Beyonce’s album is hard to handle (Whoooooh!) Off the get go the album hits hard. Beyonce is just the fiercest in the game. There’s no hiding it.
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Partition: The beat is very drumline. Simple, her voice, and bass drums. Then the song takes a turn and the beat completely twists unexpectedly in the best possible way. (BEYONCÉ ALL ON HIS MOUTH LIKE LIQUA) Beyoncé hits hard just to remind everyone that she’s still the boss. Her first track ends on french words to soak in. You fall in love from the very beginning. the attitude is too much
No Angel: Completely an R&B song. Beyonce shows off her talents by singing the lyric in falsetto, effortlessly I might add. It is purely a song about adoration and imperfection. The breakdown is dope, it kind of reminds me of electro-music. Her lyrics are also stunning to top it off.
Rocket: We all love when Beyonce hits us with a little slow grind. This time its completely slowed down. I don’t know how else to describe it besides a slow jam for that sexual healing. We find that she loves to call her man daddy, (I will never understand that one). “Rocket till water falls” Well, use your imagination for that one.
Blow: Another mature song for the grown and sexy audiences. The way I can describe this song is basically that Bey is describing just how she likes to ‘get it in.’ The lyrics are very detailed and extremely descriptive. I almost feel as if she had Kelly Rowland help her in the writing it’s so dirty.
XO: A lovely song out there for all the couples. As she sings about her intimacy with her partner, crowds are heard cheering in the background. She sings about the kind of love that makes you a better person, how you search for this person and they have all of you. “I search through the crowd and your face is all I see” “Baby love me lights out” Beyoncé demonstrates that she truly has it all.
Superpower: Ok, I dont even know how to properly describe this song well. It’s a vocalists song that’s for sure. The beat is kind of a background show tunes type of “Doo Doo Doo.” Frank Ocean’s voice in the song is deep in the beginning, kind of like ‘where’d this come from?’ The message of the song is how unstoppable herself and her love are together. “Not that the world would revolve, without us”
Haunted: This song is so dope! Refreshing. It begins with a speech recorded of Beyonce receiving an award at an early age while she thanks her parents and declares her love for the city of Houston. “All the people on the planet working 9-5 just to stay alive, how come?” Beyonce relates to us with this line. Her haunting voice takes us away as we get lost in her vocals. This song is from a dream. The lyrics are mesmerizing.
Heaven: A timeless song about the passing of a dear loved one. This song has very few lyrics but the message is clear. “Heaven couldn’t wait for you. So go home, go home.” The song is sung beautifully, if I had to compare it to anything from her past discography I would have to say Halo. Beyonce belts the lyrics with such emotion it’s almost gospel-like.
Flawless: Totally a song about power. I listened to her talk about how the song came into production and it turns out the lines “Respect that, bow down b*tches” actually came from an angry place. Beyoncé tells us to think about someone that your extremely mad at then imagine yourself to tell them to, “bow down, b*tch!” That’s sure to make you feel 100x’s better about yourself. So she wrote the song out of anger and thought the inspiration was tight. I would have to agree. Probably my favorite song of the album so far, it’s really hood. The lines “My diamond, flawless. My rock, flawless. I woke up like this, I woke up like this, flawless,” just resound in my head everyday. I love it! Also, Nigerian Novelist, Chimamanda Adiche samples in the track. She talks about the comparison from men and women. How women are aspired to marriage and compete each other for it, while men are not taught in the same way. It is a powerful excerpt taken from her speech on TED. Watch here.
Blue: The song titled Blue is a beautiful track about her two year old daughter. She is in awe of the beauty and feels blessed by her creation of life. If you have any type of soul the words “You’ve got to hold on” press deep into your heart — a simple sentence that expresses the boundless love surrounding Blue Ivy. This song brings so much joy to me and I don’t even have a child. If you are a proud, loving parent then you will appreciate Bey in this song.
Overall this album is quite the entertainment. It comes out with a boom and keeps us paying our attention on it. This album is unlike any we had ever seen before. At certain points I was questioning “Who is this? This is not a Beyoncé that I know.” Although it is much different from what we’re used to, Beyoncé has improved and moved to further achieved points in her life. This album helped me recognize that change is for the better. It will always happen!
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