BEYONCÉ

Fuckin, here we are again with more 2010s bullshit. Ain't stood the test of time, Songs For The Deaf could have been here instead, nuff said. Sod off.

Hard pass

I thought I would like this album a lot more than I did. 2/10

Someone else mentioned this just sounding like bland/soulless R&B made in a factory, and for the most part, yeah they're right. Obviously her vocals are good, she's talented in that regard, but the songs themselves have no staying power whatsoever. Just boring bassy instrumentals and nothing to hook you in. Was surprised at how much I disliked this. 1/5

that comment about 'Music made by committee for hairdressing salons' can't be right can it? Haunted was pretty okay and then yup this sure is music made by committee for hairdressing salons.

poor music, not good art

Maybe, one of the most overrated acts in history.

If the Taliban ever capture me, this is what they play to torture me in my cell. This is absolute trash

I really didn't like this, it's left a really sour taste in my mouth. Should this artist be on this list? Yes. Should this album? No.

I tried to come in with an open mind to this. I can’t stand pop music and this album hasn’t changed my mind. I could’ve easily gone my whole life without listening to this garbage

I felt dirty after listening to this. Talk about a vapid, soulless and overrated album/artist.

I never understood the hype about her. A good dancer and singer, but the music is nothing special at all. I did like the secrecy around the release.

Not for me

If we were rating albums on relief felt once they were over this would score a strong 5*. Sadly for Beyoncé that's not the case. Banal, generic, over-produced. A solid 1*

Bloated, self congratulatory bollocks

Album #82 Beyonce: Beyonce This is the second mid 2010s pop album from a world-famous pop star that I despised when it infested the radio as a youth, and never dreamed of listening to in its entirety. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the Taylor Swift album, and I never quite had the same distaste for Beyonce that I had for Taylor, so I was cautiously optimistic going into this one. I quickly realized that I actually do not recognize a single song off this album, despite a lot of them having a large number of streams. The first two songs had me thinking that this may be an album where Beyoncé attempts to address societal issues and take her music a bit more seriously. But, as the late Norm Macdonald famously said, “My biggest problem is the hypocrisy”, for Beyonce seems to try and tackle issues that she herself propagates. On the first track, whose lyrics aside was a decent song, she sings about unrealistic beauty standards, while she herself is the very epitome of Hollywood artificial beauty. The second track sees her sing about all those poor people who work a 9-to-5 to get by, but the second she leaves the studio, she goes home to her mansion and billionaire husband. So those songs’ messages didn’t really land for me; however, they at least attempted to say something. After the second track, it seemed like Beyonce’s brain got tired of thinking and she instead just got really horny, because every other track on this thing is pretty much Beyonce singing about having sex and how fat her ass is. The amount of baffling lyrics in these tracks is insane, though I am too lazy to compile them. Also, somehow Beyoncé makes speaking in Ebonics seem like cultural appropriation, even though she is black. I get that this is meant to be an empowering, sex positive dance record for women, but I can’t help but find it absurd that Beyoncé is singing so passionately about making love whilst looking into the face of Jay-Z. It isn’t an unlistenable album, and there are a few good tracks, with XO being the only one I’d call a banger, but I doubt I will ever feel compelled to return to this one. Best Tracks: XO, Pretty Hurts, Partition Worst Track: Blow Score out of 10: 3.5

Garbage

I'm not listening to Beyonce. Why promote mainstream trash albums that already get so much unwarranted attention? This isn't art.

Her har vi en popdronning som ønsker å lage et sammenhengende album. Det funker ikke helt. Det er vanskelig å lage ett sammenhengende og personlig album når albumet er skrevet av 500 personer og består av en haug enkeltstående låter som «sys» sammen med noen overgangsspor her og der. Poppen etter 2009 er ødelagt.

Beyonce is one of those over-hyped artists. While arguably she does have an amazingly powerful voice, it very easily becomes drowned out by the production on this album. Her vocal ability shines more on the softer and simpler musical parts (pianos, for example, like on "Heaven"). I'm not a fan of big and heavy synth beats, and rapping doesn't suit Beyonce. The lyrics were brutally honest about themes like the beauty industry, the difficulties of being a woman, and infidelity, while other songs were heavily sexual. l did finish the whole album but it was definitely not something I want to listen to again.

boring

I'm just not a fan of the music so to put an hour and half album of music I already dislike yeah I can't do it. Could probably do 30 minutes top of this. 1 star not for me.

Vrij nietszeggend, had verwacht wel een hit te herkennen. Maar prima voor in de achtergrond

The Good:… The Bad: Ego… The Ugly: album name = artist Seriously… I understand that there are people who view her as the beehzzneehzzz. I don’t. As the first track starts, having to listen to another one of them oh so creative skits… fucking ego crap I am so sick of. So yeah, stop pretending that this is the best that’s out there, and stop wasting my time… 1* out of pure spite

Fuck Me: The Album by big brand pop artist

I expected to hate this. I did not. I didn’t like it, though. But how much didn’t I like it? And do I take off points for it being manufactured pop, which is essentially why I hate pop? Yeah, probably. That and I eventually had to skip through songs.

Her gikk æ inn med positiv innstilling, men herregud så dårlig det e! Kordan kan verdens største popstjerne, med verdens største budsjett, lage verdens kjipeste album? Kleine teksta, og helt utrolig kjedelig instrumentalt. Hør på pianoet på Heaven! Ka i faen skjer???

Listened to the single version of this because I genuinely cannot take 1.5 hours of this. It's basic and grating and I did not enjoy it.

no sir, i didnt like it.

i didn’t know that Beyoncé was so bad, goddam it. the beats are just repetitive and you get tired of listing to it pretty fast.

I can definitely see why people like Beyonce, but just not for me. She's talented, but it's a shame that all of the songs on this album were shit. Difficult listen.

Not even gonna bother.

Vacuous nonsense to be forgotten.

Didn’t like this album at all, sounds like bunch of mess put together into one album, would not listen again

Yeah this was a no.

ze zingt alsof het haar niet interesseert... mij interesseert het alvast totaal niet... plaatje van dertien (of zelfs vijftien) in een dozijn... en waarom is dit genoemd naar Beyoncé, die maar het kleinste radertje in het geheel van schrijvers, producers en whatevers is?

Ew.

Sorry, I can’t do this.

threw this on at my 9-to-5 job to hear "all these people workin' 9 to 5 just to stay alive" beyonce net worth: $800 million hey, fuck you!

Gear: 64 Audio Duo Artwork: 🆔⬛〽️ Production: 🎛️🧼💸 Music: 🫧♻️☣️ Ratinng: ⏹️(⏹️)/5

pior que eu tentei deus sabe que eu tentei escutar esse inteiro mas beyonce é uma das poucas divas da geração passada que não me desce de absolutamente forma nenhuma

Beyoncé has an incredible voice. There is no questioning her talent or presence. Unfortunately, this album just did not do it for me. Beyoncé feels far too long, and I really struggled to stay engaged from start to finish. There are moments where the production is interesting and the ideas are ambitious, but overall it drags. The pacing makes it feel heavy, and too many tracks blend into one another without a standout hook or spark to pull me back in. I can see why it was culturally significant and praised for its surprise release and visual concept, but purely as a listening experience it felt like hard work rather than something I wanted to revisit. Favourite track: Jealous. The most listenable and emotionally direct for me. Least favourite tracks: Haunted and Blow were particularly difficult to get through. Album artwork: Simple and effective. Clean, bold and probably one of the stronger elements of the whole package

Aika skeidaa oli tämä levy ja kun tämä oli ensikosketus Beyoncé:n musaan, ei tää herättänyt yhtään mitään intohimoja. Tasapaksuja, mitään sanomattomia biisejä...

Terrible

Imposible de escuchar. Deberían rehacer el disco entero porque un remaster no soluciona los problemas que tiene. No vale la pena romper parlantes y auriculares por esto.

Not sure why everyone is calling this country, it is not!

I went in with an open mind but it was just abysmal. It was an amalgamation of everything I hate about modern pop. Even the big singles I remember hating at the time. Her vocal style is just so cheesy to me. It ruins even the couple of songs where I kinda enjoyed the production. Rating: 1.4

You're telling me 40 people were needed to make this album? Yikes!

Oh man, I thought this might be were I listen to a whole Beyonce album and at least learn to appreciate her. Nope. Not this album anyway. Didn't really do anything for me, some of the bass lines were alright. The singing was meh, the lyrics I noticed were meh. I thought perhaps since it was a visual album that the videos would put better meanings behind the songs. We watched one. Perhaps we choose the wrong one. It was essentially just her in her pants. I dunno. This did nothing for me. I still don't understand the clamour. Maybe one day.

I only made it through a few tracks, but they were some of the most self-indulgent yet simultaneously vapid pop/R&B shite out there. Like months out of date packets of "builders breakfast" crisps which just taste like ready salted and are more air than actual crisps. This was supposedly the fastest selling album on the iTunes Store following its release until, you guessed it, Adele snatched the record a couple of years later. All I can say is that people are idiots.

To think, Beyoncé turned down Len Houmous for Jay Z. Some said she’d had a conversation with Debbie Harry just before choosing. Says it all! 1.4 4/20 Blow

D+

I do feel a bit on an island with this one. With Beyoncé, Crazy in Love came out and we all though this is what pop music is gonna be and then she went straight back to warbling or quite basic stuff and never reached those heights again. This did nothing to persuade me otherwise.

not for me for most of it, but the production work here is really really good. the sound is complete

Lei sa cantare e su questo non ci piove, ma porca madonna, le canzoni sono una peggio dell'altra, inascoltabili

Pish.

Oh no this is such a crap for normies. Fuck off.

This music is fake slop

Disappointed to be honest. Found it tuneless and unoriginal. Struggling to remember any highlights even.

When did popular music become so goddamn boring?

C'est pas juste que c'est nul, c'est que c'est FUCKING LONG. Chaque chanson dure 6 minutes et il y a genre 65 chansons putain de merde.

A big fat NO for me

bad

Terrible

nope nope nope!

Not for me

Sorry, I'm not into this.

Yeah I don't know about this one..

okay thats bad af

Donderdag. Het weekend staat voor de deur. Echter moet er eerst nog ruim een uur naar Beyoncé geluisterd worden. Om Beyoncé zelf maar even te quoten: Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-no-no. We beginnen bombastisch en precies op de manier waarop ik zin krijg om af te haken. Vijfhondermiljoenmiljard ad libs in een track van 4 minuten. Het is eerder een afsluiter dan een album opener. Daarna knallen we er wat trap-achtige beats in, wat ik wel liever hoor dan R&B. Manlief HOV komt natuurlijk nog even langs op track 3. Het voelt allemaal aan als een soort Louis Vuitton tasje, een soort te duur luxeproduct waar vooral heel veel eenvoudige mensen die het eigenlijk niet kunnen betalen mee rondlopen. Oppervlakkige, zielloze schijn. Daarna achtereenvolgend per track: Kreungeluiden (één van mijn vele pet peeves), iets met seks, iets met dat ze naakt eten voor je maakt en daarna nog een track die begint met 'let me sit this ass on you' en teksten als 'you rock hard, I rock steady'. Waarschijnlijk geschreven door een heel marketingteam inclusief mannen, maar omdat Queen B het zingt is het vast empowering voor vrouwen wereldwijd. Louis Vuitton tasje. Ik vind het een beetje flauw van mezelf, maar ik kan hier gewoon niet zo heel goed naar luisteren. Ik heb zin om het af te zeiken en dat doe ik dan ook maar. Ik zet na track 10 nog even Crazy in Love aan en dan geloof ik het wel. Ik laat me vandaag een keer volledig kennen en ik geef een hele flauwe 1 ster hiervoor. Ik zet nog een keer de nieuwste Linkin Park aan om aan te tonen dat ik wel gewoon open sta voor vrouwen in muziek.

No

# Album Name: beyonce # Artist: beyonce # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Honestly, this is an absolutely awful album. Beyonce has an amazing voice and is no doubt a talented artist. but this album is clearly influenced by others around her. The songs are awful. Jay Z has clearly had a big influence on this record. Others have mentioned the number of songwriters. I had a look and its quite shocking. But what is worse is how is it possible for so many people to make such a bad record. # Top Tunes: drunk in love # Would I listen to it again? No

I ain’t listening to ts it’s over an hour long of Beyoncé I rather stab my eyes out maybe in the future but for now no. UNRATED

This is #day350 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… how about some shopping mall music? Or, hair salon music, as other reviewers aptly pointed out? Anyway, one thing this does perfectly is breed bad taste. There's just no way I'm sitting through an hour and a half of Beyoncé. I barely made it through two and a half tracks. To my ears, it's the definition of disposable plastic pop. You mustn't hear this before you die. This is a 1 out of 5, of course. Looking forward to #day351.

Just goes to so you can fool a lot of the people some of the time.

All I get from this is that her songwriter/s like Prince and Janelle Monae and I'm sure a bunch of other people and that rich people can in fact be horny.

not tragic, but very skippable for me, I appreciate the themes and vocal performance, the whole concept is amazing, but musically it's just not my taste, it's also beautifully produced

This was not good at all. Y’all must be drunk [in love]

I would give this album zero stars if I could. Beyonce is terrible and an overrated hack.

I tried...honestly. But it doesn't work. It's just uninspired babble. I haven't understood the hype surrounding Beyoncé for years. I'd rather devote my time to her sister. She clearly makes the better albums.

Not gonna lie. My taste is more funk than offered here. She's just not my bag, baby.

1 - not for me. Completely over produced and lifeless

Not my cup of tea, did not like.

Worst album I ever listened to with a half-chub.

For this being pop music, I really didn't find any song interesting musically. It's really well produced but after listening to this 2 times, I can't remember any song. So everything is a big meeh to me. I remember liking a few catchy songs from Katy Perry and Sia from this time. I'm not against pop music production. It's only that I find Beyoncé fake as fuck, totally unlikeable and wasn't she involved on the DIDDY case as well???? Anyway, I think this is like a music version of the Kardashians. It's not art, just a bland superficial product. And it's unsufferable.

Das fünfte Studioalbum der US-amerikanischen Sängerin Beyoncé wurde in mehreren Studios aufgenommen, darunter Jungle City Studios und Oven Studios in New York. Die Produktion erfolgte in Zusammenarbeit mit unterschiedlichen Produzententeams, unter anderem mit Timbaland und Pharrell Williams. Das Album bewegt sich stilistisch zwischen R&B, Pop und elektronischen Einflüssen, mit vereinzelten Elementen aus Hip-Hop und Soul. Auffällig ist der experimentelle Aufbau vieler Tracks sowie die teils reduzierte Instrumentierung. Zu den bekanntesten Titeln zählen „Drunk in Love“, „Partition“ und „***Flawless“, die sowohl klanglich als auch textlich zentrale Aspekte des Albums widerspiegeln. Der visuelle Aspekt spielt eine zentrale Rolle: Jeder Song wurde durch ein Musikvideo ergänzt, was dem Album eine zusätzliche Ebene verleiht. Inhaltlich befasst sich die Künstlerin mit persönlichen Themen wie Selbstbestimmung, Intimität und Geschlechterrollen. Das Werk zeigt eine Phase künstlerischer Neuorientierung und betont individuelle Ausdrucksformen jenseits konventioneller Albumstrukturen.

It's a pop album, in the Michael Jackson model. If you like this kind of music, I'm sure you love this. Not really my thing however.

Couldn’t do it.

Misschien het leegste album dat ik in deze lijst heb gehoord. Heb een bijzondere afkeer tov Beyoncé, en 1,5 uur dit moeten aanhoren helpt absoluut niet. Zij is de belichaming van kapitalisme en hebzucht. Ik geef haar nog een paar jaar voor iedereen echt klaar met haar is. Zal me ook niet verbazen als er wat uitkomt over haar of jay z

