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Die ersten zwei Lieder haben es noch rausgerissen, ansonsten langweiliges Gedudle.
Mehr 2000er geht nicht. Ganz i.O., ich lass die Hater nicht an mich rankommen.
I get it. And the big singles are fun and catchy. But overall this isn't very good, is it? The power dynamics within Destiny's Child have always been pretty clear. Beyoncé's dad wastl their manager so she was always the star of the group. The others didn't stand a change. But she was also noticeably the best singer of the bunch, so no harm no foul. Key tracks: Independent Women Pt. I Survivor Bootylicious
A confused juggernaut of female empowerment and puritanical anti-feminism.
gotovo sve što mi se ne sviđa kod popularne dvadesetiprvostoljetne glazbe na jednom šezdesetominutnom albumu... super!
Nice
(Decent 6/10) The album starts strong with three pretty awesome bangers. "Independent Women Part I" is feminist anthem with incredible production and all three of their powerful voices coming together impeccably. The title track is an all-time classic and remains the album's best song. "Bootylicious" is just an ass-shaking song for the dancefloor but there's no doubt that it accomplishes that goal very well. Immediately though the album takes a massive dip in quality with "Nasty Girls". A toxic song that's policing how other women dress and behave. This song did not age well at all, and really leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The rest of the record is harmless though. The major issue is the bloat, there's too many filler tracks or songs that do not rise to the same heights as the singles. I enjoy the experimental beat on "The Story of Beauty", but the lyrics and vocal phrasing are a little awkward in execution. The streaming version of this album doesn't let you listen to the gospel medley at the end there, but honestly I'm probably not missing much. Overall, this record is OK. Definitely could've done with a trimmer tracklist that's for sure. I'd be more interested in checking out "Writing on the Wall" going forward after this.
Survivor starts with three enjoyable songs I've been forced to listen to on the radio since I was in kindergarten. This is followed by 50 minutes of the most mindnumbing, soul-crushingly empty contemporary R&B you could possibly imagine. A single does not an album make. As shown here, neither do three singles.
5/10
Another pop album from the early 00s. This one suffers also of being too long, although not as much as the Christina Aguilera album. It starts pretty decent, with the singles and some other ok tracks. However, especially the last third is pretty lame. I would rate this album somewhere between a strong 2 to a weak 3. Still a better album than the Aguilera one.
I’m dancing :)
The lyrics are a mess but my ass is still shakin
Peak comedy to have bootylicious, nasty girl, and gospel hymn all on the same album
Groupe connu de nom uniquement. Et sans intérêt pour moi… je ne suis déjà pas fan de Beyoncé (disque noté 1/5), en plus l’accompagnement est répétitif et ennuyeux. Je n’ai pas pu aller au bout de cet album trop long. =>1/5
I am familiar with the opening 3 songs and can appreciate them as era defining pop bangers but they are really not my jam. Quality / song writing falls off the cliff for the rest of the album. Clearly Beyonce is the star and has a great set of lungs but like I say its really not my jam.
Survivor I bought this album at the time, I think off the back of really liking Independent Women Part 1, Survivor and Bootylicious. Those three songs are still great, and it sort of makes sense to front load the album with them as nothing else really gets anywhere near their level, despite quite a few songs trying to replicate the formula of those songs. Nasty Girl is maybe the most successful, despite lyrics that seem rather mean-spirited and dated from 25 years distance, and in comparison or SZA the other day too. After that it descends pretty quickly, Apple Pie A La Mode’s lyrics are so laughable they could be a parody, and Sexy Daddy is pretty awful from pretty much every perspective. Happy Face seems oddly out of place, like the Vengaboys or something, and their version of Emotion is so desperately over emoted that it is almost entirely flat and meaningless. Which also goes for Dangerously in Love, a dangerously insipid ballad. Brown Eyes is pure Lonely Island, and although the chorus has a degree of melody, the lyrical platitudes undercut it. The Story of Beauty is another retread of those good songs. Outro at least has some rhythmic interest, recalling TLC, but the lyrics/spoken word parts are toe curling, with the references to god and the gushing praise of each other - which feels incredibly cynical after chucking people out of the band at Beyonce’s dad’s behest. Some of the vocal arrangements and harmonies are of course very good, and Beyonce is so obviously the alpha, it was inevitable she would go on to be an enormous solo star. But the whole thing has the dead hand of pushy parent and stage school desperation hanging all over it. As great as the first 3 songs are, they can’t make up for the joylessness of the rest of it. 2. 👢👢 Playlist submission: Bootylicious or Independent Women Pt 1, Bootylicious
Probably the most front-loaded album on the list. The first three tracks are bona fide classics - anthemic club hits, each exploring female empowerment. 'Independent Woman' and 'Survivor' girl power anthems, and 'Bootylicious' espousing female domination via the employment of their ample buttocks. To say the album falls off a cliff thereafter is no exaggeration. 'Happy Face' is barely worthy of All Saints let alone Beyonce. And 'Brown Eyes' is dull as shit, sounding like Steps fodder, with characteristic key change. As for the musically hollow 'Outro' with them all patting each other on the back, just put your nice thoughts in a card for Pete's sake, and keep us out of it. The girl solidarity message is crushed by 'Nasty Girl', which incongruously decries "nasty" ladies that have been around the block and leave the house scantily-clad. You only have to Google "Beyonce horse naked big tits ass" to see how hypocritical that is. I don't know why there are so many tracks on this album. Great singles and then nearly an hour of pap. It's littered with filler. Terrible quality control.
Pretty sweet!
I played this CD out. It always makes me think of playing the valley level of the N64 Pokemon Snap. Some Nasty Girls are leaving low scores, so it's gonna get a boost from me. 5.
Three tracks off the bat that ch aged pip music for 20 years and made Beyoncé a MEGA star for the next 20+ years….followed by 15 forgettable tracks. I almost could have gone 4 but oof “Emotion” is rough!
This is just absolutely everything: - break up album - female empowerment anthems - absolutely tearing down other women - flirty dance jams - couple of love songs - sickly love letter to your besties And crucially so so fucking early 2000s it’s like a time capsule.
Not usually my style of music but this is a solid gold classic.
A real "bang for your buck" album that I'd love if I were its demographic
When this started, I was feeling nostalgic for the girl power of the late '90s and early '00s. But songs like "Fancy" certainly can't be called feminist. Then I think about how young they were when this album came out. This isn't a genre of music that I was ever really into, but I do know the words to several of these, so they are catchy.
Full of super catchy songs, one of the quintessential albums of the 00's and set the tone for the next 10 years of music.
2.5
The first three songs here are all time pop anthems and automatically lift this album above the doldrums. Elsewhere there’s more example of good pop craft and an increasingly confident Beyoncé, albeit hampered by a stupid run time, overegged 00s production and a few too many shout outs to god
It's a big milestone at #200. This album is absolutely fantastic at times, but it does really dip at other points. It's starts with a bang with several epic pop tracks, making me feel very pumped up. But then it does lull and I couldn't really stomach 71 minutes of it. Favourites: Survivor Dance With Me Dangerously In Love
There's some pretty music on this, some R&B, soul and plenty of hip-hop pop - not my thing, but better than anticipated.
Didn't really give it a listen. Pop like this just ain't for me I'm afraid. Too mainstream to be in a list like this.
I love half the songs on this album and will sing them on repeat! The other half are fine. I think the nostalgia factor is driving a slightly higher rating
a bit bloated. Bootylicious is a banger and Independent Women Pt II is fucking wild. but the more this album strays from dance music and goes into rnb, the more it falls into the trappings of the era. very cheap sounding production. the trademark 2000s rnb clunk hasn't settled in yet, so it doesn't have that advantage in charming me. to my 2026 ears Destiny's Child is far more notable as being the starting point for Beyonce than they are for their actual music. which isn't bad, for the record. just a bit middling in hindsight. deserves to be one of the 1001? i would trade this for almost any solo Beyonce album tbh
Three bangers and then it slips back in to R&B mediocrity.
If someone wanted to play Destiny's Child, I would say "sure". If someone wanted to turn off Destiny's Child, I would say "sure".
