Preview: Beyonce’s ‘Year of 4’ MTV Special

Published: Wednesday 29th Jun 2011 by Sam

Beyonce is not playing.

Fiercely critiqued for the handing of her ‘4’ project prior to release, the singer has staged the biggest of fightback’s in the wake of the album’s release. Indeed, following string of international performances, the 29 year old’s latest effort comes in the form an MTV documentary ‘Year of the 4’, which chronicles the promotional push for the project, interspersed with interview footage.

Check out a preview of the show, which airs on June 30th, below…

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  1. Nana_Applehead (Nana Yaw) June 29, 2011

    That Beyonce Juice .Net!

  2. HotMama June 29, 2011

    should be interesting.

  3. HotMama June 29, 2011

    Im not sold on Bey latest offering. She is a great performer who gives a good show, but i always feel like she trys to hard to sell everyone on her self imposed greatness.

  4. hermione fierce granger June 29, 2011

    I CANT WAIT
    #LIVING LEGENDYONCE

  5. Maiko June 29, 2011

    It’s true though. Her album leaked over a month before it released, and it’s still selling like hot cakes. So her promo is doing so well. Kudos to Beyonce’s Team.

  6. MAYA June 29, 2011

    I WONDER WHY PPL ARE CALLING THIS SITE THATBEYONCEJUICE.NET
    Y’ALL MUST BE NEW
    THEY DO THAT WITH EVERY IT ARTISTE WHO HAS AN ALBUM COMING OUT
    I REMEMBER WHEN RIHANNA’S LOUD CAME OUT RIHANNA WAS IN EVERY POST
    READERS FROM WAY BACK WILL BE ABLE TO TESTIFY

  7. DGAF June 29, 2011

    ” @Nana_Applehead (Nana Yaw)

    That Beyonce Juice .Net! ”

    I Agree , Sam please, post about other things than the same old stuff nobody gives a f*** about.

  8. hermione fierce granger June 29, 2011

    @HotMama Why you clicking on her post if she annoys you? Doen’t make sense to me

  9. queenbey will always s*** on ur fave and leave them no option but 2 pout June 29, 2011

    I cant wait to watch it!!!!
    I also set my DVR to record it so I can watch it over and, over and, over and, over and, over and, over and over AGAIN!!! 🙂

  10. Cayce June 29, 2011

    niceeeee

  11. Beystanbish June 29, 2011

    4 is set to debut at number 1 in the U.K she is selling three times as much as her competition. And BTINH is set to go up to #6 on the UK charts. 4flop 4closure I think not

  12. queenbey will always s*** on ur fave and leave them no option but 2 pout June 29, 2011

    Its also nice to see the haters are dropping like flys……………they are commenting less and less everyday

  13. LACEFRONCE. THE USER FORMELY KNOWN AS BEYAKI. June 29, 2011

    4= FLOP coming near you

  14. queenbey will always s*** on ur fave and leave them no option but 2 pout June 29, 2011

    Its also nice to see the haters are dropping like flys……………they are commenting less and less everyday
    (unless u count da 1 user u post under mulitple users names)

  15. King B June 29, 2011

    @ Maya:

    Exactly, I said the same thing yesterday. People complain about this place turning into a fansite whenever an artist has an album dropping and there’s a post about them every 5 minutes around here. Happens EVERY time.

  16. I see June 29, 2011

    i have to agree with maya that grape juice did this with rihanna, chris brown and will deffo do it with kelly rowland…if you don’t like it. don’t click….simple.

  17. BEYONCE>>>>the music industry June 29, 2011

    Hell yeah my eyez will be glued on the tv when UR ROYAL HIGHNESS comes on. Haters will be pissed next week aka fagget ass h** lacefronce, luv sucking balls Big Ro and the rest of the lessers fans of s******, r**** and katy. I think KING B will outsell all three first week sale combined. They are nothing but generic no talent pop whores excluding Katy but she does make generic pop. And yeah i popping off because i know lacrfronce no life ass will be here. B**** while u checking for KING B, u need to b washing out that stanking nasty couchie. I bet that thing is the size of a basketball, nasty h**. I think that b**** is a t***** anyway, F***** ass c***. I bet Lacfronce look like a damn fat ass gorilla with missing teeth LMAO

  18. ChrisJ June 29, 2011

    OF COURSE IM WATCHING WHY WOULDNT I..

