AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

FOUR SINGLES.

The New Yorker

| October 04, 2004 | Frere-Jones, Sasha | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Beyonce Knowles is a poet of hugeness. It is the subject of her work and the signal feature of her life. She is the lead singer of one of the world's hugest pop groups, Destiny's Child, and she has a multimillion-dollar contract with L'Oreal, which is about as big as lipstick gets. Her boyfriend is the rapper Jay-Z, who in any other relationship would be the famous one. And in her increasingly remarkable records Beyonce is creating a new kind of supersized music, a triumphalist pop that makes its point through magnitude as much as style. Last year, shorn of her surname--an act of enlargement in itself--she released an album of her own called "Dangerously in Love," which ...

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
For more facts and information, see all results
©2009 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA