As we saw last week, Beyonce and Jay-Z have been in Paris, for reasons unknown. I think part of their visit was so that Beyonce could be photographed for some fashion magazine, but for the most part, Bey and Jay have just been getting pap’d, happily. Considering they historically don’t enjoy being pap’d – especially when they’re together – I tend to think Beyonce is just gearing up to promote her album, and it helps to have some goodwill.
Another theory – Beyonce and Jay are in the general area of London, because one or both of them was invited to perform in some capacity at the royal wedding. That’s what some of the British tabloids are saying, although the rumor just got shut down. It wouldn’t be impossible – Prince William is said to enjoy Jay, Beyonce and Kanye West. But William wouldn’t book them for his wedding, would he?
Anyway, these are some photos from Beyonce and Jay’s Paris tour. The pics of Beyonce is the fuchsia and black number are from her magazine shoot. Everything else is just Bey’s sketchy style. The polka-dotted Mad Men-inspired number is especially hideous, and whatever is happening to Bey’s sideboob in the black jumpsuit is just WRONG.
Photos courtesy of Fame.
I think she’s going to pop a clavicle.
Yikes….what happened to her hair?!
Oh my God that dress. It’s so fun. I would love to do a photo shoot in it. Sideboob jumpsuit and two tone polka dot dress…no. The cut of the dress is very flattering and classic, but…why two different non-neutral colors and polka dots? The earrings she’s wearing with it are beautiful though.
The poses she’s doing in the black/fuchsia are a bit awkward.. She is a beautiful woman but I think her magazine shoots are never that great.
Some beautiful women just can’t pose. YOU don’t need to do all that stretching and contorting your body. A good poser can do it and make it look effortless. This looks like too much work.
How about “unfortunate”? She really does not know how to dress for her body.
Busted.
She looks busted.
I’ve always thought she was a beautiful woman! I still like her….
It’ll be interesting to compare & contrast those balcony photos with the magazine’s eventual photoshopping of them.
the only thing that I can bear is the polka-dot dress. The magazine “gown” looks OK until you see the peekaboo skirt (trashy and typical for her designs). The pantsuit looks OK from the front but her boob is falling out the side.
Also – her skin looks lightened – what’s up with that?
Don’t understand her blond ambition ! She looks 10 times more naturally beautiful with darker vhair.
And I am sorry, she is trying too hard to have that natural parisian elegance and sophoistication. She just doesn’t have it. It’s tacky,; not sophisticated at all.
When I was scrolling down and reading, I could only see the top of the second pic and I thought it was the top of Britney’s busted weave. Me thinks Bey needs a hose down.
I really love the polka-dot outfit on her, actually. Manages to be prim and fun at the same time without seeming really affected, and I honestly think it suits her shape. I like it.
The sideboob, not so much, but there you go.
she looks so tacky all the time. her dear friend gwyneth should help her out.
What the heck is going on with Beyonce? I hardly recognize her – she lost a lot of weight – looks like she had plastic surgery (nose job) and she looks like she is beaching her skin – I love her but she is turning into a female Michael Jackson
In the side boob jumpsuit, she looks like she’s dressed up as Breakdown Era Britney. All she’s missing is an umbrella.
Why do black women have blonde hair? It doesn’t look good.
She’s taken the skin bleaching too far.
real pareeshan.
When did she get soo….light?
I can’t remember the last time she looked good in anything. That polka dot thing is ghastly.
she is so overrated and so dim it’s laughable – at least she doesn’t clutter the airwaves babbling about politics.
ick…just ick.
I love the clothes and the fact that she’s wearing very little eye makeup in that one photo is kind of nice. I never noticed the “skin bleaching” thing until these pictures. She does look a lot lighter than usual.
She wants us to consider her ass shaking pop historic and become a legend (so she told Larry King). Then went to the great pyramids of Egypt and her guide, a high official from the gov’t put her on blast for not caring about the history, the pyramids, and being stupid and inconsiderate. He said she was only there to take pics of herself.
She and Megan Fox are the only two people I’ve ever heard of who were bored or angry with a high profile visit seeing the pyramids of Egypt arranged by a lot of people. Glad they were both called out by witnesses so we can know when we’re dealing with ingrates and posers.
