Beyonce - 4

reaffirmation of "Countdown" as awesome

currently sitting here with eyes bugging out at the beginning of "End Of Time"

holy hell, B

(I'd heard this one before too but had forgotten it was amazeballs)

also fu haters, "Girls" roolz

if you're deaf

lol

problem w/ that song is that "pon de floor" is just better

lol yeah that song is horrible give it up, america already has

have you gotten to "schoolin life" yet?

that's not on Spotify afaict

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsXMC7gU2Ss

it's a bonus track

"Schoolin' Life" is, sorry, kinda academic.

lol this sounds kind of like a lost Karyn White song

of the bonus tracks "schoolin' life" has rightly got a lot of attention but "lay up under me" and "dance fro you", esp the latter, are super-good slow burners too

schoolin' life is gr8. deej's observations about it seem otm, but i don't care.

"dance for you" is kind of epic actually, esp with that organ running throughout

SWIIIIRLIIIIING ON YOU BABE

I mean, I am enjoying this but it isn't speaking to me like "Countdown" or "End Of Time"; it's kind of making me wish I was listening to "Secret Rendezvous" instead.

She does sound uniformly great on every song on this.

yea i don't love schoolin life. basically it just makes me want to listen to i didn't meant to turn u on.

the other two bonus tracks ARE great, lex otm

there's also a fourth bonus track, "dreaming", but it didn't grab me on one listen

i'm beginning to think that beyonce singing "i said baby 21 / so i get me a drink!" while the synths crescendo behind her is the best moment of terius' prince homages

aahhh that line is the one frustrating bit about the song for me cuz i always think she's chickening out of singing "i said baby 21, so i can be free"

i don't get what not singing out "so i can be free" has to do with chickening out, lex

free of her dad?

oh

well technically she could do that at 18

Also it would be a lie wouldn't it?

Anyway J0rdan is right but I also love:

"This is for them sexy somethings, that BODY ain't always gonna get you out of everyTHAAAAANG."

Can anyone parse the 50-somethings line?

I hear:

"Hell you're halfway there, baby, take it to the hair!"

Like, is she saying they should crop or colour to hide the grey?

"This is for them sexy somethings, that BODY ain't always gonna get you out of everyTHAAAAANG."

yessssssssssssssss; it's like she's recently had this revelation herself

regarding the 50somethings maybe "take it to the hilt"? not sure that makes sense, though

well technically she could do that at 18

it's actually more implausible that anyone would take their first drink at 21, even a miss goody two-shoes like beyoncé

i always heard "take it to the head", like drink up

yessssssssssssssss; it's like she's recently had this revelation herself

totally!

"this is for them prettysomethings livin' in the fast lane - see you when you crash, babe" functions so well as simultaneous celebration and warning

Can anyone parse the 50-somethings line?

i always heard it as "take it to the head" as in drinking a shit ton of liquor

yeah that's def what she's saying imo

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=take%20it%20to%20the%20head

^^

agreed

free of her dad?

― lex pretend, Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:27 PM (19 minutes ago)

ha i read that sentiment, which supposedly comes from the narrator at age 14, as kind of your usual overdramatic teenage one

wanting to get a drink is so much cooler of a lyric than wanting to be free

it's kind of an underwhelming pay-off

I could drink with Beyonce, especially if she likes champagne on lips as much as I do.

I think the idea that all Beyonce wants to do in life is to be able to drink is a pretty good pay-off line!

yeah it's great, idk what lex is talking about

Beyonce's first drink came at 25 and resulted in B'Day

I far prefer this dance remix of "Run The World" to the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WnoHzFyvQI

Remix ditches the only thing I liked in the original -- the harmonizing at the end on "who are we? what we run?" -- so, pass.

"Schoolin' Life" is, sorry, kinda academic.

― ephendophile (Eric H.), Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i get that but we are talking about a terius song, so the point seems kind of tautological i guess lol

I don't agree with that statement, I was drawing attention to the unreliability of eric's opinions.

that's kinda dickish, eric's opinions are as valid as anyone else's here

Yeah, consider it withdrawn.

that's a good remix, kinda demonstrates that it's a good song even without the "pon de floor" catnip