Survivor

Did not finish. Gets tiresome fast

I guess I'm not ready for this jelly.

First 3 songs are bangers, rest of the album very average.

Wooooo (shivers)

Started off thinking this was enjoyable enough pop. But it wore thin very quickly.

Yet another ex-1001 album! http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/album-artists-a-z-ex The popular tracks are catchy enough, feels that the whole album exists to showcase their vocal range and harmonies, which I'm sure is a great talent, but feels all over the place to me.

Alf Garnett

Iskreno mi se nije dalo previše ovo slušati, razumljivo, ima ponekih hitova kao što je Survivor. Predugo traje tho.

Production sounds very dated, made it hard for me to fully immerse myself in the album. On some deep tracks it sounded more timeless, like it could be an R&B song that had recently come out. On the hits though it was very late 90's/early 00's sounding, which is somewhat nostalgic but hard to take seriously as a whole album to play.

Jangly. Repetitive. Showcasing

Well put together. Not for me though

There's definitely music in there (not something to be taken for granted, given some of the atrocities sent my way by this list). At the same time, it's clear I'm not this album's target audience.

Wanted to like this one, but repetitive song structures, clunky lyrics, and an overall feeling of sameness (especially on the vocals) between the tracks made that difficult.

Why did Charlie have three angels? Why not four, or even five? Is three the magic number, both in girl-powered detective agencies with mysterious benefactors as well as in R&B girl groups? Maybe more than three leads to instability or competition or something? But with every iteration of Charlie's Angels and most girl group trios, it seems they eventually go their separate ways and one member goes on to more success than the other two. Hopefully they always remember the role their two former partners had in their future success. With "Survivor" that even extends to Beyonce re-using "Dangerously in Love" in her solo career. Destiny's Child may have launched Beyonce into mega-stardom, but "Survivor" is a fairly unexceptional album. "Independent Women Part I" and "Survivor" get things off to a strong start, but the body positivity of "Bootylicious" is squandered by the super-judgey "Nasty Girl." So the messaging is a bit all over the place, but that's probably to be expected with over 20 credited songwriters. Alas, music made by committee is probably always going to be simultaneously formulaic and all-over-the-place. And when the committee churns out duds like "Apple Pie la Mode" and "Sexy Daddy," you imagine that Beyonce must be pretty glad she escaped the machine and got big enough to do what she wants, not what the Charlie-like voice on the other side of the speaker is telling her to.

Independent Women, Pt. 1 is good. I expected to think similarly of Survivor and Bootylicious, but they are all chorus. The rest of the album is forgettable pop.

The opening trio of songs are nothing short of iconic. "Question" in the style of Independent Women has entered our everyday parlance. The first half is bold, confident, and uncompromising. This is great for a time, but grates quite quickly. Too loud, too verbose, too aggressive and too much wailing to be enjoyable. The mellower second half is much more listenable and provides a welcome break from the aural assault of the first half, but by that stage you're already defeated. A more varied track listing may have vastly improved this record. As individual tracks the main singles are classics and a lot of the other songs are reasonably good, but as an album it's all just a bit much. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: Independent Women Pt. 1 Date listened: 21/07/22

Boring R&B for people whose only personality trait is saying "I'm not like the other girls" and then failing chemistry class. Did they sample Toad from Mario Kart 64 hitting a banana peel at around 3:50 in the song "Happy Face"?

Joskus 20v sitten osa biiseistä "kosketti" jollain tavalla, mutta syy lienee ollut musavideoissa? Tällä kuuntelulla tuli kohtuullissen hämmentynyt olo, vaikka osassa biisesistä oli kyllä ihan menevät biitit. Ei ihan paskaa mutta ei kyllä jatkoonkaan mennä.

