Becoming Beyoncé: The Untold Story

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The platform she built with her countless wins and appearances is used rightfully as a way for her to spread her messages of equality and strength. CH: Contributor Maria Brito, an award-winning designer, author, and art curator, writes about running into Beyoncé at an exercise class in New York, when Brito was seven months pregnant, and how Beyoncé "looked at me and my belly with grace, surprise, delight, and a big, warm, Southern smile,"and then congratulated her. Hello awesome NYC celebrity encounter! It dawned on Brito that day that "Beyoncé's artistry depends as much on her creativity as it does on her empathy, her vulnerability, and her humanity, all quintessential elements for being a true and lasting artist." What do you think, if there is one, is Beyoncé's message? In fact, their wedding took place on the roof of Jay's elaborate New York penthouse, and months flew by before the power couple officially announced their union. My first memory of Beyoncé is being 3/4 years old listening to this EP my parents bought me featuring Destiny's Child's Say My Name along with 4(?) of its remixes. That's one of my earliest music memories and while I would not consider myself a member of The Hive (although I buzz nearby), I am a big fan of Bey and have massive respect for her.

The pair has been known to mix a little work and fun as they have a consistent list of songs and music videos featuring one another. CH: And love. Right? Contributor Meredith Broussard points out that "love" is the word that shows up most often in Beyoncé's songs out of 500 words that showed up most frequently.She’s 41 now and beginning her seventh world tour, so the show finds savvy ways to let her rest. The chrome tank was a chair. The mechanical arms almost functioned as a tripod. She growled the call and response on “Heated” instead of dancing to it. For “Church Girl” and some songs from 4, she was the stationary centerpiece amid a dozen dancers. But who cares? Her most memorable set pieces have been a walk and a chair. “When they invented walking they never dreamed it could ever look that good,” Seth Meyers tweeted during her 2013 Super Bowl Halftime Show — a line I think about every time she simply strides across a stage. Plot: Let’s take a journey into the time line of the Queen Bey, as we watch a shy, private, girl emerge (and erupt) into the mega super star we see before us today.

The Bottom Line: About as good as you'd expect from an unauthorized Beyonce biography that manages to carry through an interesting throughline about becoming Beyonce that we know and worship today. Beyoncé the brand is a Company! It is an aggressive pressure selling industry called Beyoncé! Beyoncé the human, took years to be unpeeled now in 2021 years after this book was written, Beyoncé found herself praying and seeking forgiveness for her sins in her past live. This book is no longer dated. J. Randy Taraborrelli is an author known for biographies of contemporary entertainers and political figures. He is a featured writer in several entertainment magazines in Canada, England, and Australia. He also appears on television as an entertainment news reporter on shows such as Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America, Today and CBS This Morning. Taraborrelli resides in Los Angeles, California. Veronica Chambers: I think a great anthology is like a great dinner party. [ Queen Bey contributor] Ylonda Gault, for example, is like somebody sidling up to you at that party and saying, "By the way, my sister used to beat up people up for me, and she still will." It's not boring. It's not, like, "So, what do you do for a living?" I approach it as a fiction writer. I really believe in the power of narrative—it humanizes the story. When I talk to people, I try to come from a place of not knowing at all. I didn’t fall down from the sky with all this knowledge. When I talk about all the bullshit ideas about gender, I also believed many of those ideas and they are things that I still struggle with.VC: [Contributor and acclaimed choreographer] Fatima Robinson talks about how rare it is, which I hadn't really thought about, for someone to be at the same level as a performer, a vocalist, and a dancer. There are a lot of incredible vocalists, but someone who can do all three things at that level…. I am a huge Beyonce fan - there's simply no denying it. I bought this book impulsively when I saw it at the airport & it was an interesting read. Was it the best biography I've ever read? No. Do I regret reading it? No. But there are important things to note, the 1st being that is an "unauthorized biography". I knew this however I hated the "one source says" throughout the book. Nobody in Beyonce's immediate family or obviously she herself participated in the making of this book so it was largely based on alleged "sources". It also had dialogue from yearsss ago at some points. While I get the intention to recreate a scene, it could've been done without this. As someone who has an excellent memory, I cannot recall specific conversations word for word from 20 years ago and therefore assume it's unlikely another third-party could do so, accurately. Just my opinion but hey, this is my review. Famous Quote:"When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think." Your 2013 book Americanah is being made into a movie by Lupita Nyong’o. Does that kind of Hollywood exposure frighten you a little?