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Originally posted by helloDer
gurl sit. BEYONCE is the best self titled album out there, but she didn't "USE" the self-title best. just because Bey is a deep emotional person, has had a waterfall of horrible & wonderful things happen to her recently, and used organic sounds doesn't mean the songs are any more PERSONAL than say BJ or Avril. Artists are different PEOPLE so their personal albums will obviously be very different. Anyway, let's stay on the topic of Shakira.
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But you've missed my point completely. I was not arguing who had the more personal album. Not at all.
My statement was that she used the self-titling in a good way because it wasn't in a boring way ("her most personal album"). If we look back at the promotion of most self-titled albums you'll find quotations where the artist talks that sort of thing. Shakira is one of them. BEYONCÉ differs in that the self-titling is more of a statement of identity. It is a stamp of her name on an opus of work that is completely left-field from what is done.
So to go back to Shakira, when I compare this to her album where the reasoning is the standard self-titled rationale (and I quote, "I realized … that throughout the course of creating this body of work, I learned a lot about myself.") I find it to be a superior usage.
I almost wish it was someone else other than Beyonce who did it well, because I understand that it comes off as me just boosting my fave but I'm really just commenting on the use of self-titled albums. MDNA did it really nicely too because there is a sub-concept in the title.
