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Originally posted by Shinning
The Guardian's critic Sean Michaels ranked "1+1" at number one on his list of The 10 Best Tracks of 2011.[36] The song was also ranked on The Guardian's writers' year-end list of Best Songs of 2011 at number 30.[37] Allison Stewart of The Washington Post placed the ballad at number one on her list of the Special Year-End Best-of Edition, writing that Knowles "just kills this otherwise unremarkable ballad. Her obvious pride in her abilities, in her Beyonce-ness, informs every note, but it doesn't seem showoff-y. It's just sweet."[38] On The Village Voice's 2011 year-end Pazz & Jop singles list, "1+1" was ranked at number 77.[39] The staff members of Pitchfork Media placed the "1+1" at number 26 on their list of The Top 100 Tracks of 2011, writing:
Following Beyoncé's work on "1+1" is like a journey to the center of her craft, a stripping away of every distraction until all that's left is her voice. Without it, "1+1" would be a muted ballad: Its simple guitar line and stardust-sprinkled strings serve no purpose other than to evoke a sense of familiar romantic intimacy, and then to elegantly step aside while Beyoncé delivers one of her most wonderfully impassioned performances ever. "1+1" possesses that slightly scary intensity that has been R&B's worst-kept secret weapon since Whitney Houston's "I Have Nothing", but it also demonstrates perfectly how Beyoncé stands apart from every other big-chested diva getting her Whitney on. She lets the song sing through her with a clarity that is never clinical, a strength that never sabotages, and an expressiveness that is precisely as sentimental as its subject matter requires. Beyoncé is R&B's field marshal, demanding of her listeners and herself an absolute fidelity to the music's emotional possibilities, with a perfectly modulated vehemence that is as captivating as it is tyrannical.[14]
Writing for The New Yorker, Jody Rosen credited the jarring timbral and tonal variations on the song for giving a new musical sound that didn't exist in the world before Knowles. He further wrote, "If they sound 'normal' now, it's because Beyoncé, and her many followers, have retrained our ears."[40]
Straight off wikipedia, your UGLEE faves ain't doing it
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Jody Rosen credited the jarring timbral and tonal variations on the song for giving a new musical sound that didn't exist in the world before Knowles. He further wrote, "If they sound 'normal' now, it's because Beyoncé, and her many followers, have retrained our ears."
Is this supposed to be sarcastic, right? bc otherwise I just....
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I can think of a certain era which had more live promo in 1 week 
! I know, I have a sad life 
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It was the promoted era of all time.
