Posted May 23, 200619 yr Release date: September 12th Called: B Day :blink: Apparently she made the album in 2 weeks... c**p title, release date looks cool enough, but 2 weeks seriously? :blink: Edited April 22, 201114 yr by LϴVETT
May 23, 200619 yr Release date: September 12th Called: B Day :blink: Apparently she made the album in 2 weeks... c**p title, release date looks cool enough, but 2 weeks seriously? :blink: B Day? Like Bidet? Is Beyonce trying to tell us she's got thrush?
May 23, 200619 yr B Day i think may be a play on D Day and that when this is released everythings gonna be like :o of coruse it wont because she's vile ^_^
May 23, 200619 yr B Day? Maybe it's full of the leftovers from dangerously in love - officially one of the crappest albums in recent years! I'm hoping this is a lot better as I love B, but I'm not getting my hopes up!
May 23, 200619 yr Well i actually bought Dangerously in love myself :huh: and though the only good songs were the singles and that song with Jay Z -_- Doubt i'll buy this and that Pink pantha song she did was a truely vile piece of music :puke2:
May 23, 200619 yr Hope it's better than the last one... It was one of the most disappointing albums I've ever bought.
May 23, 200619 yr I know we're not meant to judge a book on its cover, but can we judge on an album on its RUBBISH title? I was horribly disappointed with 'Dangerously In Love' too. But 'Speechless' was one of 2003's highlights for me - a song so good it doesn't need a tune.
May 23, 200619 yr The Children have a habit of bragging about how quickly they make their albums. I think so we'll forgive them when they're $h!t. I remember Kelly Rowland letting slip that her strange vocals on 'Can't Nobody' were not intentionally vocodered - she flaunted to Trevor Nelson that she had a cold and needed to finish the album to cash in on 'Dilemma'.
May 23, 200619 yr I know we're not meant to judge a book on its cover, but can we judge on an album on its RUBBISH title? Well, what was your first reaction when you heard Mariah had named her album 'The emancipation of Mimi'? Cos I went on about how awful it was! :lol:
May 23, 200619 yr Author Well, what was your first reaction when you heard Mariah had named her album 'The emancipation of Mimi'? Cos I went on about how awful it was! :lol: I didn't even know what it meant! :lol: But in retrospect I like it. :wub:
May 23, 200619 yr I remember I had an MSN name when I found out saying "The emancipation of Mimi? The b**** has lost the ****ing plot" :D
May 23, 200619 yr Author I remember I had an MSN name when I found out saying "The emancipation of Mimi? The b**** has lost the ****ing plot" :D :rofl: I quite liked Dangerously In Love, especially the title track and The Closer I Get To You. :wub:
May 24, 200619 yr I hope it flops, she is terribly overrated here in the US :cheer: EDIT: The album is named BDay? seriously? is this official :mellow: :rofl:
May 24, 200619 yr Author I hope it flops, she is terribly overrated here in the US :cheer: EDIT: The album is named BDay? seriously? is this official :mellow: :rofl: Well I took it from somewhere else and they said it was confirmed on her official website but I didn't look to check or anything. :unsure:
June 9, 200619 yr it is called b day because it stands for birthday and she is releasing it on her birthday well her birthday is on the 4th of september im guessing she is releasing it on her birthday in america and then a week later here
August 12, 200618 yr Source: Launch/Dotmusic Despite recent reports, Beyonce will jet into the UK next week to plug her new album B-Day. Records execs were apparently nervous of letting the Bootylicious songstress fly over from the US due to the recent terrorist threat, but her spokesperson insists this is not the case. "Beyonce is really excited to be coming over," he said. "She has loads of plans whilst she is here." The new album will be released on September 4 - the singer's 25th birthday. It will be preceded by single Deja-Vu, out August 21. Earlier this month the Destiny's Child star told Arena how she refused to work with a 13ft alligator, in a shoot for the album cover. She giggled: "The first alligator they went and got was 13 feet long. "They were like, 'He's fine. He just ate'. But then I saw his trainer, who had stitches and a bloody head." I still can't believe they let her call her album B-Day :lol:
August 13, 200618 yr She giggled: "The first alligator they went and got was 13 feet long. "They were like, 'He's fine. He just ate'. But then I saw his trainer, who had stitches and a bloody head." :lol:
