Beyonce - 4

it doesn't exist i don't think. the best i've gotten is ripping it from that soundcloud.

http://hulkshare.com/b70bvctgqp5n

don't need no algebuh when ur schoolin' life

Goddamn, that's really something!

so, who's the Shea Taylor that has production or writing credits on basically every song on this album?

and every great song

I know he's produced a lot of Ne-Yo's stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKpGdTrmYkY

gave k3v a good going over here

lol wtf

decided if i ever listen to '03 bonnie & clyde again i will sing "down to ride til the very end, it's me and my BOOF BOOF"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boof_Bonser

finally got around to reading Lex's piece on this, great review!

And further evidence to back up the hedge fund theory, in today's Sunday Times Beyoncé reveals the real reason for calling the album 4: "I've won a lot of money on the number 4 when gambling". Haha.

"schoolin life" is great!

listened to this over cocktails at my friends' house the other day, and i do not think Party sticks out like a sore thumb at all. there was a palpable relief in the room to have a song like that in the flow. i just kind of sat back.

there a billion better examples of a song like that that could've fit on the album just as well, though

i'm into the simplicity of it.

to me, it reads like a really good toni braxton song

listened to this over cocktails at my friends' house the other day, and i do not think Party sticks out like a sore thumb at all. there was a palpable relief in the room to have a song like that in the flow.

i would think this was more because the ~intense~ intimate ballads that preceded it weren't really cocktail party material!

I suggest swapping the mojitos for gin.

well, we were actually drinking beer, but i may have switched to vodka when party came on

My grandma and I just drank ginger ale and Johnny Walker Black.

killing it so hard at Glastonbury

WTF what Tricky doing there though?

link?

Incredible!

Fucking killing it.

bw:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/glastonbury-festival---2011-live

thanks!

"the beautiful ones"!!

did she play "wonderwall"

Nah, she did "Sex on Fire" though

schoolin life is just about perfect really

I'd pay good money for a quality CD of last night's set. They should def release it.

wtf was tricky doing there? that was really weird. very odd match up. i was surprised by her, shes become a really powerful stage performer in the last 5-6 years, but she was quite immense yesterday. just a shame her band seems to sound so plastic - would be nice for them to sound a bit more 'live' and full bodied. she also does way too many shortened versions of her songs and medleys (she does each song pretty full tilt rather than explore the dynamics) but it was very cool to see her doing classic funk 'hit me 2 times'-type call and response routines and letting her girl-band do a few solos. shes obviously been watching prince, MJ, tina turner, JB etc. i know this is stating the obv but it was clear watching it tho how much of a heroine she is for a lot of girls. never seen that many women at the front at glasto.

but while i think its cool to get ppl like beyonce to challenge glasto ppl's preconceptions (did anyone see how angry zane lowe was afterwards?!?! - that was pretty interesting) i wouldnt mind seeing some R&B/soul artists like badu, alicia keys or even bilal perform there.

also the thing i found yesterday was that i liked how warm she appeared. made me warm to her. i mean shes still got the soul of a banker by and large but it was hard not to be won over.

Zane was forced into some major backtracking after taking something of a kicking on twitter. Pretty much all the BBC's presenters are unbearable though

zane lowe cant seem to talk in anything but hyperbolic soundbites.

beyonce was a 100 times better than jay-z at glasto in any case. shes a proper show-woman. did think she could have maybe done a more 'serious', less visual/presentation-based set for this crowd, maybe a more musicianly set (did love how some of the songs had great horn arrangements to flesh it all out) just to show a diff side to her, maybe a full on funk type of set, but that would prob be too left field for her to do.

Zane's continual digging after his initial dismissal was kinda lol but mostly sad.

(I like Laverne and Radcliffe fine, but the rest can fuck off.)

"ARE YOU READY TO BE ENTERTAINED?!" - felt like a prefix to "YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS TO COMPLY".

Haha, but yeah it was fantastic - a few bits that could have worked better. The backing band did feel a bit plasticky, and I wasn't sure how much of that was mimed or pre-recorded. The Destiny's Child Medley could have been better, but sounded slapdash, and maybe I'm asking too much hear, but if the rest of the girls had joined her at that point, it would've been the best Glasto moment ever.

But she seemed so pleased to be there - it felt like a real moment when she came down into the crowd and sang while touching everyone's hands - I was kind of worried for her life at that point.

Didn't notice Zane Lowe being any more of a dick than usual - what did he say? Mark Radcliffe and Jo Whiley were wasted in the wee hours after.

my spelling is right off today.

you guys do realise that this means we're going to see a massive spike in "indie peeps doing r'n'b", right?

do you think theres a lot of "indie peeps" who will have just found out abt beyonce due to his

the band had too many pre-recorded loops etc to work around. she needs to 'give up the funk' properly if she wants to be taken seriously. the DC medley was too stop-start. too choppy. i wanted to hear jumpin jumpin and bug a boo in full. also too many 'how many _____ tonight' and 'this is for all my_____'. tho i did want her to say how many ppl with their sex on fire tonight?

yeah i dont see beyonce at glasto = more indie peeps doing R&B. i think they all know about beyonce.

because traditional Glastonbury goers are exactly Beyoncé's fan demographic, of course

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ps - the guardian review of the new album is that old boring 'why cant all R&B be futuristic' argument rock critics who never listen to R&B wheel out all the time

think the super-trending Janelle Monae performance would offer more in the way of that kind of revelation, really. Even though Beyonce was amazing I think there's still room for basic ideological objection to R&B/pop music in there (e.g. Zane's reaction).

sure, there is, thats why i wouldnt mind seeing someone like badu play a big stage at glastonbury, i dont think most ppl who go to glasto even know that R&B like that exists.

All Zane Lowe said was that what he saw of Beyonce's set was entertaining but he missed a load cos he went to see Queens Of The Stone Age instead. tbf the clip they showed of QOTSA doing 'No-one Knows' was incredible, probably the best thing I saw of the telly bits all weekend. Thought Beyonce was v good mind.

he said it was 'too vegasy' and he just looked very angry at the whole thing lol

wouldnt be surprised if they had to get rid of him for when beyonce came to be interviewed cos of that

though i would have liked to have seen him quizzing her