Beyonce - 4

BALLADS

could someone help a brother out ?

Oh wow @ "I Care". These are like ballads done properly for the first time ever?

Google blog search beyonce leak and you will find it.

i would like some kelly osborne plz

"love on top"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"love on top"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"love on top"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"love on top"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"love on top"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"love on top"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"love on top"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when i need you everything STOPS

No duds here this far except Best I Never Had, and that feels less terrible and more of a minor misstep in the context of the album.

Of course I haven't heard the Ryan Tedder track yet.

on one listen it wasn't egregious though i think i was still in "omg love on top" mode at that point

on first impression how does this compare with sasha fierce (and dare i say b'day)?

Um. On first listen this is better than I Am... and of a totally different vibe than Sasha Fierce. It's not quite as amazing as B'Day but it's in the universe of B'Day rather than I Am or Dangerously in Love. It's probably as good as the Sasha Fierce half of the double album.

I much prefer the style of balladry going on on this album than any of the earlier ballads she's tackled.

Start Over is pretty awesome, and manages to have a totally vulnerable bridge, without sacrificing towering verses and chorus.

Trying to figure out what "Rather Die Young" reminds me of

hum sounds exciting. could anyone tell me where to dl this or send it to me ?

omfg "starting over"

"start over", even

"i miss you" is so gorgeous

I want two or three of the bonus track to be this gorgeous so I can switch out Best I Never Had, I Was Here and possssibly Run the World, which is an awesome song but does not belong here.

i like "best I never had" :(

Not feeling the andre track. Kanye doesn't have a subtle bone in his body

i'm really excited about the inevitable "worst kanye west verse of 2011" poll

i like that track tho

Like how wack does a producer have to be to drain the fun from a ladi dadi sample

Run the World, which is an awesome song but does not belong here.

it's so glaringly out of place - do we think it was intended to be a red herring all along or was the album track listing completely rejigged after its disappointing reception?

methinks it might have originally been Track 2. Would make sense following up a slow burn like 1+1 with something like Run the World, but then it fell flat on the charts and they dropped it in at the end.

Has Beyonce been on one a lot recently? The sense of coming up in the second half of this album is kind of astonishing.

i can't get over "love on top"

wow, breathless

If Run The World fits anywhere it's probably between End of Time and I Was Here, there's a pretty obvious sense of build there. The run from Love On Top (amazing, very Stevie Wonder) and its ridiculous pile-up of key changes at the end, through Countdown (those horns!!!!) and then through The End of Time is incredible, such a rush.

The first half is good as well - agree this sort of balladry suits Beyonce a lot better than most of what she peddled over I Am. The only real clunker is Party, I know this is sort of the peril of the mid-paced club track but almost everyone concerned sounds bored (although I was relieved when Andre 3000 started rapping not singing). There should be some kind of independent international tribunal to determine whether songs are worthy of having the word 'party' in the title.

Love On Top (amazing, very Stevie Wonder)

it's very solange!

A little bit, I sort of think of Solange's retroisms as reaching even further back though.

u guys i haven't heard the album yet but i heard Party and i really really like it

like a lot

loving the way she sings along with the guitar solo on "I Care"

production/writing credits for like half these songs still aren't out there yet are they?

1st few listens i like 'countdown' & 'end of time' the most; basically prefer the back half definitely

i think people are overthinking shit if they think "Run The World" was shuffled to the last track after and as a direct result of its underperformance as a single. it's not a bonus track or anything -- if anything that's a prestige spot in the sequence! just like "Edge of Glory" on the Gaga album. but really nobody cares anymore where a single falls in the running order of a pop album, it's not like the '90s when the first three singles were often tracks 1-2-3.

me and my boo, and my boo LIP LOCKIN
all up in the back cuz the chicks KEEP FLOCKIN

"Rather Die Young" is BLOWING MY HEAD

Trying to figure out what "Rather Die Young" reminds me of

― Number None, Tuesday, June 7, 2011 12:08 PM Bookmark

the guitar runs remind me of "And Your Bird Can Sing"!

I feel like it may take me a while to get past this song.

OK fine, I'm downloading this now.

Oh shit the "Uhh Ahh" sample on "Countdown".

Totally loving this album. Wasn't sure I would.

I think it was a general Delfonics vibe or something i was getting from it. I can hear the guitar thing now you say it though.

Yeah, I didn't think that was what you were trying to get out, it's just what jumped out in my mind.

Oh shit the "Uhh Ahh" sample on "Countdown".

yesssss

I also like "Party" btw. I mean the beat is a bit chintzy or whatever but i love B's vocal.

that song is singlehandedly slowing down my motivation to listen to the album a 2nd time

cant stand party. so hamfisted