2 hours ago, Chris said:

Btw the Jolene I heard at the grocery store was Beyonce's version.

 

We play it at my job and everyone hates it except for this older problematic white lady. 

act i... RENAISSANCE

act ii... COWBOY CARTER

act iii... BLACK VELVET

When I first heard LJ I thought she was saying "he calls me pretty little piiiiink" in reference to Cozy and when I found out that wasn't the lyric I stopped liking the song as much  

1 hour ago, FLAallday said:

We play it at my job and everyone hates it except for this older problematic white lady. 

Your coworkers sound like fake feminists angry she's shaming the woman instead of her man.

4 hours ago, Burn said:

this >>>>> Jolene and Blackbiird

AS IT SHOULD❗️At least she put some actual emotions behind the song, those other two sounds like she was fishing for songs to drive home her 'Been Country' tag line, and I actually LOVE "BLACKBIRD". I think had Dolly never said anything about "JOLENE", she could've easily slipped it off the digital album, at least, and made it a physical exclusive because it been sent to printing. It's the most pointless song in her catalog. 

13 hours ago, Mitsouko said:

Desert Eagle erasure is deviltry if you ask me. Should've been a full song (unlike half the album)

 

Nile, Desert Eagle, Flamenco...she must answer for her crimes

 

I try to rep Positive Hive™, but this puta's continued refusal to upload Donk to streaming in spite of it going viral every 5-7 business days might be the thing that finally pushes me over the edge.

Daughter deserves to be performed with just a mic and light. It deserves so much to be heard. 

Riverdance lowkey a career highlight phew she sang tf outta that song. The delivery on that song is supreme. Every single word and verse is *chefs kiss*. There are so many subtleties to how she enunciates on the song, the pauses, the way she lets her breath loose (like on the first verse - but never to my senses). And those lyricssss I LOVE a hopelessly in love song. And by the time she is going all out singing its just so good. 

 

Its a grower but one of my fav bey songs now. 

 

we fight and then we make amends, arrest me and read me my rights, I plan to steal your heart AGAIN ON STATURDAY AND SUNDAY NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

33 minutes ago, Calypso said:

Riverdance lowkey a career highlight phew she sang tf outta that song. The delivery on that song is supreme. Every single word and verse is *chefs kiss*. There are so many subtleties to how she enunciates on the song, the pauses, the way she lets her breath loose (like on the first verse - but never to my senses). And those lyricssss I LOVE a hopelessly in love song. And by the time she is going all out singing its just so good. 

 

Its a grower but one of my fav bey songs now. 

 

we fight and then we make amends, arrest me and read me my rights, I plan to steal your heart AGAIN ON STATURDAY AND SUNDAY NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

I agree, it's a great song.

CC is unrightfully dragged by the Hive imho. If you solely look at highs, CC has the following to offer:

 

- American Requiem

- Blackbird: you can fight me on that for however long u wish, but her singing this song as a black woman and inviting upcoming Black female country artists on it will forever be gorgeous to me

- 16 Carriages

- Alligator Tears: again, fight me, idc. This one is hypnotizing to me

- Ya Ya

- Tyrant

- Bodyguard

- 2 Hands 2 Heaven

- Sweet/Honey/Buckin

 

Like hello, these are NOT bad songs at all and actually diversify Beys discography beautifully

17 minutes ago, Kristie Kuwa said:

CC is unrightfully dragged by the Hive imho. If you solely look at highs, CC has the following to offer:

 

- American Requiem

- Blackbird: you can fight me on that for however long u wish, but her singing this song as a black woman and inviting upcoming Black female country artists on it will forever be gorgeous to me

- 16 Carriages

- Alligator Tears: again, fight me, idc. This one is hypnotizing to me

- Ya Ya

- Tyrant

- Bodyguard

- 2 Hands 2 Heaven

- Sweet/Honey/Buckin

 

Like hello, these are NOT bad songs at all and actually diversify Beys discography beautifully

!!!! Blackbiird needs to be there. It's the perfect juxtaposition for Ameriican Requiem: On Ameriican Requiem she takes a lot of sounds from The Beatles (some of the instrumentation is very Revolver-era Beatles, those "looka dere, looka dere" sound much like the adlibs at the end of Hey Jude) and then she goes into a Beatles song. She's not trying to pay homage to the Beatles, they were never included in the collages for Been Country and she's never mentioned them as inspiration. But she's taking their sound just like they took many of the stylings of their early stuff from black r&b girlgroups. Most of those groups went unknown while they are to this day treated as musical geniuses. Her putting together a black girlgroup to sing a song a white british guy wrote about the black woman experience in America is quite perfect. Those two songs needed to be together.

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15 minutes ago, Kristie Kuwa said:

CC is unrightfully dragged by the Hive imho. If you solely look at highs, CC has the following to offer:

 

- American Requiem

- Blackbird: you can fight me on that for however long u wish, but her singing this song as a black woman and inviting upcoming Black female country artists on it will forever be gorgeous to me

- 16 Carriages

- Alligator Tears: again, fight me, idc. This one is hypnotizing to me

- Ya Ya

- Tyrant

- Bodyguard

- 2 Hands 2 Heaven

- Sweet/Honey/Buckin

 

Like hello, these are NOT bad songs at all and actually diversify Beys discography beautifully

I had no idea this was a thing. I honestly can't imagine anyone arguing with a straight face that it's not an excellent body of work. They must be mad that she abandoned the era or something, because the music always hits.

