The fabulous Beyoncé is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of British Harper’s Bazaar magazine. In her coverstory interview, Bey takes on the subject of feminism and explains that altho she’s been a lifelong feminist, she thinks it’s high time for a new word to be used to describe [...]
The fabulous Beyoncé is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of British Harper’s Bazaar magazine. In her coverstory interview, Bey takes on the subject of feminism and explains that altho she’s been a lifelong feminist, she thinks it’s high time for a new word to be used to describe the movement. In her discussion of feminism, she talks about a concert performance in Egypt where the burka wearing women were really digging her show and the men were not. Click below to read some excerpts from Bey‘s interview, see some photos from her photospread and watch behind the scenes video from her shoot.
With just a month before her big 3-0, Beyonce has been reflecting on an amazing decade. And as she poses in a stunning new photoshoot for Harper’s Bazaar UK magazine, she admits performing in Egypt just two months before the country’s uprising started was a memorable experience. The pop star admitted she found it incredibly moving to see Egyptian women wearing burkas singing along to her female empowerment song Irreplaceable – while many of their male partners standing nearby were obviously unamused. Despite protests from ultra-conservative Islamic groups ahead of the gig who did not approve of her risqué outfits and booty-shaking dance moves, the American singer’s concert at Port Ghalib on the Red Sea was a roaring success. She tells the September issue of the magazine: ‘There were a lot of women in the audience in burkas. They were singing along to Irreplaceable – it was amazing! Some of the men got really upset! They were like to their women, “We have to get you out of here!”….I guess some of them (men) do get annoyed. But I never want to do “the banner thing”.’ Although many women today steer away from the word ‘feminist’, the Texan insists she’s always been one, although she believes the movement needs a new name. She explained: ‘I don’t really feel that it’s necessary to define it. It’s just something that’s kind of natural for me, and I feel like…you know…it’s, like, what I live for. I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like Bootylicious.’ In fact, Beyonce is such a feminist, she admits she finds it strange to see females who only socialise with males. She said: ‘I’m afraid when women never hang around with other women. That’s a little scary to me – why is that?’ And when it comes to women she admires, Beyonce admits her close friend Gwyneth Paltrow is her role model. She admitted: ‘She pushes her boundaries all the time. You go to her house and she makes you feel like you never want to go home. She is what I strive to be one day.’ But it appears Paltrow is just as appreciative of her friend, telling the magazine how much she respects Beyonce. She said: ‘She is what it means to be a superstar. No one else can sing and dance like that, while having humour and genuine bursting sweetness. She has her own recipe for it … ‘I wanted my own character (in Country Strong), to have some of that mega-wattage. So I studied B. She was my homework.’
The photos are hot. Here is video from Beyoncé‘s shoot:
B looks really great in this shoot … and despite what some people think, she really does represent a lot of the core ideals of feminism so it makes sense that she not only believes herself to be a feminist but she actually does have the right to speak on the matter … at least, in fashion magazines. What do y’all think of Bey‘s feminist talk? Are you a fan? Do you think the movement should be renamed to Bootyliciousism?
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