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  • STAR PROFILE By Bethany Braine
  • INTRODUCTION Beyonc was born on September 4th 1981 in Texas, Houston As of May 2013, she is netted to be worth $350 million She married Jay-Z in 2008 and had his child on January 7th 2012, a baby girl named Blue Ivy Carter She became famous in the late 1990s at the leader of Destinys Child, which was managed by her father, Matthew Knowles In 1995, Beyonc's father resigned from the job as manager and they released one more album in 2001 before splitting Beyonc launched her solo career in 2003 with the release of Dangerously In Love but still agreed to release the final Destinys Child album in 2004
  • DESTINYS CHILD Beyonc started out in a group called Girls Tyme with LaToya Luckett, Kelly Rowland and LaTavia Roberson in her teens Destinys Child was formed in 1995 and was made up of Beyonc, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. They appeared on a television show called Star Search, although they did not win they were soon signed to Columbia Records They first released an album called Destinys Child in 1997 which kick started their tour in America. Their second album The Writings On The Wall in 1999 bought them more fame from the UK In 2000, they supported Christina Aguilera on her summer tour In 2001 they released their third album Survivor which was followed by their fourth and final album Destiny Fulfilled in 2004
  • DESTINYS CHILD ALBUM COVERS These are the four album covers released by Destinys Child from 1997 to 2004 In the first album, Beyonc is at the side and looks young and unnoticeable In the second album, Beyonc is at the front however she is barely recognisable with braids and attitude In the third album, Beyonc is in the centre of the picture and is recognised as the lead vocalist In the fourth album, Beyonc is at the side but seeing as she is the most famous at this point her positioning is insignificant. She looks flawless and much more grown up from the first album in 1997
  • BEYONCE ALBUM COVERS DANGEROUSLY IN LOVE Released: 2003 Awards: Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album, Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Album, Female Songs: Crazy in Love, Naughty Girl, Baby Boy, Hip Hop Star, Be With You, Me, Myself and I, Yes, Signs, Speechless, That's How You Like It, The Closer I Get To You, Dangerously in Love 2, Gift From Virgo, Bienvenue, Beyonc interlude, Work It Out, '03 Bonnie & Clyde, Bonnie & Clyde '03, Daddy
  • BDAY Released: 2006 Awards: Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album Songs: Dj vu, Get Me Bodied, Suga Mama, Upgrade U, Ring The Alarm, Kitty Kat, Freakum Dress, Green Light, Irreplaceable, Resentment, Encore for the Fans, Listen
  • I AM... SASHA FIERCE Released: 2008 Awards: Soul Train Music Award for Album of the Year Songs: If I Were A Boy, Halo, Disappear, Broken-Hearted Girl, Ave Maria, Smash Into You, Satellites, That's Why You're Beautiful, Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), Radio, Diva, Sweet Dreams, Video Phone, Hello, Ego, Scared of Lonely
  • 4 Released: 2011 Awards: Billboard Music Award for Top R&B Album Songs: 1+1, I care, I Miss You, Best Thing I Never Had, Party, Rather Die Young, Start Over, Love On Top, Countdown, End of Time, I Was Here, Run the World (Girls)
  • BEYONC Released: 2013 Songs: Pretty Hurts, Haunted, Drunk in Love (ft. Jay Z), Blow, No Angel, Yonc/Partition, Jealous, Rocket, Mine (ft. Drake), XO, ***Flawless (ft. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie), Superpower (ft. Frank Ocean), Heaven, Blue (ft. Blue Ivy)
  • A CLOSER LOOK
  • BEYONC (AS A SOLO ARTIST) ALBUM COVERS These are the five album covers released by Beyonc from 2003 to 2013 In the first album, Beyonc has chosen to wear clothing that is excessive and highlights her assests, she is staring directly as the camera as if to say I am a solo artist now In the second album, Beyonce is wearing a low cut top to also highlight her assests much alike the Dangerously In Love album. However, she isnt looking in the camera so it is more posed and model like, expressing her confidence In the third album, her hair is scraped back and she is again looking directly down the camera. With all her success from the previous two albums, she is confident and emphasises this by the fact she has no clothes on In the fourth album, she is wearing no underwear under her fur coat. She is becoming more sexualised and egotistical with all her fame The fifth album says it all, she needs no picture as her fame is off the charts. The baby pink has connotations of innocence which is contrapuntal to the songs in
  • MUSIC R&B POP SOUL Beyonc's influences include Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Tina Turner Above are some images that represent the genres she performs I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence. Beyonc
  • FILM These are the nine film covers which feature Beyonc from 2001 to 2013 The fact Beyonc was able to promote her career further through the film industry helps to add to her image of a powerful, strong, independent woman As she was able to sing in the majority of them or have one of her songs featured within the film she boosted her career this way which is very clever and obviously effective as it helped made her even more famous
  • DEVELOPMENT OF IMAGE As Beyonc's popularity has increased, her image has changed. This can be seen from the examples below, starting from her Girls Tyme days in her teens and going all the way to her latest album release in 2013, where she is 32 years of age Beyonc in Girls Tyme, wearing orange and green Beyonc in Destinys Child. The first image sees her in a bikini-like outfit with bright colours and young care free attitude. The second image sees her in more performer clothes, wearing knee high boots and looking confident with purple colour coordinated lipstick. The third image sees her much alike the first image, in a bikini-like outfit feeling strong and united with her band members until the end
  • DEVELOPMENT OF IMAGE Beyonce from 2003 to 2013 - these five images show the change in her looks from across her five albums. At the start, she was very care free and all about big afro hair and minimum make up. Then it went to being more sexy and showing off her body. After that, it was about becoming independent and having her own individual image. Then, it was about being artistic with her body and her music. Finally, it was about showing
  • BEYONC AND FEMINISM Beyonc has always been known as a feminist but has promoted this even further recently with the release of her 2013 album Beyonc. One of the songs on her 2013 album was called ***Flawless and included a long passage within the song by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie which was as follows: We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man." Because I am female I am expected to aspire to marriage, I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of Joy and love and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors, not for jobs or for accomplishment which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. Feminist: the person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. This passage itself expresses how Beyonc feels about feminism and the fact this song is featured on her most recent album gives her fans an up to date summary on how she feels about it
  • RECENTLY Beyonc's most recent music has been from her brand new album Beyonc released in 2013. This album was all about showing off her incredible post-baby body and the fact she still has it. Some criticism came from this album, as her husbands lyrics in the song Drunk In Love were slated for being horrible about pop icon Tina Turner, as well as criticism for her inappropriate outfits and sexual dance moves in songs such as Partition and Yonc. However, this album made Beyonc the fastest selling artist of all time and the criticism was majorly overshadowed by the admiration, praise and money she gained from this latest album release
  • TWO MUSIC VIDEOS Comparison of Halo and Yonc: Halo music video was released in 2010 and Yonc music video was released in 2013. The Halo music video featured shots of Beyonc looking very innocent and grown up. The music video very much matched the pace of the song and the emotions expressed throughout the song. She was clothed appropriately and it was all about the music. However in the 2013 music video Yonc, she used three model performers to help show shots of cleavage, butts and pretty faces. It involved a lot of attitude to match the song and a lot of expression that even though she is a mum now, she is still sexy.