I'm obviously generalizing but whenever I see DIL talked about, the hive treats it like we treat Britney Jean or how Fighterts treat Lotus. DIL is Beyoncé's best album, I don't get the hate and low rankings.
It's uninspired, juvenile and rather generic; that said, it's a cute early 2000s R&B alber that just about any nameless, faceless R&B gir could've delivered sans Crazy in Love. It's not even bad, it just doesn't hold against the rest of her discog save for IASF.
It hasn't aged well at all and I honestly don't understand what she was trying to do with the record
She did like so many genres all at once and combined them with R&B and it didn't turn out that well overall.
It's okay. The singles are phenomenal and it has a gem or two (Speechless, Yes) but otherwise it isn't a strong body of work.
It's not her worst, though. IASF's wig is safe.
Agreed, it lacks as body of work in comparison to most of her other albums. I appriciate the album much more than it did when it came out though, probably because when it came out I was a kid and didn't got the lyrical content.
It is really bland, its highlights are just singles....Unlike 4( ) which wasn't crafted for the radio(i.e bday, IASF) but its replay value, vocals and quality of the songs >>>
The singles were good and there are two or so other album gems but even though she was still seen as great back then, that was Beyoncé at her most basic level as an artist overall. Vocally, musically and performance-wise. B'Day was when she started to 'level up'. DIL was great for its time.
IASF was all over the place (it's only flaw) but it was a better album. The standouts beat everything on DIL except for CIL. Also, IASF has the best ballads she has ever recorded to date on it.
It's a good album apart from 2-3 weak tracks, but the standard for Beyonce albums is much higher than your average pop girls. It's easy to diss an album like DIL which is better than most pop girl albums when you have stuff like 4, Bday, Lemonade & ST in your discography. That said, Sasha is the weakest album.
I think my first album was a classic album — the other two were great but I didn’t focus on that. I focused more on the singles — and this time I said ‘let me take it back to when people just listened from beginning to end.'