Beyonce isn’t letting month-old-baby Blue Ivy distract her from work. The R&B songstress is planning two projects to be released in 2012, according to reports.
Ryan Tedder, the frontman of band OneRepublic who also penned Beyonce’s hit “Halo,” tells Billboard that he is sending the star new material — specifically songs about parenthood.
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“The conversations about her next album literally just started and there [are] two projects happening,” he says. “All I can say is you kind of feed her the best that you have and she’s this phenomenal filter and she takes it all in.”
While he won’t elaborate on Beyonce’s projects, he assures fans that they will be seeing a lot of the new mother in the upcoming year.
Meanwhile, it looks like Jay-Z is back to work as well.
In December, he told MTV News that, assuming his Watch the Throne tour with Kanye West concluded well, he planned to work on a solo project in 2012 as well as on a new album with West.
“We — I say ‘we’ because I’m in Throne mode — we’re in a great place creatively,” Jay-Z said. “You might see a Jay, then Kanye and a Throne album next year.”
Pharell, The Neptunes producer who often collaborates with Jay-Z, recently told MTV News that he is working with Jay-Z on a new project.
“We’re working on something, it’s crazy,” he teased, though he wouldn’t go into further details. “You know, he’s very discreet.”
Jay-Z released the track “Glory” about his daughter just days after her birth. Because the track included Blue Ivy Carter’s cooing, she became the youngest person ever to have a song on the Billboard charts.
Jay-Z also performed a two-night event at Carnegie Hall earlier this month, to benefit the United Way and his own charity, the Shawn Carter Foundation.