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Beyonce spoke with Extra during her 4 day Vegas stint this weekend. And when they asked her about her hubby Jay-Z’s upcoming book Decoded, she gave her take on what it’s going to be about:

“I think he’s doing a book — it actually is not a biography.” When asked if Jay would ever write about their love story, Beyoncé replied, “It’s never gonna happen.”

B’s already shutting down the marital details getting dished. Funny funny…

Beyonce’s L.A. stop finds her spinning and flipping in the air as the fans watch in utter awe. The Urban Daily readers vote on our poll and share your thoughts in the comments section!

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If you’ve got some extra money stashed away or plan on studying abroad next semester here is a rundown of dates and locations for Beyonce’s I Am…Sasha fierce tour.
BEYONCE’S “I AM…” WORLD TOUR 2009 – EUROPEAN DATES

26-Apr Sun Zagreb, Croatia Arena
Tue 28-Apr Vienna, Austria Stadthalle
Wed 29-Apr Budapest, Hungary Arena
Thu 30-Apr Prague, Czech Republic O2
Sat 2-May Rotterdam, Holland Ahoy
Tue 5-May Paris, France Bercy
Wed 6-May Strasbourg, France Zenith
Thu 7-May Antwerp, Belgium Sportpalais
Fri 8-May Berlin, Germany 02
Sun 10-May Herning, Denmark MCH Arena
Mon 11-May Gothenburg, Sweden Scandinavium
Wed 13-May Stockholm, Sweden Globen
Fri 15-May Koln, Germany Arena
Sat 16-May Zurich, Switzerland Hallenstadion
Mon 18-May Lisbon, Portugal Atlantico
Tue 19-May Madrid, Spain Palacio Desportes
Wed 20-May Barcelona, Spain Palau St Jordi
Sat 23-May Birmingham, UK NIA
Mon 25-May London, UK 02
Wed 27-May Manchester, UK MEN
Fri 29-May Dublin, Ireland The O2
Sun 31-May Belfast, UK Odyssey Arena

Beyonce and Solange Knowles have canceled their Beyonce and Solange: Hope for the Holidays benefit show, citing “irresolvable scheduling conflicts.”

The concert to benefit victims of Hurricane Ike was scheduled for yesterday, December 9th, to be televised by FUSE.

No word yet on when or even if the show will be rescheduled, but the record label released a statement saying, “Beyonce and Solange regret the cancellation of their Houston-area holiday concert and urge their fans to support the efforts of The Gulf Coast Ike Relief Fund and the Survivor Foundation.”

“Irresolvable scheduling conflicts” sounds like a BS to us!

SOURCE: PerezHilton.com

The rapper’s “Live Your Life” featuring Rihanna begins a fifth non-consecutive week at No. 1, followed by the 28-2 rocket of “Single Ladies,” and Beyonce’s other current single “If I Were a Boy” holding steady at No. 3.

T.I.’s former No. 1, “Whatever You Like,” slips 2-4. Katy Perry’s “Hot N Cold” drops 4-5, Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown” rebounds 9-6 and Lady GaGa’s “Just Dance” featuring Colby O’Donis powers 16-7.

Pink’s “So What” drops 5-8, as Ne-Yo’s “Miss Independent” improves 11-9 and Akon’s “Right Now (Na Na Na)” falls 8-10 to round out the top tier.

On Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, “Single Ladies” begins a second week at No. 1. As previously reported, Beyonce scored her third-straight No. 1 debut on The Billboard 200 with “I Am … Sasha Fierce,” which sold 482,000 copies.

Katy Perry performs her own version of Beyonce’s hit “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It).” Who’s the better dancer?!

The Music World/Columbia album shifts a whopping 482,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The album, split between material credited to Beyonce and her new alter-ego Sasha Fierce, has already spawned the hits “If I Were a Boy” and “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).” Beyonce’s 2003 solo debut, “Dangerously in Love,” started with 317,000, while 2006′s “B-Day” moved 541,000.

