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Originally posted by Kool_Aid_King
Are you ****ing dense? The song was criticized for not fitting in with the theme of the album and breaking the up-tempo theme of the songs before it. It was also criticized for being too "mature" for Beyoncé (which is ****ing dumb), but not because it was a bad song or she didn't sound well on it.
Maybe if a track by track comparison was in effect it would be more fair.
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Excuse me? Sit your bitch ass down and educate yourself before you address me like that again. "I Was Here" is generic Diane Warren **** and you will deal. Beyonce is so much better than that tripe.
"''I Was Here,'' co-written by Diane Warren, reaches Lifetime-movie levels of schmaltz, while the promisingly named 'Party,' featuring Kanye and Andre 3000, turns out to be a slow-jam invitation to an after-work mixer with light refreshments."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Musi...iew/index.html
"The low point comes in 'I Was Here,' a blowsy Diane Warren ballad swamped in 'My Way'-style self-mythologizing: 'I was here/I lived, I loved/I was here/I did, I've done/Everything that I wanted.' Beyoncé sings with authority, but sounds off; she's a diva, Lord knows, but she's never been a preener, a navel-gazer. She's too busy with other stuff: singing, dancing, following her muse, loving her man, running the world."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/al...#ixzz1w5mrEopv
"Sadly, between these two songs comes – you guessed it – another ballad, and this time of the power, showstopper, curtain-call variety. It sounds unmistakably like an X-Factor winner’s single, full of unbelievably trite sentiments. It is called ‘I Was Here’, and it goes: “When I leave this world, I leave no regrets, I’ll leave something to remember, so they won’t forget… I was here”.
Beyonce, of course, has already done more than enough to ensure this is the case. She’d done enough with Destiny’s Child, or with the first 30 seconds of ‘Crazy In Love’, to guarantee her entry into the annals of greatness. But there ain’t too much here that’s going to add to her legacy. Rather, there’s the unmistakable sense of someone treading water, with even the OK bits here sounding uninspired. Not what you want from Beyoncé. Not at all. Let’s hope her Glastonbury performance brings better memories."
http://www.nme.com/reviews/beyonce/12164
I could go on and on. It's a ****** song. You were saying?