Sam I'm glad that you pointed this out and I applaud you since you are from the UK, a prodomately white country. I've read articles on how the black/dark skinned female singers aren't appreciated or even really exsistant. Anyway, I'm not a fan of Beyonce but even if I was, I'm not stupid enough to feed into her manufactured image like some of you are. Y'all either worship Beyonce too much to see thats she tries so hard to relate to the white race, or y'all like the look of lighter and mixed females. Beyonce is a black female! She is not mixed at all! Technically all black american's have mixed races, but we are still black. People like Halle Berry and Alicia Keys are mixed. If they wanted a black female who also appealed to the white audience, they should've picked them.