted at 7:38PM on Nov 7th 2006 by cate

10. People are so dumb if they think that celebrities don't orchestrate the publicity they generate. You think Beyonce would spend months in a studio writing a angry song about Jay Z and Rhianna knowing that people would think she was talking about them and then deny her? She's been in the entertainment business for years, Jay-Z also has been heavily involved in her career lately. The whole love triangle rumour about this song is planned and it seems to be working. It's so easy to fool most American, especially when most of them only read at a 8th grade level. Go Beyonce for exploiting these dummies : )

Posted at 7:47PM on Nov 7th 2006 by SouthernGirl

11. she uses fur in her "designs" therefore she's a piece of shit

Posted at 8:48PM on Nov 7th 2006 by bon

12. I mean there are alot of people you could hate on in the music bizz! But Beyonce is one of the nicest and most talented in the bizz so I don't understand the hate! I guess so people have nothing to do but be negative!

Posted at 8:58PM on Nov 7th 2006 by girly

13. she may be very nice to talk to personally but i think you can tell alot about a person by the way the treat the most defenseless. either she isn't truly a very caring person or she is ignorant in what fur involves. either way she should be held accountable, although i would argue in a polite manner.

Posted at 9:02PM on Nov 7th 2006 by beth

14. YES THAT MAY BE TRUE THAT THE PUBLICITY MACHINE HAVE BEEN BEHIND IT. TO GENERATE SOMETHING LIKE THAT DOUBT IT B AND JAY ARE VERY PRIVATE SO I'M NOT GOING FOR IT, AND ANOTHER THING IF THAT RELATIONSHIP WAS SO SOLID WHY IS SHE FOLLOWING JAY ALL OVER EUROPE.

YOU KNOW RHIANNA IS ON TOUR WITH HIM AS WELL SO SAY WHAT YOU WANT I THINK THEY HIT A ROUGH PATCH IN THAT RELATIONSHIP WHEN A MAN BUYS YOU THINGS THAT HE WOULD NEVER CONSIDER OR WOULD EVER DO YO KNOW SOMETHING UP WITH THAT SO SHE CAN SELL THAT B.S AND GUESS WHAT HATE TO TELL HER ONLY A FEW BUYING THE STORY SHE'S PUTTING OUT WE ALL KNOW THE TRUTH

Posted at 9:47PM on Nov 7th 2006 by jummpy

15. "We went really deep. It was like therapy." Get me a couch.


You spelled 'bucket' wrong.

Posted at 9:14PM on Nov 7th 2006 by Mimi

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