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“Beyoncé Retweets #HOMEcoming Online Watch Party and the Beyhive Is Freaking Out - KPRC Click2Houston” plus 3 more

“Beyoncé Retweets #HOMEcoming Online Watch Party and the Beyhive Is Freaking Out - KPRC Click2Houston” plus 3 more


Beyoncé Retweets #HOMEcoming Online Watch Party and the Beyhive Is Freaking Out - KPRC Click2Houston

Posted: 18 Mar 2020 06:27 PM PDT

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Now let's get in formation! 

The coronavirus-induced social distancing and self-quarantining has left fans finding new ways to connect -- which is what Beyoncé fan Jasmyn had in mind when she suggested a watch party for Bey's Netflix documentary, Homecoming, earlier this week. 

Queen Bey herself ended up retweeting Jasmyn's suggestion for fans to all watch together Wednesday at 6 p.m. PT / 9 p.m. ET, causing Jasmyn -- and the entire Beyhive to freak out. 

"I AM ON THE FLOOR!!!!! BEYONCE RTED ME!!! WHAT THE HELLLLLL!!!! I AM DYIIIIIINNNGG SEND HELP!!!!! I AM CRYIIIIIIIIIIIIING," Jasmyn wrote on Wednesday afternoon, hilariously noting Bey's usual lack of Twitter activity. "Y'ALL she don't be tweeting. She don't be RTing. Y'ALL!!!"

See reactions to Bey's retweet -- and the #HOMEcoming watch party -- below. 

Fans now plan to come together to rewatch Homecoming, and tweet their thoughts with #HOMEcoming -- a nod to everyone's plans to stay home as a precaution against coronavirus. #HOMEcoming is already trending in the US; fans can follow along via Twitter's #HOMEcoming rewatch event page to see global fan tweets in real time.

Since being declared a pandemic last week, the coronavirus has caused many Hollywood productions, concerts, festivals and more to shut down or be postponed. See more in the video below. 

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New Mexico joyrider, 48, claims to be Beyoncé Knowles - Daily Mail

Posted: 12 Mar 2020 07:25 AM PDT

A 48-year old joyrider tried to pass herself off as Beyoncé Knowles after being apprehended by police, it is claimed.

Surena Henry, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, gave the false identity after law enforcement officers found her behind the wheel of a car that had been reported stolen on Saturday morning.

Court documents submitted following her arrest state officers had originally attempted to make a traffic stop before giving chase after Henry refused their order to pull over.

Surena Henry, a 48-year old joyrider from New Mexico, tried to pass herself off as R&B superstar Beyoncé Knowles after being apprehended by police, it is claimed

Surena Henry, a 48-year old joyrider from New Mexico, tried to pass herself off as R&B superstar Beyoncé Knowles after being apprehended by police, it is claimed

Henry was eventually apprehended after parking outside her own home and exiting the vehicle at around 7am, but refused to give arresting officers her real name.

Instead, she claimed to be Destiny's Child star Beyoncé, 38 – despite bearing no similarity to the iconic singer.

According to police reports Henry was promptly arrested and booked into Doña Ana County' detention centre, where fingerprint technology was used to identify her. 

Destiny's Child star Beyoncé is ten-years younger at 38 and bears no similarity to Henry

Destiny's Child star Beyoncé is ten-years younger at 38 and bears no similarity to Henry 

She has been charged with one count of the unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, one count of concealing identity and resisting or obstructing an arrest. 

Henry has admitted to finding the car with the keys still in its ignition. When asked why she chose to ignore the traffic stop, the woman told officers she didn't feel like pulling over.

It's understood that at the time of her arrest, Henry already had a municipal bench warrant issued for failing to appear in court. 

Tina Knowles Claps Back At Troll Who Told Her To "Disappear" - HotNewHipHop

Posted: 21 Mar 2020 01:40 AM PDT

Of all the accomplishments Ms. Tina Knowles is known for throughout her longstanding career, her social media followers love her for those corny mom jokes. Beyoncé and Solange's mother likes to take to social media ever so often and deliver chuckle-worthy-yet-eye-rolling jokes for her followers, but because the internet is what it is, she can't avoid people who decide to hop online to spew a few nasty remarks.

Tina Knowles Troll
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"Did you hear about the corduroy pillows?" Tina asked in her video before giving the joke's punchline. "Yeah, they're making headlines! Headlines on your head when you lay on it." You know, because no joke I complete without an immediate explanation. While Tina Knowles thought her line was funny, an Instagram user thought this would be the perfect time to put Tina in check.

"Girl, take them bangs and disappear with your daughter and grandchildren for a little while," the woman commented. "We don't need this right now." Tina took a few quarantined moments to reply. "First of all i am not a girl . So try to conjure up a little respect and secondly if you don't need it then get off my page and go where you like what you see," Tina stated. She ended things by writing, "With love." Check out Tina Knowles giving her classy clap back below.

