Beyonce albums poll

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Hey, I voted 4, so don't point any fingers at Minnesota.

B'Day is one of those rare albums i'd pick if i had to put on an album during a party and not be able to skip any tracks

― some dude, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 4:14 PM (5 hours ago)

otm

smh @ results, ugh

i also kind of feel that listening to the whole thing is kind of like listening to a sledgehammer for an hour

― surm, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 4:45 PM

Just experienced the same thing.

a) it's 37 minutes long and b) not every song is "Ring The Alarm"

I did eventually vote for it but I played it now and -- oof. I wasn't in the mood for it.

4 is beyonce's black album - more hit-to-miss than some are willing to admit, gimmicky, not going to age as well as some of her earlier material

hmmm but 4 has got the Introspective Moments.

pop died, didn't cry vs. no more manager daddy

These are the ones.

this is almost to opposite of my version.

it's quite difficult for me to love "lemonade". songs like 'dont hurt yourself', '6 inch', 'forward' or even 'freedom' are quite replaceable for me. but it has 'all night', which is one of my favourite ever. and the subtle approach to country in 'daddy lessons' is also amazing.

1. beyoncé
2. 4
3. b'day
4. dangerously in love
5. lemonade
6. i am... sasha fierce.

DIL better than Lemonade? Bold.

i should have put them in the same place, tbh.
i just can't understand all the love with 'lemonade'.
i don't listen to DIL for years. there's a big possibility of regreting this decision.

(for this decision I mean this list)

An update on this poll would surely have Lemonade at the top and s/t on the top 3. I’d personally rank them as:

Lemonade
4
S/t
Bday
I am...
DIL

In a sign of the times, pop radio moved away from Beyonce as her singles sounded even better on the radio.

I think it's the opposite, this is Beyonce moving away from pop radio. 4's her pivot point and probably the most important in career trajectory.

The thing that I like about Beyonce is that she's stealthily weird. Noone sounds like her. Many of her songs don't follow traditional structures or rhythms, she's good at applying dissonance to create tension when needed, her words don't fit properly, they're loose, messy, wordy, funky... and that's when she's at her best, when she's "Sasha Fierce". Her traditional pop/r&b moments are her least interesting to me, but they prove she can do a play-by-the-rules hit effortlessly.

4 has 'Countdown' and '1+1' which is Beyonce at her best, at her 'Sasha Fierce' but there's still plenty of "I am..." in there. Self/Titled is perhaps her best pop album for the larger-than-life vibe it exudes, it sounds like she's finally fully embracing her inherent weirdness and fierceness. By the time we get to Lemonade it's all Sasha Fierce, there's not a song in there that would get compared to Kelly Clarkson a la Halo. She has achieved a fully actualized artistic statement.

I'd probably go

Beyonce
4
Lemonade
B'Day
Dangerously in Love
I am...Sasha Fierce