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How Beyoncé Microwaved the News This Week

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That Timberlake news? Man, it completely Rick Ross'd everything in existence. Major announcement is a trailer for your major announcement. Bloggers moaned and griped because they knew a new JT song would equal massive hits and shutter productivity for the day.

Oh, and just to one-up her friend, Beyoncé jumps on Tumblr to tell the world that there's a new Destiny's Child song coming, for a compilation of Destiny's Child love songs. I think somebody might have peeked into a Spotify slow-jam/babymaker playlist and said, "Hey, let's just make an album of these!"

The GQ article now runs in its entirety. Beyoncé reveals that her life is the goddamn Truman Show by capturing every interview she's ever done, every press stop and every performance and storing them in her own museum. There's not a moment where you say to yourself, what doesn't she document because there's a guy who films that, too. And this isn't just for her upcoming HBO Documentary -- IT'S FOR HER LIFE, BECAUSE GIRLS RUN THE WORLD (or something).

She also offers up two gems, one being that she listens to "Make Love to Me" before she makes love to her husband, and something that will be plastered in yearbooks all over the country -- "I now know that, yes, I am powerful... I'm more powerful than my mind can even digest and understand."

Crap, and the only profound thing I could think of was saying I'd rather be any hero but Superman.


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Brandon Caldwell has been writing about music and news for the Houston Press since 2011. His work has also appeared in Complex, Noisey, the Village Voice & more.
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