2000-luvun naisten voimaannuttamisanthem, ihan hyvä, mut en saanu välttämättä yhtä paljon ku muut

Three great singles, followed by 50 minutes of filler, including four minutes of a "thank you" track that ends up coming across as self-congratulatory. The filler wasn't terrible, but I was glad when it was over. I can understand why this album was eventually taken off the list. While it might have been successful at the time, there's nothing influential past track 3.

Oh please. Can't I listen to pop after I die? Not before. I can't bear this . It's music for simpletons.

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.

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.

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.

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 don’t get it Just generic R&B First song is good A real slog to get through at an hour plus

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'.

ho hum

very dated. did not enjoy at all.

hard pass

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

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.

A couple of hits and now it's "ooh I'm so in love, ooh my emotions, warble warble..." ad infinitum

Nope.

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

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.

What happened to the fourth member? Guess she didn't SURVIVE.

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)

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.

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

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.

Somehow I survived this album.

2/10

Nul

I am by no means a Beyoncé fan, but she does have a fair amount of music that I have heard and liked. As for Destiny's Child, I had heard of them and had an awareness that it was what Beyoncé was doing before she got huge as a solo artist. And wow, what a disappointment. She definitely did well to go solo after this, this is just some of the most soulless, generic, and overproduced pop music I have ever heard. There is just absolutely no substance to this at all, and it's a damn hour long??? It just feels like music for the sake of music existing, very indulgent if you're into this type of thing, and call me pretentious all you want, but I much prefer my music to have more soul and substance to it than this complete emptiness.

1+ Star (3/15)

According to reviews this is a very mediocre album, which I can confirm. This music is not geared towards me so of course it was not enjoyable.

I survived it! The hits didn't hit like I remembered, and in between is a lot of empowering...boredom. "Happy Face" was listenable.

i mean, pop is pop and this still sounds relatively fresh

No

Really disliked this. Okay, i don't like listening to women vocals but this was particularly bad.

OH lord...

I tried.

Absolute dogshit.

The first song and Brown Eyes are kinda nice, the rest is ass

No me gustó

This is a really frustrating album to me, cause in one breath it tries to be pro woman and then in the next its a scathing attack on "classless" women. It feels very faux feminist, and it just feels weird. Also Beyonce feels so very egotistical on this, it feels less like a group album and more like a studio trying to launch Beyonce as a star. There's really no reason to listen to this, the production is passable but could be found really anywhere else during this time, and the lyricism is iffy at best. Favorites: The Story of Beauty

no

No thank you

The lead singles and the Gospel Melody are good. The rest is very mediocre R&B from 25 years ago. I really enjoy this generator as it makes me listen to music that is very outside of my wheelhouse. I have noticed 300+ albums in that I am very critical of music that I listened to when it was released. This album meets that criteria. However I have also noticed on this list a real dearth of R&B music even from big artists like Boyz II Men, R. Kelly, Jodeci, and many others that sold as many or more albums and were more groundbreaking or memorable.

Ok, this was a weird album. I liked Destiny's Child when I was a preteen and spent many hours listening to their second album "The Writing's on the Wall". I'm learning through this project that the music popular in the early 2000s is really not aging well. This album gave me mental whiplash. We went from singing about being strong independent women and being empowered (tracks 1-3) to slut-shaming (track 4). The contrast between Bootylicious (which is a bop) to Nasty Girl made my head spin. Nasty Girl is pretty brutal. They continue with being nasty towards other women in Fancy (track 5) then go on to lust after a man (tracks 6-7). Um...what? In the last half of the album there are cheesy love ballads, a story about a girl who was sexually/emotionally abused (The Story of Beauty)...and a gospel medley? The Gospel Medley is quite beautiful and I get them doing it because of their backgrounds, but compared to the rest of the album it didn't seem to fit. Then the Outro is the 3 members of the group thanking each other in song? What is going on with this album? It's so weird. There is no cohesion. How do you go from female empowerment to slut-shaming so quickly? It doesn't make sense to me. If I could describe this album in one phrase it would be "self-righteous". One of the only saving graces for me was the cover of Emotion. I really like that one. And Bootylicious is fun. But the rest was pretty bad. It's a 1.5 (because of the 2 good tracks) but I'm gonna round down.

