Oh its definitely not her best and definitely not a masterpiece, but a bold statement and an attempt to stay relevant & do something different to what she has done before, which she's successfully done. I love Bey, so glad to see her doing so well.

 

Award shows next year are going to be so good!

Edited April 26, 20169 yr by Karma

I am very much on the 'masterpiece' group on this one.

 

I just think everything is so well thought out and considered right down to the last tee. I love how it is both personal and political and really delves into exploring both sides of her, as well as letting us into all of her different emotional states throughout the album. I can't remember the last time a big album from a major power achieved all of that. All of that topped off with one of the most stunning visuals I've ever seen to a piece of music.

 

Already better than 'Beyoncé' for me and I claimed that to be in my top 5 albums of all time.

I do actually agree with you on all of above regarding its merits and I can certainly see how it's called a masterpiece - especially with the accompanying movie. It's the actual music itself that lets it down for me. Amazing moments, but some of the songs fall completely flat for me.

Beyonce can do no wrong it seems.

The reviews are a joke .

 

This album is not groundbreaking at all .

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2...-project-depths

 

love everything about this article, really stunning look at what this album means in regards to black womanhood.

Oh its definitely not her best and definitely not a masterpiece, but a bold statement and an attempt to stay relevant & do something different to what she has done before, which she's successfully done. I love Bey, so glad to see her doing so well.

 

Award shows next year are going to be so good!

 

I didn't think of that until I saw a really funny post from a Beyoncé fanpage on Twitter about Adele and B at the Grammy's next year :rofl:

I feel like everyone is sleeping on 'All Night' it's utterly beautiful and already one of my favourite Bey-ballads. How it's pretty much the lowest of the cherry-picks I have no idea. Especially when 'Hold Up' is probably the most irritating track.

SO glad someone mentioned this, going back to that one more and more today.

So Radio 1 have gone and stuck the entire album on their playlist :o

 

Amazing.

Insane! Interesting strategy! At least people dont have to bother with subscribing to Tidal :lol:

It has been clear for a while she is over trying to be a singles artist, getting chart hits. If she wanted that she could have had a #01 with 'Formation' a couple of months ago.

 

It is clear she has been on a mission with these last two releases to try and make people take in and appreciate the album as an art-form again, so I think this strategy may well work out for what she wants to achieve. As much as I would love her to get high chart peaks and make sure the era goes on for a long period of time, it doesn't appear to be on her agenda and I can understand why.

http://hiphopdx.com/news/id.38531/title.az...e-sold-her-soul

 

What a surprise...Azealia has something to say.

Just listened to the Radio 1 show where they played it in full and I've enjoyed this album a lot more than I was expecting! It hasn't totally delved into being artsy fartsy; she's remembered that melody is key and there's several songs that could work as singles/are commercial. '6 Inch', 'Daddy Issues' and 'Formation' are my favourites, with 'Don't Hurt Yourself' and 'All Night' being really good too, then others which I think could grow on me. It's an album that gets better throughout.

 

Also, I can confirm this sold 25.6k on its first day in the UK and 17.4k on its second, with a current total of 43k.

Why did she drop this while I'm on holiday? I've had a brief listen and it sounds so good!

I have now listened to this twice and I can say that I really, really like it. It's an incredibly personal album (which is also one of its faults - it's quite hard to properly relate to something that is written so personally and for such a specific case but there is enough else on there to help me to look past that).

 

Did anyone else have NO idea about the fracture in their relationship though? I had no clue and so when listening to it I was shell-shocked at what she was saying. It made it all the more powerful for me I guess.

 

It is in NO WAY better than 'BEYONCÉ' though but then I really find a lot of difficulty comparing albums that have been out a few days vs albums I have replayed for months and months or longer so i'll hold my judgement until later. But yeah, 'BEYONCÉ' for me is a once in a career type moment and one of the best urban albums ever so I doubt this will ever match or better that.

 

Oh its definitely not her best and definitely not a masterpiece, but a bold statement and an attempt to stay relevant & do something different to what she has done before, which she's successfully done.

This basically sums up my thoughts too ~

How do you playlist an entire album? Different hour, different song?

The first two songs I found 'OK' but nothing special, Don't Hurt Yourself I didn't particularly like (the Jack White bits were the best). 6 Inch was the best up until that point but then Daddy Lessons topped it (the major standout :wub:). Found Love Drought rather boring, Sandcastles was OK, Freedom and All Night sounded like two of the best and I've never liked Formation.

 

Maybe 4 songs I could take from this and keep going back to with the first two having potential to grow I guess. I appreciate what she's doing, how personal it is and how 'different' it is but as an album to listen to I'd much rather put "4" on repeat (plus songs like XO and Drunk In Love).

The ultimate Beyoncé album would be an album of 'Dance For You's 😍

Beyonce stated that 'All Night' is her favourite off Lemonade last night. While you all stick to Freedom and 6 Inch, least someone is with me.

08.0 Pray You Catch Me - Works nicely on the movie, and is rather touching but I wouldn't go back to it much on its own.

09.0 Hold Up - Finally grown on me, after finding it irritating.

05.0 Don't Hurt Yourself - I find this one rather jarring

10.0 Sorry - Huge jam and I love the video for this.

09.5 6 Inch - Similarly anthemic as Sorry, but not quite as good.

04.0 Daddy Lessons - I can't get on board with this one at all, the sound just doesn't work.

06.0 Love Drought

06.0 Sandcastles

06.0 Forward (interlude)

07.5 Freedom - Great, but hugely lifted by Kendrick

10.0 All Night - Utterly beautiful. Filled with sorrow but hope.

11.0 Formation - Still one of the best things I've heard from Beyonce in absolutely ages.

All Night is growing on me a hell of a lot, I think the mixture of hurt and hope really makes it one of the most fitting songs on the album for the themes, it's almost moving on, at least trying to move on and hoping to move on.