Single Ladies was released in by Beyonce on the Sony Label. Its is a R & B track. Want to watch or listen to more music from Beyonce? Click the link above for more great videos and songs from this artist. Beyonce Biography: When I started the record, says Beyonce about her new double album I AM... SASHA FIERCE, I knew that, artistically, I had to grow. Even though Ive been very successful and very fortunate, I want to still be challenged and still be nervous and still be anxious about all the things that make my career exciting. One of 2008s most anticipated new album releases, I AM... SASHA FIERCE is Beyonces first new studio collection since her Grammy-winning multi-platinum-selling BDAY debuted at #1 on charts around the world shortly after its international release on September 4, 2006 (in celebration of Beyonces 25th birthday). Each of the discs on Beyonces new double album reveals a distinctly different side of her personality, character and sensibility, a forum for the yin-and-yang of her developing artistry. One of the discs, titled I AM..., provides Beyonce with a musical showcase for a group of intimate heartfelt ballads while the SASHA FIERCE disc gives voice to Beyonces up-tempo dance-oriented other side. SASHA FIERCE is my alter ego, says Beyonce, and now she has a last name. I have someone else that takes over when its time for me to work and when Im on stage, this alter ego that Ive created that kind of protects me and who I really am. Thats why half the record, I AM..., is about who I am underneath all the makeup, underneath the lights, and underneath all the exciting star drama. And SASHA FIERCE is the fun, more sensual, more aggressive, more outspoken side and more glamorous side that comes out when Im working and when Im on the stage. The double album allows me to take more risks and really step out of myself, or shall I say, step more into myself, and reveal a side of me that people only know me see. With I AM..., Beyonce reveals a variety of musical aspects and interests that may take her fans by surprise. Citing a range of influences including folk songs and alternative songs and acoustic guitar...stuff thats different from what I sing, Beyonce has produced, written, recorded and performed a finely crafted selection of contemporary ballads that combine the best elements of pop and soul music while expanding the possibilities of both genres. You can hear with If I Were A Boy, (one of the albums first singles), its not a traditional R&B song, she offers. Its difficult to grow and to break out and do new things because people have strong expectations. I feel like at this point, I wanted people to hear songs with stronger lyrics and songs that made you feel. I love singing ballads because I feel like the music and the emotion in the story is told so much better. Its a better connection because you can hear it and its not all these other distractions. I really wanted people to hear my voice and hear what I had to say. For her I AM... collection, Beyonce collaborated with some writers and producers that I normally hadnt worked with including producer Toby Gad on If I Were A Boy and UK songwriter Amanda Ghost on Disappear, which reminds Beyonce of the Beatles a tad bit, Satellites and Ave Maria, in which Beyonce re-imagines a classic aria in a new and original musical setting. When I knew that certain things I wanted to say, I couldnt say myself, I invited other writers to come in, she says. Lyrically, its the best album Ive ever had. If a song didnt say anything or mean anything to me, I didnt put it on the record. According to Beyonce, SASHA FIERCE is kind of the opposite, shes more the other side because sometimes you dont want to think; sometimes you just want to feel good. Shes the party girl, shes Bootylicious. She is but Im not. Shes my alter ego. Im finally revealing who I am. The lead-in track on the SASHA FIERCE disc is Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), Beyonces scorching anthem of personal empowerment. That song is all about: Ive been with you all this time, youre taking too long and now Im looking hot and you see it and you gotta suffer because you shoulda put a ring on it, Beyonce explains. In my life, when I put on the stilettos, its all about being confident, sometimes overly confident, and hearing all the things that women need to hear to boost themselves and go out and to move on. SASHA FIERCE is fun. Theres an up-tempo song called Radio that basically talks about my childhood. It just seems like a feel-good record but when you really listen to the lyrics, its about me growing up. In my household, I didnt go to all of the parties and I didnt do all the things that a lot of the other teenage girls did because I was so in love with my radio and my music. I was so in love with this radio and my parents were happy that I was into something positive. I try to make up-tempo records that feel good but underneath theyre still saying something. SASHA FIERCE is a collection of the kinds of songs that Im usually known for and I love just as much as the more intimate side of me. Songs on Beyonces I AM... include If I Were A Boy, Halo, Disappear, Broken Hearted Girl, Ave Maria, and Satellites. Beyonces SASHA FIERCE records include Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), Radio, Diva, Sweet Dreams, and Video Phone. Producers and writers collaborating with Beyonce on I AM... SASHA FIERCE include Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, Stargate, C. Tricky Stewart & Terius The Dream Nash, Rodney DarkChild Jerkins, Sean The Pen Garrett, Solange, Jim Jonsin, Rico Love and Ryan Tedder. I AM... SASHA FIERCE is Executive Produced by Beyonce Knowles and Mathew Knowles for Music World Productions, Inc. * * * * * In addition to the multiple artistic achievements on I AM... SASHA FIERCE, Beyonce has recently completed work on a pair of high profile movie projects including her role as R&B legend Etta James in Darnell James Cadillac Records. According to Beyonce, becoming Etta James on-screen, was a challenge for me emotionally because Etta had a lot of challenges in her life, things that Ive never experienced. I had to really dig deep so that I could have the right performance and represent her well. One thing she taught me is her fearlessness; she was Etta all the time. She was bold and she did not try to change who she was for anyone. She was one of the queens. If it werent for her crossing over -she was the first African-American woman to cross over on the radio, I wouldnt have the opportunities that I have. It was the best performance I think Ive done on screen. It gave me the strength and the confidence to step out of my comfort zone even more.
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