Beyonce Does Gotham Magazine

Published: Saturday 1st Nov 2008 by Sam
Beyonce Does Gotham MagazineThe Beyonce promo machine (best believe that’s what it is) is in full effect; the woman is everywhere at the moment. Check out her high fashion shoot featured in the latest issue of Gotham Magazine. Hot.
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Ever note-perfect, never looking a mess and seemingly ‘errrrrwhere’, many look at Ms. Knowles as some kind of robot/machine (an idea I believe she plays on with that Sasha Fierce glove). Bey speaks about being having to slow her roll for the first time in the magazine too:

“Years ago, I was definitely headed for a breakdown,” she continues. “Just way too much work—my life was my career and I had no other life. It started when I was 15 and I hadn’t learned the importance of balance, making sure I took a day off. I didn’t know what ‘no’ was, what boundaries were. At this point, I know that after a certain amount of time I have to go home. I know what I like now. It just takes life experience to get a good balance. When you’re young, you don’t know what relaxes you.”

I’m really liking the fact Ms. Knowles is shedding her wooden ‘media-trained’ personality this go round in favour of what seems to be really her. More power to her.

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  1. Anonymous November 1, 2008

    shes so manufactured !
    everything she does or says is what shes told 2 do by matthew knowles just like shitelle williams !!!
    and every photo shoot beyonce does shes heavily air brushed in. take out her nappy lace front glued in wig and her makeup and shes just another ugly hood rat !!! unlike rihanna who posesss natural beauty with or without make up !!!

  2. Anonymous November 1, 2008

    shes ugly

  3. Anonymous November 1, 2008

    LOL u think shes ugly? LOLLL…and u think rihanna has ‘natural beauty’ ahhaha have u seen rihannas face?? its pure ugly. she looks soo moody..the hair jus makes her look pretty THATS IT.

    beyonce has natural beauty…her face is stunning..i really like the gotham photoshoot, real different

  4. jonnyhco November 1, 2008

    hotttttt

  5. Anonymous November 1, 2008

    who even said something about rihanna,you beyonce stans need to step back and realize how ignorant you all sound.and this rihanna vs.beyonce thing ya'll have started is so sad.

    anyway,the first pic does not look like her,love the pose though….love the second&third pictures…as for the rest,i really dont understand the "concept" they were going for…im assuming the stripes going across her face rep. "red,white,& blue"lmao,people are going to have a field day with that picture.

    im glad she's attempting to open up about things because its sad that she's been around this long and nobody really knows anything about her real personality..

  6. Anonymous November 1, 2008

    THIS HAS TO BE A JOKE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHHAHA! LMFAO!

  7. Anonymous November 1, 2008

    omg somebody please tell her to stop. it’s getting out of control now. she looks ridiculous.

  8. Anonymous November 1, 2008

    WTF! are you kidding ME?! oh hell no! what is that?

  9. Anonymous November 1, 2008

    I DONT BELIEVE THAT B.S SHE A MONEY HUNGRY S*** LIKE THE REST OF HER FAMILY

  10. sankylady November 1, 2008

    she looks like tyra banks in the 6th photo where she’s in the cape thing n she’s snapping.. tell me i’m lyin!

  11. Anonymous November 1, 2008

    She is such a copy cat. Alicia Keys talked about her break down during promo for her As I Am album. Now she wants to do the same with a similar album title might I add. Just when I think she is genuinely trying to do something original, she does something else to contradict that she really has no creativity, just a good marketing team giving her regurtitated ideas to use when she needs to promote something.

    @7:26, Yeah that’s true. You really can’t tell what kind of person she is. She’s so distant and stand offish. You can be a private person and still have some charisma about yourself. I don’t think she gets that.

  12. Anonymous November 1, 2008

    People hate on Beyonce for “not having a personality”, “not being original,” and “copying other artist’s ideas/songs/lyrics/style/looks.” This is nothing new. Beyonce is a business woman. With Jay-Z and Mathew Knowles helping her she learned the business side of the industry.

