Last night Beyoncé was looking all things fierce in this head to toe black mosaic Tom Ford creation at the screening of her new album 'Beyoncé' in New York City. The 'Flawless' singer was looking just that as she hit up the red carpet showing off her voluptuous figure.
The blonde bombshell also hosted a Q&A segment, answering five questions asked by fans via Instagram, but not before sharing details on her new project.
"This is a project that I didn’t think was possible actually. I’ve never done anything so brave in my life and the amount of personal growth from this project is unlike anything that I’ve ever done. I took all of my insecurities, all of my doubts, all of my fears, and everything I’ve learned over the last 17 years and applied it to this project. It’s interesting how motherhood changes you, and it changes your perspective on life and I took all the things that I wanted to change about myself, and all the things I wanted to share and I put it in this record. And I’m proud of it. More than the music, I’m proud of myself. The biggest message is owning your imperfections, and all the things that make you interesting because I refuse to allow someone to put me in anybody’s box."Her Q&A session below...
What was the hardest thing to keep the secret about your new album?
Beyoncé: Well, it was many things! Oh my god, it was so hard and I still every single day, I have gotten on my knees and thanked God that this happened.
Well, [...] we went through a lot of things to keep it secret and to keep the surprise because there’s something missing [in music.] It’s such a joy and it’s something I was able to experience growing up and I really really wanted to surprise people and for them to really just hear the art and it not be about the hype and promotion and we actually did it and it just says so much about my team.
You know, I started my own company, and my father taught me so, so much, so much! And when I decided to manage myself, it was important that I didn’t go to some big management company. I felt like I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Madonna and be a powerhouse and have my own empire and show other women when you get to this point in your career, you don’t have to go sign with someone else and share your money, and your success, you can do it yourself. So I found a team of underdogs, a team of women, a team of people that no one believed in, and we worked together and we stayed up all night and we were progressive and we did not follow the rules and we said, ‘Why can’t we do it?’ and I don’t think people believed, you know? I said to so many people, ‘I have an idea to do a visual album,’ and everyone was like ‘Ok.’ And we did it! And not only did we do it, it’s my company and I’m very proud of that.
What inspired you to be so open with your personal life on this album compared to your previous albums? Like in the songs “Mine,” “Partition,” and “Drunk In Love,” what was the story behind it?
Beyoncé: You know, I’ve always been very generous. I’ve always been very generous on the stage and I took all of my pain, all of my joy and I used it in my performance, but I’m very private, I’m very respectful and I think it just took me no longer being someone’s child. Once I became a mother, I felt like I could tear down those fourth walls and I just felt like it was time. I completely feel liberated and I felt like I could no longer create my art for other people, so I just felt like it was time.
Where were you right when you released your surprise album?
Beyoncé: I just got off the stage. It was 11:30PM once I took off and I had a glass of wine and my cousin Angie was like, ‘Girl, you alright?’ Because I was talking to myself, because I was terrified, I was so scared and I already envisioned like the worst things that could happen, I’m like, ‘People are going to hate it, why didn’t I say anything?’ I mean it’s just things that we all go through, it’s just human, and I was just really nervous because this was a huge risk and when I landed, I saw it actually live on iTunes and you know you’re just waiting for the first comment and the next morning…(Crowd exploded in appease and cheers)
Who is Yonce? Is she like Sasha? Is she an alter ego?
Beyoncé: Well, Dream actually came up with Yonce. We were in the studio and Justin Timberlake started beating on buckets, so when you hear the beat, that’s literally a bucket and it was really organic, it reminded me of being in middle school during lunch breaks when you just start free styling and so we kept the production. We went back and forth and I was very adamant about keeping it organic because that whole feeling is what’s so beautiful about it and Dream started [singing], ‘Yonce all on his mouth like liquor’ and I’m like what does that mean? But I love it. I think Yonce is Beyonce. Mrs. Carter is Yonce. Sasha Fierce is Yonce and I’m finally at a place where, as I said earlier, I don’t have to kind of separate the two anymore. We’re all one. It’s all pieces of me and just different elements of a personality of a woman because we are complicated.
Aside from charts and statistics, what would you have hoped to have achieved with this album when you look back maybe 10 to 20 years from now?
Beyoncé: This was my first album that – of course I wanted people to love it and I wanted critics to love it and I want it to be successful, but my goal was not picking a number one single, my goal was putting together a body of work and I just wanted to know if people cared about music because honestly I was at a point where I felt like everything, it feels the same and what I said in ‘Ghost’–’All this sh*t I do is boring’– that’s how I felt and if I could not challenge that, then maybe it was time for me to do something else or develop more artists, which is something I want to do, but growth and I just hope that I continue to move forward and challenge myself and I think now that I’ve become a mother, I just want my legacy to inspire people and I guess that’s the biggest goal is having happiness and knowing that when people come to my shows, they can escape all of the madness and leave there feeling like there’s hope.
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