I really wanted to like this more than I did. Drunk in Love, Partition, and Flawless are all fun to listen to but on my repeat listen they were the only song I could make it through (and Drunk in Love still feels overlong). I like the front and center female sexuality and think this album got a lot of hype for that but it's not groundbreaking (Missy Elliott did it and everything else better on her albums and with way less personnel). Beats and features feel hollow and as for my own bias I just am not moved by Beyonce's vocals - when she gets rawer and puts some emotion forward like in Flawless I can get behind it but when a voice just sounds "clean" I can't really get into it. This isn't a part of my score because it's not the original album but only the platinum version was available on Spotify and the second disc really has some terrible features that have not aged well. Kanye's verse on the Drunk in Love remix is genuinely both gross and uninspired: "Woo, you will never need another lover Woo, 'cause you a MILF, and I'm a motherfucker Told you give the drummer some, now the drummer cummin' I'm pa-rum-pa-pum-pumin' all on your stomach, yuh" and "Yup, on the 35th of Nevuary Yup, you love the way I'm turnt After all the money you earned, still show daddy what you learned That cowgirl, you reverse that cowgirl You reverse, you reverse, and I impregnated your mouth, girl" Which you know - if the flow is good I can forgive a lot but it's just a lot like something from the cutting room floor of MBDTF. Speaking of which - Nicki Minaj references Monster halfway through her verse on the Flawless remix which reminds me of a better song I could be listening to. This is the most tired Nicki flow I've ever heard and includes a weird long full multibar rest that is reminiscent of Drake just trying to "yeah" his way through his Sway in the Morning freestyle. These two tracks are worth listening to because they're a time capsule of everything wrong with mainstream rap in early to mid 2010s.

cant get into it

Didn't really care for this.

Very unremarkable. Too synthetic and overproduced. Lacking soul.

She's a good singer and has fascinating visuals/videos/imagery, but man I do not like her music. Too many writers can indeed spoil a song.

One of the worst on this list so far - Have listened to 556. "No Angel" falsetto parts are especially grating.

I wish I could give it less than 1 star. W t f was this?? I like some of Beyoncé earlier songs but this was a load of pretentious crap.

Sucks ass

I loathe this style of music.

A struggle for me to get through, very generic beats, I didn't care for the lyrical content. But to be honest I knew I wouldn't like it, she gets way too much radio time and nothing of hers has ever encouraged me to go listen to one of her records before, what was most surprising I didn't recognize one of these songs. I'm just not the audience for this type of music

I'm not really a fan of Beyonce, but I know some of her songs, quite normal pop hits, nothing that stands out. After looking at this album I realised that I don't know any of the songs from it. After listening I know why - it's just bad. Album feels very personal, but the style was very unpleasant, I couldn't get through any song in full. Didn't like the vocal, music or anything else. One of the weakest pop albums on this list.

Was anticipating maybe finally seeing what the hype was about. But no. Repetitive and boring.

A very dull trundle through some R&B with electro bells and whistles. I thought I might know, Drunk in Love, I did not. To be fair - I didn't mind her late 00s work, it was of the time, and jolly good fun. Not this though.

Think this is the first Beyonce album we've had? I've completely forgotten it if not. Not that I'm a Beyonce fan, but I'm quite surprised that in an hour and a half of Beyonce, I did not recognise any tracks. I thought I knew her schtick, and nothing suprised me. Maybe a few more "adult" themes than I expected. Regardless, good voice, shite album. Not at all for me. 1

Overrated.

2/10. Overrated artist who has an only a couple of OK songs on this dull 1hr30 runtime album. Even a broken clock is right twice, I guess. I could’ve watched Shrek instead of listen to this.

Sorry but not gonna give this a listen

Går knappt att lyssna på. Klarade av de tre första låtarna 1/10

Rich and famous, yet produces shite music. Go figure.

Da wirkt nichts echt. Alles Kunststoff!

Shite

Third track - these are the people hoovering up the awards and money? I'm obviously a special little snowflake as I don't really understand. And I was about 25 when this came out, not 105. Had to listen to the Pretenders again to wash it down. Struggle to really get through it, it's about six days long.

Its a real damnation on the artistic side of the music industry that such talented vocalists regularly produce such uninteresting music. Hey, at least some executive's bottom line looks great since music has never been more accessible and listeners have never been more susceptible to algorithms, though!

Kann ja wohl nicht wahr sein, da wird mir hier so ein Mist angeboten.

I had to skip even through the shorter standard edition because there was nothing to find for me. If the most remarkable thing about this album is the release strategy, why should I hear it before I die? 1,5

I'm lost on this one.

