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- Beyonce and Jay-Z’s Daughter Blue Ivy Looks Grown Up in 8th Birthday Instagram - Us Weekly
- Beyoncé’s dad backtracks on claims his daughter and Kelly Rowland were sexually harassed in Destiny's Child - NME.com
- 10 years of Beyoncé: A decade 'causing all this conversation' - The Conversation CA
- Beyonce's dad claims singer and Kelly Rowland were 'harassed' as teens by Jagged Edge band members - Fox News
| Beyonce and Jay-Z’s Daughter Blue Ivy Looks Grown Up in 8th Birthday Instagram - Us Weekly Posted: 07 Jan 2020 03:09 PM PST Blue Ivy is growing up fast! The eldest daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z turned 8 on Tuesday, January 7, but looks even older in a celebratory Instagram post that Bey's dad, Mathew Knowles, posted on the special day. In the photo, Blue wears an orange blouse and a cherry-patterned skirt, toting a palm-printed knapsack on her back. "Happy Birthday to my beautiful and oldest granddaughter Blue Ivy," Mathew, 67, wrote. "Love, Papa G."  Fans of Beyoncé, 38, and Jay, 50, got another glimpse of Blue last week in photos Megan Thee Stallion posted on New Year's Day. In one of the candids, Blue showed a gap-toothed grin having presumably lost some baby teeth. Blue also starred in her famous mom's July 2019 music video for "Spirit," the Golden Globe-nominated song Beyoncé cowrote for the 2019 remake of The Lion King. A source previously gave Us Weekly insight into Bey and Jay's family life, which also includes their 2-year-old twins, son Sir and daughter Rumi. "Jay-Z and Beyoncé have nannies for the kids, and their assistants help out too, but they mostly try and bring the kids everywhere," the source said in June 2019. "Blue always travels with Beyoncé and comes with her when she's working. The twins are getting older and Beyoncé has been taking them out a little more too. … They're a very tight-knit family and like to do everything together." Tina Knowles Lawson, Beyoncé's mother and Mathew's ex-wife, also told Us about the tots during a February 2019 interview. "The girl is really just going to rule the world, and the boy is kind of laid back and chills like the dad," the 66-year-old said of Sir and Rumi. "[Blue is] the Queen B. The second Queen B." Richard Lawson, Tina's husband, raved to Us about the kids in November 2019. "They're all very creative, amazingly creative," said the actor, 72. "Watching [Beyoncé and Jay-Z] with their children is really a beautiful thing because you see the amount of love that goes into these kids and you see the way it comes back."  |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2019 12:00 AM PST Beyoncé's dad Mathew Knowles has backtracked on claims that his daughter and Kelly Rowland were sexually harassed in Destiny's Child during the early noughties. Knowles, who was the group's former manager, claimed last week that the incident took place when they toured with Jagged Edge. Knowles told Vlad TV: "Now, remember the girls are minors. They're 16 years old…the guys are 21 and 22 years old. I have a fiduciary duty with minors, by the law, there's a certain way I have to manage that. Advertisement "I got a call from Kelly and Beyoncé… saying that they were constantly being harassed by two of the members in Jagged Edge. "I couldn't have that. I literally had to put the guys off the bus in Baton Rouge, in Lousiana. That began all of this drama." But in a new interview with the New York Post's Page Six, Knowles completely distances himself from the original comments. "I feel the need to clarify that I did not say the girls were sexually harassed while on tour with Jagged Edge in the 2000s. I said 'harassed'", he explained. "The term 'sexual harassment' may imply to some to mean physical advances. I would classify the harassment they encountered more as unwelcome and inappropriate remarks to minors from adults who should have known better." Beyonce, Kelly and Jagged Edge are yet to respond to the allegations made by Mathew. Advertisement  Earlier this month, Beyonce revealed she had several miscarriages that caused her to re-evaluate her life and find additional strength. In the January issue of Elle UK, which sees the star interviewed by her fans, Beyoncé said: "Having miscarriages taught me that I had to mother myself before I could be a mother to someone else." She added that the birth of her eldest daughter, Blue Ivy, in 2012 intensified her search for purpose in life. "I died and was reborn in my relationship, and the quest for self became even stronger. It's difficult for me to go backwards. Being 'number one' was no longer my priority." Advertisement  |