This is shit. Skank songs. Corporate swill.

I thought that the first two songs were decent (well... survivor gets a bitvannoying actually haha) but then we get to... bootylicious and it's hot garbage and every song after that really sucks, missing that sweet sweet it's ok, that must be a single quality of the begining (technically bootylicious was a single and... I think it's sad really.)

Really? Not even their best work.

Not my choice of music at all Its not bad, just not for me

Survivor ist das dritte Studioalbum der US-amerikanischen R&B-Gruppe Destiny’s Child und entstand 2000/2001 unter anderem in den Sony Music Studios (New York), The Hit Factory (New York) und weiteren Studios in Los Angeles. Inhaltlich und musikalisch reagiert das Album deutlich auf die damaligen Umbrüche innerhalb der Gruppe und setzt stärker auf Selbstbehauptung und Eigenständigkeit als zuvor. Stilistisch bewegt sich Survivor im zeitgenössischen R&B mit klaren Pop-Strukturen, getragen von markanten Hooklines und prägnanten Rhythmusproduktionen. Besonders bekannte und stilprägende Songs sind „Survivor“, „Independent Women Part I“ und „Bootylicious“, die das Album auch über den reinen R&B-Kontext hinaus erfolgreich machten. Die Produktion wirkt insgesamt geschlossen und zielgerichtet, ohne größere Experimente, dafür mit hohem Wiedererkennungswert. In der Gesamtschau ist Survivor ein konzentriertes, selbstbewusstes Album, das Destiny’s Child klar positioniert und ihre Rolle im Mainstream-R&B der frühen 2000er festigt.

Nope

I hate this kind of R'n'b and the way Beyonce has to put vibrato on every god damn word she sings. This album is way too long.

Repetitive beats.

Pop music from this era might be some of the worst ever made. This is pure trash. Generic "beats" layered with overtly commercialized over-produced vocals. Can't find a single redeeming thing about this.

OMG, do I really, really have to listen to Destiny's Child? Well, the heck with it, that's what I signed up for, but man, how did this end up on this list in the first place? Well, I tried, but this one hour bitchin' about bitches, and at the same time empowering them, doesn't resonate with me. Speaking of survivors, this ultra-polished early 2000s R&B surely didn't survive the test of time musically either. 1/5

A huge big steaming heap of keech.

This is considered 1 of 1001 albums to listen to before you die! If so might I suggest rounding the number down to 1000 Utterly boring

I expected to like this more more, but alas. The singing and the harmonies are superb, but the lyrics and the production feel superficial and juvenile. Sometimes I found myself wanting to skip a song.

i don’t know if i’ll survive this album. 1/5 ⭐️

Listens: 1 Standout Tracks: Bootylicious (because of that Stevie Nicks' Edge of Seventeen sample) As a child of the 90s and 2000s, this music was basically inescapable. It was played literally EVERYWHERE. Department stores, fast food restaurants, bar/bat mitzvahs, Top 20/40/50/100 radio station lists, countless movies, sports and sporting events, MTV, VH1, BET. EVERYWHERE. You can't deny the songs are catchy; That's the entire point. And that's what makes it garbage. It's designed to make money. Make songs, Make albums; pump them out. Sell Sell Sell. The lyrics are shallow and vapid. There's no band to speak of, so there's not really any commentary I can make about people playing instruments well or poorly. The members sing well enough, but that can only go so far. For late 90s early 2000s girl and boy "band" It's all about the beats, beats that were scientifically engineered to burrow into your ears and mind, and persist long after the music ended. In all seriousness, I don't like this. It's practically torturous. For the millions of people that do enjoy this, by all means, enjoy it. Enjoy it for yourself, and definitely enjoy it for me, because I have no love to give.

