EOnline.com:
Oh hey there, pretty mama!
Kelly Rowland looked all kinds of fabulous during a last-minute shopping trip in Beverly Hills yesterday.
The former Destiny's Child
singer's post-baby body was on full display in her stylish
outfit—skinny jeans and all—and was smiling from ear-to-ear shortly
before entering a local department store.
Rowland just gave birth to her first child, a son named Titan Jewell, a little less than two months ago.
Yesterday, the Grammy winner posted a sweet Instagram shot of her husband, Tim Weatherspoon, holding the little one and giving him a big kiss on the cheek,
The photo was captioned, "#myfavoriteguys" by the proud songstress—too cute for words!
TIME.com:
It's tough at the top
One year after the release of her self-titled album, Beyoncé’s
music is being closely analyzed yet again — and not, this time, from her
Beyhive.
The singer is one of many who’s been accused of sampling without
permission throughout her career. Questions of authorship and of
sampling are particularly pernicious and difficult to solve in the
recording industry; just this month, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Beyoncé’s husband Jay Z for his sampling of a single syllable from a funk song. A new lawsuit
filed by Hungarian singer Mitsou alleges that Beyoncé, Jay Z, and
producer Timbaland used her song “Bajba, Bajba Pelem” at the start of
“Drunk in Love.”
While musicians of all stripes can get hit with lawsuits given the
unclear standards around sampling and the ephemeral nature of
authorship, Beyoncé’s been hit more frequently than many of her
contemporaries. Being queen, it’d seem, has a headache-inducing cost —
as several of her songs and videos have come in for criticism.
- “Baby Boy”: One of Beyoncé’s first solo singles was
alleged by songwriter Jennifer Armour to bear substantial similarities
to her “Got a Little Bit of Love for You,” which had been submitted as a
demo to Beyoncé’s label. “Armour cannot prove Beyoncé had access to
Armour’s demo tape before composing the allegedly infringing elements of
her own song,” the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in a decision declining even to address the songs’ similarity.
- “If I Were a Boy”: The lead-off single for Beyoncé’s album I Am… Sasha Fierce
was penned by songwriter BC Jean, whose own version of the song was
rejected by her record label. After Beyoncé discovered the song and
recorded it, a Fox News gossip columnist wrote that Jean had been “strong-armed by Beyoncé’s people.” That seems a bit overzealous: For her part, Jean told an interviewer
that she’d been surprised her first-ever song had been recorded by
another artist, but that the Beyoncé version had “opened so many doors,
it’s amazing.”
- “Countdown”: Beyoncé took inspiration from contemporary ballet
in her “Countdown” video, but one of her muses was far from flattered.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker claimed “plagiarism”; though it’s difficult
to cite a source in a music video, Beyoncé took it upon herself to
credit De Keersmaeker in a statement after the choreographer spoke out.
“I’ve always been fascinated by the way contemporary art uses different
elements and references to produce something unique,” Beyoncé said.
- “Run the World (Girls)”: The apocalyptic, disturbing clip for this 2011 single was specifically compared
to the work of photographer Pieter Hugo, down to imagery of pet hyenas
on chains. And her performance of the song at the 2011 Billboard Music
Awards was compared to the similar work of choreographer Lorella Cuccarini. “Thank god for YouTube or I would have never been exposed to something so inspiring,” Beyoncé later said.
