Two years later and the haters are Still mad at it :') , they Just cant catch à breath with the hundreds and hundreds of receipts that proves she's a game changer, poor them, this is truly embarassing.......
Calm down you will get used to it as the years go by :')
It's so hard to get the delusional to see the light!
Is that why it's the most acclaimed album by a mainstream female artist in almost 20 years? Or how it's been listed on several GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME lists?
"The first revelation of December 13, 2013: Beyonce had just released a new album, without any warning, on iTunes. The second revelation of December 13, 2013 (or very soon after that): Beyonce has just released the best album of her career. Following the deservedly acclaimed but commercially disappointing 4, Beyonce went back into the lab under cover of darkness and returned with a blockbuster, a complex full-length detailing her status as a mother, wife, woman and icon. Beyonce was called a “visual album” because she packaged the LP with a music video for each song, but the images of sex, love, pleasure and pain within the songs also make the album Beyonce’s most evocative to date."
In it's distribution, yes. It's a great album with only ~2 bad songs. I don't know about groundbreaking but that doesn't take away from how great it was.