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How can I be bothered when the general consensus is that the song falls flat like her last few weaves? I am not bothered, at all.  |
What general consensus?
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Beyonce's Hot Girl-Power Anthem Leaks
Beyoncé is still in the studio working on her fourth solo album, slated for release later this year, but the pop star's first taste of the record has leaked online. Head over to Rap Radar to stream the new track "Girls (Who Run the World)."
On this cut, Beyoncé improbably takes the martial drum beat from Major Lazer's "Pon de Floor" and turns it into a rousing girl power anthem similar to "Single Ladies" and "If I Were a Boy," although this is far rowdier than any of those tracks: it's bolstered with all sorts of synth squiggles and raw chanting. "Who run this mutha?" Beyoncé cries. "Girls! Girls!"
As has been previously reported, Beyoncé's new album may find the pop star teaming up with indie hot shots (which isn't a shocker considering she's been spotted with husband Jay-Z at Grizzly Bear concerts). In addition to Diplo's side project Major Lazer, Sleigh Bells and Odd Future have reportedly hit the studio with the singer.
- SPIN
http://www.spin.com/node/86518
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Beyoncé And Co. Run the World on Leaked Single
“Girls (Who Run the World),” reportedly the first single from Beyoncé‘s forthcoming album, leaked last night, and one thing’s for sure: Sasha Fierce is definitely not trying to sound like much else on the radio right now.
(For the moment the song is streaming at The Fader, but just a heads up, the stream may not last long.)
The track’s brief piano intro, akin to that of Lady Gaga‘s “Telephone” (on which Beyoncé featured), is a fake-out: after five seconds, the air is sonically sucked out of the track and replaced with a thumping dancehall snare sampled from Major Lazer‘s 2009 single “Pon de Floor.”
What follows is a pounding track, full of sidechained compression, but not trance-y in the least. Mostly the track is a call-and-response chant of “Who run the world?” “Girls!” but several pointed comments on empowerment are skillfully weaved into the lyrics, without feeling out of place: “I’m repping for the girls who’re taking over the world/ have me raise a glass for the college grads”—not to mention a shout-out to those “strong enough to bear the children then get back to business”—sit comfortably in the same song as “I think I need a barber/ None of these b*****s can fade me.”
In a way, this track is the flipside of The Prodigy‘s 2004 single “Girls,” another compression-heavy club track with a “girls” chant. But while The Prodigy’s Broken Glass sample is about “telling stories about all the young girls,” Beyoncé’s track restores the girls’ own subjectivity.
The “Girls”-chanting is further justified by the bridge, for which the beat falls back and the lyrics get as grandiose as the leaked video stills: “My persuasion can build a nation/ In this hour our love we can devour/ You’ll do anything for me,” the practically Cleopatra-channeling Beyoncé coos.
All in all, the single is fairly unprecedented, in its collision of Caribbean club beats and diva-rapping with girl-power anthem tropes (that don’t rely heavily on sexualization). Who knows how it will fare against the surfeit of RedOne and Dr. Luke Euro-house hits? One thing’s for sure: the song is certain to strike a chord.
-VH1
http://blog.vh1.com/2011-04-19/beyon...leaked-single/
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...and there's plenty more where that came from, creep.
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