Beyoncé is BACK!!

This picture above is what every female artist who planned to release an album at the end of the year just pulled when an official statement got put out that Beyoncé's was slated for release a mere 2 months from now.

Music World music / Columbia records will release the third full-length studio album from the international superstar and cultural icon Beyonce on Tuesday, November 18. One of 2008's most hotly anticipated new album releases, Beyoncé's as-yet-untitled upcoming album marks the artist's first new studio collection since the Grammy-winning multi-platinum-selling B'Day debuted at #1 on charts around the world shortly after its international release on September 4, 2006 (in celebration of Beyonce's 25th birthday).

Not one to do things by halves when it comes to world domination. Beyoncé is set to release not one, but TWO singles titled "If I were a boy" and "Single ladies", which will impact radio on October 7. Home girl and her pops obviously learnt their lesson after the "Deja vu" and "Ring the alarm" fiasco with B'Day. If fans ain't checking for one single, they perhaps might check for the other. If shit ain't happening on neither? They can drop the album, guage the response and then roll out a new single that fans will dig. "If I were a boy" will have it's music video directed by frequent B collaborator Jake Nava - who hemled her "Crazy in love", "Baby boy", "Naughty girl" and "Beautiful liar" videos. Again, B and her pops learning from their lesson from having Sophie Muller direct 2 videos for B'day that looked cheap, boring and caused fans to petition for new ones.

Columbia's statement also stated:

With all songs co-written and co-produced by Beyoncé, the artist's third studio album is her most personal, reflective and revelatory collection to-date.

This of course means we'll get songs about her booty and her body over hand claps, whistles and pitch wheeled strings which she probably didn't write any way. There's still no confirmation on which producer will have their tracks make the final cut. Producers whom Beyoncé has 100% hit the studio with are Tricky Stewart (the producer of "Single ladies), Toby Gad (the producer of "If I were a boy"), Timbaland, Rodney Jerkins and Sean Garrett. The Neptunes, Ryan Teddar and Kanye West are producers whose names are floating around, but there's been no confirmation of them actually having worked with Beyonce. I'm hoping Rodney Jerkins' joints make the cut. He did the damn thing on Destiny fulfilled. And whilst I wasn't too big on "Deja vu", I LOVED "World wide woman".

I can't wait to hear these new singles. Beyoncé needs to come correct with this album. I didn't like Dangerously in love at ALL and as much as I liked some of the songs on B'Day, the album on the whole was less than what I expected of her. I'll be buying her album day of release regardless.

Bitches better get scared, because Beyoncé just f**ked up their chances of even going gold. Brandy is in mad trouble. Fans best cop 7 copies of Human on the day of release if they want her to even make a blip on the Billboard radar. And as for Michelle Williams, Columbia may as well shelve her shit. It was doomed to sell from the start, but her album releasing in North America on the same day Beyoncé's 2 singles go to radio is just the final nail in the coffin.