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lifestyle MONDAY, JULY 7, 2014 Music&Movies Beyonce and Jay Z: Contemporary pop’s ultimate duo or all of Beyonce and Jay Z’s up-tempo joint and wearing a wedding veil. She changed the lyrics Pop’s leading performer hits - the irresistible and catchy “Crazy In to note she’s been “riding with you for 12 years,” When Jay Z rapped about his “bad chick, H- FLove,” the swagger anthem “Upgrade U” and which earned a rousing roar from the crowd. And a town” during “Tom Ford,” Beyonce crept onstage. the beat-driven “Drunk In Love” - it was the per- video followed, starting with the line, “Love is an And when Jay Z performed the anthemic “Clique,” formers’ emotional solo material that made their act of endless forgiveness.” The back-to-back per- Beyonce was behind him. She nodded her head presence as a collaborative duo strong and formances full of sentiment and sensation were and then transitioned to “Diva,” where her singing resilient during their On the Run tour. It was like welcomed since Jayonce is pop’s most intimate style is not far from rapping, and her swag is not far they were having a conversation through songs in couple. In concert, they seemed to lay it all out from Jay Z’s. Philadelphia on Saturday night. Beyonce went through song. It was also one of many songs where Beyonce from a rock-heavy arrangement of “If I Were a Boy” Beyonce was most passionate when she sang danced with skill, enticing and igniting the audi- to a cover of Lauryn Hill’s grand “Ex-Factor.” She the upbeat number “Why Don’t You Love Me.” She ence and proving even further that she is contem- sang the latter as a woman scorned and repeated even grew teary-eyed after she belted some of the porary pop’s leading performer. She danced with the line, “Why won’t you cry for me?” The crowd at lyrics and paused for a minute as the crowd precision on songs like “Run the World (Girls),” the Citizens Bank Park sang along, and cheered cheered. And cheered. And cheered. She followed “Flawless” and “Ring the Alarm.” Sometimes it was her on. that by singing Justin Timberlake’s part on the hit so clean she appeared robotic. And she also did the Jay Z’s reply: His confessional and emotional “Holy Grail,” staring directly at Jay Z and singing the Nae Nae dance. Other highlights throughout the 2002 tune, “Song Cry.” It opens with the line: “I can’t lyrics as if it were written for her. The transition night included Jay Z’s catalog of hits, such as “I Just see them coming down my eyes, so I got to make from “Why Don’t You Love Me” to “Holy Grail” was Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me),” “Dirt Off Your the song cry.” He performed the track holding the one of many that worked perfectly as the duo per- Shoulder” and “Big Pimpin.” He went from “H to the microphone closely with both hands as he stood in formed three dozen songs - some in snippets - for a Izzo” to “...In Paris,” ending it by rapping the Kanye place, all while a video of the power couple was feverish group of fans at a stadium with 40,000 West verse: “She said, “‘Ye, can we get married at shown in the background. She was in a wedding seats. the mall? I said, “Look, you need to crawl before dress and they rode a motorcycle and danced. She They kicked off the nearly three-hour concert you ball.” Beyonce’s follow-up: “Single Ladies (Put a also cried, began shooting someone and was hit with high energy, going from “‘03 Bonnie & Clyde” Ring On It).”— AP This Jan 26, 2014 file photo shows Beyonce, left, and Jay Z performing ‘Drunk in Love’ at with a bullet. And then she sang the weighty ballad to “Upgrade U” to “Crazy In Love.” They changed the 56th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. — AP about a deceitful lover, “Resentment.” clothes about 10 times throughout the show, wear- Beyonce performed the 2006 song sitting down ing mostly black with touches of leather onstage. McCartney returns to stage after hospitalization aul McCartney returned to a concert stage Saturday after being sidelined for two Pmonths because of a virus, spinning out songs from the Beatles, Wings and a solo career that has spanned more than 50 years of rock ‘n’ roll. “It’s great to be back,” said McCartney, who turned 72 two weeks ago. He looked none the worse for wear, putting on a show of just under three hours with 38 songs before finishing with the three- song medley that ends the “Abbey Road” album. McCartney was briefly hospitalized in Tokyo in May because of the viral infection. The illness forced him to cancel a Japanese