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Upon receiving Lady GaGa’s help for “Video Phone” music video, Beyonce Knowles will return the favor by lending her vocal to the dance queen’s new song “Telephone”.

Breaking the news to public is Lady-Gaga.net which claims the information is obtained from an insider in Universal Music Group. Beyonce and Lady GaGa filmed “Video Phone” earlier this month and kept the video shoot hush-hush. However, a source managed to spill the beans on the wardrobe they were wearing.

The Queen of R&B was in her best, booty-shakin form. I wasn’t sure how a Chinese audience would react, but they were absolutely mad for her - leaping from their seats and dancing on her command.

Sensibly, she paid big homage to Michael Jackson (a massive name in China, musically synonymous with ‘opening up’ for many people) and almost the biggest cheer of the night came when her guitarist broke into a Jackson riff during a solo.

Checking out the chatrooms this morning, it was clear that B and her all-girl backing band had gone down a storm. “There was an Chinese saying that ‘women support half sky’, said one poster, “I think Beyonce and her team proved that women supported the whole sky, haha !!!”

(The only part that seemed slightly lost on the audience was a video sequence based around the civil rights movement and Beyonce’s performance at Barack Obama’s inauguration. Perhaps the Chinese public will ‘get’ the man more after his visit next month.)

This being China, of course, if you were in the VIP section seated in the middle of the stadium in front of the stage (ie on the basketball court used for last year’s Olympics) you weren’t allowed to dance.

Every time Beyonce frothed to the front of the stage, lithe as a tiger, and ordered them to dance, the VIPs (which included a couple of well-known Chinese music stars) duly stood up and obeyed - only to be told to sit back down by a bunch of hectoring security men in black suits.

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