Over rated

Beyoncé has a reputation for receiving songwriting credits for work largely done by others. She has been criticised for cultural appropriation and commercialising feminism. She is massively overexposed to the point that she is considered an actress and her clothing line has been accused of unethical labor practices. I used the 1.5 hours I was forced to listen to this album to research why I felt like I needed to punch a wall. Phew - it's over.

Ok, she can sing - but this is such over produced commercial rubbish, I just don't think I needed to listen to this before I die and I don’t think it belongs on the list. 1.5 hours of my life I’m never getting back

I've heard this in the car with Jen. Enough times where I can see. I like maybe one song. Not for me

Not in the original book and too difficult to find on streaming services. Hard pass

Nah...I don't get it. All for women empowering themselves but Beyonce ain't the first to take the sexual power back. Can't say I liked a single song on the album. Half of it is her just fucking Jay-Z. The rest of the subject matter isn't that inventive either. Poor you being pretty and talented...boring. And please stick to singing cause her rapping is weak as hell. Why this album is ranked on any list is Beyondce me...0.7.

Beyoncé has been touted as the biggest fucking thing for the past decade or whatever. I've steered clear as I'm not the target demographic and her press is so overblown that I'd rather just tune it out than engage. Every time she drops an album it is huge news but I've never gone out of my way to listen to any of her music. I went into this expecting it to be mediocre overproduced middle of the pack diva R&B. I figured it wouldn't be anywhere near my wheelhouse but just something I could listen to and file away as "meh". Boy was I wrong. It's more than an hour of nearly insufferable pretentious bullshit. It's track after track of her gushing about how hot, amazing and perfect she is in every single way. I'm sure there is some powerful feminine messages buried beneath the countless tracks outlining how Beyoncé is an insanely erotic and sexual specimen. 10 minutes I started to understand what this album was and had to suffer through the rest of it. I'm actually impressed at how much this annoyed me. Where I previously would have responded "not a Beyoncé fan cuz I don't know the music" I will actually now update this to "I actively dislike her music". Not sure if this is part of the schtick and yet another form of engagement for her but I will be going out of my way to turn off Beyoncé moving forward. Garbage. .58 stars

Beyonce horny, Michael.

A steaming turd of over-vocalization and studio electronics. Truly garbage

Beyoncé has a pretty good singing voice, but I hate this kind of written by committee, completely artificial music. It’s hard to take it seriously and Beyoncé is such a product that I find her ruminating on sexuality to be quite disingenuous and fake.

Never been a fan of Beyoncé. Don’t judge me! ⭐️

I'll put this one down as just not being targeted at me. It is a snapshot of pop music at the time but felt like every song was a bit gimmicky. Don't plan on revisiting.

I have no interest whatsoever in this. 1 star or F for me.

Man I don’t get the appeal

Music made by committee and is as soulless as you expect from that

Did this album really have to be on this list? Not sure its even Beyonces best album, let alone part of the 1001

Fuck you Beyonce

Generic pop music which generated no interest in me.

There's nothing of value here. Crowd sourced lyrics that play at being inspired channeled through a mannequin who can sing.

Not my cup of tea

I didn't mind Partition as the backing had a bit of oomph, but this generally was bland, over-produced and under-thought.

Just not my shit.

I find this Beyonce album embarrassing, which is how I feel listing to Swift. Obviously, Beyonce can sing, but the content of the songs and the overall content feels so trite and juvenile - but not in a cool angst or rebellious way. I am not a fan of voices like Beyonce, already. I can recognize the skill and talent, but I already don't like most soulful, gospel-rooted singing. Then, on top of that, many of the songs just sound like they were made for a CGI movie soundtrack or are just embarrassing with bad lyrics and repetition.

Je suis désolé, j'ai essayé mais c'est juste vraiment pas pour moi.

No no no, can't handle this, sorry Lady.

I just find her so average and tedious. So overrated. There are no less than 6 versions of this album in iTunes. Why? I feel sorry for fans of these kinds of mega artists who just get abused by "editions: to generate false listens and income.

half of one track was more than enough

Not something I’d listen to again, not a criticism of the artist, just not my kind of music.