tour and a concert in South Korea and reschedule half a dozen June dates in the United States before resuming his “Out There” tour in Albany. Before his illness, McCartney last performed May 1 in Costa Rica. McCartney opened with the Beatles’ “Eight Days a Week.” He This photo released by Paramount Pictures shows, from left, Hound, Bingbing Li as Su Yueming, Stanley Tucci as Joshua Joyce, Bumblebee, Jack Reynor as Shane Dyson, Nicola Peltz wore black jeans and a sky blue blazer. When he as Tessa Yeager, Mark Wahlberg as Cade Yeager, Optimus Prime, Drift, and Crosshairs, in a scene from the film, ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction,’ from Paramount Pictures. — AP took the jacket off four songs in, he joked that it was the only wardrobe change of the evening. The crowd-pleasing show contained a mix of expected hits like “Hey Jude” and “Let it Be,” four ‘Transformers’ could earn record China box office songs from McCartney’s latest album and a gener- ous sampling from more obscure corners of his he latest “Transformers” movie, which features Chinese A reality TV show to choose four people to play roles in the Whether any other foreign movie will receive such a favor- catalog, including the Beatles’ songs “Lovely Rita” locations, actors and products, has so far earned almost film helped to drum up publicity. Observers say “Transformers” able screening “just depends on the movie itself, whether it’s and “Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite” and Wings Tas much in China as in the United States, driven by a is on course to beat “Avatar” as the biggest earner at the fast- popular, whether it’s competitive enough, and whether at the work such as “Another Day” and “1985.” Most of the record number of screenings for a foreign movie. growing Chinese box office. “Avatar” earned $218 million in time there is no other movie to compete with it,” Hou said. He 1980s and 1990s were passed over. “Transformers: Age of Extinction” has made an estimated $149 China in 2010. said “Transformers” had done well in China because of its He paid tribute to the two late members of the million in the US and $134 million in China, the world’s More than half of China’s more than 20,000 screens Chinese elements and it hadn’t had to compete with any oth- Beatles, singing “Here Today” to former songwrit- biggest and second-biggest movie markets, respectively, showed the fourth in the “Transformers” blockbuster franchise. er big movies. Also, advertisers who had arranged for their ing partner John Lennon, which McCartney according to figures from box office tracking website Box Hou Tao, vice president of leading entertainment consultancy products to be shown in the movie promoted the film by described as the conversation they never had. He Office Mojo. EntGroup, said yesterday that on average 55 percent of offering free tickets, Hou said. — AP began playing George Harrison’s song “Something” Director Michael Bay’s film, which was released June 27 in screens were set aside for the movie at the start, which had on the ukulele, and it built into a full band rendi- both markets, heavily courted the Chinese audience by dropped to 46-48 percent in the last few days. He said that it tion. McCartney also honored another late rock employing Chinese stars, basing part of the action in cities in was a record for foreign movies, which would normally be star, Jimi Hendrix, with an instrumental interlude of China and showing Chinese products such as liquor and milk. lucky to be shown on 40 percent of screens. “Purple Haze.” McCartney’s wife, Nancy, was on hand and he dedicated the song “My Valentine” to her. Perhaps one oblique reference to his absence was the new R&B singer Tevin song, “On My Way to Work,” which McCartney said he hadn’t performed publicly before. During his second encore, he brought a couple from Campbell performs Rochester onstage after the woman held up a sign saying her boyfriend wouldn’t marry her until he met McCartney. After the man led the audience in at Essence fest a verse of “When I’m 64” to honor his age, he went &B singer Tevin Campbell, who thrilled fans as a teenager to his knees and successfully proposed. when he asked “Can We Talk,” has performed for the first “And he booked us for the wedding,” McCartney Rtime at the Essence Festival as he seeks to re-ignite his joked. It’s a busy year for McCartney, who marked career. Campbell said he’s 37 now, but the voice that started him the 50th anniversary of his first appearance on on his journey at age 11 is still with him.