This is her dressed up for the "If I Were a Boy" music video, in which she plays a woman playing at being her husband by playing cop. Considering that Beyoncé recorded 70 tracks for the two-disc album, it's no big surprise that these additional tracks are actually really good, especially "Smash Into You" and "Ego." Images The deluxe version of I Am.Sasha Fierce adds five more tracks to the package. I Am.Sasha Fierce (Deluxe Edition) (2008) This album was conceived as a split-personality deal with one disc of heartfelt ballads-including "If I Were a Boy" and "Halo"-and another dedicated to Beyoncé's alter-ego, the dangerous and dance-oriented Sasha Fierce. Some critics have called it Beyoncé's best vocal performance, a potential award-winner, and others disagree, but while the pop arrangement tires after repeated listens, nothing beats Beyoncé's voice. This book includes a whole chapter on the emergence of grrrl power in the early 1990s.
Sheila Watley, Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender (1997) Learn about the 1990s legacy of girl-driven music scenes that inspired both Beyoncé and "If I Were a Boy" songwriter BC Jean. Marisa Meltzer, Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music (2010) in 2001 to further pursue his career, most famously co-writing Fergie's "Big Girls Don't Cry." Influenced by Beyoncé
Gad produced albums internationally throughout the 1990s and moved to the U.S. But by his teenage years, he was writing and producing pop music with his brother, and the pair had their first big hit when they wrote three songs for Milli Vanilli's 1986 debut album. Toby Gad, who produced the song and co-wrote it with BC Jean, grew up in Germany in a musical family and was initially influenced by everything from classical to funk to German folk music. BC was also influenced musically by Alanis Morissette, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Guns N' Roses, and Queen. Songwriter BC Jean, who is even younger than Beyoncé, came up in the days of Britney Spears and Gwen Stefani and mentions them both as influences in this interview.