Call Girls: Lady Gaga and Beyoncé's “Telephone” Video Turns 10 - NewNowNext

Posted: 13 Mar 2020 11:14 AM PDT

Can We Talk About…? is a weekly series that can't stop touching its gay face.

I know you're probably jowls-deep in coronavirus coverage, so allow me to discuss something of arguably greater social and political import: a classic bop.

On the Ides of March, 2010, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta dropped one of her most ambitious videos to date, a collaboration with the reigning queen of pop and life itself, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter.

Gaga originally wrote "Telephone"—the second single off her 2009 EP, The Fame Monster—for Circus-era Britney Spears, which explains a lot. The "eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh! Stop telephoning may-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay!" does seem tailor-made for Brit. That girl never did like a hard E.
 

Alas, Britney ultimately rejected "Telephone," so Gaga kept the song for herself, apparently planning at one point to record it as a duet with Spears, though that didn't pan out either. In the meantime, Beyoncé recruited a then red-hot Gaga for the remix of her song "Video Phone," and so began the diva "phone" series. [Sidenote: Still waiting for the third installment.]

On the strength of a collaboration between two of music's biggest names, "Telephone" charted in December 2009 before being officially released on January 26, 2010. Two days later, Gaga and Bey filmed the video, directed by the great Jonas Åkerlund.

Clocking in at just under 10 minutes, with references to Russ Meyer, John Waters, and Quentin Tarantino, "Telephone" was a sequel to Gaga's 2009 video "Paparazzi," also directed by Åkerlund. After she kills her boyfriend, portrayed by Alexander Skarsgård, we find the Lady serving time and lewks in a women's correctional facility.

Within the first few minutes, we're treated to some of the Haus of Gaga's most inspired fashions, including the smoking cigarette glasses:

The Diet Coke can hair rollers:

And the caution tape… whatever this is:

There's also some jarringly blatant product placement for Virgin Mobile and the dating site Plenty of Fish, which lends a knowing cheapness to the video that kinda works in its favor.

Anygay, we're halfway through before Beyoncé shows up in a bold black lip as Gaga's accomplice—and, dare I say, lover—Honey Bee.

Bey is serving you full-on soft-butch-dyke realness, and to this day, save perhaps her brilliant and underappreciated clip for "Why Don't You Love Me?," Queen Bey has never been this campy, this fun, and this irreverent.

Lest we forget, just two years later she would drop her self-titled fifth studio album on an unsuspecting world, beginning her evolution into a "serious" artist and an avatar for blackness, womanhood, and bad bitchery around the world. This was the last gasp of Beyoncé as pop star before she ascended to something greater.

Perhaps channeling her B.B. Homemaker persona from "Why Don't You Love Me?," Bey again dons a Betty Paige wig for "Telephone," but this time around she's not weeping into her camisole about being forsaken. No, this was a Beyoncé we had never seen before. A gleefully foul-mouthed, man-killing Beyoncé.

This was years before Lemonade had her dropping F-bombs and leaving Jay-Z's career for dead. This was back when Beyoncé was still doing interviews, and moreover, still doing duets. Can you imagine Bey hopping on a track with Gaga now? I know you can because I do, too. It's all I think about. They are so good together. Gaga brings out a less-guarded, more lighthearted Bey, and Bey elevates Gaga's game by her mere presence.

By the time they've successfully poisoned Tyrese—and a number of presumably innocent people—it's time for the big dance number! Because we can't have two pop divas in one video without some tight choreo.

"Telephone" ends in one of my truly favorite music video moments of the past 10 years—insofar as music videos have become less of an event and less relevant to my life. Gaga and Bey run off looking like the Gabor sisters escaping Grey Gardens: two merry murderesses in matching matronly gowns with extravagant hats and accompanying veils, stopping to pose and vogue on the side of the road as the sound of cop sirens blare in the background.

Ma'ams, you just killed an entire diner of people, but please continue to serve all of this fabulous couture.

We just don't have this much fun in music videos anymore. Or in music in general.

Ten years later, "Telephone" is still a pure joy to watch, especially considering how far both women have come since then. Back in 2010, Gaga was still a pop phenom on the rise, while Beyoncé was a pop superstar reevaluating her place in the zeitgeist and her value as an artist.

Here, they joined forces at two wildly different points in their careers to have a blast, give the gays everything we wanted, and show the world that two divas can indeed get along and create magic.

Shortly after the video's release, however, Lady Gaga, distanced herself from it.

"I hate it so much," Gaga said in 2011. "Beyoncé and I are great together. But there are so many fucking ideas in that video. All I see in that video is my brain throbbing with ideas—and I wish I had edited myself a little bit more."

But that's actually why it's such a great video, and why we initially fell in love with Lady Gaga. Like "Bad Romance," "Telephone" is ambitious, bombastic, and off-kilter. All those ideas definitely result in overkill, but it's also a lot more impressive than not reaching far enough.
 

Lester Fabian Brathwaite is an LA-based writer, editor, bon vivant, and all-around sassbag. He's formerly Senior Editor of Out Magazine and is currently hungry. Insta: @lefabrat

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