Now before I finish, let me just say
I did not come here to show out, did not come here to impress you
Because to tell you the truth when I leave here I'm GONE!
And I don't care WHAT you think about me - but just remember,
when it hits the fan brother, whether it's next year, ten years,
twenty years from now, you'll never be able to say
that these brothers lied to you JACK
I know this album technically came out in 2013, but it's my top album of 2014. 2013 was a year filled with disappointment (the main one being that I was waiting SO long for a Beyonce album that I thought would never come).
I went to sleep that night after Scandal went off, so I missed the STORM, but oh when I woke up the next morning, I ran straight to my computer and bought the album without asking any questions. It was well worth the wait.
This album, for me, made up for all those let-downs in 2013. While it's not anything new sound-wise, it's a very ambitious release for an artist like Beyonce. I like to think of it as a huge slap in the face to that year in music. The fact that she just released it randomly, on her own terms in the middle of the night without so much as a warning, and the fact that it's simply titled 'BEYONCE,' with no photo as the album artwork.
and the content takes that a step further.
NOBODY expected her to come out here cussing over trap beats and singing neo-soul songs about squirting.
This album has BANGERZ where Miley's album had about two. This album is personal where Britney Jean is a dated, EDM cluster**** that may or may not have used a "ghost vocalist." This album is actually darker and more sophisticated, where Katy Perry's PRISM era saw her burning her blue wig and burying her peppermint garb, only to be seen donning purple locks and sitting with Twinkie pyramids in a colorful, poorly rendered CGI Egypt. This album is adventurous and artistic where Kanye West's contradictory, pretentious lyrics on YEEZUS taint an otherwise decent album and Lady Gaga's ARTPOP is nothing more than a rehash of sounds she's explored on her previous albums with poorly produced beats and uninspired lyrics. It's shamelessly and
unapologetically
bad where
bad gal Riri's contrived, manufactured image only allows her to be as bad as arguing with her peers and underage fans on the internet, and voguing her vagina in live performances.
The list goes on.
Quote:
Originally posted by Nicole
eBey dropped her album like a match in a pool of gas and watched as she set everyone on fire.
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and thank God she did because 2014 sucked just like 2013 did.
This
is the album of the year, whether or not the Grammy's will say the same.
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Favorite Moments
The Pretty Hurts video looks
The Pretty Hurts bridge where she belts for human rights
The lyrics of Ghost kinda ravaged my hole when i heard them for the first time
Haunted is everything, especially toward the end where she digs
deep into the pit of her uterus for that thundering
"MY HAUNTED LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNGZ." Also, that look in the video is how I wanna be styled for my funeral.
The rap singing on Drunk In Love is
achievement in vocal cord and should be recognized as such.
The jigs she hits in the video >>>>>>>.
The Cherry part in Blow is the single greatest moment in the history of music. Better than anything by The Beatles, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Stevie Wonder, Freddie Mercury, Madonna, Prince, Radiohead and Nirvana.
I wanna come down the aisle to it.
No Angel is criminally underrated. I love the "White leotard and faux fur coat on dingy porch," Houston aesthetic, and I love the way her wheezy vocals compliment that dubstep lite beat.
I think I felt a fault shift the first time I heard the bass drop in Yonce, and that epic,
haute, homoerotic, hooker music video almost turned me straight.
Partition is very personal for me because it really captures my long time fantasy of getting faced-****ed in the back of a limousine. I also love the video, but I wish it had more of a Showgirls vibe.
That chant to Allah in the beginning of Jealous and the entire second verse.
The Rocket video is
art, and the climax made my toes curl.
Mine is brilliant. The way it starts off with the piano playing solemnly in the background, and then transitions from "praise dance" to "aggressive twerk" and then back to praise dance for the first verse. Woo.
XO is beautiful. It makes me feel like I'm at a fun event with fireworks and lanterns a bearded, White, hipsters. The video doesn't do it justice.
The way she called upon all the forces of the universe and
shifted us into the fourth wave of feminism with that chant in ***Flawless. The punk look in the video (which should've been in color).
Superpower is boring. Her hair and makeup were on point in the vid.
When she starts singing HIGH on heaven, and you feel your tear ducts open.
Grammy (feat. Blue Ivy) is easily one of the best songs in her discography. It has a timeless 60s/70s feel to it. Everything about it is perfect. The melody. The piano. That guitar or whatever it is during the second chorus.
The bridge where her voice echos to every corner of the Earth.
The guest feature from team natural spokesperson, womanist icon and future EGOT winner, Blue Ivy Carter.
My favorite thing about 7/11 is all the stuff going on in the background.
All those hidden adlibs and harmonies against that kooky trap beat.
Haven't seen any of the other movies in the recent set, though 
I'm not that big on serious stuff + Oscar-worthy films.
Also, great graphics. 
The radio edit without that messy ending >
