08.07.02
BeyoncΓ©
Knowles - don't go into showbiz
Destiny's
Child singer BeyoncΓ© Knowles tells next week's Radio Times
that she wouldn't recommend music as a career for any young person.
The
20-year-old, who is a role model to many, says the industry is full
of backbiters who "can drive you crazy and mess with your head".
However,
she insists that she and fellow group members Michelle Williams
and Kelly Rowland will "remain together for as long as we have
fun on stage and make good records. But I wouldn't suggest this
as a career for anyone. My younger sister Solange loves performing,
and in the beginning I didn't want her to do it. It makes you happy
but also sad. Some deal with it, others can't.
"It
can drive you crazy and mess with your head. You have to be super-strong
because people say things about you. As I get older I care less
about that. We heard rumours that my parents took custody of Kelly.
That wasn't true. Dad's very strong, but he was hurt. He treated
all of us like his kids. That stuff can tear a family apart, but
sometimes it makes you stronger, as it did us in the end."
Knowles,
who co-stars as Foxxy Cleopatra in the forthcoming Austin Powers
in Goldmember movie, has first-hand experience of hypocrisy in the
music business.
"Sharks
are all around and if you can survive them once you're successful,
that's when the true you comes out. Someone says to Kelly, 'Why
does Beyonce sing all the songs? You should do more,' and the same
person asks me, 'You do all the work, so why are you sharing your
money with the group?' and he'll go to Michelle, 'They've been together
a long time. They don't want you.'
"It
can get to you if you don't know the truth. Now whenever anyone
starts that with us we say, 'Excuse me, please go away.'"
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