Beyonce put on a marvellous show at the World Music Awards on Wednesday night.And she went home with yet another gong for her mantlepiece. She won best R&B act at the 18th annual awards ceremony.
If you go down to your local record shop today and buy a copy of the recent Beyonce album, ‘B’Day’ you might notice a sticker on the cover, advertising the contents. Includes ‘Deja Vu’ featuring Jay-Z,’ it says. Also: ‘Ring the Alarm.’ And: bonus track: ‘Listen.’ There is no indication that the album includes one of the year’s best and maybe biggest pop songs. In other words, there is no mention of a fast-rising hit called ‘Irreplaceable,’ which might just be the greatest ... well, let’s not get carried away. But let’s acknowledge that this is precisely the kind of song that makes it easy to get carried away.
Well, the outdated sticker proves that a lot has changed since September, when Beyonce’s second album was released, a day after her 25th birthday.
This hint of commercial weakness coincided with a canny display of emotional weakness. In ‘Ring the Alarm’ she convincingly impersonated a threatened girlfriend: ‘I’ll be damned if I see another chick on your arm.’ One couldn’t resist the urge to de-anonymize the ‘arm’ (Jay-Z’s, surely) and the ‘chick’ (the pop starlet Rihanna?).
One thing’s for sure if anybody try to steal her man they got it coming from Beyonce.
Via: NYtimes
