Encore: Beyoncé and Jay-Z | Love on Top | 61

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Beyonce’s stardom reaches new heights with the release of “Single Ladies.” She’s soaring toward the stratosphere when a nasty rumor pulls her back to earth: someone in her inner circle is stealing from her. What she finds out when she investigates threatens everything she’s spent her whole life building. And in the end, she’ll turn to Jay to help her find a way forward.

This episode originally aired on June 9, 2020.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can
0:01.7	convince the newest season of even the rich
0:03.3	before anyone else.
0:04.4	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or on Apple Podcasts.
0:08.2	A quick note, there's some grown-up language in this episode. So, Arisha, we've been spending all this time talking about
0:22.0	Beyonce and how close she is with Jay-Z, but there's
0:25.1	someone she was even closer to for a few years. Wait, does Beyonce get a puppy?
0:30.8	No, I'm talking about B's alter ego. No, I'm talking about B's alter ego.
0:34.0	Sasha Fierce.
0:35.7	I love Sasha Fierce.
0:37.2	It makes me think of when she was a little girl and had to develop two personas.
0:41.1	There was quiet, shy Beyonce at school, and then competent performer in girls' time.
0:46.0	Yeah, with Sasha Fears, B takes that alter ego to a whole new level.
0:50.5	The character, Sasha, is born on stage one night.
0:54.0	She gets so lost in her performance that she loses control.
0:58.0	Mid-song, she plucks off her $250,000 diamond earrings and throws them into the crowd.
1:04.6	Afterwards, she was like, oh my God, those earrings were borrowed.
1:07.5	I better get those back.
1:09.1	My gosh.
1:10.2	She realizes she's always had this like armor she puts on before she performs.
1:14.8	Now she gives it a name.
1:16.8	Sasha's bold, a little reckless, sexier,
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