| 10 years of Beyoncé: A decade 'causing all this conversation' - The Conversation CA Posted: 17 Dec 2019 12:00 AM PST When the American Music Awards gave Taylor Swift the title of Artist of the Decade, TV show host Wendy Williams was likely not the only one surprised. Of this decade's pop juggernauts, Beyoncé has stood at the intersection of a turbulent political climate and a problematic celebrity culture. A look back at Beyoncé's 2010s shows that her work — radical and important — also comes with uncomfortable contradictions. Her status as celebrity and family woman has come to represent black empowerment but despite her triumphs, the singer was far from uncontroversial. 'You Know You're that Bitch When — 'The decade began rather quietly for Beyoncé who, notably, did not dominate the 2010s with hit singles. But her albums imprinted into pop history, particularly in the years after the 2011's 4. In January 2013, David Bowie released a surprise album The Next Day recorded in secret. In February of the same year, the band My Bloody Valentine released their last album on their website and, later, for free on YouTube. The surprise album drop may not have been a new invention. Yet when Beyoncé's self-titled visual album burst onto iTunes in December 2013, it forced conversations about artists bypassing traditional media and middle-men to strengthen the bond between themselves and their fans. Some stores, like Target, refused to stock the physical album in defiance. Beyoncé's legacy at the end of the decade is apparent now. Singers can garner fanbases, fame and success with little more than a Soundcloud, YouTube or Instagram account. Beyond daring business strategy, Beyoncé continued to push the creative envelope. Beyoncé was concerned with feminism. But she intensified her resistance politics when she released Lemonade in 2016 with an accompanying hour-long film on HBO. In her performances of the album after its release, Black power and Afrocentric iconography took centre stage. Notable of these was the 2016 Super Bowl halftime show, in which her performance of the anti-police brutality lead single "Formation" featured backup dancers courageously wearing the uniform of the radical Black Panther Party. Ultimately, Lemonade aligned itself with the #BlackLivesMatter movement that exploded in the middle of the decade as protests against the oppression of African Americans entered the mainstream. With its frank revelation of the infidelity of her husband, rapper Jay-Z, the album has also been hailed as a celebration of Black (female) resilience. A Black Bill Gates in the makingCriticisms of this new radical Beyoncé were parodied brilliantly by Saturday Night Live. Though some were decidedly unfair, it is true that contradictions simmer beneath the surface of her political image. How does one reconcile the centering of the African diaspora in Lemonade with her controversial 2018 Vogue interview, in which she references her slave-owning ancestor as a man who "fell in love with and married a slave"? Romanticization of the union between a white slave master and Black slave woman is especially problematic when one considers the disproportionate power dynamics between white slave owners and Black slave women during the time and the lack of agency slave women often had in such sexual relationships. Using the language of love and romance to describe such relationships between Black women and white men not only highlights Black women's lack of sociopolitical rights but seemingly clashes with her overt displays of Black feminist power. Furthermore, how does one reconcile Beyoncé's promotion of Black singers and Black women in The Gift with the theft of Black singer Ledisi's opportunity to reprise her performance in the movie Selma (2014) at the 2015 Grammys? In an industry often reluctant to give Black singers opportunities and accolades (of which Beyonce has herself been a victim), Beyonce's selection of which opportunities to give to and to take from less-exposed Black singers requires some consideration. As cultural theorist and music industry insider Kristin J. Lieb has argued, in a competitive music industry, a pop star's continued survival, wealth and fame depends on having a consumable brand. Black experience and struggle can certainly be useful commodities in that regard, especially during these politically intense times. That may or may not represent the singers' true politics. A billion dollars in an elevatorThere is a tension between Beyoncé the Black Revolutionary and Beyoncé the Business Woman/Brand in the 2010s. Her album releases are landmark cultural moments that generated conversations around feminism, Afrocentricity and artist agency. But this tension — between capitalism and liberation — shadowed Beyoncé's decade, including in the domestic sphere. At the 2011 VMAs Beyoncé ended her performance of "Love on Top" by rubbing her protruding belly, revealing her pregnancy to fans. The Knowles-Carters became one of the Black superfamilies of the 2010s. After the 2014 Met Gala, fans saw Jay-Z in elevator fight with Beyonce's sister, Solange. Fans also watched Beyoncé's firstborn, Blue Ivy, blossom and begin to participate in her mother's work. Beyoncé's