  13. Anonymous November 1, 2008

    I’m sorry but these pictures are not “hott” or different. I’ve seen the real models do it much better AND still look good in the face. Her…not so much. She’s very close to ugly.

  14. ND November 1, 2008

    BEYONCE’S ON FIRE AS USUAL… LOVE IT!

  15. JANETS LOW TICKET SALES November 1, 2008

    WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!
    LOL at beYAWNce trying 2 be all edgy .

    sad thing is youd think with those FIERCE CLOTHES AND THE SETTING,shed look MORE INTERESTING!NOT!

    FACE AND EYES STILL LIFELESS 🙁

    YAWN
    ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

  16. JANETS LOW TICKET SALES November 1, 2008

    yeah,she also starting 2 look her REAL AGE.
    shes got those CRACKS around her mouth 2.
    eh,i guess you cant pretend 2 be 27 when youre REALLY 35.(not 4 too long anyways)

  17. Anonymous November 1, 2008

    WHOA…SOME OF YALL ARE REALLY HATERS.I DON’T LIEK ALL THE PICS EITHER BUT, SEEING THIS GIRL FAIL IS SOME OF YALL’S PRAYER… ITS SO FUNNY,ITS PATHETIC, CRACKS AROUND HER MOUTH…COPYING A BREAKDOWN….LOL I GUESS ALL THE OTHER ARTIST AND REG PEOPLE COPIED TO HUH? LINDSAY, BRIT..AMY WINEHOUSE, YOUR MOTHER? IF YOU DON’T LIKE HER COOL…BUT DAMN BEING EVIL AND DISRESPECTFUL IS IGNORANT, SHE IS STILL A BLACK WOMAN, INSPIRING OTHER YOUNG BLACK WOMEN…YOU DAUGHTERS, YOUR SISTERS, NEICES ETC…MAKING HISTORY, LIVING THE BLESSING GOD HAS BESTOWED ON HER, SO SHE STILL DESERVES RESPECT…CALLING HER A S*** IS IGNORANT…MUST BE LATAVIA OR SANDRAROSE…CAUSE IT WAS UNCALLED FOR…PEOPLE DAMN ITS MUSIC, NOT THE PRESIDENCY…ITS AN IMAGE, SO YEA ITS MANUFACTURED…MUCH LIKE THE FAKE S*** HALF OF YALL WEAR…WEAVE, NAILS, MAKEUP? MANUFACTURED…IDIOTS.. NOT LIKE SHE PERFORMING SURGERY…FIND SOME WHO ARE IGNORANT TO HATE…bILL ORIELLY, JESSE JACKSON, MCAIN, PALIN, YOURSELVES FOR EXAMPLE…AND ONE MORE THING…REMEMBER THIS…”THOSE WHO CAN’T…CRITICIZE, THEM WHO DIDN’T (MAKE IT) DEGRADE IT..” GROW THE F*** UP….GO BEY, DO YOU.

  18. Anonymous November 1, 2008

    ^^^^^^^^^AGREEE 100%

    NOTHING ELSE TO BE SAID!!!!!!

  19. Anonymous November 2, 2008

    wow the haters is on it today

  20. JANETS LOW TICKET SALES November 2, 2008

    @10:21 PM, Anonymous, I AGREE WITH YOU 2.

    i mean,BLACK WOMEN ALREADY have a NEGATIVE image in the media as far as being MATERIALISTIC,S** CRAZED,SHAKING OUR ASSES and i think beyonce is an EXCELLENT ROLE MODEL 4 BLACK WOMEN.

    i mean in her songs and her videos all she does is SHAKE HER ASS,TALK ABOUT MATERIALISTIC THINGS so shes a PERFECT ROLE MODEL.

    and never mind the fact that she WEARS STRAIGHT BLOND EUROPEAN WEAVES and NOT HER NATURAL HAIR.
    or that she GOT A NOSE JOB 2 look more EUROPEAN.
    NEVER MIND THE FACT that she says shes a CRISTIAN but yet CONTRADICTS HERSELF ENDLESSLY by GYRATING HER CROTCH ON CAMERA,shes a GREAT ROLE MODEL 4 ALL BLACK WOMEN.