Not for me. As a late 30s dude, I can't exactly relate to the "Let me sit this ass on you ... Ooh, my shit's so good" lyrics.

I've always thought Beyoncé was a food singer, but good god this is such a dull, repetitive, watered down, bland, over-produced, unoriginal, unimaginative pop album I've ever heard. It has the personality of a cucumber. I'm not someone who automatically dislikes pop music. I enjoy plenty of 2000s mainstream pop from the likes of Lady Gaga and such, but the songs I do enjoy have personality. This album does not. Please just go away. It's like music for people who don't like music.

Hernia dat ze knap is

Could not wait for this to end! Not for me 1/5

Must admit I struggled to get through this - its just so boring

Ytterligare en skiva som folk tror är bra men inte är det.

I didn’t really like it.

Sucked.

Not for me

Did not listen

Meer moody Beyoncé Drunk I. Love heeft (te) stevige bas, wel leuke song structure

Trash

I appreciate Beyonce is very popular but listening to this album I fail to see why. I found it dull and boring and some tracks a bit of a dirge, I could find no redeming factors that would keep my interest throughout.

couldn't finish it...

Couldn't get past the first three tracks. Not for me. I find it difficult to believe how popular this woman is.

Terrible

Nah Didn’t really enjoy any of this

nahhhhhhhhh

This album is so bad it started to make me feel angry! Beyonce wails and moans for over an hour of synthetic R&B pop with zero originality, merit, or any actual music. I know this list is supposed to bring me music out of my comfort zone, but this is just a waste of my time. The lyrics are embarrassingly awful and seem to keep running out, resulting in more pointless wailing, baby noises, and strange moans. I think you would need to be mentally challenged to actually enjoy this. Also, whoever or whatever "creative" team produced this monstrosity obviously just discovered some electronic bass effect and loved it so very much that they felt the need to layer it over just about every single track on this abominable mess.

Shit

I absolutely cannot listen to this album

At the risk of sounding like I live under a rock, I’m not sure I could name more than 5 Beyoncé songs. It’s never really been my type of music so, despite being aware of her highly revered status, I’ve never given her much of a chance with music. Let’s give this a listen and see if it’s any good. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: none I expect that a lot of people won’t like this opinion, but I honestly thought this album was pretty naff. It’s uncountable that Beyoncé is a great singer, but the music is just unbelievably dull. There isn’t a single song here that I could say I enjoyed, and I just can’t wrap my head around the appeal here. Each to their own, but this is certainly not for me.

This album being on this list has to be some elaborate joke that I can’t get

It’s crap

Ouch, I really can't stand this music, which is a pity given how nice Beyonce's voice is. And yes, I'm fully aware of being firmly on the minority side here.

did not like

Wtf

Got to admit when I saw Beyoncé come up I thought "Dear God no!!" But, I'm doing this to experience different music. So I put it on and went for a walk. To my surprise, it wasn't objectionable. However that is about the only positive thing I can say. For me it wasn't anything really. It was a sound that exists is probably the best I can say. When I got home I put the TV on and forgot I had an earpiece in. That's how little it inspired me.

Supposedly a groundbreaking album, sounds a bit run of the mill. A particular lowlight of the album is shown by her ignorance of the Working world from her privileged high pedestal with 'working 9 to 5 just to stay alive' just about acceptable for Dolly in the 70's but in the 21st century? Out of touch and overrated rubbish. I read that she had a team of writers and producers living with her for a month - I pity their greed and sychophantic attitude for prostrating/prostituting themselves for this person. Apple's review describes 'Beyonce's willingness to explore music's edges', well if she had done a collaboration with Gibby Haynes I'd believe she had. Yes it's a bit different to full on pop music of her past albums (I guess? Only heard a couple of tracks) but really nothing special. For her ideas 1, for her arrogance? Minus 1000,000.

So my understanding is that she has a team of 13 song writers helping her with this crap. What a joke. What a waste of time.