Former 112 member Slim’s solo debut, “Love’s Crazy” (M3 Productions/Asylum) starts at No. 32 with 27,000, while country artist Blake Shelton’s “Startin’ Fires” (Warner Nashville) debuts at No. 34 with 26,000.

At 9.45 million, sales this week are up 6% from last week but down 32% from the same week last year (13.96 million).

“One day, maybe,” the singer – who wed rapper Jay-Z in a super-secret ceremony last April – tells Ellen DeGeneres during Tuesday’s show.

What’s holding her back? Watching her sister, Solange, give birth in 2004.

“I was there in the delivery room and it kind of traumatized me,” Beyoncé admits. “I said please don’t have me in the room. And she said, ‘You have to. I’m your sister. Stop being so silly.’ Well, I was right!”

Still, the Cadillac Records star says she definitely will have kids someday. “A couple, maybe.”

Married Life

Beyoncé has been notoriously tight-lipped about her marriage – refusing for months to even confirm the union. But she chatted happily with fellow newlywed DeGeneres – who gave the singer towels and a coffee maker as belated wedding gifts.

“It feels great,” Beyoncé says of married life. “Oh gosh, listen to me about to start yapping. We’ve been together a long time – it’s been about seven years.”

Why did they wait so long to tie the knot? “I’m only 27 so I was really young [when we started dating],” she explains. “And I feel like it’s important for woman and men to have their goals and their own life before they can complete someone else. So we took our time.”

Not that Jay-Z was putting on the pressure. “He’s a great guy,” she gushes. “He’s a cool guy. He’s patient.”

The hip-hop star knows when to give up on a lost cause, though – like Beyoncé learning to cook.

“He actually, after me cooking a couple of times, he said, ‘Just don’t do it,‘” she recalls. “It’s ok.”

Now that you’ve read The Urban Daily’s excellent review of Beyonce’s I Am…Sasha Fierce, see what other sites, magazines and blogs around the web are saying.

Alexis Petridis at The Guardian says:

“You have to be impressed by the ruthlessness with which “If I Were a Boy” homes in on its target market: it does everything to get the recently chucked member of the girls’-night-out party standing on the pub table and singing tearfully along, short of spiking her Bacardi Breezer. Elsewhere, though, they’ve come up with stuff such as Halo, a pallid rewrite of Rihanna’s Umbrella – same icy synths, same drivetime rock dynamic, same repetitive chorus

Rating: 3/5 Stars

Christian Hoard at Rollingstone.com says:

“Though some of the slow songs have thoroughly memorable tunes, the lyrics are full of bland self-affirmation and saggy lines like ‘You’re everything I thought you never were.’”

Rating: 3 ½ out of 5

Mariel Concepcion at Billboard.com says:

“It’s the classic, more timeless R&B songs on the “I Am” portion of the album that seem like a much-welcomed stretch for the singer…”

Rating: N/A

Sal Cinqueman at SlantMagazine.com says:

“I Am…Sasha Fierce is an admirable vie for artistic credibility (and for a last-ditch revival of the long-player format) but one that is muddled by the fact that the album is being offered in two configurations, a 16-track “deluxe” edition and an abbreviated “standard” edition, which reaches its vocal (if not emotional) climax within the first minute of its opening track and ends abruptly with a song about cell-phone porn.”

Rating: 3 Stars

Donald Gibson at Blogcritics.org says:

“In pensive songs of self-examination, Beyonce contemplates her demons as well as her desires with maturity and music to match. Amid an understated, folkish vibe of “Disappear,” she comes to terms with her own commitment issues, at one point conceding to a lost love, ‘I missed all the signs, one at a time / You were ready.’”

Rating: N/A

Glenn Gamboa at Newsday.com says:

“Beyoncé is clearly feeling more lovey-dovey and less bootylicious these days. Such ballads as “Halo” and “Broken-Hearted Girl” are light-years ahead of the sappy glop on “Dangerously in Love,” as B claims some Leona Lewis and One Republic territory for herself. They’re gorgeous radio-friendly fare, but not exactly distinctive.”

