Beyonce's New Album: A Timeline Leading Up to the Surprise Release
Oh Beyonce! You sneaky little thing, you!
Queen Bey dropped a surprise self-titled album just before midnight yesterday, sending an electric shock through the music world. But wait: Where'd this album come from? For nearly two years, conflicting and confusing reports circulated claiming that a new Beyonce album was coming, that it wasn't coming, that a single hadn't been picked, that she was pregnant again, etc., etc., etc. Then she just dropped the new record upon our pathetic souls late last night.
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Here's the timeline of the long, complicated roll-out for Beyonce, starting from when Bey revealed her pregnancy in late 2011...
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