  19. BEYYYYYYONCE June 29, 2011

    It was even worse with Chris Brow, they had a banner…..when I see a post about Gaga here, which is very rare I don’t click on it, I advise Beyonce’s haters to do the same with her posts

  20. BEYYYYYYONCE June 29, 2011

    It says video unavailable btw

  21. BEYONCE>>>>the music industry June 29, 2011

    LMAO haters PLEASE go turn on VH1 now! They are counting down the 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time. YALL already know KING B was voted n at #51. And the thing about it, is ur fav put her their LMFAO By now, i gurantee u shes probaly in the Top 40 now!

  22. BC June 29, 2011

    so 2 morrow is another beyonce filled day.we get this and the BTINH video.YESSSS!!!!

  23. FemmeFataleBarbx June 29, 2011

    Oh wow. She really wants people to like this album. This album sucks.

  24. BC June 29, 2011

    FEMMEFATALEBARBX
    why didnt anyone buy femme fatale.

  25. BC June 29, 2011

    Will the MTV special only be on in the US and if so, what time? and will the BTINH video be up on vevo by midnight? 🙂

  26. Robier June 29, 2011

    BEY’S FLOP >>>>> FAVS ENTIRE DISCOGRAPHY

  27. BC June 29, 2011

    4 is the most successful flop i have ever herd of

  28. Big Ro June 29, 2011

    @ ROBIER

    Not Janet of course!

  29. BEYONCE>>>the music industry June 29, 2011

    @Femnefatale Girl u and s****** spears suck! That w**** is a big fat JOKE! Nobody takes her serious. My turtle puts on a better show than her lip sync ass.

  30. LACEFRONCE. THE USER FORMELY KNOWN AS BEYAKI. June 29, 2011

    @BEYONCE>>>the music industry

    Depressed BLEACHonce fan with rabies.

    BRITNEY>>> BLEACHonce

    BRITNEY=100 m ww

    BLEACHonce=50 m ww

  31. KAT DELUNA FAN June 29, 2011

    #BEYSEASON

  32. BC June 29, 2011

    LACEFRONCE. THE USER FORMELY KNOWN AS BEYAKI.
    yeah beyonce has sold ore than britney WW. beyonce has sold 130 million

  33. shelly June 29, 2011

    @BITCHRONCCE S*** FACECE……….. BEYONCE HAS SOLD OVER 100 MILLION AS A SOLO ACT LIVE IT AND BREATH IT IN B**** UR FIGURES GET LOWER AND LOWER EVERY 1 HAS FINALLY SEEN BRITNEY OVER RATED LIP SYNCING ASS AND IS FED UP OF IT HER ALBUM IS LOVED AND IT IS FLOP GREATNESS MIXED WITH AWESOMENESS AND THE MARK OF A TRUE STAR THAT IS HERE TO LAST!!!!!! YOUR HATE AND WICKEDNESS WILL MAKE HER BIGGER AND BETTER AND MUCH STRONGER AS IS JUST SHOWN THESE PAST FEW COUPLE OF DAYS SO HATE ON U PRESSED B**** I LOVE ME MY BEYONCE HER ALBUM IS THE BEST SHE HAS EVER MADE HANDS DOWN

  34. Ziggy Stardust June 29, 2011

    Check out Time Magazine’s review of Bey’s new CD. They didn’t give such a glowing report on it: According to Time.com, here is the review:

  35. Ziggy Stardust June 29, 2011

    Album Review: Beyoncé’s ’4′ Muddles Its Message

    By: Claire Suddath

    When you listen to Beyoncé, try not to focus on her lyrics.

