By Simon Vozick-Levinson | Entertainment Weekly
As if 2009 hasn’t already been jam-packed for Beyonce Knowles, the singer-actress is currently preparing a year-long world tour with dates in Canada set to launch later this month. “I’ve been working on this tour for eight months,” Beyonce told EW when we caught up with her on the set of a TV ad she was taping. “It’s crunch time! I’ve been rehearsing and trying to make sure I put my set list together. Right now I’m anxious and I can’t sleep — I’ll be wanting to be at rehearsal. That’s the only thing I can think about. But I can’t wait.” While details are still being worked out, she has dates tentatively penciled in for the U.K., Ethiopia, Japan, Brazil, and more, plus a run through the U.S. this summer. She’ll be backed once more at each show by the all-female band from 2007′s The Beyonce Experience tour.
Beyonce has also finished two new music videos to keep fans happy while she’s crisscrossing the globe: “Broken-Hearted Girl,” from the ballad-heavy I Am… half of her recent double album, and …Sasha Fierce‘s up-tempo “Ego.” Beyonce co-directed the latter clip with her choreographer. “My goal for [the 'Ego' video] is simplicity,” she says. “In ‘Single Ladies,’ I saw this old tape of Bob Fosse’s wife, and I used that as inspiration. I thought in this world, with all the technology and everything that’s going on, to strip everything down — great idea. So I kind of did the same thing, but glossy and black, for ‘Ego.’”
One thing that the video for “Ego” won’t share with “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” is a certain animatronic appendage. “I didn’t have the Sasha Fierce hand [in the video],” she laughs. “But I have it on the tour. It’s actually even more wild — I have to figure out how I’m going to perform with that hand!”
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I hope she won’t perform in Ethiopia with her bare thighs as she did on her last video which is to me so unBeyonce. In fact I would be very happy if sings about democracy and human rights in Ethiopia.
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March 11th, 2009 at 11:50 AM
She disrespect Ethiopia when she dress half naked.
I was so shocked to see her display like that in Ethiopia and Ethiopian woman were embarassed to see her like that.
Beyonce when you go to Ethiopia you better not dress like Aba Shawel girl please. This is Holy land Ethiopia not other nation we are talking about!
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March 11th, 2009 at 1:45 PM
jus shut up george!! if minis and thights are unbyonce ‘ then why not conclude mr meles ditched his g-strings too, unlike YOU”faget!…in fact you sound so stupid that u remid me of the shamefull pain i feen about habeshans like u who start mumbling in disguest when ever abit of pretty legs or so is flashed once in a blue moon..
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March 11th, 2009 at 2:13 PM
OH MAMo, here we go again i mean, what the bloody hell is wrong with u people… was she supposed to put on a big ass Gabi n kuta… i mean cum on ladies… its the 21st!
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March 11th, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Get over it man!! If you want to see covered woman, you better go to Saudi Arabia or Iran. Hey, she can dress whatever she wants. That is not how you judge people – the way they dress, but by the content of their character.
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March 11th, 2009 at 3:15 PM
fido, 21st century is not measured by dressing up naked!!!
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March 11th, 2009 at 3:27 PM
She has borrowed my old 1 Birr note of Haile Sellassie just to show it to her friends and mail it back to me. I have waited for so long, and she told me that she is showing it to more of her friends. So far she didn’t return. I hope she brings it with her now. I am waiting for my 1 birr, Beyonce!!!!
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March 11th, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Mr. Fido, every one is entitled to his/her opinion. You can comment without resorting to foul language.
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March 11th, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Do you guys still live in the 14th century? That’s how every women around the world dresses.
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March 11th, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Too bad last time she was used as propaganda tool to legtimize mass murdering dictatorship. She better do something for democracy there to repent her sins.