August 21, 200618 yr From FoxNews Beyonce: New Album 'B'Day,' First Look Imagine if Whitney Houston never had Clive Davis steering her career for those first few important image-defining albums. The result would have been Beyonce Knowles ’ new "B'Day," the follow up to her huge-selling debut album "Dangerously in Love." "B'Day" launches on September 5, one day after Beyonce’s real 25th birthday. Last night I got to hear tracks from the new album after a short listening party concluded at a Regent St. nightclub in London. Click Here for the Music Center Beyonce and her mother, Tina, turned up for the event and stayed a little over an hour, then bolted for greener pastures at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. I was told that one day earlier, the singer and her parents made an appearance for Sony execs and played the album for them. Beyonce’s world is made up of family, and they are close-knit business partners. Her dad, Matthew, is her controversial manager. Her mom makes her outfits. Her sister Solange sings and gets writing credits on her songs, as does a similarly named cousin, Angela Beyince. More importantly, her boyfriend, rapper Jay-Z, casts a huge influence over her sound. The result of so many cooks in the kitchen, and none of them objective, is that post-Destiny’s Child Beyonce serves up a mixed bag of Tina Turner-inspired videos, shrill singing and invariably tuneless songs. Her biggest hit, "Crazy in Love," was an invention of producer Rich Harrison that was heavily sampled from an old Chi Lites song called "Am I Your Woman?" written largely by the late great Eugene Record. Harrison then took the major elements of that song and reworked them for several more artists, including Usher and Jennifer Lopez. But on "B'Day," there is no Chi Lites song to act as a saving grace. The closest they come to a defining single is "Déjà Vu," written and produced by Rodney Jerkins with a team he’s used on Lopez’s records, among others. Jay-Z contributes an extended rap and appears in the video. The song is catchy if you hear it enough times — like a sidewalk drill — but it lacks a consistent melody. I am told that focus groups (yes — can you imagine?) don’t care for it. A London radio DJ told me last night that "Déjà Vu" and Justin Timberlake’s new "Sexyback" recently tied for least-liked records in his station’s polling. Ouch! That isn’t to say that "B'Day" doesn’t have its charms, or its hits. They’re just not by the cynical people who created this thing or have the most to gain from it. A clever ballad called "Irreplaceable" is the most memorable track, and has the most potential of catching on with fans quickly. It’s also the only song on "B'Day" that you might actually want to sing along to, written and produced by Stargate, an anonymous Norwegian pop hit production team akin to Max Martin’s boy band factory of a few years ago. (As with all the songs, Matthew Knowles makes sure his daughter gets a songwriting credit and publishing royalty on "Irreplaceable," a sop for making the composers rich. Knowles, like Celine Dion’s husband before him and other managers of contemporary singers, is canny to do this, since there is no such thing as a performance royalty. In years to come, when the records aren’t selling, Beyonce will have that money to look forward to. That’s one thing Whitney didn’t do and likely regrets now.) The other potential hit from "B'Day" is the bluesier soul number called "Green Light," written and produced by melody makers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, aka The Neptunes. "Green Light" precedes "Irreplaceable" late in the album’s running order (they’re 8 and 9, respectively, not usual spots for singles), but the well-made song stands out as the album's possible chart redemption once "Déjà Vu" has run its course as Beyonce’s club hit. Among the tracks that sound less obvious — and more tired — are the next planned single, "Ring the Alarm." It features an extremely annoying siren and is accompanied by a bizarre video depicting a wildly angry and unappealing Beyonce telling off someone (maybe Jay-Z?) for cheating as if she were an enraged guest on Maury Povich. The pair of Harrison-produced tries at "Crazy in Love" fall short of originality but mimic the Chi Lites percussion section yet again. Harrison is like the Indiana Jones of soul, constantly pulling out forgotten gems of the past for sampling. This time, in "Suga Mama," he quotes heavily from Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers’ “Searching for Soul.†You can hear the original funk instrumental at www.pandora.com, a Web site created in 2000 by the Music Genome Project to catalog obscure music. I’ve no doubt that Harrison is a subscriber. You can’t help but think: Thank God someone wrote music in the past that can be repurposed now. So, where does that leave Beyonce? In the next few weeks, before the Grammy deadline expires on September 30, we’re going to have new and similar endeavors from Justin Timberlake, Janet Jackson and Sean "Diddy" Combs. They will each be billed as “hot†and “sexy.†They will all be pushing some envelope in a bid for publicity and attention at a time when the music industry desperately needs a hit. They will also, to some degree, promote monotony. In Beyonce’s case, she may have the upper hand. For Christmas, she’ll co-star in the big-screen version of "Dreamgirls," which I told you looks to be an Oscar nominee, based on a presentation at the Cannes Film Festival in May. One new song from "Dreamgirls," called "Listen" — “co-written†by Beyonce with the musical’s original composers — is included on "B'Day" as a “hidden track.†If the two projects — "B'day" and "Dreamgirls" — arrive with any synergy, then it won’t matter if "B'Day" suffers from a sophomore slump. :rolleyes: LifeLight
August 22, 200618 yr Well yesterday evening clips of ALL the tracks from 'B'Day' leaked. Anyone wanting a link to d/l them pm me. I'll post my full review of each track a little later :D Edited August 25, 200618 yr by Jake
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