Classic.
I found this hard work. Must have looked like the saddest old git in town, driving around in a midrange estate car, doing chores, being a killjoy, with Destiny's Child on the stereo. Yeah, there are big hits but there's something about the whole aesthetic that leaves me ice cold. Rancid vibes. Not saying it's objectively terrible in all respects but definitely not my bag.
me subió la serotonina pero de un saque muy buenas interpolaciones !!! ninguna me la esperaba igual ya dsp de un rato se vuelve repetitivo
While this came out around the time I was most interested in pop music, I was never a big fan of Destiny's Child, so I know the huge hits on this record well without being a big fan of them. Looking at this record objectively with older eyes, the production hasn't aged terrifically well - it's thin and pretty bland compared to some of the stuff Timbaland and the Neptunes were turning out around this time. There's no denying the vocals are terrific - and Beyonce in particular is clearly a superstar in the making at this time - but the songs are a very mixed bag, and it's overlong at 16 tracks and close to 60 minutes. As many people have mentioned, Nasty Girl is a really odd follow-on from the three female-empowerment hits that open the record, and undercuts the tone massively right at the start. There are one or two nice songs among the remainder, but several duffers that shouldn't have made the cut. I think the big hits - and I'm a sucker for the track Emotion in particular - keep this at a solid 3.
The album definitely drops off after track 3. The first 3 songs are absolutely top of the chart bangers - and then then next song drops from almost 300 million streams to just under 20 million then drops even farther after that. Definitely the time of alkbum filler. The first 3 songs though, they put Beyonce on the map .
First two songs are absolutely BANGERS. Back-to-back mega hits? That alone will sell you millions of records. But the back half of this record is probably one of the biggest falloffs I've heard yet. Still enjoyed my time with it though but I would never make it through the back half of this album again.
The singles stick out like a sore thumb. Great songs though. The second half feels like filler and band politics. Loved the unexpected “Tarzan Boy” shout chorus in “Nasty Girl.”
An album titled to acknowledge the status of those who make it through the hour or so of 15 tracks of vapid manufactured R&B pop. Yes, Beyonce, Kelly, and Michelle, I AM A SURVIVOR!!! I completed your gruelling challenge, marvelling at how empowered you are in your confidence about being independent women, scaling the heights of hypocrisy as you judge other women harshly for not wearing enough / the right clothes. Hard to understand why this is on the list.
Melisma overload.
Ask any millennial Chinese guy, we all love Brown Eyes. +100 stars for Brown eyes. We are so blessed.
what an amazingly talented group - Destiny's Child, though I wasn't really into them as a child, have more than earned their spot as being one of the greatest group acts of all time this album comes out absolutely swing, with Independent Women, Survivor, and Bootylicious back to back to back. Nasty Girl and Fancy also lend themselves comfortably to some really great R&B bops, with Fancy taking a real opposite approach to what you think the song might be about (not liking someone versus having a fancy lifestyle) I will say that once we get to Sexy Daddy, the album slows down significantly. its still good music, but the second half of this album takes us away from the poppiness to really showcase the girls' singing ability and their r&b/gospel roots. its not bad by any means, but it is a verrrry different feel from the first 5-6 tracks that the album opens up with. all in all, a super solid album. i just wish there was a bit more to the back end of the album, in terms of keeping us grooving.
One of the stronger three-song beginnings to an album on the entire list. Unfortunately, that’s about it for the hits for the rest of the album. There are some good songs, but overall the album is way longer than it needs to be. I also love the super petty final track, I need to read more into the drama behind that one.
There is a lot of fat on this album, but there are also some amazing hits. The big song like "Survivor" and "Bootylicious" are huge. I haven't thought about them in years, but their familiarity came flooding back to me. This album doesn't feel like very cohesive. Rather just a collection of songs. It's a little all over the place, but you just can't beat those voices.
okay. i had a real problem with this album. it's so heavily upfront-loaded with hit singles that the start of this album is great - the first three songs are "independent women pt 1," "survivor," and "bootylicious." fantastic! i added all three to my playlist. but then the next song is "nasty girl," which is addressed to a woman who is apparently skanky and classless, not like our singers. "you should be ashamed/hard for women like me/who try to have some integrity." gross. i guess women only get to be noble and survivors after they do something classy like fire half the band. everything else on the album is just kind of boring? and then there's "the story of beauty," a way too upbeat song about a girl getting molested by her stepfather which starts out as if it's going to be a dance anthem by the girls chanting "destiny's child." what in the world. i don't know much about beyonce's solo career but i hope she got her father uninvolved, i'm going to blame him for most of this nonsense without verification. 2/5 for pretending to be pro-woman without backing that up
Perfectly fine. I wouldn't listen again but I'm not upset about listening once.
They are great singers. I don't know that I'll listen to the album again, but I do like this group and a lot of the songs.
There's some decent early 00s pop, but this ain't it.
It’s fine. Doesn’t bother me. Doesn’t make me want to listen again either.
Not as bad as I expected. Listenable.
Música de mujer independiente come hombres. No igual tanto como las TLC. Buen album. Tiene un par de beats geniales y algunos temas buenísimos. Sobre el final, igual, vas pidiendo que se termine. 6/10
Lots of cunty girl songs for me to dance to after my 3rd gin & tonic as a white boy in motion. Can't see the musical significance, tho
I’d love to rate this as low as possible, but I have to admit, there were a few tracks with some solid music production. That said, the vocals were hard to get into, especially when they’re all singing together, it just didn’t do it for me.
Perfectly fine, but it doesn't really speak to me.
Not my bag at all.
You can't rate an album less than 3 when the first three tracks are Independent Woman pt1, Survivor and Bootylicious (!) ... The rest of the album didn't match the pace but was decent enough. The gospel tracks at the end were a bit of a jarring tone shift. 3/5 overall.
New to me, dreadful but not as dreadful as say “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” and indeed slightly better than “Downward Spiral”. One star. Tom.
2026.08.23-24.
This was one of the most demoralizing entries for me on the list at #421. I've already had a week of nothing rating above a 3. Nothing that I felt I needed to hear. Listening to this almost felt like a nagging reminder of my encroaching mortality. I was longing to just listen to anything else. I lived through the stupid time this was released and hearing references to the actress names in the Charlies Angels movie was just like an immediate 'aged like milk' stamp on this. It just never got better. Like taking the chorus from 'I Will Survive' and just trying to stretch it conceptually across an enormous runtime. At the end when listening to a 4 minute "thank you" track I had to contend with the fact that this is how I'm choosing to spend my fleeting time on earth. That was like the opposite of what I wanted to feel when I heard albums on this list. I feel like a dupe for engaging in this. I'm not even half-way. I could cut my losses right now. I probably should.
I knew this wouldn't be my thing particularly, but I was determined to listen with an open mind, particularly given the tiny number of albums by women on this list. I really dislike the heavily vibrato singing that's standard in this type of music, but that's a personal aesthetic thing and I can get past it. But I just found the lyrical content horrible. Hugely materialistic and self-absorbed. And a level of objectification of women and slut-shaming that would have disappointed me even coming from the usual hairy white male rock singers in the Seventies.
In a nutshell: “I depend on me” Gospel-like power. R&B and hip hop elements. It oozes confidence. You hear a song from this without name dropping or without context, you know it’s them. Yet it still falls into the same pop album trap of the nineties and early oughts- clumsy lyrics and long winded tracks. I absolutely agree with some of the critics comments, especially Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s observation: “…(Survivor) is as contrived and calculated as a Mariah Carey record, only without the joy. This is a determined, bullheaded record, intent on proving Destiny's Child has artistic merit largely because the group survived internal strife.” (AllMusicReview) This album blew up around the world. It showed what pop can be. It also was the shape of pop to come. Overall: 3/10
Sorry I loved these corny lyrics when I was 10 and you can't take that away from me.
Some of the most late 90s/early 00s pop there ever was. It's not offensive but it is also quite bad.
A so-so album. The energetic clubbing songs at the top are fun, but then it turns into pale imitations of those songs again, and the kind of smooth R&B ballad that was prevalent in the credits of every movie made in the 90s. Overall just kind of unremarkable with some weird messaging and heavy antagonism towards women as a whole, despite being a group of female artists.
