ANY SONG on 4 was a better lead than RTW...it didn't represent the album and as much as I love it it's not a very danceable club banger type song...it stands out everywhere like a sore thumb...even as an experimental song.
4's main issues was the material (too r&b/soulful for pop). Also, the era was badly handle, it was ALL over the place. You couldn't tell which song was the single, a different video dropped like every week. Performing songs that weren't singles. The whole era was just random as hell. There was no clear vision.
Best analysis of the era tbh.
"End of Time" would have cleaned everything up so good.
I can get why Poeple like to see GW cut, but I hope Beyoncéd pulls a deluxe like 4 with the deluxe tracks on a seperate disc. I personally love GW, and with making a small EP of the deluxe with GW and maybe some others of the songs we got the last months, it doesn't hurt the album itself, but still gives fans the songs
When she can release GW as a B-side to her actual lead single but GW can't be lead single anymore. IBO/BD can't make the album either that would be just stupid. Wasting good songs like that and then the final material will be IASF-like.