5 hours ago, nooniebao said:

these guys are such cuties

I have just realized that the "mom of 3" excuse for no promo is about to expire. They are old enough to take care of themselves now.

1 minute ago, Comedor said:

I have just realized that the "mom of 3" excuse for no promo is about to expire. They are old enough to take care of themselves now.

Watch the other MPGs start having babies now and pull a Rihanna. We've been lucky tbh...

2 hours ago, Erotica said:

there's so much power in this song

im ******* tired of i care, i hope she cuts the damn song forever

It's so funny to me (and rewarding, as a hater of the song) that BTINH has never been performed outside its single run. It's like she knew it was basic and just released for commercial, not artistic, purposes.

okay I know the "rates" get people mad but I'm curious about what we think Beyoncé's best final-era single is...

I think it's an interesting exercise because it's a track from an album that she/her team deemed strong enough to have been a single, but not strong enough to have been released before the others though in some cases it's from a re-release.

Dangerously in Love: The Closer I Get To You
B'Day: Green Light
I Am...Sasha Fierce: Why Don't You Love Me
4: End of Time
BEYONCÉ: Ring Off
Lemonade: All Night
The Gift: BLACK PARADE
RENAISSANCE: AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM
COWBOY CARTER: II MOST WANTED


For me, it's probably AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM. That song is perfection. In fact, I haven't listened to it in a while, let me just go do that now...

Edited March 5Mar 5 by swissman

1 hour ago, Fleahive said:

Imagine what her mugshot would look like and would Julius let the cops arrest ha?

Ummm No.

She would have one of the most beautiful mugshots ever, that's for sure.

Several people are typing......

I know you want me back

It's time to face the facts that I'm the one that's got away

LORD KNOOOOWS that it would take another place, another time, another WORLD, ANOTHER LIFE

THANK GOD I FOUND THE GOOD IN GOODBYEEEE I USED TO WANT YOU SO BAAAAD

15 hours ago, Triton said:

Perfume, liquor, hair creams, what can she bottle next?

our tears, jay's semen, her coochie juice, flea's constant stream of delusions… the possibilities are endless

Edited March 5Mar 5 by ScorpiosGroove

19 minutes ago, swissman said:

It's so funny to me (and rewarding, as a hater of the song) that BTINH has never been performed outside its single run. It's like she knew it was basic and just released for commercial, not artistic, purposes.

Yup. A sugary rom-com sounding track which righted the ship that was that horrific album campaign (leaking a month early, RTW + EOT leaking weeks early), and gave the albino alligators internationally something to hold onto amidst the Blackness that was 4.

Could I say "Irreplaceable" and "Hold Up" were more successful, better-executed versions of that strategy on her Blackest albums?

If we are seriously speculating on what she can next bottle, I nominate hot sauce.

1 minute ago, QueenB said:

I know you want me back

It's time to face the facts that I'm the one that's got away

LORD KNOOOOWS that it would take another place, another time, another WORLD, ANOTHER LIFE

THANK GOD I FOUND THE GOOD IN GOODBYEEEE I USED TO WANT YOU SO BAAAAD

I will say... If she ever does an Acapella album, "Pretty Hurts" and "Best Thing I Never Had" will suddenly gain so much respect in our fanbase: stellar vocal arrangements.

she's selling cigars next, and I will burn them next to my cécred candle with the names of all BTINH haters, I'm handling you guys spiritually now

1 minute ago, AccioEmpireBuilder said:

Yup. A sugary rom-com sounding track which righted the ship that was that horrific album campaign (leaking a month early, RTW + EOT leaking weeks early), and gave the albino alligators internationally something to hold onto amidst the Blackness that was 4.

Could I say "Irreplaceable" and "Hold Up" were more successful, better-executed versions of that strategy on her Blackest albums?

Irreplaceable yes, though I duno if Hold Up fits that category per se. I think the reggae-influence stops it from so. I'd say If I Were A Boy fits in there too.

2 minutes ago, AccioEmpireBuilder said:

I will say... If she ever does an Acapella album, "Pretty Hurts" and "Best Thing I Never Had" will suddenly gain so much respect in our fanbase: stellar vocal arrangements.

One thing we cannot take away from Beyoncé is incredible vocals, always.

the only criticism I have of the 4 hit single Best Hit I Never Had is that the instrumental makes me feel like I'm shopping in a Sims game

BTINH wouldn't be so bad if Irreplaceable never existed first.

However, it did. And it was released after Run the World which actually went somewhere new sonically, and thus felt like regression for her. And this after so many of her peers in the industry had also done their own versions of Irreplaceable. Rihanna even had three in one era (the title track from Good Girl Gone Bad which has a replica of Irreplaceable's instrumental; Hate That I Love You which is the most individual of the ones featured, but which clearly is created in a post-Irreplaceable world and even the music video is reminiscent of it; and Take A Bow which is the same sassy-send-off mid-tempo as Irreplaceable).

And this was like 3-4 years after the imitators, which made her just look late. At least when Beyoncé doubled down on the Crazy in Love sound with Green Light and Déja Vu it was just a year after 1 Thing came out and she had not necessarily moved on from that style as she had with IASF before 4 where she evolved it but did not repeat it.

Edited March 5Mar 5 by swissman

Just now, QueenB said:

the only criticism I have of the 4 hit single Best Hit I Never Had is that the instrumental makes me feel like I'm shopping in a Sims game

Fisher Price ass keyboard

2 minutes ago, swissman said:

Irreplaceable yes, though I duno if Hold Up fits that category per se. I think the reggae-influence stops it from so. I'd say If I Were A Boy fits in there too.

"Hold Up", while reggae, kept the album afloat in the UK and Australia/NZ. I include these songs in the context of albums where the lead wasn't entirely accessible sound-wise to markets outside the United States (Formation, Deja Vu, Run The World (Girls)), so a subsequent single had ground to cover on Pop radio.

(I didn't include IIWAB / XO because of how well the "Urban"-sounding hit of the duo crossed over.)

At many points that first week of Lemonade, it looked like "Hold Up" should've been the rightful international single alongside "Sorry" (which should've become a US-only single). "Hold Up" was receiving constant radio play in the UK and I think it even beat "Formation" to #1 in the UK on iTunes for a brief time, if I'm not mistaken.

Edited March 5Mar 5 by AccioEmpireBuilder

There are a couple of songs from BEYONCE such as Jealous, No Angel, and Superpower that she has rarely performed and unfortunately didn't get the spotlight they deserved.

It's honestly so sad.

I actually love best thing I never had. I like the beat as well. It's just funny to me how the beat sounds like an animation beat with Beyonce going the **** in on it with the vocals.

3 minutes ago, futuresuperstar2023 said:

I actually love best thing I never had. I like the beat as well. It's just funny to me how the beat sounds like an animation beat with Beyonce going the **** in on it with the vocals.

I will add you to the BTINH defenders list, we have a special place in heaven reserved for us

50 minutes ago, Chris said:

She would have one of the most beautiful mugshots ever, that's for sure.