Beyonce - If I were a boy
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Interesting song....
absolutely
I think her hair is the same color. . but it just looks darker bc it's in black and white.
I liked the video
That whole premise was deep...and interesting!
thanks for posting this video.
i really wanted to see it b/c a good portion of people were telling me that it was wack cuz she bit off of Ciara's song.
well after seeing it....
i like it. yes it is similar in theme BUT this video took it further. there was an actual "role" reversal vs. dance sequence
i really like it. good video, good concept.
i really wanted to see it b/c a good portion of people were telling me that it was wack cuz she bit off of Ciara's song.
well after seeing it....
i like it. yes it is similar in theme BUT this video took it further. there was an actual "role" reversal vs. dance sequence
i really like it. good video, good concept.
Re: Beyonce - If I were a boy-Ohh really..!!!
Bouncy & her pops tried to strong arm his new Artist for ALL the rights to the song-"If I were a Boy"
Luckily B.C Jean had already copy written the song.
Bouncy didn't want to even give the girl any writing credit.
http://www.bcjean.net/
Read the article.
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Beyonce's 'Stolen' New Hit Record
Last week, I raved and raved about Beyonce’s new single, "If I Were a Boy." Remember? I thought it was the best thing she’d ever done, and was amazed that she’d even found the material.
Well, guess what? The story behind "If I Were a Boy" is absolutely scandalous. It also explains my question of why this single missed the Grammy deadline of Sept. 30, since it was ready to go at least three weeks ago. The answer: it was held up by endless legal wrangling since, in the long hallowed tradition of the music business, the young woman who wrote the melody and lyrics for "If I Were a Boy" had no idea Beyonce had even recorded her song until a stranger called with the news. By then, it was too late.
BC Jean is a hot, up-and-coming, 21-year-old female singer songwriter from San Diego. Those who’ve met her says she’s smart and "gorgeous." But BC (her initials, legend has it, are for "beautiful child") got a cold dose of reality this summer when it comes to the record business. According to sources, she and her manager/mother have been strong-armed by Beyonce’s people and others who saw gold in "If I Were a Boy" and didn’t care how they got it.
You can hear BC Jean’s version of her own song, written with German pop-factory producer Toby Gad, at www.bcjean.net. It’s certainly as good as Beyonce’s if not better. It’s no wonder that this young woman is now the center of so much attention.
Altogether, I am told, BC Jean wrote and recorded about a dozen songs with Gad for an album the producer was planning to make of his own. When the deal fell apart, Gad — whose 300 plus credits are all co-written, never solo — took the songs and started marketing them to big name, established artists. Gad’s past "collaborators" include Fergie, on "Big Girls Don’t Cry."
Besides Beyonce, Gad brought at least one of the songs to Disney for "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus. But Disney wanted the lyrics changed to be age-appropriate. BC Jean refused. For now, Miley and Gad have been rebuffed.
When I wrote about Beyonce’s version of "If I Were a Boy" last week, calls came pouring in from people who knew the real history of this story. BC Jean’s mother/manager, Lori Carlson, told me she couldn’t comment on the situation. But plenty of people knew the saga of Beyonce’s legendary manager/father Mathew Knowles’ aggressive pursuit of the publishing rights to the potential hit record. His goal was to get the rights to the song and to put Beyonce’s name on the writing credits.
The Carlsons, I’m told, recently came to terms with Beyonce, after enduring the kind of record biz terrors that would curl the hair of the guys from "Hit Men." Now, "If I Were a Boy" is hitting big time. Part of the deal, my sources insist, is that the two singers will duet on BC Jean’s debut album once she gets her own recording deal. Right now, managers, publishers and A&R people from all over the industry are falling over themselves trying to sign BC Jean. They should be. She seems to be the real deal, a potential artist with a big career looming in front of her. It’s a shame that this is the way she had to find out about the record business.
BC Jean’s story is an old one that dates back to Elvis Presley and continues ‘til today. The larger issue, of course, is that performers who don’t write their own music get no royalty when their records are played on the radio. That’s why a Performance Royalty Act is being pushed in Congress right now, and why songwriters should back it. Artists wouldn’t be looking to muscle in on their business if they were paid appropriately. Beyonce simply falls into a category that also includes Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett as well as Sam Moore and Judy Collins, each of whom testified in front of Congress about the matter this year.
And by the way: BC Jean’s story is pretty common. I’d love to hear from all the other songwriters out there who’ve been ripped off just in the last year. The back stories of how records get made, how big stars who don’t write their own music wind up with hit material, are always hell-raisers.
Source..
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,437442,00.html
http://www.bcjean.net/
Bouncy & her pops tried to strong arm his new Artist for ALL the rights to the song-"If I were a Boy"
Luckily B.C Jean had already copy written the song.
Bouncy didn't want to even give the girl any writing credit.
http://www.bcjean.net/
Read the article.
------- --------------------
Beyonce's 'Stolen' New Hit Record
Last week, I raved and raved about Beyonce’s new single, "If I Were a Boy." Remember? I thought it was the best thing she’d ever done, and was amazed that she’d even found the material.
Well, guess what? The story behind "If I Were a Boy" is absolutely scandalous. It also explains my question of why this single missed the Grammy deadline of Sept. 30, since it was ready to go at least three weeks ago. The answer: it was held up by endless legal wrangling since, in the long hallowed tradition of the music business, the young woman who wrote the melody and lyrics for "If I Were a Boy" had no idea Beyonce had even recorded her song until a stranger called with the news. By then, it was too late.
