Beyonce - 4

i've long been impressed w/ beyonce's low end etc etc

otm

lol j0rdan

(((d-_-b))) atm tbh

i feel like i've always heard the alto in her -- but it seems like just now she's finally realllly settled into that groove

like on

" i swear you like when i'm in paiiiinn "

damn girl

countdown is a v beyonce song - what with the female solidarity/girlfriend-to-girlfriend type tips in the lyrics (even if the tips are to just grind on their mans crotch) and the melody is quintessential 00s beyonce, actually the closest 4 gets to old beyonce vocals/get me bodied-style chants. BUT even tho it demands a certain boldness that rihanna doesnt really do i could totally hear rihanna singing the 'lowerrrrrrrrrrrr' and 'love the way he...' parts. do love the horns on there though, reminds me a lot of all of the lights (actually i think thats why i keep thinking of rihanna on it)

4 is her best album imo - ive come to like it a lot more than her others, prob cos its her most R&B.

alright well "dance for you" has taken over my life :/

this is for the time you gave me flowers
for the world that is ours
for the MOOLAH, for the POWER

(of love)

(that's such an afterthought, lol)

yeah her minds ALWAYS on her money and moneys on her mind

and you KNOWWW I WONT NEVER EVER E-E-EVER GIVE YOU UP
and i wanna say thank you in case i don't thank you enough

^her vocals/delivery on this, whoo

ugh one too many e-'s in there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwPPC9jMXk4

would be pure hipstamatic inanity of course but i gotta admit i think i'd kinda like it if this was the actual video to the song

haha kind of the wrong era right? a decade late for 'this sound'

tell that to a sobbing harry crane as he rushes out of the boardroom

maybe its the right era idk i get the 60s & 70s retro stuff mixed up

to tell the truth i never have any specific temporality uppermost in my mind when i listen to this album, i know it's all there if i want but it's not burdensome like with cee-lo or whatever

maybe 'love on top' would be by itself but it's balanced nicely on the album

it doesnt bother me or anything but i totally get oldies radio pastiche from '1+1' in terms of the songwriting

thought yall settled on prince for that one

best 'hey!'s since prince on the purple rain tour on that one

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmpjcnIort1qzqjy8.jpg

still can't get over the second verse of "dance for you"

i haven't heard it yet!

yea i guess it's all about the 2nd verse

the OTHer CHICKS are SUperFICial

them*

ya i was ZZzzzZZzzzing on it for a while but it's totally consumed me this week

a shame that w/ all those good uptempo songs toward the end that she did... "best thing i never had" w/ the roots

beyonce: "it sucks to be you right now" me: "it really does, because this stupid annoying song is on the radio again"

a hair and beauty salon in peckham called BEYONCE that i saw the other week http://lockerz.com/s/109685471

OMG

i listened to best thing i never had this morning and it made me very happy, there is a strong sense of relief in it

the most amazing thing about countdown is its ability to smooth it out at the same time that it remains manic

manning the laptop at a house party this weekend, and after having just played 'telephone', i was delighted to be asked whether i knew "the one that goes BOOF BOOF!!"

a hair and beauty salon in peckham called BEYONCE that i saw the other week http://lockerz.com/s/109685471

― lex pretend, Sunday, 31 July 2011 11:03 (Yesterday) Bookmark

doesnt matter how ugly it looks, one day i will move to GRACE JONES CLOSE

how the fuck did i live around the corner from there for four years and never realise it existed!!!!!!!

Also if you're ever in Yarm you can eat at Ciara's.

they got their southernnorthern cooking
they got them fellas lookin

i was listening to 'i was here' yesterday and it occurred to me that one of the most crucial elements of the song is the music box behind the chorus. it really gives it wheels.

Beyonce + waacking = win

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jk9I1sdw4c

Looks fun imo. <3 Sasha

let's start over has been the biggest grower for me on this

I kind of just want to listen to "I Care", "Countdown" and "End of Time" on repeat to the exclusion of everything else (except I do still really enjoy "Girls" whenever I actually get to it)

I tried to get my wife into this but she will not get past her "Beyonce is dumber than a hammer and has the vocal sensitivity of a rutting pig" biases; I thought "I Care" might convince her until it got to the chorus and even then I really couldn't argue that "I care/I know you don't care too much/But I still care (la la la la la)/Baby" wasn't a really, really moronic thing to say

It's better than "tears falling down to my ears".

where does she get the idea that Beyonce is dumber than a hammer?

Thanks to this album, I've capitulated to her aesthetic sense, which now rivals her financial one.

where does she get the idea that Beyonce is dumber than a hammer?

From her interviews and her songs, essentially. She is appalled that "bootylicious" ended up in the dictionary, thinks that championing "Irreplaceable" as a female empowerment anthem is something only someone with little grasp of the English language would ever do, and feels that Beyonce is by and far the most inarticulate superstar to emerge from the last decade.

I don't entirely agree with her (I do agree about "Irreplaceable" tho) but my wife's stance is basically that Beyonce is a slightly more talented Diana Ross in that she didn't have to fuck her way into a career.

(She hates DR too, obv)

her last point is otm

ur wife is annoying imo

you can fuck off IMO

i dare not ask what your wife thinks of rihanna, dan

(i think rihanna was uncharacteristically super smart in the wake of the assault, and in fact so smart and otm that she gets a free pass for everything else she says ever, but really everything else she's said = dumb as rocks)