Typical late 90s/early 2000s pop album: front loaded with a couple of all time classics and padded with overproduced, smarmy cheese and filler. Yech.
1001 Albums listeners when they have to listen to dated, cheesy music by random British men: 👏🤯😄❤️ 1001 Albums listeners when they have to listen to dated, cheesy music by black women: 🤬👎😴🥱
Independent Women, Pt. 1 reminds me that there was a point in the 90s where people loved obvious movie tie in songs and Grammy voters are morons. Will Smith won Best Rap Song for both Men In Black and Wild, Wild West and those songs straight up suck. Speaking of sucking, the title track isn't improving things much. This is the girl poweriest of all girl power albums. Why is this album an hour long? The video for Bootylicious is better than the song. I don't think you're ready for this jelly...people are right, she's a tremendous songwriter, what an amazing way with words. Female empowerment and slut shaming on the same album...no cognitive dissonance at all. Fancy is a midi file from Kirby's Adventures I think. This is a perfect example of why neosoul had to save R&B from itself. Good god, this album sucks. The hits are better but the album tracks are laughably bad. Apple Pie A La Mode's lyrics are like the scribblings of a 16-year-old girl. This is one of the worst albums I've ever heard. It's hard to believe, but it continues to get worse. This album is too long. The Cinderella story is dumb. Gospel Medley might be the best song on the album. The rapping outro is the awful cherry on top of this shit sundae.
Happy Face
man some songs were questionable as hell. plus bangers.
Nope, not listening to this, I've got to draw the line somewhere!
Nope
Ikonisk, men ikke helt min sjanger
ABSURDO. SIMPLESMENTE ABSURDO. álbum lindo e fácil de ouvir. vocais sinistros. a sensualidade em cada voz e em cada música, até nas mais tristinhas, impressionante.
You absolutely have to listen to this before you die if you’re a 15 year old in 2003. Ok honestly this isn’t abysmal, it just reeks of the early 2000s (and not in a good way). It’s fine but there’s no chance I’m coming back to it.
I am consistently rather appalled at how awful the reviews get for black women on this list. The album is fine, maybe go outside and touch grass. Reviews like “this album and Beyoncé are responsible for the downfall…” and a full ascii art piece, bro it’s not that serious. 3/5
Destiny’s Child are very much a singles band and this reinforces that. You cant argue with the vocals, but some of the content is definitely dated
This is (I think) the first album on the generator that is of “my” era, ie: I was about 10 years old when this album came out, and remember this time vividly - especially the impact of the first three tracks when they got released as singles. The fact this is now 25 years old makes me feel slightly sick. This entire album is just decent, early 00s, R&B. “Bootylicious” is one of the most iconic songs of that time, and I think the sample of “Edge of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks is one of the most brilliant uses of a sample in modern music. It’s something which shouldn’t work, and yet it’s so perfect. I’ve also always had a soft spot for their cover of “Emotion”, and think it’s better than the original by Samantha Sang. “Survivor” and “Independent Women, Pt. 1” are also classics. But the singles from this album are the standouts. The middle of the album goes a bit off piste in terms of quality, especially that run of “Apple Pie à la Mode” (seriously?) to “Happy Face”. There was a brief moment where I did think the album was going to finish strongly but it was just a bit schmaltzy, before “The Story of Beauty” - dear God, whatever I was expecting it was not that - and “Outro” (what the fuck). I want to give this a 4 but, with those last few tracks especially, I just can’t justify it. Which is a pity, as when this album is good, it’s outstanding. But when it’s not…
Sone absolute classic 2000s pop songs on this album, and I do think it has every right to be on the 1001 album list. Unfortunately it just isn't really my thing, so while I'd never turn it off if it appeared on shuffle, it's getting a very middling score from me. 3/5
This fell off towards the end, but as someone who hates this style of music, this was actually solid! The first 3 tracks as well as 'The Story Of Beauty' were my favourite songs, the production was surprisingly great and despite the very generic style, there were some genuinely interesting lyrics! I don't like Destiny's Child's music and I didn't love this album, but this exceeded my expectations. I was expecting it to be awful, but instead it was tolerable with some highlights!
From “my body’s too bootylicious” to “put some close on nasty girl.” What is the message?
Couldn’t escape this one when it came out. Still some bangers, but some hasn’t aged as well. Good harmonies, a bit too poppy for me right now though. 3.5/5
4.5
Vocal ability is off the charts, the hits are still really great even though the b sides left room for improvement
I liked the second part of this album more than the first. The radio hits seem very commercialized and of the time. The ballads seem more sincere, and they're just better songs. Happy Face, Brown Eyes, and Dangerously In Love are all decent songs.
ביונסה היא ביונסה אבל זה מרגיש כאילו זה נכנס כי האילומנטי אמרו משהו
liked it but wasn't life changing
Moments were enjoyable, but this is just not my style. It felt off a lot of the time. ★★
I thought this was a lot of fun, really haven’t listened to them much before. 3.5/5
Wow just really not for me. 1.5
This isn’t my usual kind of thing and I guess I kind of tuned it out when it was released, although a few of the songs were quite familiar from, you know, when you walk into a deli to get a turkey sandwich and the music’s on the radio. I was kind of getting into it and then… well, it just went on way too long. After “Independent Women Pt. II” it got really dire. That was the natural ending of the album! How did they miss it? After 9 songs of sultry R&B (with a fair amount of variety within that), we get a Euro dance club track announcing the beginning of a random collection of songs of various styles that don't seem to have much to recommend them except "more Destiny's Child." It gives the impression of a demo showing their versatility ("available for bachelor parties and bar mitzvahs!") put together by their management or songs that one member insisted be on the album even though no one else thought it fit or was good enough. While the first half of the album could be considered over-produced, with beats that change up constantly, layered vocals panning from side to side, synth strings, interpolations (of 80s songs of course), a lot of the back half of the album is stuck in the worst of the 80s with generic-sounding keyboards, laser sounds, and thin, uninspired beats. “My Heart Still Beats” is obviously intended as a showcase for Beyoncé’s voice but that doesn’t make it enjoyable to listen to. And give me a Destiny’s Child gospel album but leave “Gospel Medley” off. Almost 20 producers and they couldn’t do better than this? Well, that's a big part of the problem I guess, no specific artistic vision. Essential listen: no Desert island disc: no
not really my thing. doesn't move me
no es pa mi, oficialmente. todo bien, pero no soy popera.
Somehow listening to this it felt like a natural but harder continuation of Girl Power that the Spice Girls started in the 90s. I was in middle school when this record came out and I'd never thought of it in that context before. Full of bangers and I'd never thought how much Beyonce really stands out on these records until now.
The album belongs on the list. The music is ok but it all feels very sameish. It is not for me . It blurred together over the course of the album and by the end I was struggling to keep listening.
Some great songs. The more traditional R&B ones are just ok.
This would have been a much better album if the last two songs were left off entirely. I much preferred the upbeat first half of the album, and the fact that that’s where the hits were, means I wasn’t the only one. Overall a good album for what it is but use the skip function liberally.
This was a great listen! It felt a little lopsided having all the big hits right at the start - it kind of felt like things really slowed down as the album progressed. Really strong voices throughout, however.
Album #230 Destiny’s Child: Survivor Beyonce has just earned herself the rare distinction of being the first person I have awarded two one-star albums to. I really don’t even think I’m a Beyonce hater; in fact, I have no real opinion on her at all, and maybe if just one of these songs came on the radio I wouldn’t think too much negatively about them. But after listening to the first three songs, which judging by Spotify listening numbers were meant to be the cream of the crop, and finding them all to be irredeemably vapid, only to realize that there was an hour more of somehow even more forgettable tracks, I knew I was in for a rough time. The only thing I really knew about Destiny’s Child going in was that Beyoncé was the clear star and left the others to rot in obscurity, but after listening to Survivor I would say it’s almost like if Curly went solo because he was better than Larry and Moe; the competition ain’t that stiff. This album helped me realize that every Destiny’s Child song that I thought I enjoyed was actually a TLC song, and outside of Say My Name nothing this group has ever made is something that I would want to listen to. Yes, we get it: you’re independent but also still sexy; how the actual fuck are you still running that schtick into the ground twenty years later? I didn’t think I would be saying this, but I actually wish this list was more pretentious; I would rather listen to one hundred more jazz albums than another shitty 2000s pop/rap double album. Best Song: Independent Women Pt. 1 Worst Song: Sexy Daddy Score out of 10: 2
For women who claim to be independent of men, they sure sing about them a lot. They need to check out the 4B movement.
