I examine how this ego created not only a symbolic rebirth for the singer but also a symbolic death.Beyonce Talks Fame, Relationships, Starting a Family, Becoming Sasha Fierce After release of debut solo LP ‘Dangerously in Love,’ singer, family tell Rolling Stone about path to becoming. It will focus primarily on her controversial alter ego named Sasha Fierce. This website will chronicle the life and religious views of singer Beyonc Knowles. Beyonc to Sasha Fierce: A Symbolic Rebirth - Home.
Images from the album contrast the purity and Christianity of Beyonc versus Sasha Fierce who clearly represents the dark side.Beyoncé credited both her husband—rapper Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) —and jazz singer Etta James for inspiring her to push the limits of her songwriting and artistry. This spiritual struggle is fought in the songs, the pictures and the videos. In composing the songs' lyrics, Beyoncé worked with writers, with each session accompanied by live orchestration.The theme of the album I amSasha Fierce revolves around the duality between the good Beyonc and the evil Sasha Fierce. Contains slow and midtempo pop and R&B ballads, while the second, Sasha Fierce (named after Beyoncé's on-stage alter ego), focuses on more uptempo beats that blend electropop and Europop elements. In its original release, the album was formatted as a double album, intending to market Beyoncé's dichotomous artistic persona. It was released on November 12, 2008, by Columbia Records and Music World Entertainment.
The album garnered seven Grammy Award nominations at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony (2010), including a nomination for Album of the Year, winning five and eventually collecting a record setting six wins—the most awards won in one night by a female artist.The album was marketed with the release of several singles, including " If I Were a Boy" and " Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", both of which charted highly internationally. Sasha Fierce has sold over 8 million copies worldwide. The album has earned one diamond and over thirty platinum certifications in separate worldwide markets, being certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on January 16, 2009, selling over three million copies in the United States. Sasha Fierce received mixed reviews from music critics, but was a commercial success nonetheless, debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 482,000 units, earning Beyoncé her third consecutive US number-one solo album. Beyonc&233 created an alter ego, Sasha Fierce, and she was taken seriously. Sasha Fierce boasted production from Darkchild and Sean Garrett.Releasing on November 12th 2008, little did Beyonc&233 know that her third studio album would go on to be so historic.
Beyoncé recorded the album in sessions at Bangladesh Studios, PatchWerk Recording Studios, Silent Sound Studios and Tree Sound Studios in Atlanta, Georgia Chung King Studios, Electric Lady Studios, Roc the Mic Studios and Strawberrybee Productions in New York City, New York GAD Studios in Ibiza, Spain Mansfield Studios and The Campground in Los Angeles, California South Beat Studios in Miami Beach, Florida and The Boom Boom Room in Burbank, California. World Tour (2009–10).The recording of the album took place over an eight-month period. To further promote the album, Beyoncé made several award show and televised appearances across Europe and America, and embarking on the worldwide I Am. " Broken-Hearted Girl" was released internationally as the fifth single, while " Video Phone" was released in September 2009 as the overall eighth, and " Why Don't You Love Me" was released in July 2010 as the ninth and final single. " Diva" and " Ego" were released exclusively in the United States, while " Halo" and " Sweet Dreams" were promoted internationally as the third and fourth singles, respectively.
I'm very passionate and sensitive. Beyoncé also collaborated with some musicians she had never worked with in the past, such as Toby Gad and BC Jean on " If I Were a Boy" she also worked again with Amanda Ghost on "Disappear". She collaborated with several record producers and songwriters, including Babyface, Stargate (production duo composed of Tor Erik Hermansen and Mikkel Storleer Eriksen), Tricky Stewart, The-Dream, Darkchild, Sean Garrett, Solange Knowles, Jim Jonsin, Rico Love, Ryan Tedder, Bangladesh, Ian Dench, Dave McCracken, Wayne Wilkins and Blac Elvis.
Disc, Beyoncé was influenced by folk and alternative rock genres, while incorporating other instruments she had not normally used previously, such as the acoustic guitar. I still have my album of fun songs.For the I Am. I'm very private and I don't talk about a lot of things, but there are certain songs that are on the album that are very personal. I'm a woman, I'm married, and this portion of my life is all in the album. And I wanted to show that about myself.
Ghost told The Daily Telegraph that they were both inspired by their then-recent marriages and had walked down the aisle to "Ave Maria". Beyoncé worked with Ghost to re-write Franz Schubert's " Ave Maria" after having co-written "Disappear" in London, England. Beyoncé attempted something different as people had strong expectations from her she experimented with stronger lyrics. The ballads were crafted in a way to combine "the best elements" of pop and soul music, while simultaneously "expanding the possibilities of both genres".
Music and lyrics In an interview for Billboard magazine, Beyoncé described I Am. Beyoncé later revealed that songs from established producers like The Neptunes and Danja were not able to make the final cut. After a process of elimination, twelve tracks were selected to be placed on the standard edition of the album, while five additional tracks were chosen to make the final cut for the deluxe edition of the album. If a song was meaningless to her, she would cut it off during the process of elimination for the final track listing. During the nine-month period between November 2007 and August 2008, Beyoncé recorded over seventy songs and decided during the editing process that she did not want to reconcile the two approaches into one disc.
Despite being on the Sasha Fierce disc, " Ego", " Why Don't You Love Me" and "Scared of Lonely" were noted to be a meeting ground between the album's halves. Kellman said in his review that " Diva" resembles B'Day's " Freakum Dress" or " Ring the Alarm" in terms of audacity. Acoustic guitars, pianos, strings, contemplative soul searching, and grand sweeping gestures fill it out, with more roots in '70s soft rock than soul." The second disc, Sasha Fierce, contains consistent electro influences, which are displayed in songs like " Radio" and " Sweet Dreams". Some of it sounds like Barbra Streisand, Karen Carpenter and The Beatles around the 1970s." Music writer Andy Kellman of AllMusic viewed its first disc as "essentially a small set of adult contemporary ballads. She said, "One side has songs that are more mainstream and another has my more traditional R&B songs for my fans who've been there the whole time.
Ann Powers of the Los Angeles Times saw the song's theme of female empowerment as an expansion on that of "Irreplaceable". Music critics remarked that the song seemed to be a mixture of her hit single " Irreplaceable" (2006), Fergie's single " Big Girls Don't Cry" (2007), and Ciara's single " Like a Boy" (2007). Beyoncé explained in Essence that "If I Were a Boy" is different from her previous songs in the sense that it is not a traditional R&B song. BC Jean, who wrote most of the song's lyrics, took inspiration from a poor relationship.
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