Bland.

An engineered collection of sounds aimed at catching people's attention (rather than songs designed to move their emotions) performed by computers; literally the antithesis of soul in my book.

Horrible.

Strange pick.just because Beyoncé turned out to be great doesn’t mean this mess was.

Not for me mate. I just got zero interest in this type of music.

Not a pop fan, so this was always going to be a low one for me. The singles hold up for being 20 years old at this point and I can imagine them being on the radio today. Rest of the album is not as timeless and sounds a bit late 90s.

I made it 3 songs. Not my thing.

Beyounce cannot sing!

This is the biggest tragedy of 2001

Utterly vacuous and soulless

Not my bag

Couldn’t make it through this one.

Shocked I didn't like this album at all. The music/melodies in the songs are lacking and boring, almost like an afterthought shoved entirely to the background. Equally generic and uninspired lyrics that feel very corporate and lacking real soul. Some okay radio/club singles but a very disappointing album

Count me out of anything with Beyoncé singing. No thanks

It’s not good and long Please make it stop Yesterday I had in rainbows and now ts Few decent songs and that’s it Should I give it 1 or 2 (respect to Beyonce)?

I hate this shit.

This album is pretty bad. All the best material is up front (never a good sign). Sexy Daddy might be the worst song I've ever heard from this genre.

Alright. I'm just gonna admit that I'm not the target audience for this sort of music and leave it more or less at that... I listened up to halfway through "Nasty Girl," and after being very meh on the first three tracks and very not pleased with the lyrics on this one, I decided it would be better if I left the rest unlistened to. Not for me.

Can’t stand Beyoncé so can’t listen to this. Sorry

I tried but it's not working for me.

i’M A sURviVoh! oh Oh oH OoH OOHH! i ont ink u ready for dis JELLY — m bdy 2 bootylicious fr u bæ N: you could make some spicy edits on these songs… i don’t think i like it?¿

Not a fan of this one... Started strong but declined fast!

"Survivor" is a wild ride of contradictions. Bootylicious followed by Nasty Girl? Talk about a confusing message! One song has them flaunting their sexuality, while the next is all about slut-shaming. The depth of this album is so shallow that it’s hard to measure.

Generic RnB pop with bland hyper commercial production and an only ok vocal performance at best (harmonies are good, but Beyonce's voice is so bad on this, so nasal and thin - really piercing). There was way better, more fun, more soulful, more interesting sounding RnB in the late 90s than this. If your whole album is constantly returning to a theme you're ripping off from Gloria Gaynor, you really have to do better than this. Opens with three ubiquitous singles that have wormed their way into the collective unconscious through sheer repetition, the rest is pretty boring filler - it just gets worse and worse as it goes on, and it goes on for a while. The most interesting thing is the incoherent psuedo feminist messaging pairing anthemic odes to independence via commodifying your body with demands to put some clothes on to please men. A telling artifact of it's time, but musically there's just nothing to it - this is mostly notable as a footnote in the Beyonce story arc.

If you can get away with a line like, "Let's cut a rug while we scat some jazz", you can get away with anything. This is perfectly serviceable girl pop. The Jesus Loves Me track at the end lays it on a bit thick.

meh

Doesn't really hold up. The singles are mildly nostalgic and still bump.

I was NOT prepared for how much I would dislike this. To say it has not aged well would be charitable. It was an ordeal to get through twice. Far too long and the production makes the voices grating on every track. The awful ‘gospel’ medley, Bee Gees cover and the cringeworthy Nasty Girl and Fancy. The rest drags the couple of half decent tracks down with it

Chatinho. Cansativo, muito longo. Mas a produção das primeiras faixas é interessante, apesar que liricamente os temas são bem vergonhosos e datados. O disco podia ter acabado na 11º faixa, Dance With Me. Depois dela o album inteiro descarrilhou completamente, e eu constantemente olhava pra ver se faltava muito pra acabar. 1.5/5

The cadence and rhythm of the song, Survivor, makes me angry. Pass.

