Beyonce - 4

considering how terrible the ballads were on the last album, this is exciting news imo -- she sings the hell out of this

wow wouldn't have guessed Terius wrote this

into all three of these tracks now

she just killed it on idol

Yeah, the Idol performance was w0w!

there's something p hilarious & diva-ish about beyonce slaying a ballad on the final night of american idol

fuck, this song

btw how is this the first song on the album

I have to assume that "I Care" will be a banger.

thx for that soundcloud btw; so good.

Listening to that now. Not convinced it's better than just the piano/vocal arrangement she did on Idol (but still very nice).

here's the idol performance

http://www.mrworldpremiere.net/2011/05/beyonce-11-american-idol-live.html

"im so dead right now she is everything"

think i've said this a dozen times but i so can't wait for her to get really fat and kick into a whole new gear

Not convinced it's better than just the piano/vocal arrangement she did on Idol

Now that I've seen the Idol performance a second time, I AM convinced the album version isn't better. Too bad. Would've been great to open the album with just a piano/vocal song—especially this song.

idk i like the gospel undercurrents of the recorded version

1+1 is really great!!

lol @ the ad on that video page

http://guru.sitescout.netdna-cdn.com/52e714ff_12-12_davidson_belly-881bdb1.gif

btw this is not the thread for this but i think a really great way to prevent piracy is to name all of your songs stuff like "1+1" that are impossible to search rapidshare fore

It's already on Soundcloud, which means it's out there for anyone who wants it. (Of course, searching Soundcloud isn't always the easiest way to find things.)

This is the type of song I've always wanted from Beyonce - this is a total, stadium-packing power ballad! From the three tracks we've heard so far this looks to be her most experimental album, but at the same time she's making a move towards more traditional R&B stuff... "1+1" wouldn't sound out of place on a Jazmine Sullivan record!

Don't know how this will work as a single though, pop radio will not touch this at all.

i'm on my knees sobbing atm

yeah can't see this getting much radio play

damn

I've p much always thought she's a terrible balladeer, but she really pulls this off

btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ZBeUR0UhI

sorry if we already did this; haven't been following thread closely

She's great at slow jams tho, she just never does them.

i love how slow it is & yet so percussively sparse

time stretched thin

She's great at slow jams tho, she just never does them.

― skot gigz - moombah pimpin' (The Reverend), Wednesday, May 25, 2011 11:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

are "My Myself & I" and "Dangerously In Love" slow jams? h8 those.

auld smang syne

I love "Me, Myself & I"! Also, "Speechless" and "Signs" from the first album are good slow jams.

I was thinking in terms of "Speechless" and "Yes" from the first album, both of which are epic and amazing. "Dangerously in Love" is the prototypical terrible Beyonce ballad. I think of "Me, Myself, and I" as midtempo, but I've never had any use for it either.

i always thought beyoncé used to be terrible at ballads (in both the DC days and on her first album), but "irreplaceable" was a turning point - i actually like most of the sasha fierce ballads. "if i were a boy" is still better than "single ladies".

this new one sounds great on first listen - closest comparison from within her own catalogue seems to be "that's why you're beautiful"...

wonder who did this -- sounds like something r kelly would write

yeah it's those sudden high "you"s

hey
i don't know much about guns, but i've -
i've been shot by you
hey
and i don't know when i'm gon die but i hope
that i'm gon die by you
hey
and i don't know much about fighting, but i -
i know i will fight for you
hey
just when i balled up my fists, i realised
i'm laying right next to you

I really hate If I Were A Boy, but that might be because it seems so blunt and clumsy when you compare it to Ciara's Like A Boy (which is basically the only song you need with that subject matter).

bey
i don't know much about enunciation, but i know
i don't say algebra like you

1+1 is effin dope

SO GOOD

great song, but yeah, I kept thinking I was hearing it wrong, and then on American Idol she pronounced it like "albgerbra" or something

going into show business instead of high school catches up with you eventually

lol

hey
and i don't know much about fighting, but i -
i know i will fight for you

hey
just when i balled up my fists, i realised
i'm laying right next to you

damn

haha wow.. starts off so quiet and intimate, then you get that watery 80s flanger effect on the deliberate, pacing guitars, then the big electric solo squeals erupt, then the string stabs and suddenly we're in stadium prince territory

yeah def got a Prince vibe off it

jeez watching the idol performance and like, this lady knows how to sing on stage huh

Fuck this song is glorious. Love all 3 songs from this project so far, and I'm not usually a huge Bey fan.

"if i were a boy" is still better than "single ladies".

smmfh