News: Beyonce Bits

Produced by the Underdogs, "Listen" is one of four new tunes written for the movie and not featured in the original musical, reports MTV.com. According to several online retailers, "Listen" will also appear as one of three unlisted bonus tracks on "B'Day."

"It's a ballad, it's got a big orchestra, so it's totally different for her and for the radio and MTV and everybody - it's gonna be exciting," said Harvey Mason Jr. of the Underdogs, who spent six months producing the soundtrack. "That's gonna be a big, big record."

When it came to finding tracks for her own sophomore album, Beyonce says she copied a studio technique long used by her boyfriend, Jay-Z and his old Rock-a-Fella compadres.

"They usually have a bunch of producers in the studio at one time in different rooms," she explained in a new Essence magazine cover story. "They get this positive competitive energy going."

For "B'Day," Beyonce rented a studio and had producers working in three different rooms. "It was so much fun and no pressure," she said.

Beyonce also admits in the article that Jay-Z's rap in the set's first single, "Déjà Vu," was never planned. The Def Jam president just happened to be in one of the studios when he heard the beat.

"But once he heard it, I saw his lips start moving," Beyoncé told the magazine. "So I was like, 'Would you like to go into the studio and record what you just did?' Now we joke about how we're going to have enough songs to put out a little compilation record."

Meanwhile, Vibe Online is reporting a response that Jermaine Dupri made when asked to compare Beyonce to his girlfriend, pop icon Janet Jackson. J.D. reportedly said there is no comparison, because Janet's level of stardom is unrivaled.

"Only Janet records sound like her. I always look and think, 'Where's Beyonce going to be in 20 years?' It's hard for me to visualize," Dupri was quoted as saying. "I don't put them on the same plane."