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Love Child Girl, we didn't know you could get down like that! Beyonc�'s first solo venture could have played it safe, simply delivering her from Destiny's Child-hood to maturity. But while living ''Dangerously in Love,'' she birthed contagious hip-hop dance tracks, '70s-R&B-flavored jams, and garment-rending ballads. ''I didn't think about trying to make it the most commercial record,'' Beyonc� says. ''Literally, some songs don't even have a chorus.'' In fact, it was an 11th-hour epiphany that brought boyfriend Jay-Z's rhymes to ''Crazy in Love,'' the first single. ''He came to the studio at 3 a.m. the night before I serviced it to radio,'' recalls the 22-year-old. ''I just thought it was such a great mixture of old school and new school. And that 'uh-oh,' you wanted to hear it over and over again.'' And then some: Released last May, ''Crazy in Love'' became the summer's everlasting gobstopper, helping to sell 2 million copies of ''Dangerously'' and earning Beyonc� six Grammy nominations. But the reality of her world domination wasn't limited to music: There was the movie (no, audiences weren't crazy in love with ''The Fighting Temptations,'' but Beyonc� helped save the $30 million grosser from box office damnation), the big-bucks Pepsi contract, and the adoration of OutKast's Andre 3000 in ''Hey Ya!'' (''I heard the lyrics and was like, 'Does he say Beyonc�s and Lucy Lius?''') ''It seems like every month something really huge happened,'' she says. Even with a schedule cinched tighter than her Versace corset, this diva next door hasn't developed a reputation for meltdowns or high-maintenance demands. ''I love grapes and Diet Snapple,'' she says of her dressing-room requests. ''That's about it.'' With a clothing line, a second solo project, and a third Destiny album in the works for 2004, she is staying focused on her master plan: ''Hopefully, I'll be able to retire early and start a family, and enjoy all the fruits of my labor.'' --by Nancy Miller , with reporting by Michael Slezak |
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