I guess this is on the list as representative of the era and for being Beyoncé's origin, but it's manufactured pop and boring. The end of Sexy Daddy had some orchestral instruments, which caught my attention, and the same for Independent Woman Part 2 which had cartoon sound effects and instruments, which were fun and interesting. However, although this was a bit of a nostalgia trip for me, there was a reason I haven't heard or sought out these songs for 20 years or more. I didn't like this music at the time and I don't like it now. "Gospel Medley" arrived like a wrecking ball, dropping hardcore Christian praise songs in an otherwise pretty secular album, cementing the fact that this was an American group. Mad. Then the final Outro dropped it another star, hated it.

This is really cheesy early 2000's RnB pop, zero depth whatsoever. Beyonce in particular has to be the most overrated vocalist of the last twenty years Almost un-listenable and definitely not my kind of thing

Man, do I hate RNB.

Love it when an album starts off immediately with all the big singles, and then just gets progressively worse and more boring as it goes on. My ears were begging me to end it by the last few songs. As a full album i have no idea why this would be considered essential.

Beyonce has a great voice but I couldn't get into this album

So bad..

71 minutes of slutty pop hell. No thanks.

not for me

How dare you.

This sounds like what it is, which is a huge bummer. It is an interesting relic of radio-pop-in-the-CD-era that it’s top loaded with all three huge singles, but that’s about all I got to say about it.

I got so tired of this so fast. Sorry, not interested in this probably because it was played to death on radio, tv, movies and pop culture in general forever

Never had listened to this album. Not my cup of tea mostly, but better than some other albums on this list I have had to give 1 stars to since I can't give zero stars.

This was like spending an hour listening to a group of teens, annoying and immature. The cover of Emotion is fine, and is the only redeeming moment on this album. Not good.

Fuckkk off

One of the most overrated albums of all time. Anodyne, over produced, commercially cynical, not a single song on this LP even compares to the likes of the Supremes. It would be harmless pap, but the cynicism just bleeds through so much.

I really disliked the caterwauling vocals.

Trying to have an open mind for every album but this really isn't for me. I don't normally care too much about lyrics but they are really bad on this record. I'm not sure how it made this list, maybe within it's genre it is deemed essential but I won't be returning to it or any of the songs.

Independent Women Part 1 Survivor Bootylicious

Why is this album even on here?? Enought said.

No.

I thought that the first part wasn't great, because it felt like listening to some generic radio station with popular music, which was actually okay compared to what came next. The ballads. Atrocious.

Each individual song is SO REPETITIVE. It really takes away from the good parts. ‘I’m not gon’ compromise my Christianity’ may be the most hilarious pop lyric ever. Elsewhere the lyrics are downright disgusting. How, with no irony, are there feminist songs alongside posturing and slut shaming? All this only four songs in! How utterly vile this is, in a uniquely American sense. First album that’s straight up /offensive/.

A low point in my life!

So steril und überproduziert wie die "Musik" sind die Darstellerinnen. Nichts menschliches ist zu hören und zu sehen. Irgendwie unwirklich.

Now I love both female vocals and R&B, that being said this album does not satisfy me. Beyonce is vastly overrated and this music is the worst kind of canned pop music I have heard on this list thus far. This isn't a musical statement, it is a product mass-produced for teenagers to be sold for a profit. The songs here do not elicit any emotional response and are generally irritating. Can these ladies sing? Yes, they can sing, but for me, this is soulless-soul music. The best song on the album is the cover of the BeeGees' "Emotion", and even that falls flat.

Not my kind of music. 1/5

i’m not doing this.

I hate early 2000s pop so much

Booring

Overly commercialized, name dropping, 2000's cheese. I don't even know why this makes the list. There's no cohesion or idea behind it, it's terribly written, and it's contradictory from one song to the next. Are you bootylicious or independent? The song "Emotion" completely lacks just that. I remember it when it came out and I still don't like it. Low 1.0.

