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I like the album, but I don't love it. It grew on me a lot after a few listens. At first, I thought "Fairytale" had weak lyrics and felt like there wasn't much A&R or label investment behind it. Then I found out it was Tyla's take on a South African classic. After listening to the original (which I love), I really appreciate her version. My only criticism is that I wish she had used more power in her vocals. I also think "Is It Love" is a terrible opener, it feels like an EP track and killed the vibes on my first listen. I think the discussion around her career is fair. Epic doesn't seem to be fully pushing singles like "Push 2 Start," "Chanel," or "She Did It Again," but I also think Tyla takes a pretty laid back approach to promotion which isn't something you can say about Rih from 2005-2014. But to be fair it's much harder to break songs as there is no monoculture and it hard to get people's attention etc. My theory is that she may have pissed off some people at her label when she canceled her debut tour because of her back injury. Touring builds loyal fans and gives labels confidence to invest more. FLO's (who obvs aren't as successful) theatre tours helped establish their fanbase, and I think Tyla would be in a much stronger position if she'd been able to do a proper headline tour instead of relying mostly on festivals and viral moments.

I loooove this!! It's way better than 'drop dead' and it sounds so 90s to me.

I love this album, the second half is amazing.

No, no, no part 1 by destiny's child was going to be given to Brandy for never say never. Also Rain by swv was intended for Brandy's nsn era as well.

This is her best album. I know she said she wouldn't but I have hope for a deluxe lol.

I usually agree with criticism about yvette, bey keeps her around since she's been there since the very beginning but tbh it isn't her fault. At the end of the day it is jay's event, why invite them? yeah yeah it's nice that they raised money for charity but the reality is her father's administration are ruining the economic livelihoods of many Americans right now soo... . Also I realise that celebs care about themselves and their close circles first (like most people), but her father has publicly attacked Bey this year but it's not the first time Jay brushes past stuff like that to be a clout chase. I'm sure this invite is all about jay's latest casino grift business. I won't pretend to care about the morality of gambling but jay has already invested in fanatics and has done well off that so why the casino? that's my parasocial opinion about all this.

I liked this album, i wish it had like 3 more songs.

Yes this era was massive and her classics still do well on streaming. Her personal life wasn't what really changed her career imo it was: Her voice changing from the wear&tear of singing big songs and touring, even on her 2005 live album you can hear the slight vocal damage, she stopped working with Krucial and J records got folded in to RCA/Sony.

It's not a an option in the poll but Short n'Sweet.

I think she owns all her solo masters 2003 onwards. On the RIAA website all her solo work like Crazy in love and Halo etc. is recertified under Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia.

Ehhh idc about the discourse, she spent years being vague about a "stolen sound" without being specific which lead to many conspiracies against Bey.

I really like this song and her music, she might be as big as summer and sza.

love this song

I looove this. It's way better than smoke (hated that tbh). I'm happy she is just under interscope, i hope it works out for her.

Variety is such an awful publication.

This is what I've been thinking and it's the main reason I'm extremely against doing a dc reunion or any side projects right now: they do nothing for her solo brand and it usually results in hate campaigns. I'm a cynic so I think any hypothetical dc reunion would result in a hate campaign of people complaining that she is a (rightfully) a lead singer. 25 years later people harbour deep emotions over the dc breakup and the girls roles in the group. Also there would be large group of people pretending to care that Letoya and Latavia aren't part of it and exaggerating their importance of the first edition of dc . I saw an interview of Bey in 2001 explaining that L&L are only on like 6 or 7 songs on TWOTW. Idk about y'all but I was sooo surprised to hear this confirmed when listening to acapellas on Youtube and see people confirm in the comments that it was Bey and Kelly singing stacked vocals (Temptation, I thought the soprano harmony was Letoya). Even on lose my breath, it is only Beyonce on the background vocals. She would be doing most of the work and get hate for it. I can't lie, I still think about what could've been if Beyonce had a solo album/era right after Coachella it was such a waste to do OTRII and EIL and you could see that they were thrown together very quickly. Any joint project between them should've been earlier when Jay was in his prime but that still would've resulted in hate.

I don't get why jay collabs and tours are being brought up in defence of a dc reunion, most hive didn't want that either! Eil streams and otrii's boxscores show that. Bey is not washed and there is still so much she can do and achieve as a solo artist. Doing a dc reunion would firmly place her as a legacy act and she is only 43. And I do agree that doing a dc tour/album would confine her.

Cater 2 u.

Tbh that's pretty stable but they need to change something about the show overall.

This song is so beautiful. And this one is just perfect.

Jive/Laface and her former managers were so incompetent and didn't believe in her at all. Ciara has her faults but i genuinely believe if they fully pushed her, she would be at bey or rih's level.

Dangerously in Love/Naughty girl era Beyoncé especially the video. This song is a 10/10 though. The vocal delivery of this song is very Rihanna.

after waiting for so long, i wish joni was longer and solo.

I think this defs bey which could be very exciting i can't lie.

that was anticlimactic lol. i just don't get her team these days but at least the tour will be great.