I was 3 songs in when I realized Beyonce is part of this group
it started well but the last few songs were boring. still deserves a 3/5.
2/5 Started out solid but did go downhill and petered off towards the end. The song called Sexy Daddy was ultimate cringe and shit.
Strong start with three 2000's classics. THe album goes between an empowering feel, a sexy vibe, and a yearning/sad/lover vibe too. It felt disjointed and way too long. I was excited for it to be over, unfortunately. If there was a consistent theme/message, this would have been a lot more enjoyable. I did not care for Independent Women Pt. II. Favorite tracks: Independent Women, pt. 1 Survivor Bootylicious
Throw Your Hands Up At Me 1001 Albums Generator 315 (7/28/2026) The first three songs are pretty decent, but there isn't anything else worth mentioning on this thing. I guess those 3 are the most popular, but I have never heard any of them? Also, it's crazy that this is how Beyonce got started and now she's got the most annoying fanbase on the planet (yes, more annoying than Swifties). Even just looking at the song titles pains me. Why is this an hour long? Okay, I'm making it sound like I hate this album, which I don't, but I just think that TLC did this same kind of sound so much better (and I have a bit of a vendetta against Beyonce). Also, Independent Women Part II sounds like literal clown music. I almost appreciate the audacity. And the outro is just spoken word for 3 minutes. Whyyyyyyy. 2/5 for the opening run that is not bad and The Story of Beauty. Favs: Independent Women Part I Survivor The Story of Beauty Least Fav: Outro (DC-3) Thank You
Overall Rating - 3.04/5 (6.07/10). It's well done, it's just not my taste. I can appreciate the skill and production value. All in all, I wouldn't listen to it again, but it's not something I regret listening to. All that said, you're a good enough singer. You. Don't. Need. Autotune.
Another weird inclusion. The most interesting part was hearing how far Beyoncé has come. Good for her! I will never understand why people are so hateful and dismissive of her. Guessing they haven’t actually listen-listened to her. Anyway, not sure why they included this, but I guess it’s not hurting anybody.
I had a longer review typed out, and somehow it got deleted and I'm not going to type it out again. This is an okay album that sounds very much like 2001; incredible vocals atop over-produced tracks that would have benefited from a little more humanity. Singles are great, most of the tracks are fine, "Nasty Girl" kind of spits in the face of the female empowerment lyrics on the record but the two 80s interpolations on it are hilarious. It was an okay album.
Every single song sounds the exact same
#44 - Destiny’s Child - Survivor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Pop music, when it’s well crafted and executed, can be very fun and enjoyable. That’s literally why it’s POPular. That’s where this album falls, into the category of very well done pop music. It’s selfies down a bit in the second half and seems to run a little long, but overall it’s a very solid collection of entertaining hit music. The standout track is Bootylicious.
I don’t get it Just generic R&B First song is good A real slog to get through at an hour plus
You know how when you're listening to "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) and you're grooving along, thinking how great it is, and then you get to that part where she sings, "Here's a man that makes me, then takes me / and delivers me to a destiny / To infinity and beyond" and you're totally taken out of the moment, and you have to scratch you head and wonder how something so dumb ended up in the song? Yeah, that's the whole "Survivor" album. The girls sound AMAZING together, but the lyrics seem as if they were written by a middle-schooler who still dots her i's with hearts.
Stone cold classic
Ultimate bs girlboss energy. The singing does go hard tho.
Definitely familar with a few of the songs here, but wasn't sure what I was going to get listening to the full album. All in all, I'd say it's pretty good. The first half of the album is better than the second, which is quite a few decent, but unamazing slow jams. And given that it's the early 2000s, there's a lot more vocal flourishes than needed. But overall, I enjoyed this. 3.7/5.
A much stronger first half than back half, but some absolute bangers. The sampling work is amazing
Girl power
Not their best work but still good.
Jesus might love me, but does he love 'Nasty Girl'?
Hasn't aged well. Misogynistic lyrics. Too long. But the bangers BANG!
The beats sound agitated, the vocals are over-ornate and they sound like they are competing with each other rather than complementing each other. It was clearly very successful and I don't like giving a bad mark to something I was not the target audience for, but I didn't even think it was 'good but not for me'.
Decent album, but clearly manufactured for maximum exposure. The first 3 tracks are big enough hits that, despite never seeking them out previously, I could sing along. They’re all about female empowerment and strength. Then comes the slut shaming in Nasty Woman. Gotta admit, it was jarring how quick the messaging shifted. Independence to judgmental to love sick to abuse; complete whiplash. I enjoyed the pop and r&b segments, and their vocals and harmonies cannot be denied. They were incredible when they harmonized. Also, shout out to Happy Face which has a fun 90s/00s dance music vibe. Overall, as an album, Survivor suffers from poor pacing and a lack of a central theme. As a pop album from the 00s, it’s clearly trying to fit what will be enjoyed by the largest audience. Ultimately, I think that’s its downfall and why I can’t rate it higher. Nothing feels honest, outside of maybe Emotion.
I'll keep the singles, you ask about and the rest? I dont think so
A few front loaded hits, the birth of a superstar. This hasn't aged particularly well. Including said hits. Today, Seems like the generic mass produced pop, using the term loosely Rnb of the time. I have no great understanding of why Beyonce became so famous, always seems to be hard sell and nothing but the sell.. she has a trained voice but so what, it's a bit well vanilla with all that usual warbling on show. Star of the age of being famous for being famous. Song wise it's all so obvious and pedestrian, survivor the best here but better of it's ilk exists from the time. I had already heard the album so can't use the did I need , but this well it has cultural etc. etc. but otherwise run of the mill, middle of the pack, turn of the millennium pop candyfloss, empty calories, want to give it 1 but 2 Star
Listened before?: only a few tracks Independent Women Pt. 1 - 4/5 Survivor - 4/5 Bootylicious - 4/5 Nasty Girl - 1/5 Fancy - 1/5 Apple Pie À La Mode - 1/5 Sexy Daddy - 1/5 Independent Women Pt. 2 - 3/5 Happy Face - 2/5 Emotion - 3/5 Dangerously In Love - 4/5 Brown Eyes - 3/5 The Story Of Beauty - 2/5 Gospel Medley - 2/5 Outro (DC-3) Thank You - 1/5 Average score: 2.4/5 ⭐️⭐️ i didn't go into this thinking that this very mainstream album would be the best thing i've ever heard. however, i remember very well how much this album was revered back in the early 2000s, so i expect to at least be partially enjoyable. unfortunately, it's really not we start of fairly strong with the first couple empowering (albeit very commercialized) tracks, cool. even Bootylicious is very danceable and fun. then all the themes of fun and empowerment are absolutely shattered with the contradictory messages on the slut-shaming track Nasty Girl, which very much sounds like an unfortunate byproduct of the ugly side of 2000s culture. Fancy also left a pretty awful taste in my mouth. very glad i didn't hear these tracks as a young and impressionable child while the rest of the album didn't have pick-me vibes, most of it wasn't very good either, mainly due to either weird beats/sampling/production or just... not being good? aside from a select handful of tracks, i wouldn't come back to listen to this again Best tracks: Independent Women Pt. 1, Survivor, Bootylicious, Dangerously In Love
Hey... one of them sounds just like Beyonce!
Ongetwijfeld goede zangeressen, maar te glad voor mij, zonder enige spanning in de muziek
Incredibly bland and boring. Just straight r’n’b Velveeta, with nonsensical vocal trills added on, for seasoning I suppose. Other than “Survivor,” the ubiquitous hit that I do think is a bop, the rest makes me snooze.
