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BuzzJack Music Forum _ R&B and Hip-Hop _ Your favourite Bey lead single?

Posted by: Jαsє 11th July 2019, 02:12 PM

If I Were a Boy and Singles Ladies + XO and Drunk in Love were joint leads apparently!

For me:

01. XO
02. Déjà Vu
03. If I Were a Boy
04. Crazy in Love
05. Drunk in Love
06. Run the World (Girls)
07. Formation
08. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)

Posted by: Jade 11th July 2019, 02:17 PM

Oh wow I didn't realise how hit-and-miss her leads were! I like the top 4 and dislike the bottom 4 but the best is 'Drunk In Love' which is my favourite song of hers overall

01. Drunk In Love
02. Crazy In Love
03. Formation
04. Déjà Vu
05. XO
06. Run The World (Girls)
07. If I Were A Boy
08. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)

Posted by: coi 11th July 2019, 03:07 PM

Crazy In Love and XO were great, Drunk In Love and If I Were A Boy were good, I'm not a fan of the other four at all.

Posted by: gavindeejay 11th July 2019, 03:51 PM

Crazy In Love for me. It officially kicked off her solo career in style (forgetting the dissapointing and bland Work It Out) and is still an anthem today.

1. Crazy In Love
2. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
3. If I Were A Boy
4. Deja Vu
5. XO
6. Drunk In Love
7. Run The World (Girls)
8. Formation

Posted by: Theonix 11th July 2019, 04:05 PM

Crazy In Love is quite clearly the best/my favourite but the others are more difficult to order. It's probably something like:

1. Crazy In Love
2. Drunk In Love
3. Formation
4. Déjà Vu
5. Run the World (Girls)
6. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
7. XO
8. If I Were a Boy

But it gets a lot closer from 4 downwards! Deja Vu is a huge recent fave that's gone up a lot in my estimations

Posted by: dobbo 12th July 2019, 12:11 PM

1. XO [always liked this one]
2. If I Were A Boy
3. Deja Vu
4. Drunk In Love

5. Crazy In Love

And these are all varying shades of garbage:
6. Single Ladies
7. Formation
8. Run The World

Posted by: Euphorique 12th July 2019, 12:47 PM

1, Drunk In Love
2. If I Were A Boy
3. XO
4. Formation
5. Crazy In Love
6. Single Ladies
7. Deja Vu
8. Run The World

Posted by: J▲hq 12th July 2019, 01:50 PM

01. XO
02. Crazy in Love
03. If I Were a Boy
04. Drunk in Love
05. Déjà Vu
06. Formation
07. Run the World (Girls)
08. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)

Posted by: HarryEzra 12th July 2019, 02:22 PM

Crazy in love!

Posted by: Liаm 12th July 2019, 04:02 PM

01 If I Were A Boy
02 XO
03 Formation
04 Deja Vu
05 Crazy In Love
06 Drunk In Love
07 Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
08 Run The World

RTW is still great but this is a fab selection so it was hard to choose!

Posted by: Calum 12th July 2019, 04:42 PM

XO for me

1. XO
2. Drunk in Love
3. If I Were a Boy
4. Crazy in Love
5. Run the World (Girls)
6. Déjà Vu
7. Formation
8. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)

Posted by: jakewild 12th July 2019, 04:54 PM

crazy in love all day everyday dontthink she'll ever top it tbh

Posted by: jakewild 12th July 2019, 04:56 PM

also glad to see a lack love for single ladies. always thought it was rubbish but thought everyone else liked it

Posted by: JosephAvery 12th July 2019, 05:15 PM

1. Drunk in Love
2. Singles Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
3. If I Were a Boy
4. Déjà Vu
5. Crazy in Love
6. Formation
7. XO
8. Run the World (Girls)

Posted by: Rush 13th July 2019, 09:40 AM

1. Run The World (Girls)
2. Formation
3. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
4. Drunk In Love

Those are the clear top half for me. I'd then put 'XO' #5, and the other 3 could go in any order.

Edit: omg I'm the only one to vote any of my top 3

Posted by: Dexton 13th July 2019, 11:14 AM

1. Crazy In Love
2. Formation
3. Drunk In Love
4. If I Were A Boy
5. Déjà Vu
6. XO
7. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
8. Run The World (Girls)

Crazy In Love isn’t her best song, no, but it’s that anthem that completely launched her into stardom and no one can say they don’t know it. Formation is an overall great song from a great album albeit again not my favourite from Lemonade (Freedom & All Night ). Tbh her lead singles as a whole generally aren’t her strongest singles from her album campaigns with the odd exception. Single Ladies & Run The World aren’t songs I willingly go back to outside of listening to the albums and I can kind of say the same for XO but less so.

Posted by: Scene 14th April 2020, 09:51 AM

1. If I Were A Boy
2. Single Ladies
3. Crazy In Love
4. Deja Vu
5. Drunk In Love
6. Formation
7. Run The World (Girls)
8. XO

IIWAB is such a well-crafted pop song and one of the best that deals with feminist subjects imo. It was also a change in release strategy for Bey to launch an album (in the UK at least) with a ballad. That XF performance! *.* Single Ladies complements 'Boy' well, acting as its sassy counterpart lol. CIL isn't a joy to listen to anymore because of severe overexposure but I can appreciate that it was a flawless way to launch her solo career. Deja Vu is often viewed as a more-diluted, weaker version of 'Crazy' but its forgotten status has done it favours in my mind at least. When she goes OFF with "YOUR SEXINESS IS SO APPEAALLINGGG I CAN'T LET IT GO OOOOOOOHHHEEERR" I feel it

The other 4 leads shouldn't have led their albums imo (besides maybe Formation but I'm not a lover of Lemonade lol). I guess DIL was promoted as single last minute due to its success but how XO could've been chosen to lead such a strong album I'll never know. Blow should have been first single! As for RTW I get that the hook is iconic now but it could've been third single perhaps... The album wasn't really packing a clear hit but I'd say Party was a moment. Especially with Andre 3000's rap.

Posted by: Hauspital* 14th April 2020, 09:54 AM

Definitely Drunk In Love for me!

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 14th April 2020, 10:08 AM

It'll have to be 'XO', it's just pure joyful euphoria.

Posted by: Nancy 🍾 14th April 2020, 03:43 PM

Drunk In Love

I still get chills just like the first time I've watched/listened!!!

Posted by: Gerald 14th April 2020, 11:34 PM

Formation deserves some more love .

The song and its accompanying video was such a statement and embodies so much swag. It could have been another #1 for her if it had a conventional release.

01. Formation
02. Crazy In Love
03. Drunk In Love
04. Deja Vu
05. Run The World (Girls)
07. If I Were A Boy
08. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

Posted by: StupidLove 15th April 2020, 01:07 AM

01. Formation
02. If I Were a Boy
03. Crazy in Love
04. Drunk in Love
05. XO
06. Run the World (Girls)
07. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
08. Déjà Vu

Posted by: StupidLove 15th April 2020, 01:11 AM

01. Formation
02. If I Were a Boy
03. Crazy in Love
04. Drunk in Love

05. XO
06. Run the World (Girls)
07. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)

08. Déjà Vu

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever 17th April 2020, 01:35 AM

If I Were a Boy