    so @10:21 PM, Anonymous,if and when you have a DAUGHTER that beYAWNce has so POWERFULLY INFLUENCED,when your daughter comes 2 you saying “I WANT 2 BE JUST LIKE BEYONCE” while doing the CRAZY IN LOVE UH OH UH OH,UH OH,OH NO NO BOOTY DANCE,im sure youll be PROUD 🙂

  21. Anonymous November 2, 2008

    SOME OF YOU B’S NEED TO STOP SLINGING THE TERM HATER AROUND BECAUSE NOT EVERYBODY THAT DISLIKES BEYONCE IS A HATER! PEOPLE JUST DO NOT LIKE HER! THEY HAVE THE RIGHT NOW TO LIKE SOMEONE! YOU FANS ARE TRYING TO FORCE HER DOWN PEOPLE’S THROATS JUST LIKE HER PARENTS AND TEAM ARE ALWAYS DOING. I’VE NEVER REALLY LIKED BEYONCE BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT SHE’S REALLY ABOUT BUT HONESTLY SHE REALLY DOES NOT HAVE ANY TALENT, ORIGINALITY OR CHARISMA! SHE’S A BLAND ROBOT AND IT’S SAD. I AM ACTUALLY STARTING TO FEEL SORRY FOR THIS POOR GIRL. IT’S SUCH A SAD CASE..MONEY HUNGRY, SPOTLIGHT FEEN,S** CRAZY AND SELF-CENTERED. THE POOR GIRL IS GOING DOWN AS WE SPEAK AND IT’S ALL BECAUSE OF GREED AND SELFISHNESS..BUT THEN AGAIN I CAN’T FEEL SORRY FOR HER BECAUSE SHE’S BRINGING IT ON HERSELF. SHE NEEDS TO GO TAKE A BREAK. GIVE SOMEONE ELSE THE SPOTLIGHT FOR A MOMENT AND STOP BEING GREEDY! IT’S RIDICULOUS!

  22. Anonymous November 2, 2008

    🙁 b what happened to you? shes so lifeless. oh well i guess i’ll go support riri

  23. Anonymous November 2, 2008

    @JANETS LOW TICKET SALES

    Girl you so insightful….not. Please first off we all can tell that YOU are a hater….look @ your screen name. next, as for her gyrating and song choices…girl push…what the hell do you think? this is a bizness, Tina Turner gyrates, Diana Ross, Patti Labelle (in labelle)the list goes on and on and on…so kill it. Sexuality is a part of life and your life as well. I’m sure you have had or still have your “HO moments” bet you still have some lil kim and trina bumpin’ in your toyota cressida….anyway, some of yall HATERS kill me…how you know what someone has gotten done to they nose? you an expert? you got the medical records? did not think so…that is nothing but JEALOUSY and HATE. AND who are we to question anyone’s relationship with GOD? if you a Christian…then what does that say about you? and I do have a daughter…and she loves BEY, but its up to me, to shape her, guide her in the way I think as her mother…and also teach her to make good decisions as she get older. But I tell one thing…I will not be teaching her how to hate…how to degrade, how to assume, speculate and be petty, thas for damn sure. This s*** goes beyond Beyonce’, some of yall miserable haters…HATERS need therapy….lol

    and to Anoymous @2:28am… You are a hater…you don’t know her…you don’t know what she like, you are not miss cleo, You don’t even know yourself…because if you did, you would not even let dumb s*** come out that trap…no talent? really? you can really say that? whatever…no personality…right ok…I would say yea…maybe, I think its being called guarded, look at the hate…I would be shy as hell too…spotlight feen? s** crazy? robot? Greed? how? are you greedy when you working doing overtime? or eating so much? please…can you sing? dance? are you even attractive? who knows…I won’t ass-sume like you…and forcing her down your throat?….s*** close your mouth if you don’t want to eat…you are the most sad..cause you can’t even see your searing hate….