Bue... Es un grupo conocido, tiene buenas canciones pero no es de mis favoritos o de mi agrado
Nostalgic and still incredible
Solid singles, comprising most of the album, but some more dated sounds too
Damn, I didn't know Destiny was a parent. I don't know who Destiny is. But hey, at least I'm familiar with their child. Destiny's Child are a decently important act in pop history, I'd say. They were one of the most popular girl groups of the late 90s and early 2000s, their sound was very representative of the contemporary R&B boom of the time, and the group's popularity marked the beginning of the eventually massive success of its lead singer, Beyoncé. I've talked about Beyoncé once for this project already, so I've already commented on her strong singing voice. The other two members at the time, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, also have very good voice. The three of them work well together, I think. They're not together anymore, so maybe that wasn't the case, but from what I've read, the group ended for amicable reasons. So, how is Survivor as an album? Well, it's flawed, but I still enjoyed it. The album actually starts off with a pretty great string of songs. "Independent Women Part I," "Survivor," and "Bootylicious" are all pretty good songs. After that? I feel like the production takes some weird turns, but there are still good moments. Speaking of which, the production here is VERY early 2000s. Take that for what you will. The album's also pretty long, but it could've been worse in that regard. The songwriting isn't super complex, but it is relatable, so I'd say it does what it needs to do. Overall, Survivor has its issues, but I can definitely see why this was as popular as it was. It's got some nice things to it and I respect it. 3/5.
Not for me
Not generally a DC fan but this wasn’t as awful as I thought it would be, if not more R&B than my taste.
'salright. Not as good as TLC. Sappy ballads and mawkish final two tracks take away from the quality of the poppier ones...
Not for me
A somewhat incoherent and largely one-note album that just happens to be frontloaded with 3 big hits, 2 of which are actually pretty decent.
beyonce kan de meest goofy beats laten werken en independent women 2 is daar bewijs van
ho hum
Probably the peak of this strain of 2000s R&B for the masses, even if I think the beats could be nastier and the songs could have a bit more attitude to them.
An exhortation for boys to dance..ultramodern beats (for it's time),empowerment finger snaps as songs..meh
Not bad...had some decent cuts but personally not one of my faves. However, I do appreciate how well the group responded to changes in the members.
This was a struggle to listen to, but did provide some surprisingly good moments. I thought this was headed for 1-star territory based on the first 4 tracks. Bootylicious was the worst of that bunch... the guitar sample making it sound like it was perpetually starting but never going anywhere. I didn't like the obvious movie plant song with the Charlie's Angels references leading an album -- save that for a single or an OST! The sound takes a shift with Fancy, Apple Pie A La Mode, and Sexy Daddy that shows this record has more to offer than it seemed at first blush. There are some nice key changes and harmonies here. Independent Women Pt. II is far too repetitive -- it makes its 3:45 length feel like about 8 minutes to me. Happy Face is better... maybe a little too twee but it's a nice enough pop song. After that I didn't hear much of interest. Brown Eyes is at least a sweet sentiment and has a pleasant 90s R&B sound to it. But then the album ends on its worst moments. The gospel medley isn't for me... and then the last song is a terrible self-congratulatory Jesus-fest. I didn't like this very much, but it had some decent moments... and I can see why it would work for some.
empowering 3.89 stars/5
This alb7m is bootylicious
SOOOO GOOD ADDED NEARLY ALL I LOVE THIS PLS MORE ALBUMS LIKE THIS PLS PLS PLS
10/10 bardzo mi sie podoba nic nie skipowalam tu jest beyonce wiec to trz pewnie dlatego ale bomba
two stars for the song tears also come on a twenty minute song is way to much
Very catchy, and I like the punchy pop + R&B mix. But the album is pretty long, and after the first 3 tracks it kinda goes off a cliff a bit. There's a clear difference between those 3 tracks and the rest Standouts Independent Women, Pt. 1 Survivor Bootylicious 3/5
very dated. did not enjoy at all.
hard pass
The highlights of this record are the first and last few songs with nothing of note in the middle. A deliciously toasted bun with a raw slab of beef in the middle. Standouts: Independent Woman pt. 1, Survivor, Emotion, Dangerously In Love, Brown Eyes
Intentionally or not this list is trying to seriously harm my ears. Boncey, or whatever you call her, yesterday and this lot today. I could go on about how bad this album is but I’d only be repeating myself and I ain’t got time or inclination. I therefore refer you to yesterday’s review. 1/5 6/7/26
Kind of fun.
Decent nostalgia factor but doesn’t hold up particularly well
At no point do I feel like this is an album I must hear before I die. The nicest thing that I can say about this album is that they sample Edge of Seventeen, a song that I'd rather be listening to than this shit. Also, how is this album so fucking long? All of the hit singles are at the very beginning. I'd be inclined to give this a second star had they cut the track count in half.
An extra star for the singles but otherwise this is forgettable rubbish. I bought this album as a teenager when it came out and still didn't remember these other songs.
Weird one! Some absolutely incredible songs on here and the first half really had me thinking this would be like a high 4/5 and then the second half just fell flat. A lot of the songs in general are overly long and just repeat themselves and there’s also a weird amount of misogyny? Overall a strange experience but definitely worth a listen, just probably won’t be coming back much.
Starts off with some bangers and then gets so square. Maybe a 2
Honestly, it's not even the best Destiny's Child album, and Beyoncé would move light years beyond this in the near future. It just sounds so dated, but "Independent Women, Pt. 1" still holds up as a fierce anthem, almost like it was the first part of a pair of songs finished by Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable". Beyond the first few powerhouse singles, I found the rest of the record to be an incredibly disjointed and exhausting listen. It's genuinely jarring to hear them jump from fierce female empowerment right into the weird, mean spirited slut shaming of tracks like "Nasty Girl" and "Fancy." When you strip away the big hits, you're left with an hour long album bogged down by paper thin beats, generic R&B filler, and bizarre thematic whiplash.
A couple of hits and now it's "ooh I'm so in love, ooh my emotions, warble warble..." ad infinitum
Nope.
Achei muito bom o álbum, me lembra muito os anos 2000, boybands e tal, e é a girlband da Beyonce. Muito foda as vozes, as músicas são boas, muito bom. Do nada rolou um Tarzan Boy. Essas músicas Gospel nessas vozes ficam bem massa também. 4* quase beirando um 5, se fosse mais meu estilo ganharia.
Such a shame Beyonce had to eat the other childs to survive. The album opens with a Charlie’s Angels themed movie “intro” song. If that is not a statement for the kind of music is to follow I don’t know what is. Now let me set this straight, I hate this music so much. It’s basically the equivalent of being force fed ads without actually getting any ads for a product, the product is Beyonce and company and I do not want to purchase it. 1/10
Highlights: Independent Women, (Part 1), Survivor, Bootylicious. 3.8
I don't get it, but that's just me.
This is a genre I don't really listen too a lot but the first half caught me by surprise and was really good. Unfortunately the second half could not keep up the momentum. 5/10
Pari isompaa tuttua hittiä, mutta muuten kappaleet oli niin kovin samanlaisia. Throwback RnB poppia. Parhaat: Independent Women Pt.1, Survivor
MKAAAAAAAY I HAVE THE FEELING I'M GONNA LOOOOOVE THIS ONE I'M BACK Honestly? A solid 4 too RANK OF FAV SONGS: (honestly it is in order of appearance) 1. Survivor 2. Bootylicious (WDYM IT WAS FROM THEM ALL THIS TIME?) 3. Nasty girl 4. Emotion 5. Dangerously In Love
Some good old classics here ! Nice hip-hop and some more soul songs towards the end.
Filled with some classic pop tunes from childhood. Not something I'll put on again though. 2.5.
