Record producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins stated in an interview with Scratch magazine that the style of the album keeps changing and is inspired by Knowles' upcoming film, Cadillac Records, in which Knowles has been cast to play American blues singer Etta James.
Knowles worked on the album for close to one year, longer than she had spent on...
Music
R.I.P. DILLAH
Movies
anything with the word "Legend" in the title or the Red Balloon
Television
BBC World, U.S. Open, or anything starring Heidi Klum
Books
runny babbit
Heroes
nanny and friar, running bear, delores and max, lathan hardy, art hijack, sue killam, lawrence may, hannah sokol, gerda neu-sokol, superbien!, tim stork, sandra burton, brenda daniels
