Beyonce - 4

"Hard", that song that ended up being a bonus track on the Diddy album

that was "change" (but yeah, that was the one he was referring to) (and it's not even that good)

What i meant was he said that about "Hard" and about "Change". Poorly constructed sentence.

Have any of you non-Jukebox dudes checked out Reba McEntire's version of "If I Were a Boy"? Pretty excellent.

but "'laying' right next to you"? come on terius

loving that video

I like the arrangements/prod of "1+1" but the song itself doesn't seem that great and strong to me. it's good though. I've tried to d/l beyonce's version but couldn't so far. anyone got a link ? I think dream's version lacks some personality. and of course, definitely a pricne vibe alhtough I couldn't tell what song precisely, beside purple rain...

i think this is the first 10/10 song of the year for me

sorta agree

ehhhhhhh

i think it's my #1 song of the year right now narrowly edging out GUCCI GUCCI

u_u

listened to this song six times on repeat as i walked home drunk last night

10/10

i think it's my #1 song of the year right now narrowly edging out GUCCI GUCCI

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 30, 2011 8:33 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha glad u came around here

this is def a sudden top ten contender for me although i still like 'motivation' more

official 2nd single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwMsWjrlu54

her vocals this era are insane!!

wow. so excited for the rest of this album

damn

"sucks to be you right now" lolz

this song!!

this song ... sucks

Love "1+1" and grew to not hate "Run the World," but this is just horrible imo.

she had to beat Gaga to the Bruce Hornsby revival

when did she get a decent low range

Love the vox, don't like the sub-Vanessa Carlton Lillith pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMT2jq-suyU

Everything about 1+1 is awes.
It reminds me of SOTY-era Prince where the songs were "OK" but the performance/production cured diseases

Don't care for the other one.

Yeah, Vanessa Carlton was the first thing I thought of when I heard this one too.

"A Thousand Miles" is way way better though

It is, though it's still terrible.

agreeing with some dude and Eric here; she can sing it but that doesn't really make it worth singing

"1+1=2" is hot tho

lol or whatever it's called

Worst thing you will ever read about the Run The World video

I especially like the line "In real life, there's nothing fun or sexy about getting your head kicked in by the pigs".

Anarchist philosopher and revolutionary feminist Emma Goldman is rumoured to have written that she didn't want to be part of any revolution if she couldn't dance. Well, we all know who can dance! That's right, Beyonce!

die

ARGH.

Let's not get too snooty. In some ways, it's great that the idea of revolution is going mainstream.

is this woman six years old

clueless pop culture commentary bingo: final point somewhat undermined by getting the quoted lyric completely wrong. irl facedesk

Hahah I saw it was a New Stateman link and then closed the tab immediately.

That article reminds me of this blog entry from the Wig Crypt blog that r|t|c posted not too long ago:

http://wigcrypt.blogspot.com/2011/02/educated-basic-bitch.html

I especially like the line "In real life, there's nothing fun or sexy about getting your head kicked in by the pigs".

― Matt DC, Wednesday, June 1, 2011 3:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Yeah this line is just unbelievably terrible.

And not to get all captain save a cop but her casual reference to "the pigs" really pissed me off.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=76529

Still loving "End of Time"

i still haven't heard that because it's so difficult to search for that song without getting a lot of results about the similarly titled Justin Timberlake song that Beyonce appeared on a remix of

it was posted upthread:
http://soundcloud.com/3xs/tteotb

There's actually some genuinely interesting & relevant criticism of the "Run the World" video around the web:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p72UqyVPj54
http://feministing.com/2011/05/24/behind-every-strong-man-there-is-an-even-stronger-beyonce/
http://clutchmagonline.com/2011/05/is-beyonce-the-face-of-contemporary-feminism/
http://jezebel.com/5804710/beyonces-girl-power-rings-hollow

that new statesman article however is complete horseshit. and what is this problem with sadomasochism all of sudden - it arose with rihanna's song too.

obv it's not "all of a sudden", just surprised people get that freaked about it in this day and age. & I don't remember the commotion when Justin was singing about it in Sexyback.

More "Run the World" thinkpieces:

http://begirlmanifesta.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/why-i-like-my-feminism-gray/
http://nunezdaughter.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/whereby-beyonce-breaks-the-internet-and-kismet-drinks-some-of-the-koolaid/
http://bitchmagazine.org/post/in-defense-of-beyonce

Haha this song is MOR and corny as hell but I like it - it's sort of like a weird cross between 'That's Just The Way It Is' and 'Dreams' by Gabrielle.

i like hearing corny balladry put to vicious, kissing-off use!