Not my thing. Beyoncé is clearly talented but I found the songs monotonous with the thumping beat in what seemed like the time signature. Also did not see the point of the explicit lyrics on some songs. A good example is Partition. Leave nothing to the imagine or to interpretation. People have been singing about sex forever. It’s more interesting when veiled in euphemisms than coming right out and saying it. A waste of 90+ minutes

Beyonce is a global phenomenon; something both entirely understandable and yet, to me, utterly incomprehensible. All the elements contributing to her success are there to see - and yet those are the exact same elements that leave me cold. The music is competent and catchy - and as safe, unambitious, and 'on rails' as can be imagined. Beyonce herself is an incredible singer, yet the technical ecstasy of the execution leaves me unmoved. This sounds like the creation of a precision-engineered pop cyborg, with minimal human intervention. I gave Scissor Sisters one star because the music was like taking a pumice stone to my cochlear, but looking back I was being unfair. At least their Elton John-cum-disco era Bee Gees approach contained some interesting ideas. This is smooth-brain music.

Just not a fan

I almost want to give it a 1 just based on how overhyped she is and how annoying her fan base is. The weirdest thing is that I've listened to modern radio my entire life (not always by personal choice) and ai didn't recognize one of these songs. I'm familiar with Crazy in Love up to Break My Soul. Why are these songs all a blank space? Oh well. It doesn't matter as I don't like any of these anyway. You know what? I am going to give this a 1 anyway. I swear she isn't THAT bad, just overhyped and I'd bet a substantial sum that she has better albums than this. This was just a bore.

It is exactly what you'd expect it to be.

This album is terrible. The opening track 'Pretty Hurts' doesn't prepare you for what's to come, because that's actually not bad - but from there it just descends into boring nothingness. It only picks up slightly towards the end with the last few tracks, where they start to resemble actual songs. I know this sounds pretentious, but at least with other albums I don't like I can at least see why others might like them, or even appreciate how they're made. I don't get any of that with this. The beats are basic and stripped back, the content is completely shallow and nothing, and it's irritating to listen to. Bewildering.

I had high hopes for this one. But holy shit it blows, how is Beyoncé famous? It's not sexy, it's repulsive. Not in a christian ascetic kinda way, just straight nauseating to listen to. Yooooo my ignorance has been unveiled. XO is not a John Mayer song holy shit hahahahh.

I didn't like it

Not a fan of any music that forces me to picture a nude Jay-Z

Okay, I'll admit, maybe I'm just uncultured and don't know what I'm talking about, but this was awful. It isn't exactly "modern" pop (over a decade old!), but it sure feels like exactly why people say they don't like modern music. The ideas behind the album are in good faith, and the messages are okay, but the songs all sound pretty same-y, both in sound and in lyrics, and an over reliance on a heavy bass sound rather than any actual instruments really drags the songs down. This album also goes on far too long, with as I said, half the songs feeling like alternate versions of previous songs. Most of the featuring artists felt useless and in the background, usually in an annoying capacity (such as Drake's feature). The last song was sweet and probably my favorite on the album, but it didn't really recover the album at all. Just like Kanye West's "Yeezus", this may have changed pop music, but that isn't necessarily a good thing.

Awful. It's really not my thing, but I was expecting much better.

No, thank you.

Who run the world? Girls (girls) Who run the world? Girls (girls) Who run the world? Girls (girls) Who run the world? Girls (girls) Who run the world? Girls (girls) Who run this mutha? Girls Who run this mutha? Girls Who run this mutha? Girls Who run this mutha? Girls Who run the world? Girls (girls) Who run the world? Girls (girls) Who run the world? Girls (girls) Who run the world? Girls (girls) is still better songwriting than most of what's on this album

Better than what I thought but still very boring Pop album..

In the spectrum of hip-hop, this album is on the side that I like the least. How can we offer an honest work that comes from the heart and soul when there are 3 producers and 7 authors per song? It really sounds like pre-formatted music for commercial radio. Maybe it's not... but either way, it's really not for me.

Decent voice attached to soulless mainstream modern pop.

Seriously? I gave it a listen to make sure I hadn't missed anything. I hadn't, it's awful.

I expected this to be better. Bored out of my mind. Every song feels exactly the same, except for Flawless, which I actually enjoyed. Just bland overall. Lemonade is leaps and bounds better than this. Easy 1 star

2/10 Best song - XO

Not for me

Not for me. Seems to just be some very uninspired beats, with not much in the way of substance.

no

yuk

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