Beyoncé Does ‘V’ Magazine
Beyoncé (aka Sasha Fierce) is on the cover (all three of them) and in the pages of the new issue of V magazine and in her coverstory interview talks about the other side of her personality that comes out when she is on stage. A fitting topic, considering B is getting ready to embark on a 110-date world tour very soon. Here is Beyoncé’s V mag cover (one of three) and a portion of her interview:
She’s known as the sexy, strong, fierce singer famous for her stylish outfits and curvy figure. But Beyoncé sheds her tough outer skin to reveal a softer side in a new interview as she begins the exhaustive preparations for her 110-date tour starting next year. “When I’m onstage I’m aggressive and strong and not afraid of my sexuality. The tone of my voice gets different, and I’m fearless. I’m just a different person.” And the name of that different person? Her alter ego, ‘Sasha Fierce’, whose name is the title of the second CD of her new 17-track double album. “It’s a way for me to differentiate what I do onstage from who I really am – It’s a way for me to not lose myself, to keep my life in perspective, because it’s really hard sometimes to stay on earth when you’re a celebrity. There’s so much going on, and so many people give you whatever you want and say everything you do is great. At this point, I kind of have it down. I know boundaries, and I can look at somebody and say I don’t want them in my circle. I’ve been doing this for twelve years professionally, and I’ve learned. it’s easier now. Fame is a lot of work, but it doesn’t consume my life. I’m not obsessed.” The singer tells V Magazine (www.vmagazine.com) that her new tour will be “stripped down, but also bigger” than 2007’s appropriately titled ‘Beyoncé Experience’ … “It’s funny because right before the show I’m under the stage making sure my double-stick is in the right place, my pack is turned on, and my shoes have the stickies on the bottom so I don’t slip – all of these things that are so not glamorous. Then I take my last slip of water, clear my throat, close my eyes, and tell myself: ‘You are fierce. You are fierce. You are fierce!’ And the second I take that first step and hear the crowd, I kind of transform. By the time I get up to the stage, I’m in the zone. It’s like I’m ready for war.”
Okay … I’m not trying to hate but she does sound a little bit crazy here. I mean, I get that she feels she has an alter-ego when she gets on stage but to talk to that alter-ego and name it … and then utter “you are fierce, you are fierce, you are fierce” is a bit odd. I am so amused by the famously wealthy. After the jump, check out a few pics from Beyoncé’s V magazine spread as well as the alternate magazine covers …
You can’t tell from these pics but Beyoncé was rockin’ Barack Obama painted fingernails on two of the magazine covers. The girl may be a bit wacky but you gotta love the Obama lurve. The photos are bit ZZZZZ but don’t tell her that. She’s fierce.
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November 17th, 2008 at 11:54 am
She’s so lame..
November 17th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
She’s very beautiful….
November 17th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Ok, so if I were to go around telling people that I had an alter ego that I named, someone would probably force me in to a hospital to get help for a mental illness. But she creates this alter ego and its supposed to be a good thing? I mean, I think we are all different in our work environments than we are at home. But come on! She just bugs me over all… Not a fan of her. And those angry poses sort of look like she is constipated… :S
November 17th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I’m sure a lot of other celebrities have alter egos as well.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
She isn’t just a lame, I think she’s a tranny. Fierce is such a tranny word.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Oh please Beyonce, we all know what you REALLY sing to yourself before you go on stage (and every night before you go to bed) “I’m beautiful, I’m beautiful, I’m beautiful DAMMIT!!!”
November 17th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Soooo not enjoying the new alter ego or the new tunes.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Beautiful Beyonce…is just nuts!
November 17th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
am i the only one who didn’t think it was odd? she actually seems to be a grounded person. instead of getting swept into the hype and believing that she is BEYONCE the POP STAR, she recognizes the need to separate her personal self from her celebrity self. the celebrities who believe the hype fall hard.
and as for telling herself that she’s fierce, its a way of getting amped up before a show. it’s like an athlete right before a game thinking to themself that they’re indestructible and they’re going to win.
November 17th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
we all have crazy tendencies.
just because she’s admitting it and famous is grounds for admittance?
nah. i don’t think so.
November 17th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
ugh…im past over her..her new cd..isnt that good at all..theres maybe 3 good songs on it? and Sasha’s half the cd failed hard
November 17th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Yawn. This girl is SO last year.
