I love SPAGHETTII tqh. 

16 minutes ago, BnPac said:

Sure, those songs sans RTW are elevator music but the album comes along with Countdown (!!!) , Schooling Life(!!!), 1+1 (!!!) End Of Time, Love On Top and I Miss You. The highs are so high. 

 

B'Day standard also has Resentment which is not great tbh. But it's true that it's standard edition is more balanced and has really no filler (although personally I don't enjoy Resent and RTA) but the highs except Kitty Kat do not reach Countdown's marvelousness. 

It balances. During B'Day, she was really in her Prince's bag. She could have cut a bigger check for mixing though, that's a fact. 

Resentment  is one of my favorites from the album-such a sad closing to the high of Deja Vu when she's still crazy in love. The mixing was supposed to be retro on songs like Resentment to fit with the old school theme.  The South is really good at storytelling and B'day was a storytelling album. Tracks 1-10 told a story from a woman in love to out of love by the end of the album. It actually could've been titled Dangerously out of Love  and it would've made sense
 

 Prince called out Timberlake for FS/LS which came out the same year  so he definitely would've been petty enough to say something but I think he loved B'Day
 

The highs are high on 4, and the instrumentals are beautiful especially songs like Rather die Young or I Miss you but the ambient/alternative pop and R&B  vibe mixed with the marching band/afro beat and dancehall made  it lack  the consistency of a track list that gels all together on a dancefloor like B'day or Renaissance.

 

4 also has some haphazard track list that was redone and is now the standard version. It was better the way it was originally starting off with 1+1.  I also take points off for Lay Up Under Me being unavailable to stream because that's one of her best tracks. 4 is the only album I have to listen to the live versions not the album anymore. 1+1   live is way better than the album versions.

 

1. B'Day  is first.

My rankings always change for everything else so Im not going to bother 

Right now Renaissance is number 2.

 

Cowboy Carter is fighting for top 5, but to be honest, I even prefer The Gift over Cowboy Carter 

Edited January 15, 20251 yr by Nippy'sReceipts

1 minute ago, Nippy'sReceipts said:

Resentment  is one of my favorites from the album-such a sad closing to the high of Deja Vu when she's still crazy in love. The mixing was supposed to be retro on songs like Resentment to fit with the old school theme.  The South is really good at storytelling and B'day was a storytelling album. Tracks 1-10 told a story from a woman in love to out of love by the end of the album. It actually could've been titled Dangerously out of Love  and it would've made sense
 

 Prince called out Timberlake for FS/LS which came out the same year  so he definitely would've been petty enough to say something but I think he loved B'Day
 

The highs are high on 4, and the instrumentals are beautiful especially songs like Rather die Young or I Miss you but the ambient/alternative pop and R&B  vibe mixed with the marching band/afro beat and dancehall made  it lack  the consistency of a track list that gels all together on a dancefloor like B'day or Renaissance.

 

4 also has some haphazard track list that was redone and is now the standard version. It was better the way it was originally starting off with 1+1.  I also take points off for Lay Up Under Me being unavailable to stream because that's one of her best tracks. 4 is the only album I have to listen to the live versions not the album anymore. 1+1   live is way better than the album versions.

 

1. B'Day  is first.

My rankings always change for everything else so Im not going to bother 

Right now Renaissance is number 2.

 

Cowboy Carter is fighting for top 5, but to be honest, I even prefer The Gift over Cowboy Carter 

I agree about the original edition of 4, that's the only one I can listen to. It's still on Spotify, you have to click at the bottom "other releases" to select that version. 

 

And yes I think Prince loved B'Day, after all it's very him. He even used/covered Suga Mama on his show. 

56 minutes ago, Teen Spirit said:

 

No Angel is boring

This is where we disagree, the NO NO NO no nooooo's alone towards the song's closing makes it a top 3 of self-titled 

 

32 minutes ago, Lose My Breath said:

Jealous doesn't get enough love though

Say this again please.

 

 

35 minutes ago, Lose My Breath said:

**** spaghetti though

Really hoe?

She needs be locked up for not performing No Angel since 2014 and that was like two seconds.

 

The little interpolation she did during RWT was amazing though.

 

 

7 notifications and most being quotes.. had to lock my doors due to fearing for my life 

how has basé been more active since the postponement than before 

Jealous almost ruins ST by itself im sorry. No Angel a career highlight.

2 minutes ago, Slamless said:

Jealous almost ruins ST by itself im sorry. No Angel a career highlight.

Oh, you a lie

12 minutes ago, ScorpiosGroove said:

how has basé been more active since the postponement than before 

Turns out rankings are more exciting than being let down by favé 

B'Day > 4 and it's elementary ass songwriting on SO MANY of the songs 

11 minutes ago, Slamless said:

Jealous almost ruins ST by itself im sorry. No Angel a career highlight.

this is why she out here postponing things bc wtf.

 

14 minutes ago, Slamless said:

Jealous almost ruins ST by itself im sorry. No Angel a career highlight.

Bestie what is this?

 

Smh.

1 minute ago, king_queen said:

B'Day > 4 and it's elementary ass songwriting on SO MANY of the songs 

B'Day has much better album tracks for me personally even though 4 has Dance for You and End of Time.

 

Imo.

Like B'Day has Suga Mama and Deja Vu alone.....

I'm supposed to go to the store and then do laundry and I am here socializing like a dumbass.

 

I HATE some of you so much.

 

 

Controversial opinion possibly, but I lowkey find End of Time grating.

 

It sounds pretty elementary, especially with the added context of songs like MOVE, Already, Water, My Power, and even Grown Woman. A post Black Parade/MY HOUSE Bey would approach that song entirely differently, and for that reason it's hard to revisit.

did i just come back to rankings......

 

god save us

5 minutes ago, king_queen said:

B'Day > 4 and it's elementary ass songwriting on SO MANY of the songs 

erm…

 

alrite thats enough atrl for me today. 

I didnt know Jealous had shooters like that oh my

1 hour ago, Nippy'sReceipts said:

Lol. 4 and its elevator music and marching band music was cute but it's not a B'Day. Is anyone honestly going to say they use Best Thing I Never Had, I Was Here, Start Over, Run the World? 4 was majorly enhanced by its deluxe. B'Day didn't even need a deluxe to be it

Elevator music doesn't come with such complex vocal arrangements, please be for real 

 

It took her AGES, more than ten years since 4, to produce something just as compelling.

5 minutes ago, mariposa said:

Controversial opinion possibly, but I lowkey find End of Time grating.

 

It sounds pretty elementary, especially with the added context of songs like MOVE, Already, Water, My Power, and even Grown Woman. A post Black Parade/MY HOUSE Bey would approach that song entirely differently, and for that reason it's hard to revisit.

I'm about to piss some ppl off with what I'm about to post after this teams meeting 

not reading through pages of your rankings  but if you don't have DIL and IASF in the last two spots, rethink your life.