  24. Anonymous November 2, 2008

    She needs to learn to smile with her eyes. Her eyes are dead in these photos. It’s basically the same look in each one. If you’re trying to get your Tyra on, do it right.

  25. Anonymous November 2, 2008

    Her eyes are dead in every picture she takes!I’m starting to believe this girl has no soul. Maybe she sold her soul to the devil for riches and fame. I know one thing, she better milk it for all it’s worth!

  26. Anonymous November 2, 2008

    Rihanna’s spread in Essence magazine shits on this crap Beyonce tried to pull off. It’s funny someone mentioned Tyra. If Beyonce was on ANTM she would have gotten kicked off quick for having the same face in her pictures. LOL.

  27. Anonymous November 2, 2008

    if you dont like beyonce why are you taking time out of ur day to look at her pictures and critize her. wht not go to another post and talk about someone u like. you dont like her but yet u know all her flaws. u must be studying her pretty hard to know everything about her. you dislikers know more than her fans do. its plain and simple if u dont like her dont take time out of ur day to talk about her.go bring someone else up instead of brnging her down. and this beyonce rihanna thing has to stop. beyonce is on a whole different level. the people that compare and say rihanna is better are 17 and younger and dont know what real talent is and with all this garbage out today i cant really blame them. everyone is so mediocore. and about the christian thing. how can u even call yourself one. you dont mess with that. god gave her that blessing so by disrespecting her u r disrespecting god. GET A F****** LIFE

  28. Anonymous November 2, 2008

    Hold up!!! “…by disrespecting her u r dispecting God”. R U serious?! If so, get immediate help. God is the Great I AM!! Bey is a mere mortal. You can make an outrageous and disturbing statement like that and then have the audacity to say get an effing life?! Who needs a life, really? What?!!! I guess next you are going to say he had a hand in writing the Bible. Disrespecting her is disrespecting God as well?!!! You are certifiable.

  29. Anonymous November 2, 2008

    I had a breakdown last year….so i guess I am copying Alicia Keyes also…..just shut the f*** up haters…I am fan or stan or whatever you want to call me…but let it be known that I dont love every single thing the woman does….she is human just like me…But i do love everything about work ethic…..

  30. Anonymous November 2, 2008

    OMG!!! (My G is for goodness) I just had to post after reading 10:13 response. That is crazy!! Disrespecting bey is disrespecting God. I cannot believe what I am reading. Some of you stans take things too far. Bey and THE ALMIGHTY are not on the same level, believe that. Not on the same level. He is the only one that is all that. The ONLY one. You disrespected God by having him on the same level as bey, as the aforementioned put it, a mere mortal. How dare you?! He is not or ever will be compared to us or with us on anything whatsoever. If someone doubts her being a Christian, then they are just finding her actions questionable after witnessing her behavior, acts on stage, etc. To say they are “disrespecting God” when speaking against her is just unimaginably stupid. HE IS THE GREAT I AM……not bey or sasha. HE ALONE IS THE GREAT I AM. No one else.

  31. Anonymous November 2, 2008

    ^^^
    Exactly! I hope these delusional stans realize that idolatry is a sin and God definitely isn’t pleased with that.

  32. JANETS LOW TICKET SALES November 2, 2008

    @ 2:28 AM, Anonymous ,EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    and @2:28 AM, Anonymous,do you notice how the DELUDED STANS write PARAGRAPHS AND FOAM AT THE MOUTH WITH ANGER when someone SPEAKS THE TRUTH.LOL

    i mean NEVER MIND THE FACT THAT beyonSLUT LIED about writing her OWN SONGS.
    I.E. irreplacable and her lie was CAUGHT ON TAPE.
    but i guess that OK since shes the ALMIGHTY,CANT DO NO WRONG PERFECT BEYONCE right?