BC Jean is a hot, up-and-coming, 21-year-old female singer songwriter from San Diego. Those who’ve met her says she’s smart and "gorgeous." But BC (her initials, legend has it, are for "beautiful child") got a cold dose of reality this summer when it comes to the record business. According to sources, she and her manager/mother have been strong-armed by Beyonce’s people and others who saw gold in "If I Were a Boy" and didn’t care how they got it.
You can hear BC Jean’s version of her own song, written with German pop-factory producer Toby Gad, at www.bcjean.net. It’s certainly as good as Beyonce’s if not better. It’s no wonder that this young woman is now the center of so much attention.
Altogether, I am told, BC Jean wrote and recorded about a dozen songs with Gad for an album the producer was planning to make of his own. When the deal fell apart, Gad — whose 300 plus credits are all co-written, never solo — took the songs and started marketing them to big name, established artists. Gad’s past "collaborators" include Fergie, on "Big Girls Don’t Cry."
Besides Beyonce, Gad brought at least one of the songs to Disney for "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus. But Disney wanted the lyrics changed to be age-appropriate. BC Jean refused. For now, Miley and Gad have been rebuffed.
When I wrote about Beyonce’s version of "If I Were a Boy" last week, calls came pouring in from people who knew the real history of this story. BC Jean’s mother/manager, Lori Carlson, told me she couldn’t comment on the situation. But plenty of people knew the saga of Beyonce’s legendary manager/father Mathew Knowles’ aggressive pursuit of the publishing rights to the potential hit record. His goal was to get the rights to the song and to put Beyonce’s name on the writing credits.
The Carlsons, I’m told, recently came to terms with Beyonce, after enduring the kind of record biz terrors that would curl the hair of the guys from "Hit Men." Now, "If I Were a Boy" is hitting big time. Part of the deal, my sources insist, is that the two singers will duet on BC Jean’s debut album once she gets her own recording deal. Right now, managers, publishers and A&R people from all over the industry are falling over themselves trying to sign BC Jean. They should be. She seems to be the real deal, a potential artist with a big career looming in front of her. It’s a shame that this is the way she had to find out about the record business.
BC Jean’s story is an old one that dates back to Elvis Presley and continues ‘til today. The larger issue, of course, is that performers who don’t write their own music get no royalty when their records are played on the radio. That’s why a Performance Royalty Act is being pushed in Congress right now, and why songwriters should back it. Artists wouldn’t be looking to muscle in on their business if they were paid appropriately. Beyonce simply falls into a category that also includes Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett as well as Sam Moore and Judy Collins, each of whom testified in front of Congress about the matter this year.
And by the way: BC Jean’s story is pretty common. I’d love to hear from all the other songwriters out there who’ve been ripped off just in the last year. The back stories of how records get made, how big stars who don’t write their own music wind up with hit material, are always hell-raisers.
Source..
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,437442,00.html
http://www.bcjean.net/
Not a Beyonce fan and this is the first time I've heard that tune......
But it's a good little concept.....food for thought.....well until the tunes finished anyway .....
But it's a good little concept.....food for thought.....well until the tunes finished anyway .....
Damn, it's official...Beyonce has such limited song-writing capability. Pretty much every song she may have gotten props on, including the Destiny's Child version of "Emotions" and this song now have been written by other acts...
Is it wrong for me to still love her, though?!?
Is it wrong for me to still love her, though?!?
Damn, it's official...Beyonce has such limited song-writing capability. Pretty much every song she may have gotten props on, including the Destiny's Child version of "Emotions" and this song now have been written by other acts...
Is it wrong for me to still love her, though?!?
I am not really a Beyonce fan but she is the one that brings those lyrics to life. I feel like the person executing the plan is just as important as the person creating it. I just listened to BC Jean's version of "If I were A Boy" and Beyonce murders this girl on delivery. So she might not be the most creative but she is a hell of a singer/performer. I just hope that this album is better than her last. I hated that shit.
I agree. She was absolutely gorgeous with that black hair in Dreamgirls.
I disagree. BC Jean has a beautiful, raw voice. Her version showed genuine emotion. Beyonce's "emotions" are always so forced and completely unbelievable.
Poor BC
I disagree. BC Jean has a beautiful, raw voice. Her version showed genuine emotion. Beyonce's "emotions" are always so forced and completely unbelievable.
ok people we have a difference of opinion
hmmmmmm
i guess i will have to check it out for myself
You're confusing her with Patti Labelle.
WTH does Patti Labelle have to do with this thread?
OMG! Blunt is getting into a disagreement with him/herself.
Oh look. It's the 'genius' who figured out I was Blunt. You are the smartest person on this board. Pat yourself on the back 
Well, I wasn't calling out her delivery...I don't mind Beyonce singing on this track, but I still stand by my argument that she isn't that talented a songwriter...well, let me step back...her songs tend to lack a certain kind of depth, I feel. Then again, she's a pop artist...not that she can't have depth, but she's not one we're looking at for depth in songwriting anyway...
There are very few men that would cook breakfast for you, wait for you to come home, blow up your phone when you were out late with your friends... and that part in the middle was something I think a lot of women could relate to. I hate the sound of the song, but I really like the message. If only men and women could switch places for a day...
Yeah I can agree with that. I don't really try to look past her plastic shell for any depth I try to just take her for what she is. I feel like a lot of mega "pop" artist don't really write stuff though.
I disagree. BC Jean has a beautiful, raw voice. Her version showed genuine emotion. Beyonce's "emotions" are always so forced and completely unbelievable.
I wasn't really feeling the song on a relate able level, so the emotions weren't reaching me. I like beyonce's version because she has such a strong voice. Beyonce version is hitting you over your head where Jean's version is having an intimate conversation with you.
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