Unless you’re asexual (or Keri Hilson), it’s impossible to hear Beyoncé’s “Rocket” and not feel an intense urge to invite your guy/gal/cutty buddy over to do the no-pants dance. And according to the song’s author, the song was written with that in mind.

Miguel, who penned Bey’s 2013 update to D’Angelo’s rhetorical classic “Untitled (How Does It Feel),” says he was challenged by Mrs. Carter to push the envelope with some of her most risqué lyrics yet.

“I’ll never forget the conversation I had with Beyoncé and her insisting that nothing was off-limits,” Miguel tells VIBE. “And me being like, ‘Oh yeah, you sure? Because I can really take it there.’”

And take it there he did. Once Miguel got the OK from Yonce, he came up with the song’s definitive opening line: “Let me sit this ass… on you.”
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When Beyoncé’s surprise self-titled album touched down last month, a minor mystery quickly shot out from the forest of the album’s liner notes. Among the usual suspects—Timbaland, the-Dream, Pharrell, Hit-Boy—someone by the name “Boots” was everywhere on the record. He wrote and produced “Haunted”, “Heaven”, and, perhaps most strikingly, “Blue”, the song dedicated to Beyoncé and Jay Z’s daughter. He sang backup vocals on and performed many or all of the instruments on several songs. In an interview, Beyoncé name-checked him as “an innovator,” while a member of her creative team tweeted the only currently available picture of Boots, with the note that he had “co-produced 80 percent of the album.” Within seven days, the query “Who is Boots?” had racked up 452,000,000 Google results.

So who is Boots? When I meet him at a Brooklyn restaurant down the street from his apartment, I have already agreed to some ground rules: I can’t ask about his real name—even though Complex, The Broward Palm Beach New Times, and now even his freshly-minted Wikipedia page identify him as Jordy Asher, a Miami-based musician who spent time in a number of rock bands, including Blonds. He doesn’t want to talk about any of the projects he’s worked on before now. And he’s cagey about how, exactly, Beyoncé discovered his demo, saying only, “That’s for Beyoncé and me to know.”
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Superstars Jay Z, Beyonce, Bruno Mars, Keith Urban, Taylor Swift , Hunter Hayes, Katy Perry, Lorde, Robin Thicke, and John Legend perform on The GRAMMYs, Sunday, 8/7c! Only CBS. Do not forget that you can watch it online here (January 26).

Source: CBS

These Grammy-nominated ‘Sisters with Voices’ cranked out back-to-back R&B hits and sold over 15 million records worldwide. After a 15-year separation, the trio reunited in an attempt to recapture their spot at the top of the music charts. WE TV’s new reality series SWV Reunited profiles the R&B trio as they embark on their make-it-or-break-it comeback tour. The series follows SWV as they write new music, tour and finally face the issues that ended their friendship and their careers once before.

During an interview with theGrio’s Chris Witherspoon the ladies of SWV—Cheryl “Coko” Clemons, Leanne “Lelee” Lyons and Tamara “Taj” George, opened up about their breakup, which happened at the peak of SWV’s fame.

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B.o.B. has no problem with Beyoncé’s surprise album release last month. Just its timing.

“It’s like, ‘Dang, couldn’t you have waited for 2014!’ ” he tells Billboard with a laugh. His third album, “Underground Luxury,” dropped just four days after “Beyoncé” appeared and gobbled up the spotlight, but B.o.B. hastens to add that there’s certainly no hard feelings. “It was definitely, like, Whoa.. She showed the world how powerful an artist can be, and at the same time how powerful the Internet is. That’s how to end the year, y’know? She ended with a bang.”

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The World Music Awards is an international awards show founded in 1989 under the High Patronage of Albert II, Prince of Monaco and is based in Monte-Carlo. Awards are presented to the World’s best-selling Artists in the various categories and to the best-selling Artists from each major territory.

Beyoncé have been nominated 13 times in 8 different categories. The best part is that we can vote online and put the Queen where she belongs! Check the nominees and the vote link for each category below:

After a one-week vacation from the top slot on the Billboard 200 chart, Beyonce is heading back to No. 1.

The diva’s self-titled set could sell around 85,000 to 90,000 copies by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, Jan. 12, according to industry forecasters. If it returns to No. 1, it will mark the fourth non-consecutive week atop the list for “Beyonce.”

Meanwhile, the current chart champ, the soundtrack to Disney’s “Frozen” movie, will probably dip to No. 2 with around 75,000. The “Frozen” set stormed to No. 1 this past week on the chart, selling 165,000 copies in the week ending Jan. 5, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It bumped “Beyonce” out of the No. 1 position after a three-week reign.

The top 10 of next week’s Billboard 200 chart will be revealed on Wednesday, Jan. 15.

The highest new entry on next week’s list will likely be rapper Kid Ink’s major label full-length album, “My Own Lane,” with around 40,000 or so. That should place it around No. 3 on the chart. It should be the only debut in the top 10 next week.

The rest of the top 10 should be populated with holdovers by the likes of Eminem’s “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” (maybe 35,000), Lorde’s “Pure Heroine” (30,000) and One Direction’s “Midnight Memories” (25,000).

On SoundScan’s Building chart (below), “Beyonce” leads at No. 1, while Kid Ink and the “Frozen” soundtrack are Nos. 2 and 3, respectively. The Building tally is a precursor to the final Billboard 200 ranking — reflecting the first four days (Monday through Thursday) of SoundScan’s tracking week as reported by six major merchants.

As for the rest of the top 10: Eminem, Lorde and One Direction are Nos. 4-6, while Katy Perry’s “PRISM” is No. 7. Miley Cyrus’ “Bangerz” is No. 8, Imagine Dragons’ “Night Visions” is No. 9 and Drake’s “Nothing Was the Same” rounds out the Building Chart’s top 10 at No. 10.

Source: Billboard