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Originally posted by AxelFox
It is more ambitious. I'll explain it to you. ST explores way more themes and aspects of Bey's life, personality and mind. Lemonade, apart from Formation (which is not even related to the rest of the album), just added deeper meaning to Mine and Jealous, which are still better than 10/12 of Lemonade.
There was no need for "agressive" bops. Partition, Blow, Drunk In Love and Rocket are way more provocative, challenging and daring that the overrated Don't Hurt Yourself, and they're all better "ratchet sex anthems" than the so called 6 Inch.
Despite exploring with more genres, it overall comes as bland. The disco influence on Blow > alt rock, country and reggae influences on Lemonade.
St feels much more authentic to me, and she wanted to achieve so much more with that record. Lemonade is cool in the way that it has a storyline and it flows well and is cohesive, but it pretty much ends there. It's not even half the way through the greatness of ST, musically and visually, and I'm so over y'all overrating it.
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That way of relating it back to two songs is nonsensical and also not really a valid point. That's like saying S/T wouldn't have been necessary because we already had songs like e.g. Diva. You can make a concept album on one theme/aspect exclusively, that doesn't say anything about its quality. So what if Lemonade built on themes of two songs off the previous album? So did S/T with more left-field-sounding ballads previously being on "4" (I Miss You, I Care).
As I said, I prefer self-titled as a body of work as well, but I don't see why there is a need to put down Lemonade because it's quite obviously a highly ambitious piece of work. Why drag it down like that when it's merely less up your alley than the other album? A biT ridiculous.