This must be on the list purely for the popularity at the time and the release of "Charlie's Angels" theatrical reboot. Only the 1st 3 tracks are decent and recognizable from radio play. The rest is lame R&B (Regrettable&Boring) complete with stereotypical slow song featuring star sprinkles and preachy prayer finisher. Everything about the group is overrated including the solo projects by members. Can't wait to get out of this list slump...1.3.

1.5 not good

Has a clutch of famous songs at the start that range from good to naff but still kind of good that I’ve heard on the radio a million times anyway. After that the quality tanks faster than Tank Girl leading a charge of tanks off a cliff. Just empty, soulless R & B dreck and cynical, lazy filler.

Here's a number from country Star snub Beyonce and those other two singers. I think one of them was caught trying to text Nelly using Microsoft Excel and was sad and disappointed tgat he didn't return her text. And the other? Well, her name is Michelle. I only know this because they talk to each other through thus re Ltd a d they always have to name drop one another. This is album is huge.. In the sense that there is a shit ton of fat that needs trimming... The fact that they started their album with a song from a soundtrack really starts this album off bad and it sets the precedent. What is this album even about? Why is this on this list? There's arguably 3, maybe 4 hits in this record and the rest is forgettable. And there are 3 members in this trio, and two of them are forgettable. Why is this on here? Was the 2000s that shitty for music? I'd say yes... At least for mainstream music. In Nasty Girl Beyonce, steals the "Woah Woah oh oh Woah oh" part from Tarzan Boy and it's absolutely awful. Beyonce is a good singer... Maybe more so now than prior. But some little things that she does in the 2000s is just cringey. Perhaps it was the time? Those vocal runs that her and other female artists from this pop era do (Christina Aguilera comes to mind) is the most painful thing to listen to. Come to think of it, this album sounds like the three of them are in competition to see who has the better "woahhohhhhohhhwoahhhh" - it's very Iver used and very annoying. Spoiler alert: they all lose. What is this album? "I'm independent. I don't need love. Wait! I love you. You are my everything. Wait I don't need you. I have my girls.. But I know you love me. You show it. Also, I'm strong and I'm courageous... But I'm also timid and shy when I see you in the grocery store. But remember I'm independent! I'm a survivor! But praise Jesus and blindly follow him" This album is bad. Aside from the hits.... If you wanna call them that. I personally don't see how they hold that status.. All poorly written songs. And for relatively talented singers, it's hardly shown. Unless you love those vocal runs that go..up and down and up and down. God forbid you sustain a note. Someone should've abort Destiny's Child.

Auto-tune? Check. All songs sound exactly like each other? Check. This album has no place on a list like this? Checkmate.

I love looking at an album's wikipedia entry, specifically the personnel section - I enjoy knowing who the players are, who might have snuck in a solo here or a drum part there .... bitch the list for this album is no fewer than 74 GODDAMN NAMES LONG. SEVENTY FOUR. How can anything with 74 people contributing to a pop album be anything other than manufactured pablum. I'm not usually one to call something commercial tripe but this is lowest common denominator pandering - the express purpose of this record was to sound so fake, so false, so sterile and compressed with zero dynamics, so *constructed* - there's no soul or honesty to this at all. hate it. 2/10 1 star

This album should have been left on the cutting room floor. No amount of vocal gymnastics can disguise weak songwriting. Couple that with a totally mixed message about femininity by including a song about girl power (Independent woman) and 'slut'-shaming lyrics (Nasty girl). A terrible album and really not worth over an hour of life.

Nein, damit kann ich nicht nicht anfreunden.