Grammies are not historic next to pyramids, and Paris has better sights than this orange blonde. But bet she’s not there to see and experience much substance, but to do something to make her an Eiffel Tower in her own mind.
On one hand, every woman has the right to play Mrs. Potato Head with her own body and superficially it doesn’t hurt anyone, but I just can’t square the claims outlining the dignity of black beauty with the miles of blonde-zilla locks (weave, weave everywhere: give the horses back their hair!), the bleached to the point of greyness complexion, the refinement of nose tips and all the other piddle and crap that accompanies the rise to stardom of black ladies to some degree or another.
I guess it’s like long-running television shows, in that you may see a re-run and think to yourself, ‘holy cats, she’s lost a lot of weight since then and I’m not sure if that has helped her looks’, you don’t tend to track a black celebrity’s career and find examples of: ‘Oh wow, she transformed her hair back to its natural state so gradually I hardly noticed it was happening. She must be spending a lot of time frolicking on the Riviera, as she’s some shades darker than the woman I remember seeing those years ago’.
Again, their bodies, their looks, lives health and happiness. It’s not *truly* anyone’s job to step back from the pressures of assimilation just to act as a contrary beacon for all of the girls who are constantly told that black is beautiful–unless it’s black. But when you’ve got a whole planet of shades of grey–so to speak– it’s a little depressing to know that even at the top of the game if you look profoundly black you are still bottom of the heap, and that goes for everyone.
To see these changes in the appearance of a black woman being accepted as if they’re a foregone conclusion, to signal that half the reason to even become famous is so that you’ll have the various means necessarily to ‘upgrade’ from ‘Weekend at Kele’s’ to ‘intriguingly exotic’, just means that this social conditioning has been absorbed by all of us into a matter of course, and that kind of self-loathing is just part of the natural order.
Just as an observer, I’m not going to lie and say that the message being disseminated here is anything but, ‘it takes all kinds to make a world…pity.’ All of that cheerleading for the wonder of multiplicity just seems like lip service to keep detractors off of one’s tail while knowing that’s the polite way to pretend to think while you’re believing and setting a course of action that completely anathema to those now-rote philosophies. To be really blunt, it looks a lot like, ‘of course we’re all ‘beautiful’, but that IS what a fat girl would say.’
It just happens too much to be a coincidence, but I guess everything is culturally coded and loaded right down to our left baby toenails, so I don’t think it’s entirely conscious.
She’s just ridiculous.
Is it me… or her boob looks white?
WAYYYYYY BUSTED! And that hair??? Naturally really dark haired girls can not go blond and have it look good. It looks like straw.
I think I could forgive her busted style if her new song was any good. But, I have to say, girls are not going to run the world with that track. Annoy the world, maybe. But, not run it.
Green and red???
Is it Christmas yet?
Whoa- am I the only one who didn’t even recognize her? What’s going on?
When did Beyonce turn white?
She embodies this generation of ‘trying too hard’ kinda policy.
It’s like today, every starlet, ever young singer, every one of them is just dedicated at pushing and pushing even further all that mediocrity in our faces.
I don’t even listen to any music on the radio or TV. Reality shows have killed MTV and give place to the cheapest street culture ever.
I just run my old CD and try to get some new released of classics of the 70s and 80 ‘s and early 90’s when melody and lyrics means something, when you actually were required to have some talent.
It’s just too many BS those so called today stars, Beyonce included are producing all the while doing all those in your face image strategy to make us consume their BS.
What a sad state of music we are living in : mediocrity, cheapness, tackiness, all around ! nothing worth whatsoever !
Agree truthzbetta; I am aware of that incident – amazing that the media is so far up the butts of these overrated generic pop tarts like bouncy; I wonder what she and Jay z talk about in their quiet hours; oh, that’s why they travel the world no intellectual substance so lets replace it with diversion for the sake of diversion.
Bad weave, bad skin, bad style and walking with Jay-Z morning look ain’t helping…errkkk
Being a “weave connisseur”…I have NEVA understood why I have seen so many “rich bitches” with so much busted weave on top of their head…
I mean, my weave shouldn’t look better than someone who makes my yearly salary in a week?!?!