child became an icon for Black empowerment for young girls. In the photoshoot for Beyoncé's second pregnancy with twins Rumi and Sir Carter, Beyoncé was staged as a pregnant goddess. The singer powerfully contradicted deep-seated cultural beliefs of pathological Black mothering famously displayed in the sociological Moynihan Report of 1965 that demonized and blamed Black mothers for the "failure" of Black families. The frenzied behaviour of Beyoncé's fans, called The Beyhive, along with Lady Gaga's Little Monsters changed fan-celebrity relationships. It marked a neoliberal turn towards intense inter-fandom competition and worship that helped lay the foundation for the today's pop fan culture. But towards the end of the 2010s, the voices of scrutiny grew louder. Like earlier criticisms of Beyonce's professed radicalism, many grew tired of the family's flaunting of their wealth and distrustful of their business endeavours. For example, the streaming service Tidal was accused of fabricating numbers of their exclusive artists (including Beyoncé). Jay-Z's 2019 deal with the National Football League despite the league's treatment of Black players and protest seemingly contradicted the family's pro-Black politics. Fans feel conflicted about Beyoncé's continued support of Jay-Z despite his famous infidelity. This tension showed in the lack of support from fans for the couple's joint 2018 album, Everything is Love. Lyrics like "Of course shit goes down when it's a billion dollars in an elevator," attempt to dismiss the tensions within the Knowles-Carter family image. And despite the continued strength of the Beyhive's support, by the end of the decade, contradictions continue to haunt the brand of the Knowles-Carters as a powerful Black family. A winner don't quit on themselvesAnd yet, the fact that Beyoncé's Black family were considered worthy of elevation and/or complex readings through nuanced critical discourse is itself an important rebuke of old anti-Black dehumanizing stereotypes. This cannot be ignored. Such is the duality of Beyoncé: a powerful Black woman working within a white patriarchal music industry in which the pursuit of fame and wealth is the goal, strategically using, yet still amplifying, narratives of Black empowerment in the mainstream. Despite the contradictions and controversies, Beyoncé's star power, virtuosity and ability to "cause all this conversation," will undoubtedly see her play an integral role in the 2020s as well. [ Like what you've read? Want more? Sign up for The Conversation's daily newsletter. ]  |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2019 12:00 AM PST Beyonce's dad has claimed the singer and her former "Destiny's Child" counterpart Kelly Rowland were treated inappropriately by male musicians when they were teens. Mathew Knowles, 67, claimed in a new interview with VLAD TV that two bandmates of R&B group Jagged Edge hassled the two on a tour bus when they were 16. BEYONCÉ 7-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, BLUE IVY, WINS SONGWRITING AWARD  Beyonce poses for photographers upon arrival at the 'Lion King' European premiere in central London, Sunday, July 14. (AP) "I got a call from Kelly and Beyonce...saying that they were constantly being harassed by two of the members in Jagged Edge. I couldn't have that," Beyonce's dad said, according to the Daily Mail. "I literally had to put the guys off the bus in Baton Rouge, La.," he continued, describing the two men as 21 and 22 years old. Knowles refused to answer how this incident made him feel as a father. But he said he believed he had a "fiduciary duty" with the law because minors were involved. "There's a certain way I have to manage that," he explained. The alleged harassment spiraled into "all of this drama," with former Destiny's Child members LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett seeking new representation, Knowles claimed. Beyonce's dad did not disclose the names of the Jagged Edge members. A rep for the band did not immediately return Fox News' request for comment. BEYONCE'S DAD SUGGESTS DIVORCE RUMORS WERE FABRICATED TO BOOST TICKET SALES Beyonce's former manager said he received a "certified letter" saying that an interim manager would be taking over for LaTavia and Letoya. The girls didn't stay much longer after Knowles claimed he informed the new attorney they were responsible for only five percent of the group's vocals. Earlier this year, Knowles announced on "Good Morning America" that he has breast cancer. He underwent surgery in July and has another one to go in January. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The former music manager said that his "first call" was to his family, adding that his children, including Beyonce, have "a higher risk." He released a new book about Beyonce's former group titled "Destiny's Child: The Untold Story" earlier this month.  |
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