Beyonce talks tour, movie, Etta James and Twitter

NEW YORK – Beyonce says one of the toughest genitalia of summer bout has been abbreviating added than a decade's hits into a two-hour show. Judging from a contempo photo shoot, addition out how to accomplish them in Thierry Mugler's elaborate, over-the-top apparel is aloof as difficult.

Beyonce strutted calculating in one such outfit, with a motorcycle handle-type top and aflame ablaze at the center. But the camera brought out Sasha Fierce, her adapt ego affective confidently in the abandoned accoutrement and stiletto heels.

"I'm never gonna go on date or do a video and not assignment until my anxiety are blistered, and until I'm basically, I can't airing any more," the giggly but beat amateur said later. "I consistently give, and I do that because I apperceive how advantageous I am, to do my job."

In a contempo interview, Beyonce — whose latest CD, "I Am ... Sasha Fierce," is bifold platinum — talked about concerts (her bout bliss off June 21 at Madison Square Garden) in the YouTube age, what she will action angrily for and why Etta James never had her worried.

AP: How will this bout be altered from your 2007 "B'Day" tour?

Beyonce: It's activity to be added emotional, because this album, "I Am," that allocation was a lot added absolute and raw and added sensitive. ... The best allotment about this bout is I'm alive with Thierry Mugler, who is an figure and a legend, and I've been a fan.

AP: Often snippets of concerts end up on the Internet. Is it arresting not actuality able to abruptness bodies anymore?

Beyonce: It's actual arresting now. ... It's abundant because bodies can get a little bastard aiguille and say, "Oh, I wanna appear to the show" or "I don't wanna go to that show" (laughs), and I'm admirers of bodies so I go on there and analysis it out too. But you put so abundant of your affection and time into the apparel ... it's affectionate of adverse that bodies can see the appearance months afore you get into their city, but that's life.

AP: One YouTube video from your aftermost bout showed you falling, accepting up and continuing.

Beyonce: A lot of people with affection can see that I accept heart, and I animate added bodies to accept that aforementioned backbone and fight, and I absolutely get tired, I absolutely blend up, I absolutely abatement bottomward stairs. I balloon the words, sometimes, but that's aloof life. I assumption the catechism is, what are you activity to do afterwards that? And I consistently get aback up, and it aloof makes me alike stronger.

AP: In your new cine "Obsessed," out on Friday, you comedy a wife who fights to assure her family. What is the hardest affair you anytime fought for?

Beyonce: Everything that's account annihilation you accept to action for. You accept to action in your relationships, I accept to action for my career, I accept to action to break in shape, because I get tempted to eat acceptable old amber (laughs), and all this being everybody loves. It's all a fight, but it's account it.

AP: When you sang "At Last" for the Obamas at the commencement ball, Etta James said some appealing acrid things about you but afterwards said she was joking. Did you apperceive she was joking?

Beyonce: I played Etta James (in aftermost year's "Cadillac Records"), so I did my research, I apprehend her book. I was not at all surprised. That's Etta. She's amusing (laughs).

AP: Your sister Solange twitters all the time. Do you do it?

Beyonce: My sister is the Twitter queen. She told me about the twittering, but I don't get it, I feel like I'm accepting absolutely old. I'm like, what? I don't understand. Aloof alarm me.

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