    “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” is jubilant dancehall pop at its finest, but the actual message—that she “cried [her] tears for three good years” because the man she was with didn’t propose—sounds like something my grandmother would have supported. (Apparently Beyoncé has forgotten the lyrics to “Independent Woman” parts I and II from her Destiny’s Child days, the latter of which preaches “No falling in love / no commitment from me.”)

    In fact, Beyoncé’s catalog includes a slew of seemingly empowering anthems for women that, when examined, don’t actually empower anyone at all. “Ring the Alarm,” her 2006 f-you to cheating men, is actually about a woman who’s more worried about losing her chinchilla coats and beachfront property than her relationship. And now her new album, 4, includes a thundering Major Lazer-sampling Girl Power-esque boot camp number called “Run the World (Girls)” that’s about, well, how girls run the world.

    There’s only one problem. Girls don’t run the world. The week that I first heard this song was also the same week that I read about this summer’s S*** Walks, allegations that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi may have used mass rapes as a war tactic, and that two former New York City police officers were acquitted of raping a woman, even though one of them had been caught on tape telling the alleged victim that he used a condom. I’m not saying that Beyoncé needs to perform songs about human rights. It’s just difficult to read the news and then turn around and listen to a song in which someone hollers “Who run the world? Girls!” over and over.

    It’s hard to know what Beyoncé really thinks about this; she’s a famously inaccessible pop star. In interviews, she gives bland, seemingly prepared answers and often refuses to talk about her personal life. “I know you don’t want lots of personal questions, like ‘How’s it going?’” Barbara Walters joked when Beyoncé appeared on The View last November and bristled at a question about her husband, Jay-Z. The most revealing anecdote she offered during the entire interview was that she loves her body but still wears Spanx.

    The new album 4 is similarly veiled. Oh, there are love songs, un-love songs, and songs about heartache. The opening track “1 + 1” is probably the finest ballad Beyoncé has delivered in years (If you haven’t already seen the backstage rehearsal video Jay-Z posted, you should watch it) and the “End of Time” is just screaming to be covered by an earnest high school a capella group and posted to YouTube. But that’s all the album offers: well-executed songs performed by a talented woman who refuses to scratch anything more than the surface.

    Beyoncé is good at four things: singing, dancing in high heels, avoiding questions about Jay-Z and crafting superb pop songs with either hypocritical or meaningless messages. “Run the World (Girls)” is probably supposed to be a feel-good song and not a political statement. But you can’t just declare “Nobody’s Poor!” and pretend that it’s true.

  36. BEYONCE>>>the music industry June 29, 2011

    Lacfronce is a t*****. He/she wants to look like KING B. The he/she is memorized by KING B thats why the t***** is always checking for KING B. Lacfronce im sorry but u will never look like KING B. I bet ur ass look more like the swamp thing! And stop using the library computer everyday freak, i know the library people are tired of wiping drool and yellow and green slob from their keyboard when ur ass leave that comes from ur fat ass horse lips.

  37. Next June 29, 2011

    I’m getting kinda of tired hearing about wackonce every week. The album is boring and she seems bored with it everytime she performs a song of hers live. Not to say there arn’t some good songs but REALLY BORED with her. I wish the media would talk about someone else that’s not alicia keys, riyawna, kelly rowland, lady gaga and adele.

  38. LACEFRONCE. THE USER FORMELY KNOWN AS BEYAKI. June 29, 2011

    @BC

    No she hasn’t, fool. How has she sold 130 million ww with 4 albums and her highest seller was Dangerously in Love which sold 11 million records ww.

    Now, would it make sense to you that BLEACHonce has sold 130 million ww when she only has 11.2 m certified sales in the US and Britney has 33 m ..according to the RIAA.

    So, how did BLEACHonce sell more than Britney?

    How has BLEACHonce outsold Britney when Britney had Baby One More Time sell 26 m ww…and BLEACHonce’s highest seller sold 11 million worldwide.

    How has BLEACHonce sold more when Britney’s “Oops” sold 20 million ww?

    You get the pattern?

    BRITNEY slays BLEACHonce. 🙂

  39. BC June 29, 2011

    LACEFRONCE. THE USER FORMELY KNOWN AS BEYAKI.
    dont forget destiney child.the biggest selling girl group of all time.my case is closed.

