11 hours ago, Joaco95 said:

IASF doesnt need 4 vinyls pleek (i made my own mock up time ago lsdfnkjsn)

I think it would be 3. 2 for the album and 1 for bonus material

Reminding me of the Club Renaissance parties during the Renaissance era. Sony or Parkwood will probably announce more parties at various locations.

36 minutes ago, ScorpiosGroove said:

hopefully Can I Watch You is more Kitty Kat and less clunky, loud, pots and pans mess like whatever those other deluxe tracks are

Creole and Lost Yo Mind they are talking about you sweetie.

9 minutes ago, yonsé said:

I think it would be 3. 2 for the album and 1 for bonus material

each side fits in a vinyl (i did my research for the mockup i made)

5 songs per side unless she wants so add unreleased content

I don't agree with the idea that act-iii was pushed just so Jay could do his thing, or even the idea that it is the main reason why act-iii isn't here yet. My main reason is that I do not think that if her album was 'ready', she'd just 'sit' on it. Art and music is timely and she'd be too far removed from where the art is and where she is at if the delay is just for some 'giving Jay Z' space ideas. I do not think the album was ready in time. She might have thought it would be - hence MET appearance - but it wasn't.

I have always believed the following. If Act-III is going to be rock (or adjacent) it is going to be culturally potent - and the world is in a crazy place right now. B has also multiple times expressed that she wants to create art that means something, stands for something, makes a statement and is culturally relevant. I genuinely think that post Trump 2.0 and all the **** since (let's not forget Iran war, our politics, a failing US military empire and so much more), she is kinda figuring out what she really wants to say and not half ass it (then it won't land as strong and be a dud despite talentry). Tho her lens is always more US centric and her personal life and love and womanhood focused, I still think the 'conversation' of it all is something she is figuring out.

My hope obviously is that she makes her version (and the 2020s version) of American Idiot (another wartime rock record).

Edited August 31Aug 31 by Calypso

1 hour ago, ScorpiosGroove said:

hopefully Can I Watch You is more Kitty Kat and less clunky, loud, pots and pans mess like whatever those other deluxe tracks are

why do you think she included Morning Dew that was for the Kitty Kat fans.

Can I Watch You gives ballad vibes

The London party is on her birthday and when Jay's show takes place, so she's gonna be in town.

1 hour ago, Joaco95 said:

ass mix

She should bring back the guys who mixed selftitled in 5.1

you're just saying anything now, Renaissance mix is great. And apple music girlies need only be excited

a woman like me > all those awful extra/leaked tracks.

13 minutes ago, Kalmanta said:

The London party is on her birthday and when Jay's show takes place, so she's gonna be in town.

It better be an early afternoon or late night club event, most fans (including her) will be at the concert lol

Edited August 31Aug 31 by Waterbender

11 minutes ago, QueenB said:

you're just saying anything now, Renaissance mix is great. And apple music girlies need only be excited

atmos mixes are the bare minimum, 5.1/sacd mixes are the real thing

there is a reason she won a grammy for selftitled mix

Edited August 31Aug 31 by Joaco95

41 minutes ago, Calypso said:

My main reason is that I do not think that if her album was 'ready', she'd just 'sit' on it.

Babes I need you to re-read this and think about what you just said.

7 minutes ago, Joaco95 said:

atmos mixes are the bare minimum, 5.1/sacd mixes are the real thing

5.1 mixes are made for movies and listening to it on surround-sound stereos, which it being 2026, most people don't do.

Dolby atmos is more advanced technology and can continue to provide easy updates as technology gets better, unlike 5.1 that needs a new mix every time

I like to play with tracklists, so I made an alternate tracklist for the B'Day 20th Anniversary Edition. I devided it into three parts. First is the original which stays more or less the same. Second is deluxe, bonus and soundtrack songs. While the first part follows the original story of love, heartbreak and finding one's own voice after a messy relationship at the end with Listen, the second part follows up on that with her getting confidence and falling in love again. Third is spanish versions, bacially the original EP and Get Me Bodied in Spanish added.