Hmmm. Interesting factoid about bootylicious being used in yesterday's offering from Dr dre
I tried. I really did. I'm not an R&B fan, at all. It's one of my boomer "If it's supposed to be rhythm and blues where is the rhythm or the blues?" takes. Obviously, the first three songs were unavoidable back in the day. They were not my thing then. They are even LESS of my thing now. The backing music sounds like it's done on a cheap midi keyboard, then pumped through a hundred different production layers to sound like it's more than it is. But what it is is generically bland. It's musical airbrushing. The vocals are not much better. Don't get me wrong, they are talented. VERY talented. They don't need a dozen vocal tracks to fill in weak voices. And they don't need to flutter across an entire scale just to accent an emotionless lyric. But for some reason, they did decide to record a dozen vocal tracks and spam notes everywhere. I tried. But at 4 songs in I started skipping halfway through the songs, and then a few songs later I just gave up.
Its funny how songs like Independent Women Pt.1 get released as part of a movie release like Charlie's Angels. And this gives a band some serious exposure. Then the song is huge. But when the movie goes, so does the song. With Independent Women the song has far outlasted the movie. To the extent that I forgot that the actresses get a name check at the start. This is a classic late 90s early 2000s girl RnB/Gospel album. The RnB is all synth instruments and harmonies. But the vocals are just stunning as shown in the cover of "Emotion". You could absolutely tell that one or more of these ladies were destined for music greatness. As it turned out it was Beyonce. (2.800)
If the album had stopped after the 5 first tracks, it would be an instant 5 star. However, that was only the first third of the album. There are some good tracks scattered throughout, but an hour is too much.
No Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ❌️ can't be arsed Revisit ❌️ Default ★★☆☆☆(4/10) Total reviewed : 361 Already owned : 79 Purchased : 16 To buy : 5 Nope : 261
Beyonce' officially about so head out on her own and become one of the biggest artists in the world. This one is full of great earworm tracks!
Challenging to finish but that's a personal problem. I can appreciate the value of the album. The harmonised and chorussed vocals are really wicked, super tight production and probably stand out for its time. The consistency of theme and vibe across a range of different styles and genres by using consistent instrumentation is clever but it didn't stop the album from sounding same same. Just really not me at all.
was oké… beter dan beyoncé .. will probably never listen again.
dit was fine maar geen fan
Better than Coldplay
At last I have the band to attach to a sonic ubiquity that shimmied at the edge of awareness in my mid-twenties. I never cared for this, but it’s well done. The opening four songs set the album up for decline, but “Happy Face” surprised me, breaking up threatened monotony with fleet-footed, wake-up-and-dance cheer. The content is fathous; this is the solipsistic, empty modernity we’ve grown into.
I despise Beyonce; she represents the absolute worst of the USA - espouser of self-satisfied evangelical bullshit, a mediocre whiny warbling egomaniac with a nasty victim complex. Oh, you're a "Survivor", eh? Of what? You dad firing other member of your shitty girl group because you didn't like them? Fuck off, you talentless shrew. An absolute harbinger of the bland selfish millennium to follow. The best moment of this is two seconds stolen from Stevie Nicks, on repeat. All involved in the final track should be imprisoned.
What happened to the fourth member? Guess she didn't SURVIVE.
Good group, but not my vibe.
I've heard the name Destiny's Child but know nothing else about them. Thoughts after listening 3 times ... Wow this is an hour long, ruh roh. I just found out this is where Beyonce came from - looks like she was using her full name back then. Oh, the repeating guitar part on "Bootylicious" is from that Stevie Nicks' song "Edge of Seventeen". Guitar playing is by Waddy Wachtel who is a famous session musician. Fun fact: you can learn more about Waddy and a group of session musicians (called "The Section") that he regularly worked with in a documentary called "Immediate Family" - playing on a number of streaming platforms. This group of session musicians played on hundreds of songs. Funner fact: Waddy unknowingly ripped that guitar riff from the Police song called “Bring On The Night” and so ultimate credit should go to Andy Summers of The Police! It's really pretty funny hearing "Bootylicious" followed by "Nasty Girl". It's quite a whiplash going from a song celebrating shaking your phat ass for attention in the club, to a song shaming women for dressing slutty. But I guess it's just part of their destiny, child. I've learned something today. That thing that Beyonce does A LOT (and I've heard other artists do it too like Maria Carey and Christina Aguilera etc.) - where she goes "ah ah aahhh" on one syllable - is called "melisma". I've realized that I am NOT a fan of melisma - or at least when it's overdone and over the top. It's always annoyed me whenever I've heard many of these "diva" type artists do it - or when people that are imitating them do it on shows like American Idol or The Voice. There are lots of examples of this on this album - but you can really hear it on the cover of the Bee Gees songs "Emotion" - it's like they said "lets do that famous Bee Gees song but add melisma to every line". Also, is Beyonce's voice always this annoying? I'm not familiar with her solo stuff - just aware that she is considered famous. Has her voice gotten better? I've realized this just isn't for me. I'm never gonna proactively listen to any of this again. Clearly a lot of people like this. I'm glad I got to listen to it - but 3 times is enough for a lifetime. Liked songs on Spotify: 0/15 Rating: 1/5 (should be zero)
Some real bangers on here
Talented voices and soulful singers pressed through a weird hodgepodge of turn of the century moral and social incoherence. It is actually a little incongruous to have so much passion applied to bad topics at time. Still, the voices and arrangements shine more than once. Of course, I just can't see ever returning to this album.
kdot if he was 3 women
Bootilicious
Really not for me but I dindt hate it as much as I tought I would. Thats probably the biggest compliment I can give to it cause its still prety ass. Overall its just generic, redundant pop. Or rnb. Idk whats the difference between pop and rnb all I know is that I absolutely hate both. Thanks god they dont have another album on the book. "The sunshine was shining" Leonard Cohen kicking himself rn cause he dindt wrote this. Holy shit Beyoncé is in this band ? Wow thats why it sucks.
I recognised the first three tracks, learned from Wikipedia that this was Beyoncé’s gig, thought it wasn’t half bad but then the rest of the album was REALLY BORING. 2.5
objectively good i just don’t like 2000s pop music
Excellent stuff. Side note, I never realized DC incorporated so much of their faith into their music.
My rating 2.2 This sounded like over produced gar-bage!
Funky ahh R&B album super fun and captures a nice 90s vibe, 3.5 (3) stars.
Better than the average
This album is legitimately a groundbreaking experience as it helped launch Beyoncé's career. This one has most of Destiny's Child's biggest hits. Survivor is an anthem, Independent Women was on every pop, hip-hop, and R&B radio station and in every club, Bootylicious was a rump shaker, popular of the new millennium, even though it was Edge of Seventeen. You even have the more ballad-esque pieces like Emotion. So, for a record from the turn of the 2000s, this really had everything you look for. Pop grooves, slow sexy jams, anthemic tunes, and club material. Maybe my opinion is unpopular, but really, to me, this checks the boxes.
The way I fucking NEEDED this to be the album today. Holy eff. I remember the hype when this album came out. I remember going to HMV and waiting in line to buy it on release day. It's one of the iconic albums of my youth. I want to give it more than 5
immediate 5 stars because I remember listening to this on my walkman at recess in grade 5. the slut shaming in nasty girl is a little wild
I don't think it'd be controversial to say that Beyoncé's songwriting skills would improve drastically once she became a solo act. As for what we have here with Destiny's Child, it's a sort of half-baked '2000s girl group album, with some undeniable bangers here and there (especially the first two songs, 'Independent Woman Pt. 1' and 'Survivor ', and a lot of the songs near the end - a generally backloaded album), but that's bogged down by a lot of the fluff and padding throughout. The vocals and harmonies here are solid, and the hooks and verses here are catchy and well-written enough, especially on 'Dance With Me' and the much more somber and intimate 'Emotion'. My real main complaint is the very dry and uninteresting production. It reeks of its time, and while it does admittedly allow the girls to shine, I was hoping for a lot more for this album, especially with it sitting at an hour in length. I did like the glitchy electronics of 'Perfect Man' and the cutesy synth lead of 'Dance With Me', a song with some of the better drum programming here. And the sort of cloudy and hazy atmosphere of 'Brown Eyes' was pretty predictive of alternative '2010s RnB, and future Beyonce in general. Punchy and earwormy at best, and bland but ultimately inoffensive at worst. Not an awful way to start my morning, but far from the best thing this genre, or Beyoncé, has to offer. And again, pretty backloaded for once.