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March 11th, 2009 at 10:13 PM
lovely such a great lady to come to Ethio
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March 12th, 2009 at 4:35 AM
please dont blame her dressing. Have u ever been to addis how people are dressing. second becuase of the globalization and available medias leave alon dressing style, other cultures are trasferred to ethiopia and all other countries. thus we cant stop it. Furthermore her presence in ethiopia will give good image to ethiopia and imagin beyonce is coming to ethiopia not to other african countries or asian. i realy appriciate her. To speak still on dressing she has her own style and as long as we invited her we cant force her to wear ethiopian cultural cloths which may not fit for her show.
Above that the current governmebt will use it as propaganda which is bad part of it but what ever the leader we have ethiopia should do things as country as this may help the country after Meles.
Beyonce you are well come
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March 12th, 2009 at 4:40 AM
Before you open your big mouths, that goes to you George and Mamo, you should be aware of the fact that some of our traditional songs and shows have dancers and singers who wear the bare minimum and move some of their body parts in a rather wild and provocative way. Do we have to condemn the Wolaita cultural show? Or haven’t you seen it yet Geooorge, Mamo.
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March 12th, 2009 at 9:40 AM
i don’t think any one should go to her concert in Ethiopia. She is not role model. Can some one tell me one thing she did for African children. She don’t deserve to be named Diva!! She is singer and actress!! At this time if u don’t do humanitrian job like oprha or brad , angelin jolie, chris rock,etc,,, we should not well come them at all!! she is only worry about making money. Time is change!! We need more celebrity who cares about other people.The time is Resession!! Abebech Gobena is a Diva to me NOT beyonce. What make a person diva is not they money people!! It’s soul and mind!! From Texas
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March 12th, 2009 at 4:50 PM
we are so quick to judge, but please just close your eyes and think postive.
peace
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March 13th, 2009 at 1:41 AM
In Ethiopia many millions die cause they have nothing to eat… instead to feed the people this bloodsucker weyane invite beyonce to divert the people from the problem the country has.. realy mad..
that proofs this afro american lady dont really care about whats going on in africa
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March 13th, 2009 at 7:35 AM
Aba Gebre Medehin a.k.a aba-paulos will be rejoiced by the second coming of Beyonce.
He will be expecting this time that she will do some lap dance wearing only G-Strings on his fragile bone. Oh lord, have mercy on him and beyonce who is proud to show her sexual attics to corrupt men
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March 13th, 2009 at 9:09 AM
Dear Zenash,
There is corruption even in Waldiba Monastery and why not at the patriarchate with only two love-thirsty individuals: the seductive Beyonce and the seduced and awkward Patriarch Aba Paulos? The Ethiopian people don’t mind at all if by chance Aba Paulos gets one offspring from such charming American girl, and she may never ask him for a child support. In fact, from such mutual relationship, the relationship between Ethiopia and America will benefit the two nations spiritually and politically.
The ancient Israelis never bothered when their leader, King Solomon, got a handsome child, Menelik I, from Sheba, the Queen of Ethiopia. From that time on the relationship between the Jewish people and the Ethiopians has never been enervated.
There may be some people in Ethiopia and here in America who could be very offended by such carnal relationship and pass their judgments on these two individuals to go to jail at least for one or two years, but I’m sure the two individuals will defend themselves in the Ethiopian family court since the consummation has been achieved in Ethiopia by saying that their case is an internal matter,no body’business, and no crime has been committed except the addition of one child to the already crowded world.
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March 14th, 2009 at 8:40 PM
My only question is that where will the proceeds from the concert go to. With 12 million starving people Ethiopians can’t afford to pay premium money to see Beyonce who is many times a millionaire already.
Some concerned Ethiopians should write her and the promoters of the plight of the Ethiopian people and ask her to cancel her concert, even if she donates the proceeds from her concert, we know where the money will end up.
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March 15th, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Let Beyonce show her concert in Ethiopia- like in any other part of the country. nothing more nothing less. lets not associate it with any other thing. Lets avoid talking about conspiracy theory. Period.
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March 15th, 2009 at 8:11 PM
OMG u people better be kidding me.Thats like the best thing that happened to Ethiopia.Publisity Didn’t anyone hear wht she said after the show we’re so blessed………lol
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March 16th, 2009 at 1:53 AM