Crap

¿¿Por qué no se acaba?? ¿¿Por qué son todas las canciones iguales?? ¿¿Por qué esto dura una puta hora?? ¿¿Por qué está esto entre los 1000 álbumes que hay oír?? Debe de ser porque era popular en la época o algo, pero es de los pocos desde que empecé que me ha dado genuino dolor de cabeza. Se iba a llevar un 2 pero es que lo siento pero qué puto coñazo chaval.

I'm not into it. I think it's for kids.

Middle school nostalgia vibes. I can see why the first three songs are the only ones that they put on the NOW! albums.

Just terrible music.

First album I tapped out and didn't finish. I don't think it's aged very well.

Not for me 1/5

Drivel

Sounds like generic 2000s music. Might have been a good album in that time but, now it doesn't sound good.

It gave me a headache.

Pretty typical 2000's pop. Nothing wrong with that. But pretending it's good because of its cultural relevance is a disservice. It's not good. But is culturally relevant.

Can't stand this shit. Just not for me....I wish I had my 71 mins back. 1/5

I don't think this is really horrible or anything, and i do recognize the cultural significance of destiny's child, especially in hind sight as the jumping off point for Beyoncé, but this whole thing just feels extremely cynical and barely even like an album. in terms of content and themes, there's absolutely no cohesion or consistency here-- to jump from Bootylicious right into Nasty Girl is some crazy whiplash, and then when you sprinkle in all the god stuff it doesn't feel like an album at all but just a mish mash of songs scientifically designed to hit as many segments of the population as possible. there's no overarching ideas and you really don't get the impression this is intended to be listened to as an actual album at all, you're just supposed to pick out your favorites and ditch the rest. again, not awful, but it gets a 1 for the cynicism of it and for barely even qualifying as an album

1/5

This is torture

turned it off when a song called ‘bootylicious’ started playing

I'll Pass

Nah this aint it.

I don't want to call this trash, but it's definitely a timepiece from the 2000s. Hasn't aged well either.

Why is this album on here?

It’s not to my taste

Cheap hip-hop-pop polished to the point that it doesn't have any personality at all. The three women are pretty good singers - but the songwriting is so weak that it just doesn't even matter how well the songs are sung. The only spark of good songwriting on this album was the Stevie Nicks sample.

I had this CD as a kid... let's see if it's still holding up after all these years. It does not. 1/5

Not as great as I was expecting

Eh. Not for me. 00s overproduced pop/R&B had its time and place for some people. But I don't feel like I'm missing anything in life by skipping over this one.

Lol, what's this doing here? Ok it's the biggest pop song of the year for sure, there's already a Bouncy solo album in the book and it isn't Lemonade (which I still haven't got around to) so she's covered. Always found destiny's child confusing, songs about independent women and loving your body, songs slagging off women for the same reasons, songs saying if you're gonna be my man then you gotta pay all my bills. Independent, woo! I've already heard the culturally significant songs (song?) on this record 6 billion times, and so has everyone else in the planet. Obviously clocked the Eye of the Tiger sample in Bootylicious but hadn't clicked the connection with album also being called Survivor, so that's fun. 20 years ago I had absolutely no idea what they were on about jelly for either. I see, jelly is your arse! Why are you spoiling jelly for me? Nasty Girl, um, yeah. The messaging is all over the place here. If she puts her clothes on how on earth are we going to get put off our jelly and ice cream? And I thought you guys called it jello. Jelly is what you call jam. The arse comparison makes even less sense now. Jam doesn't wobble. Haha what the hell is Jungle Nights doing in there at the end! What a mess. Nah, there's nothing else here I needed to hear. The same sort of songs over and over for an hour. Brown Eyes the absolute nadir. Ultimately I prefer stuff like Aaliyah's hits to this as while they've had healthy exposure they haven't been played into oblivion like this has.

I've gotta say, it's got some serious vocal prowess. The harmonies are tight, and the production is good. That said, it didn't quite captivate me like I hoped. The back and forth of female empowerment and slut shaming is wild! Overall its fine for background vibes, but it didn't have that wow factor. Still, there are some gems in there.