Rating: B

Brian at Concreteloop.com says:

” I assumed Sasha would be offering up a flurry of bombastic, techno-driven Europop sounds much like the leak, “Beautiful Nightmare,” which was retooled and renamed “Sweet Dreams” for the album. Instead, Beyonce taps into her more edgy, urban side on tracks like the Bangladesh-produced, Sean Garrett-penned ‘Diva,’ her stab at Lil’ Wayne’s boast and gloat, ‘A Millie.’”

Rating: N/A

Toya at Toyas-World.net says:

“You can give her a Mary Poppins song to sing and she will find a way to make that song contemporary, fresh and cool…”

Rating: 3/5

Leah Greenblatt at Entertainment Weekly.com says:

“The collection might have been better served had she edited it down to one disc, rather than belabor what ultimately seems like a marketing gimmick. And while fans will surely speculate, there’s little in the lyrics that feels more revealing than previous emotional fire-starters such as 2006′s ‘Ring the Alarm.’”

Rating: B+

The critics have had their say, now tell us what you think in the comments section!

With this effort Bey plays up what we are to believe are the vast differences from her true self (disc one) and Sasha Fierce (disc two)– who is preferred most by the urban fan base that has been around since the days of Destiny’s Child and Destiny’s Child Redux.

I Am, is filled with the type of ballads normally heard from One Republic or Leona Lewis (“Halo,” “Broken-Hearted Girl” and “If I Were A Boy”). Each moody and moving and light years beyond the clumsy, verbose supposedly self penned ballads found on Dangerously In Love. (Obviously she didn’t write these and if the liner notes say differently, rest assured some ghostwriter out there got paid lovely.)

It almost pisses me off that Sasha is seen as some sort of obscure, schizophrenic sidekick that Bey pulls out as some sort of couture accessory, because she embodies more of the key aspects that gave Bey differentiation in the first place. Sasha is brazen and bold (“Diva”), takes risks (“Radio,” “Videophone”), and still the hottest chick in the game (“Single Ladies– Put A Ring On It”).

Overall it seems as though the idea to exploit the once unspoken virtue of Sasha was the making of a marketing plan rather than some organic, artistic duality. Re: great concept, but the jury is still out on the execution. If we are to believe the hype around this alter ego nonsense, the eleven song set would have probably been better served had it been called the Evolution of Beyonce because claiming both is like having her cake and eating it too.

But while you were were lining up for a Beyonce CD signing in hopes that Sasha Fierce will show up, we were wondering… Where the hell is Hova and his requisite placement on Bey’s first release?

“So I wasn’t going to write about this but it is really really bugging me. Especially when people are calling my phone saying how nice it was of Beyonce to come to the funeral and show her support. And I have to sit back and hold everything I wanna say inside. But I can’t do it no more.

Beyonce did not come to the funeral nor did she call, text, send a card or hell, send a damn email. If there are millions of people who are leaving Jennifer, Julia and myself messages and sending there prayers and
condolences and these people don’t even know them why couldn’t she? Every singer that Jennifer admires and had been a role model for her growing up even until now has called. From Aretha to Shirley Murdock to even present day singers like Chrisette Michelle.

And y’all know how much Jennifer loves Beyonce and she couldn’t even have her assistant call or nothing. But yet her camp is allowing her to receive credit for coming to the funeral and being there for Jennifer and her family. Bullshit! This just pisses me off. Once again thanks to everyone who has be there for us. And sorry if i offended any of Beyonce fans by writing this but if i just couldn’t keep sitting back and reading articles and emails and having my phone ring about how nice it was of Beyonce to come out!“

Can’t wait until next week to hear Beyonce’s new album, I Am… Sasha Fierce? Then head on over to MySpace. According to Hello Beautiful, the social networking site has an exclusive listening of the whole album on B’s page.

Source: Hello Beautiful