Beyonce - 4

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

of course it's got a Prince vibe - Terius wrote it!

Terius has gone for some Prince vibes in his day, but I can't recall him going for that particular Prince vibe.

if i were a boy spanish version is where it's at obv

lmao @ how to dress well dude dissing this on twitter

https://twitter.com/#!/HowToDressWell/status/73804992661831680

not a herb alpert fan i guess

if you like "if i were a boy" you should jump off a high building

if you are in the band how to dress well & you don't like "1+1" you should also jump off a high building

What if you call her "BOOyance" on twitter

least of his crimes

You can hear The-Dream's demo of 1 + 1 here
http://www.billboard.com/column/the-juice/beyonce-performs-new-song-1-1-watch-1005204892.story#/column/the-juice/beyonce-performs-new-song-1-1-watch-1005204892.story

someone get kevin k some tissues

his version is p good

more interestingly, the soundcloud wave looks exactly like a syringe

^^^yes

oh my god this song is beautiful

yooo

this song is the shit!

You can hear The-Dream's demo of 1 + 1 here
http://www.billboard.com/column/the-juice/beyonce-performs-new-song-1-1-watch-1005204892.story#/column/the-juice/beyonce-performs-new-song-1-1-watch-1005204892.story

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someone get kevin k some tissues

― J0rdan S., Thursday, May 26, 2011 9:08 PM (Yesterday)

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all that and a bagga chips honestly

what is a how to dress well?

Honestly, I love B's vocal performance on 1+1, especially the growly gritty bits, but Terius pulls off the awkward octave jump "YOU!"s in a way that doesn't sound totally at odds with the song. Smoother phrasing or whatever. Can't decide which is better. (Also, this was supposed to be on Love King? And got left off? WTF?)

Also, the guitar solo on Terius' version is A++.

I assume it was left off because Terius wanted to make some money out of it.

yeah i think he tends to have a pretty good idea of whether a song works best for him or would work better for another singer

if i were a boy is one of the most disney songs to come out in the past few years, which i guess is why i hated it at first, but i kind of appreciate how it makes no mistake in trying to be something else. that's just what it is. kind of love it now.

beyonce's vocal cadences are much better than terius's

she really slays this