15 hours ago, Waterbender said:

We're talking about the same person who had multiple pages on her tour book against it, and who most recently hired a whole orchestra for background production on two deluxe tracks of an anniversary re-release. She obviously doesn't care about cutting costs.

she used the orchestra primarily for CAN I WATCH YOU, not just for donk, that was just a bonus. and spending money to hire strings for your CRAFT that is your bread and butter is completely different than spending 6 figures for promo pics for cheap shein merch but sure!

1 minute ago, Redporus said:

See how the people come in here LYING on this good Wednesday? Musically, vocally and sonically Rather Die Young is an amazing song!!

I do sing it "Cuz I BLANK BANK Young than live my life without youuuuu, I'd rather BLANK BLANK at ALLLL"

Cuz those lyrics are giving self depreciating Bird Surpreme honey?!

well she is a bird for THAT man

2 minutes ago, Bicassie said:

well she is a bird for THAT man

Our sis was going through it during the recording of 4

"I'd rather DIE YOUNG than live my life without youuuuu?????"

"I was here, I lived I loved" ???

Our sis might have been having some ideations chiiiile.

2 minutes ago, Redporus said:

Our sis was going through it during the recording of 4

"I'd rather DIE YOUNG than live my life without youuuuu?????"

"I was here, I lived I loved" ???

Our sis might have been having some ideations chiiiile.

sis was in mourning during the making of 4 :(

2027: act 3

2028: act 3 stadium tour

2029: Visuals or some sort of grande finale project to celebrate the conclusion of the trilogy.

2030: Retirement

Jealous and Superpower are magnificent

DIL - Daddy. THYLI another skip.

B'Day - N/A standard edition. WWW deluxe.

IASF - Ave Maria I guess? Videophone too.

4 - BTINH.

ST - Pretty Hurts/XO. The platinum edition doesn't exist.

Lemonade - Sorry AND Hold Up. IDC.

Ren - Thique? AUIYM?

CC - Levi's Jeans.

The orchestra better come back for act iii.

18 minutes ago, Kalmanta said:

She was never close to a 1M debut besides perhaps Selftitled under normal circumstances. Comparing an urban centric artist to Taylor, who maybe has the most devoted fanbase ever known in the modern era, is foolish and everyone would look like an under performer next to her.

LEMONADE was the highest selling album of 2016. first album to chart every song on the billboard hot 100. and sold almost 700K first week. that is closer to a million than she ever will reach again.

No but seriously, by the time it finishes, this entire trilogy project will have taken up nearly 10 years of her career and of our time as fans. It's taken up so much space that it feels strange to think about what she'll do next.

Like does she just go back to dropping "standalone" studio albums again? Does she have another major, multi-year project in mind? Will she trilogy-ify her other albums like she did with B'Day? Will she step away from solo projects for a while and do more collaborative projects (like another DC album or EIL 2.0)?

Like the post-act-3 world is such an enigma.

Edited Wednesday at 05:51 PM5 days by Feanor

37 minutes ago, Bicassie said:

Help i just realized I forgot to do IASF

Honestly throw the whole project away

I like Spaghetti until she starts to sing or rap or whatever

Original editions including deluxe only:

DIL - Daddy

B'Day - Welcome to Hollywood

4 - I Was Here

ST - Heaven

LEM - Sandcastles

REN - Summer Ren

CC - Jolene

Sandcastles has some of her worst lyrics ever. It's so repetitive, and the rhyming scheme is insanely basic.

2 minutes ago, CallumDavies said:

Sandcastles has some of her worst lyrics ever. It's so repetitive, and the rhyming scheme is insanely basic.

It's a horrible song.

I don't understand the praise it gets in here.

3 minutes ago, nick_rod said:

It's a horrible song.

I don't understand the praise it gets in here.

I actually like the melody and production, especially when the harmonies come in. But the lyrics completely kill it. It has zero emotional weight. She just says the same thing over and over again.

We built sand castles that washed away
I made you cry when I walked away
Oh, and although I promised that I couldn't stay, baby
Every promise don't work out that way, oh, babe
Every promise don't work out that way

Dishes smashed on my counter from our last encounter
Pictures snatched out the frame
*****, I scratched out your name and your face
What is it about you that I can't erase, baby?
When every promise don't work out that way, no, no, babe
When every promise don't work out that way

And your heart is broken 'cause I walked away
Show me your scars and I won't walk away
Oh, and I know I promised that I couldn't stay, baby
Every promise don't work out that way, no, no, no, no, no
Every promise don't work out that way

Like girl...

4 minutes ago, CallumDavies said:

Original editions including deluxe only:

DIL - Daddy

B'Day - Welcome to Hollywood

4 - I Was Here

ST - Heaven

LEM - Sandcastles

REN - Summer Ren

CC - Jolene

Mine:

DIL - Gift from virgo

B'day - world wide woman

4 - start over

ST- Ring off (worst song in her catalogue)

Lem- Sandcastles

Ren- summer ren

CC- Alligator tears

Oh... I didn't do IASF...

Videophone, of course.

I hate Jealous. Like it just doesnt sound nice to me, like at all. Just like that Motorolla sounding Riiverdance. Ugh, just annoying

1 minute ago, Kristie Kuwa said:

I hate Jealous. Like it just doesnt sound nice to me, like at all. Just like that Motorolla sounding Riiverdance. Ugh, just annoying

"Jealous" should have been a single, tbh.

It's lovely and vulnerable.

5 minutes ago, nick_rod said:

"Jealous" should have been a single, tbh.

It's lovely and vulnerable.

like that's a HIT instrumental, should've been all over pop radio in 2014.

I'm sure Beyoncé had a lot of respect for Selena, but I just find it hard to believe she was listening to her extensively especially in the '90s and 2000s. This story has always felt like a modern retcon to justify the Spanish pivot during the B'Day and I Am... Sasha Fierce eras. There doesn't always have to be some kind of big statement about certain things. Sometimes you just do it for fun or to expand your market. And that's okay.

4 minutes ago, Carbohydrates said:

I'm sure Beyoncé had a lot of respect for Selena, but I just find it hard to believe she was listening to her extensively especially in the '90s and 2000s. This story has always felt like a modern retcon to justify the Spanish pivot during the B'Day and I Am... Sasha Fierce eras. There doesn't always have to be some kind of big statement about certain things. Sometimes you just do it for fun or to expand your market. And that's okay.

maybe she wasnt like listening all day but she could be inspired by it during the recording, after all there was a joke that irremplazable norteña mix was just a selena song lmao

14 minutes ago, LegaMyth said:

The internet is just full of irresponsible and absurd guesses, some of which you can find on this very board.