Beyonce isn’t usually the first star that comes to mind when you think loving and sweet. She has a bit of a prima donna reputation and, if you asked a few of the long line of former Destiny Child members, doesn’t take criticism or competition well. So it would have been perfectly reasonable to expect that Beyonce would go all pissed-diva on Kanye West when he said that Rihanna was the best thing to happen to her because Rihanna made her step up her music.

But Beyonce fought cold with warmth and just started gushing about her former Connect Four partner and the woman long considered her rival.

“I love Kanye,” she told radio DJs Ed Lover and Free on Power 105.1 FM. “It’s all from a good place.”

The artist also known as Sasha Fierce didn’t stop there with her praise, however, going on to confess, “I love Rihanna, I think she’s fantastic and she’s done an incredible job. I love all her records.”

[From OK! Magazine]

Another person she can’t stop gushing about is Justin Timberlake. Last weekend on Saturday Night Live, Timberlake donned a leotard and heels and played a backup dancer in her “Single Ladies” video sketch. According to Beyonce, Justin went through the choreography just twice before he had it nailed, and then just played it up for laughs.

And not to leave the little people out, Beyonce also expressed her admiration for the female dancers in the actual “Single Ladies” video. The two dancers with her are very long-legged, muscular women who not everyone believed were both women.

“That is so silly man, that is silly,” she says. “Both of the girls are dancers, they’re ballet dancers, and their bodies are unbelievable, just pure muscle. So I mean I guess people were feeling like, her body is just so strong. But that is crazy!”

[From OK! Magazine]

It’s so sweet how marriage has softened Sasha Fierce. Her next album will have to be called Sasha Saccharine.

Beyonce is shown last night at Gotham Magazine’s Gala at Espace in NY. Credit: PNP/WENN