November 17th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
so i totally get the alter ego thing. a lot of performers have one.
however, why did we just hear about it? what about the past 12 years that she’s been in the business? did sasha just appear? i think it’s all just a publicity stunt. gotta say it’s working though i wish it wasn’t such a big deal.
November 17th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
It makes sense to me, its really not that big a deal
November 17th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
I guess her pep talk and alter ego are only weird to non-performers. I totally had a pep talk every single time I went onstage, and when I quit dancing, I did it every time I was teaching an aerobics or yoga class, and anytime I was teaching a kids class – read: anytime I went up in front of a group. A lot of artists – even out-there performers, are actually shy and sensitive introverts who pull it out just for the show. Which is why they sort of fall apart when they get famous and can’t go back in their shell after the show is done because they’re being watched all the time.
November 18th, 2008 at 1:30 am
It’s really funny yet lame how you guys put down something you don’t even understand. It’s just her way of keeping her private life seperate from her celebrity life. It’s like how actors take on a roll, only she does it to protect her personal life. AND SASHA FEIRCE is not a new thing. I mean it’s been working for her all these years and look how successful she’s been. I think more celebrities should do this. I mean look at Britney Spears. She let EVERYONE into her life and poured it out for everyone to see and look how she’s turned out. Although she is making a comeback slowly but surely. So quit hating, i’m sure you wouldn’t be able to handle performing in front of millions.
November 18th, 2008 at 6:58 am
can she go away already?
November 18th, 2008 at 7:47 am
I didn’t think it was odd at all. I thought it was interesting. I’m not even a fan! So she pumps herself up a little before going onstage – what’s wrong with that!?
November 18th, 2008 at 9:37 am
does anyone remember when Garth Brooks went through his ‘Chris Gaines’ freakshow? are we going to see this with one, ‘Sasha Fierce’? i get having a persona, but can’t ya just be that person on stage and not attribute an identity or id to it? is it justifiable in her mind that she has to go there to explain herself? i thought she was a little more together than what we are seeing and hearing, i wish sasha and beyonce well on their 110 date tour…
November 18th, 2008 at 11:50 am
B’s getting old. Its time for someone new to take her place…Shontelle’s new album is fire if you haven’t heard it…she can be the new r&b princess!
November 18th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Shontelle is the new R&B princess! Her music is great and I love the T-Shirt Remix featuring the Dream. Its time for us to support the new artists…I am getting Shontelle’s album TODAY!!!
November 18th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I didn’t think anything she said was odd. I’ve never been a big fan of hers but she seems smart to me and sounds like she takes what she does seriously. It’s totally understandable given who she is as a celebrity why she does this. Celebrities have to put on a certain persona to perform at a level that people want to see. I’d imagine it’s hard to be motivated every single time she’s performing. It makes sense that she’d have pep talks with her self. Why is that anymore weird than people projecting themselves all over blogs?
November 19th, 2008 at 4:30 am
I’ve kept alter-egos before, so it doesn’t sound crazy to me.
On the other hand, this feels just a wee bit fake to me… as if she is trying to piggback off Rihanna’s weirdness.
On the other hand, Rihanna copies Beyonce all the time. Am I shocked? No.
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
She did NOT come up with an alter ego. I am so sick of reading misinformation and just plain stupidity. This is the story:
From her very first performance in the nineties when she was a little girl in elementary school, it was noticed by her teachers, family, and friends that Beyonce became a completely different person when she was on stage. She was louder, wilder, and bolder. A few years ago, her cousin Angie named the person on stage, who was so obviously different from the shy, quiet, and introverted Beyonce. Angie gave the name “Sasha.” Beyonce just recently added the word “fierce” to that name.
It is not a publicity stunt, it is not “wacky” or crazy. It is who she is, and she’s honest about it. And every performer has something that they do to pump themselves up before a show, for example, Ciara does “don’t drop the pizza” before all of her shows. When did it become crazy to five yourself a pep talk befire a tough task I do it all the time before I take exams. Come to think of it, I go by a nickname too. Well, I guess that makes me crazy too. BTW, the Sasha disc is the best disc. Single Ladies, I’m a Diva, Video Phone, and Ego are awesome. If you don’t like it, don’t listen. If one does not like her, they should stop reading stories about her and commenting. Or is that a concept that is too hard for some to grasp?
December 4th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!