1 minute ago, Draper. said:

!!!! Blackbiird needs to be there. It's the perfect juxtaposition for Ameriican Requiem: On Ameriican Requiem she takes a lot of sounds from The Beatles (some of the instrumentation is very Revolver-era Beatles, those "looka dere, looka dere" sound much like the adlibs at the end of Hey Jude) and then she goes into a Beatles song. She's not trying to pay homage to the Beatles, they were never included in the collages for Been Country and she's never mentioned them as inspiration. But she's taking their sound just like they took many of the stylings of their early stuff from black r&b girlgroups. Most of those groups went unknown while they are to these day treated as musical geniuses. Her putting together a black girlgroup to sing a song a white british guy wrote about the black woman experience in America is quite perfect. Those two songs needed to be together.

Agreed. And then 16Carriages which literally is her stepping into her Prince bag - Chefs Kiss. I love these 3 together!

Just now, Arrogant said:

I had no idea this was a thing. I honestly can't imagine anyone arguing with a straight face that it's not an excellent body of work. They must be mad that she abandoned the era or something, because the music always hits.

This is exactly what it is.  The album is arguably one of her best works (along with Renaissance), but the problem is, her alienating her fans by the lack of effort to appease them while pushing products, and money grabs has caused some turmoil, and it's starting to reflect in attitudes and opinions of her music

Apparently Rihanna liked a Beyonce fan post on Instagram. Are we up or do yall not care?

6 minutes ago, Fleahive said:

Apparently Rihanna liked a Beyonce fan post on Instagram. Are we up or do yall not care?

Rihanna likes Beyonce as an artist + they have mutual respect for each other. I think thats where it starts and ends with them

11 hours ago, Fleahive said:

Your coworkers sound like fake feminists angry she's shaming the woman instead of her man.

Theyre a bunch of Morgan wallen girls there was 0 chance they were ever going to embrace a beyonce country album tbh. 
 

To be clear, I don't like anyone I work with so I don't support any of their lack of taste. 

If Kamala wins, Bey should perform Blackbird acoustically. I guarantee it would go straight to a Top5 position. The lyrics are just too perfect

Im already tearing up just imagining that.

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It hurts that the days we got her performing on almost every occasion are gone. 

7 minutes ago, Kristie Kuwa said:

If Kamala wins, Bey should perform Blackbird acoustically. I guarantee it would go straight to a Top5 position. The lyrics are just too perfect

Im already tearing up just imagining that.

Her entire catalog was crafted for a Kamala victory tbh. Whatever happens will add to her already unfuckwithable legacy.

 

At Last for the Obamas already set her apart from every last one of her peers. And if she did all of that for Hillary, she's showing tf out for a Kamala victory 

3 hours ago, Kristie Kuwa said:

CC is unrightfully dragged by the Hive imho. If you solely look at highs, CC has the following to offer:

 

- American Requiem

- Blackbird: you can fight me on that for however long u wish, but her singing this song as a black woman and inviting upcoming Black female country artists on it will forever be gorgeous to me

- 16 Carriages

- Alligator Tears: again, fight me, idc. This one is hypnotizing to me

- Ya Ya

- Tyrant

- Bodyguard

- 2 Hands 2 Heaven

- Sweet/Honey/Buckin

 

Like hello, these are NOT bad songs at all and actually diversify Beys discography beautifully

You left out some of the highs like:

 

DAUGHTER

RIVERDANCE

FLAMENCO

 

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20 minutes ago, Kalmanta said:

It hurts that the days we got her performing on almost every occasion are gone. 

There will never be another Beyoncé

 

A power ballad was released alongside this, btw. She is the greatest of all time, there's really no more arguing about it 

 

Mathew knew what tf he was doing  

Edited November 4, 20241 yr by king_queen

 

Also we dont talk enough how this ***** is able to serve performances where she not only elevates her own songs, but where literally every single shot is flawfree. Like, the execution is just marvellous. Not one faulty note, not one look that looks bad, everything graceful, beautiful, gorgeous.

Oh Bey, despite ur best efforts to make my blood boil, I could never not stan you

 

 

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3 hours ago, Kristie Kuwa said:

CC is unrightfully dragged by the Hive imho. If you solely look at highs, CC has the following to offer:

 

- American Requiem

- Blackbird: you can fight me on that for however long u wish, but her singing this song as a black woman and inviting upcoming Black female country artists on it will forever be gorgeous to me

- 16 Carriages

- Alligator Tears: again, fight me, idc. This one is hypnotizing to me

- Ya Ya

- Tyrant

- Bodyguard

- 2 Hands 2 Heaven

- Sweet/Honey/Buckin

 

Like hello, these are NOT bad songs at all and actually diversify Beys discography beautifully

16C is criminally underrated. I know most people seem to like it but where is the real praise? I don't see it. S/H/B is also not mentioned enough, i get the sing structure may not be most peoples cup of tea but is definitely a highlight, Shaboozeys part is great.