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Overall score: 7.57
High score: 10 (supaspaz, Ace Reject, waryofothers, Cambell, August, Seffers, lovesong, Kool_Aid_King, castle13, I'mRihannaFan, Lust for Love, Ainsworth, Doogle, Яeo., 42Osuxx, Ice Cream Skies, HotDamnMiley, madonnas, Ger-55, Quicksand, Giselle, Green)
Low score: 1 (EmRiNavy)
Listen to "Jealous" How did the best song in this rate not even make the top twenty of the countdown? Who knows. Trying to understand ATRL’s taste is rarely a productive exercise, so let’s just appreciate what this track does better than other on these five albums: explore the strain of sexual politics on a relationship. Frustrated by unequal social freedoms afforded to men, a jilted Beyoncé imagines getting dressed up in her freakum dress and flirting with an ex. The provocative concept isn’t entirely unfamiliar to her discography; she’s covered similar ground before on songs like “If I Were a Boy.” But never with this kind of emotional intimacy, seeping through Beyoncé’s soft, confessional delivery and the evocative, guitar-driven R&B instrumental.
ATRL says...: "Jealous" is one of those songs with so much right about it that everyone has their own best bit. "I love the delivery of 'I ran into my ex, say what up to his besties/Now we reminiscing how we used to flex in Texas/Don't be jealous.' Yoncé's writers were letting Jay KNOW!!!" August wrote. "Needs to be a single!" lovesong said. "I love the 'unchained' feel of the song. The lyric 'There's just one shot left in this drink, in this glass/Don't make me break it!" is one of my favourite things ever!"
Best bit: "And I hate you for your lies and your covers/And I hate us for making good love to each other/And I love making you jealous but don't judge me/And I know that I'm being hateful but that ain't nothing" |
I didn't give this a 10? I'm a disgrace. LEGENDARY vocal performance.
Pitchfork's Tim Finney on "Jealous":
In particular I think the performance really captures the self-awareness of the hypocritical nature of her jealousy implied by the lyrics.
It's present in the way that at the end of the first verse "Now you got me yelling / that's because I'm jealous" is sung as if her jealousy is justified, something which affords her moral authority, then at the end of the second verse she curtly delivers "don't be jealous" and suddenly the perspective is flipped and its her capacity to inspire jealousy (or, at least, to turn the tables) that provides her authority.
This contradiction is then worn openly in the deflating, descending soprano middle-eight: "... and I love making you jealous / but don't judge me / and I know that I'm being hateful / but that ain't nothing / that ain't nothing / I'm just jealous / I'm just human / don't judge me", and it's as if all the rage and the frustration that has given rise to the song has just curled back in on itself, eaten itself.
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Can we hit 5000 by the end?