No thank you

Such a stupid style of music.

Apart from a couple of commercial pieces of bubblegum pop, this album is blah, blah, blah…

Three wedding disco belters (if that's your kinda thing)...then ...warble, warble, warbly-warbly-warble Not for me

J'ai trouvé ça pas pire au début, mais avant la fin de l'album, leurs voix me tombaient sur les nerfs.

beyonce more like Loncye

My father once commented on Destiny's Child around the time this album came out, which was a rare occurrence, as he normally wouldn't show any interest in pop music. He said that he found their cheeks unsettling as they were just so big. He went as far as suggesting that it made him feel a bit hungry, as the three singers reminded him a little of hogs fattened up for slaughter. Anyway, this album was awful. I think the lowest point was "Sexy Daddy", fart noises from a Casio keyboard and a caterwauling vocal performance that was literally torture to listen to. Definitely a 1 star experience from start to finish. If this music made my father consider cannibalism, then I think he would have agreed with this assessment.

I knew the hits from this album, but never listened to the whole thing. This definitely doesn't warrant being on the list. The first song (or two) and "Emotion" - people should hear those so that they at least know who Destiny's Child was. Outside of that, this album is mostly drivel. Weird melodies and no real lyrical substance. Listening to the whole thing did make it clear why it's Destiny's Child and not Destiny's Children. Michelle and Kelly were barely noticeable.

No

Meh

This album is boring and it stinks.

Just not my thing at all.

This is just bad, first song and i immediately turned it off. I saw Jordan’s review and I had to save myself from hearing anymore than the first

This was horrendous. Aside from the very first song in the album, every song was basically unlistenable for me. I would love to give credit to this one song, but honestly the beat kinda carried. When I listen to this 1 semi-okay acceptable song, I find myself wishing these 3 women were the background singers and somebody else gave the beat the delivery it deserved. All around, not good. Get this shit out of 1001 albums. Did not need to hear this Personal Favorites: Independent Woman Pt.1

Pop is not classic

Kak

This is incredibly bland and annoying, even in 2000's R&B pop standards.

Never-ending. Who thought a double album for a singles-oriented girl group was a good idea?

Just not my shit.

Nah. Survivor is a decent pop song, but that doesn't earn any credit in my book.

If this is the kind of music you like, then I guess this album ticks all the right boxes - it's good pop music. But it's not my thing and I abhor the treated vocals.

WOT THE FUC

Utter, utter, utter shite. Comfortably the worst album we've had so far. First time I've had to skip through some songs on an album. Rather listen to MJ Cole on repeat than have to listen to this again

Not my thing at all and the album overstayed it's welcome with the last two songs.

I've never listened to Beyonce or Destiny's Child before, but with sales of over 10M, it's worth a shot right? Wrong - I couldn't make it past the third song. Next please.

Kelala sai kaksi... 2000s pop R&B albumiksi ihan hyvä... Tämä ei voi mitenkään yltää samalla tasolle.. eikä yllä... Harmittaa ykköstä laittaa mutta on kyllä vaan niin mid albumi..

Nostalgisk, på ein dårlig måte

First time listening to a Destiny Child album all the way through. After listening to it I hope it's the last time I do.

Not my genre. Can't enjoy this.

Just stop

Oh fuck off. You are having a laugh, right?

Sorry, not a fan

Best part is the guitar homage to Eye of the Tiger on Bootylicious. Other than that just wracked my brain to determine which auto-tuned keyboard song hurt my ears most. Brown Eyes was the one I finally landed on. That song seems like the soundtrack I would need if I took up full time inspiration porn on my Pinterest board. Happy Face was a very close second. I struggled to dislike one more than the other. The spoken word xian gospel lyrics were just salt in the wound.

Even as I come over to country a tiny bit, I think pop r&b will remain a genre I just have zero interest in unfortunately. This just does nothing for me.