Can you expand please? What specific sounds from 4 are drastically different from 21? Is it the production or their voices? Are there any R&B albums made by white artists?
The problem with 21 is that it desperately tries to be 19 but better but it fails to do that.
Your opinion=/= facts. It's not desperately trying anything. I love both for different reason. Granted they may have some similarities,then again Adele barely changes her music style in general. So.
Can you expand please? What specific sounds from 4 are drastically different from 21? Is it the production or their voices? Are there any R&B albums made by white artists?
Yes,The production is different
4 is R&B
21 is Pop/Soul with a little taste of Rnb(He won't Go)
Even with the backlash,RTW was really different. So was the likes of Countdown,Start Over,1+1. And refreshing in the sense that it was something unique brought in by one of the major pop girl. I know it has the old R&B/Pop feel to it,but i thought that in itself is what helped it stand out like Blackout did in its time albeit different genre..
Nothing about 4 was out of the box or different.
4 is just a really good r n b album (and several other good r n b albums came out in the last two years). Nothing more, nothing less.
Both albums are amazing, and each is the best in their respective artist's discography.
Having said that, 4 is more experimental, more personal, has a better vocal performance, more well-written songs, and better production, so it's the one I prefer and the one I think is objectively better.
And not that Blackout wouldn't be a worthy winner, but I have a feeling some of the Britney stans are coming in here to vote for their fave without giving much thought to the other album.
All the critics that gave it a 73 score on metacritic surely do.
You'd think Blackout would have had better reviews since it's the most influential album of the decade like her stans love to call it.
that's because the critics concentrated more on her personal struggles than the album itself.
Having said that, 4 is more experimental, more personal, has a better vocal performance, more well-written songs, and better production, so it's the one I prefer and the one I think is objectively better.
4 is not the typical R&B album. Someone like Jennifer Hudson for example would never make an album like 4. It's new for Beyoncé, just because it has R&B songs on it, doesn't mean it's not new for her. It's totally not like her previous albums. It's not even comparable.
Not even comparable? Gurl you are acting as if 4 was a damn hard rock album. It was an r&b album. Deal with it.