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Album: Beyonce - B'Day (9.5.2006)
Member Since: 2/19/2003
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I have learned that Quality>Quantity, Shakira showed me this with the 2 Oral Fixation albums 
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Member Since: 7/27/2003
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I said it once and I'll say it again, an album with 10 tracks guarantees less filler which then translates into a hot album. DIL had 15 tracks and 6-7 of them were filler. Trust me, this is a good move. Some of the most praised pop albums of the last 25 years like MJ's Thriller & Off The Wall, Prince's Purple Rain & 1999, Mariah's first four studio albums, etc. all had about 10 tracks or less.
Anyway, her expectations for this album seem to be quite high. Lets see if it lives up to the hype.
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Member Since: 12/23/2004
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Tracklisting doesn't really matter. All that matters is what you hear. Stripped had a tracklisting of 19 and was a great album. C Milian never has that much songs on her albums and all her songs STINK!! Gwen S. had 12 songs and most of it sounded the same-annoying.
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Member Since: 7/27/2003
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Originally posted by PANCOSNIC
Tracklisting doesn't really matter. All that matters is what you hear. Stripped had a tracklisting of 19 and was a great album. C Milian never has that much songs on her albums and all her songs STINK!! Gwen S. had 12 songs and most of it sounded the same-annoying.
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Oh please, shut the hell up. You've missed my point. Releasing an album with 10 tracks is a safe bet and guarantees a good album most of time. I highly doubt Beyonce would release a fillerful album with only 10 tracks, it just doesn't make sense. Yes, Aguilera released an excellent album that includes almost 20 songs, but it's also a very risky move. After all, she was torn apart by the critics when the album was first released.
Oh and wtf? Gwen's "L.A.M.B." was a solid album with not one bad track.
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Member Since: 9/26/2001
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Originally posted by PANCOSNIC
Tracklisting doesn't really matter. All that matters is what you hear. Stripped had a tracklisting of 19 and was a great album. C Milian never has that much songs on her albums and all her songs STINK!! Gwen S. had 12 songs and most of it sounded the same-annoying.
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...um, except Gwen's album was good. You totally missed that part.
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Member Since: 12/23/2004
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I'm just going by the evidence that I've already been given. There are no guarantees of anything.You can't always go by statistics. For example, the myth that no artist has hits after their Greatest Hits album. Look at Mariah Carey. Prince has hits as well but they aren't consitent. My point is that it all depends. I mean reflect on what ur saying, "B'Day has 10 songs so it must be good". That's just as dumb as me saying B2B has 23 songs so it must be good. I'm not basing how good her album is going to be based on tracklisting and Beyonce fans shouldn't base B'Day on its tracklisting either. She'll probably have more songs on that Dreamgirls soundtrack anyway. If I said that B'Day is going to suck it wouldn't be because it only has 10 songs. I don't care about how many songs she comes up w/. DIL wouldn't have made more of a difference to me if she put more of the B-sides on the album. & her fans shouldn't be any more/less worried because it only has 10 songs. & so far, we only have one song to go by and her music video. & regarding Gwen, I'm one of those people that thinks that she was way better when she was in No Doubt. I didn't like her image change. A lot of her No Doubt fans dropped off when she went solo.
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Member Since: 8/6/2003
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Originally posted by Kworb
Yeah, I mean look at DIL, it has like 3 good songs and the rest is filler. She needs to learn from her mistakes
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Yeah, that makes sense. But what if half of these 10 tracks are fillers? We never know, that's why I think it's better to have more tracks. The ideal number in my opinion is 14 tracks.
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Member Since: 2/28/2003
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I was pretty upset when I heard about the number of tracks on her album. IDK, this album is starting to sound pretty rushed to me. We'll see though, if the 10 tracks on the album are good, then I won't be too dissappointed
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Member Since: 7/1/2005
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Wut can you expect, the album seemed very rushed, only having 6 months to work on it? Obviously she knows she can get away with it, as anything with the name "Beyonce" can sell. If this album is anything like "Dangerously In Love," then expect 4 good tracks, and 6 fillers.
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Member Since: 2/28/2003
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Originally posted by Byronium
ASCAP only pays for 10 songs on a disc. That is why. That is also why Xtina had a double disc with around 10 songs on both....she was slick..lol.
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Xtina isn't with ASCAP, so this supposed rule doesn't apply to her
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Member Since: 10/18/2004
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Originally posted by Mr. Hero
Xtina isn't with ASCAP, so this supposed rule doesn't apply to her
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Member Since: 7/1/2005
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With 10 songs I wont even feel bad downloading it.
Recorded it in what, 2 weeks? Its RIDICULOUS.
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Member Since: 1/31/2003
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i have feeling this album will sound the same as destiny fulfilled which also has 10 tracks...all R&B stuff...
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Member Since: 5/4/2005
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Member Since: 8/6/2003
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Anything coming from Beyoncé a flop? It's hard to believe that can actually happens.
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Member Since: 11/13/2003
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Member Since: 10/31/2001
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Originally posted by Byronium
From I-D
"Prepare yourself for Beyoncé time once more,because this time she means business.If there was some valid fear that the towering edifice of its introductory single overshadowed her solo debut Dangerously In Love, there is no such danger this time around. Déjà Vu has a bassthrob that is meticulously time-stretched to eternity and hooks so solid they lodge in the brain after a first listen."It is," says its author,"the kind of record you can listen to 100 times and never tire of."
But behind the opening groove there's a catalogue of enchanting street moves designed to pulsate through the public conscious over the coming year. Freak 'Em Dress manages to marry that unique symbiosis of praise-be acolyte and willing harlot that Beyoncé has fine tuned over her ascent to the top of the pop tree.There is a cowbell symphony fashioned with Work It Out collaborator Pharrell Williams that escalates into a thundering,atonal,techno chorus.It is sterling stuff. "I'm looking at timeless now," says Beyoncé,a rare thread of confidence seeping into her voice,"I want this record to be played in 30 years time.I want to play it to my children.And I want to make them proud.If I have done this right then this is going to be my own Writing's On The Wall." -ID Magazine
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Wait, wait, WAIT...if I'm reading that right, is anybody but me noticing that she has a song on her album called "Freak 'Em Dress"? Whatever the f*** that's about, that just doesn't sound good at all.
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Member Since: 10/18/2004
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Freekum Dress is a song about when a n1gga doin his girl wrong...she put on her best dress and go out with her friends and make him see what he missin
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Member Since: 10/21/2005
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Everyone is right about this cd. I prefer a good cd over a cd with more tracks but fillers. All I care about is a cd that is well worth the money. So I hope the cd is not very short. I hate short cds. I'm hoping it's at least 40 minutes. If it's less, I hope the price of the cd is less. There probably will be less fillers on this cd, but remember, Deju Vu and Check on it is two of the 10. So there's 8 we haven't heard...hmmm.
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Member Since: 10/18/2004
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COI isnt one....and if it is it is reworked. That was a rumor from an inconsistant insider.
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