Thankfully I felt that I was ready for this brand and quantity of jelly. There can't be many artists featured here who have had a word added to the Oxford English Dictionary in their honour. They deserve every bit of that.
It’s funny how quickly this album falls off. First three tracks are all time classics. After that, the songs are fine.
not my type of music but i can see how it shaped the genre :3 meow
I've never really got the hype and fanaticism over Destiny's Child and moreover Beyoncé. Can't argue that they have skill and talent, but it's just not for me.
Sure, why not
There is no denying Beyoncé's x factor, star power and talent. But her musical imprint is less than whelming. Beyond underwhelming. For any ounce of ground I can gain in positive favor there is just one dumb late 90's early 00's production sample that just drives the morale meter towards zero. Already identified here that the first 4 songs are the album. The rest is mediocre in period pop. Wish I had kinder words. The entirety of Gospel melody brings this up and entire star in rating. Love when 3 part harmonies harmonize. Hell yeah.
Okay
Having a couple of good tracks doesn't help much when they have to carry 13 others. The lyrical whiplash from Bootylicious to Nasty Girl was so wild I had to go check the lyrics for all songs afterwards to try to glimpse some semblance of a coherent world view (I failed)
gran álbum con temones que no me acordaba
Starts out strong and then the fourth song just sours the whole album.
I knew more songs than an I thought. A decent album
Best Track - "Survivor"
First two songs were good but the rest not for me
Beyonce is a great artist and deserves representation here. For me, that would be Lemonade, but could also agree to Dangerously In Love. But this? No, not for me. The first three songs are pretty solid 2000s R&B but just that. Radio fodder. Everything else is mid, and there's a lot of weird judgy lyrics like on Nasty Girl. Bey stands out, but the material is pretty mediocre
hit after hit but then the hits stop!
Probably is a very important album for a a bunch of folks but not for me. I feel bad rating it as a poor album but at the end of the day it's an album designed to sell millions for a specific audience. I'll never listen to this again, it's just so draining have to get my through this absolute dirge. It's R & B production by numbers and it doesn't matter that the girls have great voices. Its not getting a one out of respect for it's target audience.
This got me going
Catchy, but man it’s whiplash going from one song to the next as far as point of view. Theres some wild toxic femininity in here
Pretty good, better than I expected
ich höre das unironisch! sicherlich auch viel für feminismus getan dieses album
496/1089 - Better than I thought it was going to be. Very emphasized drums and vocal harmonies. It's front-loaded for sure and doesn't do much to expand on it's sound later on. One of the better 3s.
Favorite Track: Emotion Least Favorite Track: Independent Woman Pt. II
Better than I expected, but that just means it won't be a 1 star rating. Enough with the God stuff. That's not really part of my review. The music is insipid the voices are good, but dull. Not my genre, so others may disagree.
some good tracks but albums like this drag a little, i enjoyed aspects of it tho
Didn't like it then, don't like it now :) feels weird giving this 2 stars though since I gave the previous album 3 by mistake, but....
Some hits are decent. Pretty long album though.
I couldn’t write these songs if I tried
A lot of excellent pop songs with a little bit too much filler, could've taken 15 mins off and it'd be a 5 bagger.
Pretty enjoyable album. The singles on this go really hard. The rest of the album Is good.
Not very good or memorable.
Sure, ok
Very 2000s. Takes me back to my youth but wasn't really my vibe at the time.
Aside from the hits this one was pretty lackluster.
This is not the worst album I've ever listened to, but it's getting a one. I was kind of vibing near the beginning, but turns out all of the good and famous songs are just stacked right up at the top and it all goes down from there. This album is so incredibly 2001-esque, I actually felt a couple brain cells pop and die. There is one good thing here, and that's the vocal production. God damn, Beyonce can riff. Everything else is a big fat nothing burger. Fave tracks: - Survivor - Bootylicious - Apple Pie À La Mode
Ohh! And they *POCKETS* full grown
It is what it is for its time and that's important. Also, Independent Women is a bop.
"I don't think you're ready for this jelly." I wish that “Independent Women Part 1,” which is generally a banger, weren’t entirely about Charlie’s Angels. When I hear that song, I don’t think Destiny’s Child, I think Charlie’s Angels. I wish they had done with that song what Survivor did with “Eye of the Tiger.” When I hear that sample at the beginning of “Survivor,” what I think of is the band that made it, not the Rocky movie that featured it.
A few pretty good tunes, but mostly more of everything that was out around that era. You do have to respect when an artist invents a new word that makes it into the dictionary. Thanks, Destiny's Child, for popularizing the word "Bootylicious". The world needed that.
Ugh. This style is music is just so 'thin'. Every track is just a "Hey gimme a beat" and then cue the shrill trilling vocals. Bleck.
Ik heb dit zonder problemen meerdere keren gedraaid, ik vind het dikke prima dat dit in de lijst staat, ik gun de meiden het allerbeste, en toch pakt het me niet echt. De dames zingen goed, en de muziek is vaardig in elkaar gestoken, daar niet van. Het is me allemaal net iets te gelikt en met de behandelde onderwerpen heb ik dan toch te weinig. Zuurstokmuziek voor iemand die liever een bruine boterham eet, het is niet anders.
Op weg naar schoolkamp. De jongens zingen vrolijk mee. "All the women who independent, throw your hands up at me". Kan ik er toch niet omheen dat dit blijkbaar vrij tijdloos is. Of komt het door een Tiktok-filmpje? Nou, de volgende 2 nummers kennen ze ook. Die hits liggen ook wel heel makkelijk in het gehoor. Op de terugweg de tweede helft van het album dus maar opzetten. "Deze muziek is wel erg saai" hoor ik achter me. Ja, het kakt ook wel aardig in. 3 sterren van de jongens op de achterbank
Het album begint met een paar aardige hits, die we nu nog steeds mee kunnen neurien. De dames en met name Beyonce kunnen natuurlijk uitstekend zingen en er is, zoals gebruikelijk bij dit soort artiesten, een groot blik producers opengetrokken om de boel te begeleiden. Wat dat betreft heb ik liever dat het overgeproduceerd is, dan dat de opnamekwaliteit om te janken is. Het is ultiem commercieel en soms kiezen de snobs er voor om commerciele muziek niet in hun boekje op te nemen. In dit geval doen ze het wel en dat begrijp ik wel, want er zijn gruwelijk veel albums van verkocht. Aan de andere kant, heb ik bij dit soort albums ook altijd wel het idee dat het een verzameling singles is en voor de rest opvullers. In dat opzicht past het dus juist niet in een albumlijst, maar zouden ze meerdere keren in lijst kunnen staan met 1001 songs die je ooit gehoord zou moeten hebben. Anyway, het is allemaal niet per se slecht, maar het duurt me toch een partij lang, man man man. Als ze het korter hadden gehouden, dan had ik best een 3 kunnen geven, maar nu hou ik het op een ietwat zure 2.
I knew Beyonce's branding was heavily focused on "girl power," so was surprised to find how much of her content is actually all "Except for the girls we don't like! Especially the girls who like us!" and "Lets simp men!" Good vocals but terrible and disjointed messaging and hated the electronic ADHD backing "music"
Wonderful voices with unforgettable tunes. Inspired a lot of what has later to come.
With how amazing the first three songs are, it's really a shame how bad everything else is
Wasn’t sold in the beginning, this super pop music isn’t really my jam but the second half of the album and the outro especially really got
So many bangers on here! Independent Woman Pt I, Survivor, Bootylicious, Dangerously in Love, and so on. This reminds me of my younger years and I can’t help but dance when I hear this album. So fun!
Pure 2000s music. Es todo motivador y a mi papá le encanta Beyonce entonces puntos extra
Nej tack. Inte ens hitsen är njtutbara. Bästa låten är happy faces, å då är det ok.
Även om detta inte är min favoritgenre måste jag tillstå att de första fem låtarna är riktigt jäkla bra. Därefter blir det ojämnare med en del utfyllnad som med fördel hade kunnat tas bort. Hade den varit 20 min kortare hade det varit en klar fyra, men nu blir det en stark trea.