DISC 1

1. Deja Vu

2. Get Me Bodied

3. Suga Mama

4. Upgrade U

5. Ring The Alarm

6. Kitty Kat

7. Freakum Dress

8. Green Light

9. Irreplaceable

10. Resentment

11. Listen

DISC 2

1. Beautiful Liar

2. Welcome to Hollywood

3. World Wide Woman

4. Lost Yo Mind

5. Creole

6. Back Up

7. Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix)

8. Check On It

9. A Woman Like Me

10. If

11. My First Time

12. Flaws And All

DISC 3

1. Amor Gitano

2. Oye

3. Irreemplazable

4. Bello Embustero

5. Mueve El Cuerpo

I didn't include DONK for obvious reasons, it belongs on ST. I didn't include Can I Watch You cause I don't know whether it is actually a B'Day era song, but if it is it can easily be put on the second disc. I included WWW and If. If is a great song btw. I included A Woman Like Me too. We were robbed of that. Still in Love is missing tho. Original tracklist annoys me cause I have to listen to Check On It right after Resentment. The new tracklist has some other weird choices so I tried to avoid them and make a better flow

19 minutes ago, QueenB said:

5.1 mixes are made for movies and listening to it on surround-sound stereos, which it being 2026, most people don't do.

Dolby atmos is more advanced technology and can continue to provide easy updates as technology gets better, unlike 5.1 that needs a new mix every time

anyone with a 5.1/7.1 sound system/home theater can play that gimmick dolby atmos

dolby atmos in headphones is fake anyways

Edited August 31Aug 31 by Joaco95

21 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

I didn't include DONK for obvious reasons, it belongs on ST. I didn't include Can I Watch You cause I don't know whether it is actually a B'Day era song

but why is my first time still there tho?

3 minutes ago, Joaco95 said:

but why is my first time still there tho?

I was generous

i wonder if we are finally getting an explicit version of the album

No

When the 20th Anniversary Marketing Objective leaks and it just says "Make money, insert Cecred somewhere" and everything else is blank

7 hours ago, Kingdom said:

What is pretty obvious that a lot of you keep missing is jay z 30 shows. This is big year for him and a very important one. She is not going on an album tour cycle while jay is doing the same. Sometimes it is that simple and not a massive conspiracy

She could have easily released a new project this year and not toured it—as with R and CC

4 hours ago, Waterbender said:

It better be an early afternoon or late night club event, most fans (including her) will be at the concert lol

Do you think there's a chance she would show up? Surely at most it'd be an audio tape like club Renaissance? I hope she would turn up tho tbh. If it was somewhere like Outernet she could feasibly show up, sing Irreplaceable, say thank you and then hop in a cab to Wembley Stadium for an end-of-show performance with Jay

5 hours ago, Calypso said:

I don't agree with the idea that act-iii was pushed just so Jay could do his thing, or even the idea that it is the main reason why act-iii isn't here yet. My main reason is that I do not think that if her album was 'ready', she'd just 'sit' on it. Art and music is timely and she'd be too far removed from where the art is and where she is at if the delay is just for some 'giving Jay Z' space ideas. I do not think the album was ready in time. She might have thought it would be - hence MET appearance - but it wasn't.

I have always believed the following. If Act-III is going to be rock (or adjacent) it is going to be culturally potent - and the world is in a crazy place right now. B has also multiple times expressed that she wants to create art that means something, stands for something, makes a statement and is culturally relevant. I genuinely think that post Trump 2.0 and all the **** since (let's not forget Iran war, our politics, a failing US military empire and so much more), she is kinda figuring out what she really wants to say and not half ass it (then it won't land as strong and be a dud despite talentry). Tho her lens is always more US centric and her personal life and love and womanhood focused, I still think the 'conversation' of it all is something she is figuring out.

My hope obviously is that she makes her version (and the 2020s version) of American Idiot (another wartime rock record).

I mean, she made the bulk of Cowboy Carter between 2019 and 2021 so idk I think she would bench something for the sake of a wider vision