COULD Beyonce be the world's busiest globetrotting pop star?
The jet-setting Bootylicious singer jumped world-time zones to land at Melbourne Airport, only hours before Beyoncewas due to hit the stage at Rod Laver Arena for the first concert of her Australian I Am tour.
Not one to miss a show, the song-and-dance queen boarded a private plane to Australia from New York, just an hour after performing her hit song Single Ladies and receiving the coveted best video of the year prize at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony on Monday.
Living up to her "Queen B" status,Beyonce literally wore her heart on her sleeve with hip-hop husband Jay Z's name scrawled across her chest in a tight fitting t-shirt as she looked fresh and fit for the cameras and strutted through the airport yesterday afternoon in knee-high, black stiletto boots and dark sunglasses.
Quivering with excitement, Hanna Abdallah, 20, of Diamond Creek said he was crazy in love and dying to meet his "queen".
Abdullah spent $1400 to meet and greet Beyonce at last night's concert and said he spent over $2000 this year on Beyonce merchandise.
He said the Government's stimulus package had meant he could afford to buy the best ticket.
Her sold out Rod Laver Arena show last night displayed plenty of other sides of Beyonce - from emotionally-charged balladeer to fabric-dodging sexpot.
As with her last Australian tour, Beyonce is backed by an all-female band - Suga Mama - who shoehorn in the impressive amount of hits she's enjoyed between her solo career and the band that launched her, Destiny's Child.
Beyonce is one of the only true superstars this decade has thrown up - and while she still hasn't made a truly amazing album (but plenty of truly amazing singles) - it's in the live arena she really shines.
Her arsenal of hits is strong enough to withstand opening with the stroke of genius that is Crazy in Love. From there her excitable fans (including Katie Holmes and daughter Suri in industrial-strength earphones) were shown remarkable diversity.
Beyonce went from hard-edged R&B (Diva, Check On It) to soft-centered ballads (the stunning Smash Into You and Irreplacable) with bite-size covers of hits by fellow independent women Sarah McLachlan (Angel) and Alanis Morissette (a G-rated You Oughta Know).
''I believe I'm here to empower all the ladies out there,'' Beyonce told the mainly female audience who nearly combusted during womanthem Single Ladies - recreating MTV's video of the year.
Like her heroes (and there was a Michael Jackson tribute) , Beyonce is an old-fashioned all-singing, all-dancing, all-round entertainer.
And like her creative contemporaries Pink and Lady Gaga she continues to elevate the form of live pop concerts.
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