I called the album "familiar" in the first hour after its released.
I think I might be both right/wrong after 2 days.
Now I found this album is really a new try for Bey, she never did any sounds like this before.
And she did it so damn well.
But the familiar part is, the collab songs are both sound like the featured artist.
6 inch is just like a Weeknd song, Freedom as a Kendrick track, so does Blake featuring one.
I don't know much about Rock songs so I don't know if it fits what I'm saying.
She's processing and breaking herself since 4, but even with Self-titled, she still managed her image with new material to be balance, like Blow and Flawless.
On Lemonade, all I can heard is a brand new sound, maybe Formation is the most "Beyonce" track on the album.
Critics' praising is deserved, she is on the new level and got no boundaries on this round.
But as a listener, I still want to see "The Bey who made me listen to".
If you want proof that Lemonade is an evolutionary step forward, you only need to look at the way people are writing about the album. Critics are writing about the first time they "watched" the album where they might’ve once written about "listening" to it; others are forcing themselves to review the music and the music alone. No other album in recent memory has warranted this kind of delineation, and that’s the truly exciting thing about Lemonade: it’s setting a new standard for pop storytelling at the highest possible scale.
KILL THEM