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The song, which samples Major Lazer's "Pon de Floor," "is a bit overstuffed, but fairly enjoyable," says the Village Voice. "But there's also something exhausting about it that goes beyond its cheer-team beats. It doesn't seem so much like a song as it does a collection of movements, of snippets that can be broken down into iTunes previews."
Popdust was similarly middling, noting that “Run the World” "is certainly an unconventional choice for a lead single, sounding more like a four-minute drill instruction than a traditional club banger."
But it's not only the beat that's a bit strange, "it’s also fairly free-form in structure, featuring a chorus in three parts that kind of comes and goes in pieces throughout the song, and a verse whose melody rarely stays consistent for more than a few bars."
In the end, it might have more in common "with left-field pop icons like Grace Jones and Yoko Ono than with arguable peers like Rihanna or Mariah Carey."
Vulture, meanwhile, has already embraced it, saying the track is "kind of a monster — aggressive and intense and totally committed in all the ways you'd hope for the first big move in a new promo run from one of our most cherished pop stars. That means it's as immediately familiar as it is bluntly effective; we have given in to it already."
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The only thing I'm hearing is
"it's different!" Which is EXACTLY what the goal was. It's different, and it's slays, hard.
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Entertainment Weekly notes the continuation of past themes, writing that it would be "appreciated" to see her "switching lanes a bit content-wise...She’s fully capable of making a classic album as genius and relatable as Lauryn Hill’s 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.' But at this point, I doubt that’s her goal."
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No, you want her to be conventional. You don't want her to get out there and get into things. You want her to be something you can easily slap a label on and readily say 'Beyonce is this and her music is this.' She's not here for that, and you will deal.
I don't even think Grammy's are her goal -- either way its a contender for SEVERAL. When you're at this stature, people are searching for something to criticize. Not everyone's gonna like a single, but there's always an audience out there.