    and you know the ones ALWAYS SAYING HATER are YOUNG AS HELL
    because by someone JUST HAVING AN OPINION OTHER THAN THEIRS,THEY CANT HANDLE THAT,SO THEY CALL YOU A “HATER”LMAO
    ATTENTION 2 THE IMMATURE ONES WHO ARE QUICK 2 CALL SOMEONE A HATER:IN LIFE PEOPLE ARE GOING 2 HAVE A DIFFERENT OPINION THAN YOU,THATS REAL LIFE.NOT EVERYONE WILL AGREE WITH YOU.SO ITS DUMB 2 HAVE A TEMPER TANTRUM AND CALL SOMEONE A HATER 4 HAVING A DIFFERENT OPINION.
    and no one should reply 2 this post UNLESS YOU FEEL GUILTY ABOUT SOMETHING I SAID.

    oh and the RETARDED STANS calling her BEY-SUS,i wouldnt be surprised if GOD STRUCK HER AND YALL DOWN 4 HAVING THE AUDACITY 2 REFER 2 BEYONCE AS THE ALL MIGHTY JESUS.
    ARE YOU FREAKING CRAZY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
    NO ONE CAN COMPARE 2 THE ONE AND ONLY JESUS(SON OF GOD)

  33. Anonymous November 2, 2008

    “Praise Beyahweh! May her mane reign forever”. Some people….SMH. “…disrepecting her is disrespecting God”….*blank stare*

    I see it as disprecting Jesus is disrespecting the Father. I have been brought up to believe the Holy Trinity was the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Bey is not in that line up at all…so how on this side of hell can someone even say something so insane? Unbelievable!!!!

  34. Anonymous November 2, 2008

    god gave beyonce the talent that she has. he place her where she is today. every thing beyonce incluing you an i have is because of god. so if you dont like that beyonce has made it so far and that she had an undeniable talent then take it up with god because he have her the voice that made her a superstar.
    @ janet low ticket sales. how can u talk about someone writing a paragraph when you wrote a book. next
    ANY YOU BEYONCE DISLIKER NEVER ANSWER THE QUESTION. WHY DO YOU WRITE ON HER POST OF YOU DONT LIKE HER. AND WHY DO YOU COME BACK AND REPLY IF U REALLY DONT LIKE HER. WATCH I KNOW JANET LOW TICKET WILL BE BACK. SHE BEEN OH HERE AT LEAST TWICE FOE SOMEONE SHE DONT LIKE…LOL

  35. Anonymous November 2, 2008

    Most comment here because they can. Simple as that. The question was, “Your thoughts”. I take it to mean any thoughts, perceived positive or negative, are welcomed. Yes, if it were not meant for Bey to be in the entertainment industry and to become as famous as she is, there is no doubt she would not be here. Clearly, God had a plan for her life as well as He has plans for all. I totally cosign with 10:17 and 10:26. The comment made prior to those post was indeed unbelievable.

    God gets the praise for all things that He thru His Son Jesus Christ makes possible. One does not praise the another human being. Acknowledge who made it possible for her to be where she is and not her, a plain, sinful human being like all of us.

  36. Anonymous November 3, 2008

    this b**** is so fake. and its really hard to ignore her and talk about other people because she is everywhere and shoves herself down everyone’s throat. take some time off, go away and stop doing movies. they all suck and you play the same damn role.

  37. Anonymous November 3, 2008

    @10:21 YOU GO!!

    Let me ask this, Who is perfect?

    It has been a bad era for artist with talent, it seems the ones who dont have it get more time and the ones who do have to go through this bull. Beyonce is a very talented artist, entertainer, Business Woman, even actress. She has the look, voice, and it may not be your’s but style, so much like other artist with talent. And believe it are not her pictures did just what they were suppose to do, show her in a different light and by your responses it worked..

    It’s sad we are in the studio artist era cause studio artist are rocking lately…But what are they going to do when real talent has to show first…Some will not be able to stand…

  38. Anonymous November 5, 2008

    She look like a hot rainbow MESS!
    Sorry Beyonce but your style just went down in my book. Its good to try something different but this sho’ aint it…lol. Anyways she should do something futuristic like Ciara in that white cape looking thing where she is holding her self. Now thats fresh and original.

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