Beyonce - 4

girls - it's the last song right?

"run the world" is preferable to "party" and "i was here" imo, though it definitely doesn't feel like part of the album to me

omg it's downright jarring!

i generally like the 'jarring uptempo album closer' thing in principle but obv it's only as good in practice as the song being used

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vXXiku0580&feature=channel_video_title

can't stop listening to "countdown"

i'll listen with you

it's kind of unreal

ha, @19:45 beyoncé says "every hipster loves countdown, that's their favorite song". she probably checked with her sister on that one.

lolll

Another pitfall in my quest to be a hipster.

hipsters otm (also R&B radio)

it is intense on headphones

At a red light a few minutes ago I was listening to "Countdown" and was all ME AND MY BOO IN MY BOO COUPE RIDIN'

(for a while I thought she said ME AND MY POOF POOF RIDIN')

i still think it's boof boof

yeah it's definitely "boof"

yeah I'm not sure I trust the lyric sheet I just read online.

it's probably my favorite thing by her (alongside "love on top") since "suga mama". so much stuff on 4 destroys i am... sasha fierce.

she don't fuss around with her f's

i sometimes sing "me and my BOOF and my BOOF BOOF WRITING", like she and jay-z are just sat at desks penning their next hits together

and then going into the vocal boof to sing it

they're not at desks -- they're sitting in a boof.

the girls video helps that song out a lot

it's really cute how they're at the desk together on her laptop in the documentary

i have opinions following the GMA live show but preemptive tl;dr : the woman has backup dancer charisma but she moves as well as anyone in the world, sings like a house on fire and is looking fucking awesome

I realised just how much I love this album when a loathsome local newspaper review (effectively: she has no sense of humour (?? did dude even listen to "Best Thing I Never Had" or "Countdown") and is no mary j blige so should stop trying to be soulful) made me tremble with barely suppressed rage.

there has been a whole lot of rage-inducing commentary written about this album/beyoncé of late

BTW Lex I don't think I mentioned how great your piece was (not least by comparison!).

Also before I read it I vaguely thought Kanye was saying "you got that swag sausage (something) swagu".

I didn't know what "swag sausage" might be but the thought of those two words together was quite upsetting.

thanks. the kanye verse is quite upsetting anyway.

also, http://twitter.com/ragusauce/status/81732910348120064

;_; ;_; ;_; ;_;

lmao @ that

lol

lmbo for real

I don't mind the slaggings particularly, what's really annoying are the "we were promised Sleigh Bells and Depeche Mode and what we got was a pretty good 80s pop album, cheers Beyonce, three stars"faint praise reviews, which gloss over the fact that no one gives a shit about that last Xtina album for a good reason.

I'd almost sympathise with those reviews if they were complaining about having been promised Fela Kuti.

i do think that the album's vision was a risky one, rendering it susceptible to such faint reviews, and claims not dissimilar to jordan's -- that it does not have anything as big as "motivation" on it

but i have considered that claim carefully and i can now safely say that i disagree with it -- even though i understand the initial desire for something that cuts as immediately and cleanly as motivation does.

the beginning of "lay up under me" always gives me flashbacks to phoenix's "too young"

whenever i listen to "i care" i cannot help but feel beyonce is really talking about her music, seeing as though the sheer amount of care she puts into her projects is something that distinguishes her

that's something i always think about when i listen to "schoolin' life" - for the first time in her career beyoncé sounds slapdash, in the best way.

Surely that's the dreamsounding "slapdash" more than b

"best thing i never had" feels very "lion king" to me - in a good way

haha

yeah it sounds like a track he might have had left over from The Prince of Egypt sdtk

Babyface, i mean

right??

OTM

i feel similarly about like, lloyd's "cupid"

can we change the name of this thread to the album title? would anyone mind?

Yeah I think that would best.

It's kind of an unsearchable title though, it's okay as it is surely?

tbh "Beyoncé" is a bigger search problem than "4"

is 4 unsearchable? one could put "four" in parens

no bigs either way i just think this title is silly now that the album has been released