  40. BC June 29, 2011

    feeme floptile has been out 4 awhile now and has only sold 568,100
    beyonce sold about that in her 1st week with b day.and 4 is about 2 sell twice that.poor britney

  41. ISTANN4GAGA June 29, 2011

    @LACEFLOP

    IN TERMS OF TALENT/RESPECT
    Beyonce,Gaga>>>>>Xtina,Pink>>>>>Rihanna,Katy,Ke$ha,Nicki(1990’s-2006)Britney>>>>>Kelly,sKeri Hilson,CiError>>>>>>Nails on Chalkboard>>>>>>>>(2007-Present)Britney Spears & Justine Beaver

    Please do NOT act like Britney Spears is more talented/artistically respected than any of the people listed above.

  42. BC June 29, 2011

    britney spears and rihanna r 2 of the most not talented people in the industry.

  43. BC June 29, 2011

    2 of the most who r very popular

  44. ISTANN4GAGA June 29, 2011

    by the way,@BEYONCE >>>>THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

    @Laceflop isn’t a t*****,she is a FAT,GHETTO,600-POUND WHALE WHO FREQUENTLY VISITS THE BUFFET.

  45. BC June 29, 2011

    ISTANN4GAGA
    i an the floor lol

  46. ISTANN4GAGA June 29, 2011

    @BC which comment???

  47. mobwife…baa this goat skin itches June 29, 2011

    OF COURSE I’LL BE WATCHING IT ON BET!!

    Go BEY! Haters stop talking, typing, and fall all the way back!!

    *press replay on Chris Brown’s Marvin’s Room (Remix)*

  48. BeyonceForever June 29, 2011

    EVERYBODY STOP COMMENTING TO LACEFRONT! That TRAILER TRASH B**** just want to get everybody upset! But that Lacefront will be done when them first week sales come in because BEYONCE will SLAY!!!! ……and the album is the “BEST THING YOU NEVER HAD B****!!!” LMFAO!!

  49. ISTANN4GAGA June 29, 2011

    *DEAD* at BeyonceForever’s comments….

    TBQH,I am LAUGHING/SHAKING MY HEAD at the OVERWHELMING amount of delusion that this hoodrat possesses…..

  50. King B June 29, 2011

    @ IStan4Gaga:

    Aw, don’t put Justin Bieber on the same level as Britney! I don’t like him, but at least he does a little more than look like he’s sleepwalking onstage, and he’s proven that he can play an instrument.

  51. RHI RHI IS QUEEN June 29, 2011

    FLOP

  52. Ty June 29, 2011

    Beyonce is of course hot as hell but she looks like a lion in this photo. She is REALLY trying hard to sell this 4 album. What’s the deal? She has done so great in the past, why is she tryiing so hard now?

    I see….there is Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Katie Perry, Ke$ha….look at how nuts they are styled. Beyonce had to add a little nuts in her wardrobe also because there is a lot going on out there. The reason why I’m upset is that this isn’t the Beyonce that we all know. She looks better than ever and maybe she has just evolved but she has never tried so damn hard. I will expect for all of her videos to be super sasha fierce…..

  53. TurnmeOn June 29, 2011

    BEYONCE HAS NOT SOLD 130 MILLION AND i AM A FAN BUT NOT DELUSIONAL ONE.

  54. Renee June 29, 2011

    @Hot Mama

    I agree with you. There is no doubt in my mind that Beyonce is an exceptional entertainer and vocalist. Especially in today’s arena of musicians. Lets face it, Beyonce stands out and the woman works hard for her success. I’m not taking any of that away from her. However, I have always felt for the longest time that Beyonce and her team try too damn hard to sell the public on her “rare” greatness as an artist. And as you stated perfectly, “self imposed greatness.” I love me some Beyonce, but girlfriend ain’t doing nothing I haven’t seen before from Tina Turner, Janet and Michael Jackson, etc. Beyonce is great at borrowing something from an artist and making it into her own signature style. Nothing more or less.

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