Well, my listening journey goes from Leonard Cohen yesterday to Destiny's Child today, serious clash of listening cultures. Maybe a better connection/comparison for Destiny's Child would be RnB shows of the 70s (thinking James Brown and Temptations live recordings I've recently heard, thanks to the Generator), via Parliament/Funkadelic jams, into dance pop of the 90s and 00s? The sound here is busy, often catchy, particularly if I don't listen too close but just move my booty. The grooves are surely central - how quickly did they come up with the lyrics (were they really happy with them?) - did they spend more time on vocal lines or did they just pour out (from a lifetime of gospel experience?) - and were the vocal lines really sung that accurately or has autotune come to rule the roost? Bootylicious was already one of my favourite songs, I try not to worry about how fast the assembly line in studio sessions as revealed by the Wikipedia article. (18 different producers credited??) The filler part of the album (after putting the singles upfront) is not boring but not coherent, some of the lyrics surely a bit embarrassment. Anyway no-one needs my song by song comments, I'll say album as a whole is generally listenable, but I keep feeling nauseous like too much fairly floss and pop tarts. It's not unattractive, as pop, but not that good - one hot song doesn't make an album, I'm going to call it Okay, 6/10.
Solid pop album.
Gran producción.
mucho falseto
ritmos clasicos del rap de EEUU no fallan, creo que fue el último disco de la banda con beyonce y su voz se hace notar
Wow this is very early 2000s. The title track is a banger but the rest of the album is a real mixed bag. Some good, some bad.
Got off to a great start with some well known songs. Not sure who thought the next few songs should be on an album. 2 decent ones after that and the end is cringe😵
good bit of filler but its highlights are some of the highest points of any music ever
Great three songs to open the album, then it falls off pretty hard
Decent pop music with singles that are all too familiar having grown up in the 90's to early 2000's. The musical arrangements aren't complicated which is common when the focus is the singers and the lyrics which are often shallow and straight forward but that is what it's trying to be. Its enjoyable to listen to, their vocals are nice and the beats are catchy and smooth so it's successful pop.
Inconsistent pacing. After the singles it really dropped
Gets points for changing music, great production, empowerment and brilliant harmonies. Loses points for charlies angels, and some non single tracks that are actually surprisingly dull
The first three songs, Independent Woman, Survivor and Bootylicious are 10/10 all time classics. The rest of the album then lives in the shadow of these songs. A shorter record with better sequencing could quite reasonably call itself a classic record, but it tries to bite off more than it can chew. Still - few records add this much to the culture. How many weddings have you heard all three of those songs at?
Destiny’s Child is a high 2 sadly, great singles, good production throughout but so many songs that pass me by
Over produced
Some beats that are so damn catchy
Better than I expected. Some good beats and harmony. Apparently I had a stupid grin on my face during happy song. Got slow after that song. Wasn't a fan of the vocal shift nonsense of ooOOoooOooaaaAaa kinda of things but overall decent
Håller med Jonas, öppninssinglarna är kanon men sen blir det både tråkig, anonymt och för långt.
Efter de tre megahittarna som inleder skivan och vilka jag inte har något emot, går autopiloten på. Det fortsätter att levereras låtar i samma stil, men lite mindre minnesvärt.
90-talets Supremes (även om DC eller kanske snarare Beyonce till skillnad från Ross med vänner, skriver materialet själva). Och visst håller hitsen fortfarande. Independent woman, Survivour, Nasty girl. Alla är riktigt fina. Men precis som det ska vara med ett hitsband finns det också en hel del utfyllnad. Hade valt att göra ett 30-40 minutersalbum hade det kunnat bli riktigt bra, utan att de behövt tumma på det feministiska budskapet.
De fyra inledan spåren är utmärkta. Sedan sjunker kvaliteten betänkligt. Det är helt ok fram till de 8 avslutande Toni Braxton-balladerna. Därifrån är skivan outhärdlig. Jag starkt inledningen och det tidstypiska soundet på RnB från åren kring 2000. Men som album är det knappt godkänt.
A really strong pop album, the hits are timeless, Beyoncé’s vocals really the stand outs, some industry cycled out crap in there towards the end though
i expected more tbh, the songs that are famous are good but the others… not memorable
Didn’t realize this album was so slut shamey, and biblical, and horny. A real enigma. Kelly: “Girl, you need to have some respect for yourself, put some clothes on.” Beyoncé: “I’m going to go party with my friends, just kidding is that a guy? I’m going to have his child.” Michelle: “Jesus loves me, oh yes He does. For the Bible tells me so.”
Somehow I survived this album.
Destiny's Child arrived at a formative time for anyone born in the 80s with a taste for R&B. This album smacks of all the characteristics from that era, and when you layer on Beyonce's world-class vocal... well... it's hard to rate this lower than a 4. That said, it could have been an EP; anything outside of the successful releases (Independant Women, Survivor, Bootilicious and Dangerously In Love) is really quite sub-par.
Nice. Favourites: Independant woman 1, Emotion, Dangerously in Love
I haven't listened to a whole Destiny's Child album before but naturally even I know the hits. After the first three songs I was actually quite excited but then "Nasty Girl" happened and the album didn't recover from it or maybe I just lost my interest.
Overall a very good album and has some cracking tunes on it. There are a few I’m not keen on, but those are definitely in the minority.
Very well done, the singles are excellent. It's a 3 or a 4 but given that I'm very unlikely to stick the whole album on again it gets a 3.
Was surprised by just how much I enjoyed this album. I think its pretty front loaded but enjoyed it all
I went into this knowing the singles and wondering if this really belonged here. I think I still mostly feel the same. It was really good but it really started to drop quick about half way through and I eventually stopped a couple of tracks from the end. Some brilliant bass parts.
How come everytime there is an album I am not looking forward to, it always ends up being an hour long? This isn't the worst album ever, but it is really boring. Every song feels exactly the same: generic uptempo r&b beat on loopbfor the entire song, random vocal runs, repeat the same chorus line over and over again. Once you've heard the first 30 seconds of a song, you've basically heard all they have to give for that song. These are really some of the weakest choruses I've ever heard, a lot of the songs feel like their choruses are just extentions of the verse, except now they are repeating the title of the song. I am by no means a Beyonce fan, but I expected a lot more than this. Mid 2.
A few solid single woman anthems and I am here for it! Throw back to En Vogue, the Supremes, the Rondelles... a few too many fillers toward the end, but a game changing album. 4.
I had this album as a kid. I will echo some of the other sentiments I've seen here about the slut-shaming lyrics and the album not aging well.
It's not my thing, but it's definitely a high water mark for this kind of pop music.
The vocals were stunning and honestly carried the album in weaker tracks like independant women pt II. Overall the album was good, but since I didnt watch the music videos I don't think I can really understand the cultural impact and the album itself. The album isnt bad to be clear, they definitely have great music and from just a listen I can understand some of the hype.
MUY BUENOO beyonce se carrea tdo el album no le pongo 5 estrellas porq espero a algo espectacular que realmente me flashee
Good intro few tracks, I think it’s important to understand tht what destiny’s child does, it does well. Masters the R&B category. Is it for me? No. The album has a concrete selection of music fails to take me anywhere imaginatively and fails to be ambitious with its storytelling variation. I guess that’s what I prioritise with albums. Anyone can produce bangers, but can you utilise music to create a new world for us to explore? That’s what it takes to produce a good album.
Gut eig
Banger album!! Die production und die vocals sind mega! Meine standouts sind: Independent Women, Pt. 1 Survivor Bootylicious Apple pie a la mode
6/10 The first 3 songs are amazing and I even enjoyed Nasty Girl despite the awful lyrics, but this album suffers from the same problem I have with most albums of that era, it's unfocused and bloated as hell. As for the songwriting, I'm giving it as much thought as they were giving it by not thinking about it at all.
i mean I guess I know it's a good album, i just dont really like them
I was very surprised. An excellent album by Destiny's Child.
Nothing particularly wrong with this. Just not my thing. 3.0
5/10
Just not gatged