If Listen & Resentment () weren't on BDay, it would have been perfect
Listen is 'hidden' on B'Day though. A good 30 seconds of silence after Check On It precedes it. And even then, it's blessed by the extended Get Me Bodied mix directly after it....So we can pretend it's not there.
Some of these choices do feel like conference-room attempts to replicate tried-and-true formulae: Not to knock Audra Mae's considerable talents, but "Addicted to You" doesn't even try to disguise its Adele envy. The same could be said for "Dear Boy," in which the Danish singer Marie Ørsted (a.k.a. MØ) does her best Lana Del Rey impersonation over swarming kazoos and "Levels"-grade synth riffs, right down to the lyrics ("Oh dear boy, I wanna follow you / You're a wild one, I am a wild girl, too").
'Dear Boy' begins with a more techno sounding intro but moves onto a voice that sounds almost identical to Lana Del Ray's, although we've been assured she's not on the album and it's actually folk artist Audra Mae.