And brown skin women CAN rock blonde hair…it just depends on the shade and quality of the hair…the last time I saw Bey look “hot” with her hair was before she got married and she was performing at the BET awards and Jay-Z did a cameo…
She was rocking dark blonde and brown curly hair (loads of it…it was FIYAH)…and her regular skin tone…
GORJUS…
Bey now looks like a pale imitation of who she is suppose to be…
She looks like an extra from the ‘Twilight Saga’
I love the ruffled top and I do like the polka dot dress but Beyonce looks a hot mess and, along with the ratty hair, in the private photos I can see the line of the wig on her forehead every time – what’s up with that? Beyonce is a beautiful brown woman but she’s not an attractive off-white woman yet she’s bleaching her face into obscurity and wearing “nude” make-up so it’s like she’s making a blank canvas with no features. Radical bleaching and severe nose jobs seem to be rampant in the black American community.
@Jo ‘Mama’ Besser, interesting commentary. i somewhat agree…hmmm.
@Lala11_7, know any good (but not outrageously priced) places in NYC?
She looks like Fiona from Shrek in the polka dot get-up…
Girl is looking a little Stepford.
Beyonce is a beautiful woman with no clue how to dress herself or pose naturally. That dress needs to go back to the 40s-50s from whence it came. It’s absolutely horrible. it seems when she’s not dressed in a gown, she doesn’t really know how to put herself together. And her husband is always walking ahead of her, behind her, and doesn’t want to appear to be with her at all. They’re never dressed like they’re going to the same place. Her hair is beautifully arranged to show her black roots, a great plan. Why she just doesn’t let herself be who she is, I don’t know.
Gross.
Trashy tasteless outfits, bad makeup, bad sideboob, trying way too hard to look white with the very obviously bleached skin and hair….and why is she all glammed up in heels in the one pic while Jay Z’s all laid back and grungy?? Fail on all fronts.
I don’t understand what’s with her hair in those jumpsuit photos. I live paycheck to paycheck and my hair never looks half as greasy and gross as that.
It’s official, Beyonce is on drugs.
It seems like she’s on that Whitney Houston Diet. IMO
…or maybe like Lil Kim all that skin lightening bleaching cream she uses is seeping into her brain.
Signs that Beyonce might be a crackhead like her father…
1. That garbage she released on iTunes recently.
2. This trailer trash frazzled style she’s rocking.
3. Allowing her so called husband, the camel aka Jay Z, to walk around with that Bishop Eddie Long toupee on.
more…
doughy!
and there is no excuse for that broomstraw on her head.
Beyonce is like the Emperor’s new clothes.
Her stans rave over her and call her a trail blazing goddess even though she’s mediocre at best.
She only has a few songs where she isn’t screaming…but her stans call that singing.
GOOD LORD she is overrated and fake.
She snatched the title of Worst Song of All Time from Rebbecca Black and now it seems she wants to compete with Lindsay Lohan for best crackhead assemble.
Beyonce has been getting surgery for years but it was so subtle and gradual people hardly noticed it. Her stans would get suicidal when anyone pointed out the obviousness of her face change.
That’s why for her new album she thought she could get away unnoticed with her new nose job and skin lightening.
Plus, no one calls her fugly husband out for wearing a man wig.
People act like a toilet and gobble up all the shit she produces and tell her it’s amazing, they want more.
No matter how mediocre and untalented she really is the mindless sheep who revere her will always deny that there’s anything wrong with her. It’s sick and crack is whack.
I like them as a couple, but man she looks fug. Horrendously fug, in fact.
that skirt length makes her look bow-legged. 🙁
This chick is too paid to be sooooooo TACKY her mom taught her well…
Beyonce… has such an amazing, beautiful body… It’s painful to see how determined she seems to be to make it look horrible & ‘saggy’.
It’s as though she’s actively trying to look terrible. How many ways can she distort the shape of her gorgeous body to look like a shapeless sack?
@Jo ‘Mama’ Besser – You make many very valid observations. Saying that ‘Black is beautiful’, but showing exactly the opposite in the entertainment industry, changing one’s features to be more ‘white’… Their noses shaped, skin & hair lightened. It just says that: ‘black is only beautiful when it’s as close to white as possible (which is something you should actively seek through beauty products/cosmetics/weaves)’ , which is so incredibly wrong.