Beyoncé - Lemonade (April 23, 2016) Album • Page 7

love this bonus track from sasha fierce

 

Yoooooo Iggy and Azealia are ridiculous with their comments XD

 

Finally revisited the self-titled... wow. Everything a mainstream album should be in the present musical climate. Still really well written and produced, and catchy as hell, but with SO much substance and lots of important issues being tackled. I know this is all obvious and I'm more than 2 years late but man... better late than never I guess.

 

Beyoncé’s Lemonade: A Lesson on Appreciating Art That Wasn’t Made for You

 

Just finished watching the film. S'good. Music felt all over the place in a good way.

 

concert was phenomenal. first time seeing her and it was a blast. the stamina it must take to do what she did is unreal.

 

"White people in particular have been confused about how to react to such a masterfully crafted piece of art."

Really? It felt pretty natural to me to just enjoy the hell out of it.

 

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you are not every white person

 

1. Intro
2. Formation
3. Sorry
4. Bow Down / Tom Ford
5. Run The World (Girls)
6. Superpower (Interlude)
7. Mine
8. Standing On The Sun / Baby Boy
9. Hold Up
10. Countdown
11. Me, Myself & I
12. Runnin’ (Lose It All)
13. All Night
14. 6 Inch (Interlude)
15. Don’t Hurt Yourself
16. Ring The Alarm (Contains samples of Lost Yo Mind, I Been On, Independent Women, Naughty Girl)
17. Diva (Contains samples of Cut It)
18. ***Flawless / Feeling Myself
19. Yoncé
20. 7/11 (Interlude)
21. 7/11
22. Drunk In Love (Contains samples of Swimming Pools (Drank))
23. Rocket
24. Hip Hop Star / Freakum Dress (Interlude)
25. Daddy Lessons
26. Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)
27. Purple Rain (Interlude)
28. Crazy In Love (2014 Remix)
29. Crazy In Love (Contains samples of Bootylicious)
30. Naughty Girl
31. Party (Contains samples of Party N’ Bullshit)
32. Blow (Contains samples of Nasty Girl)
33. Sweet Dreams / Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
34. Die With You (Interlude)
35. Freedom
36. Survivor
37. End of Time / Grown Woman
38. Halo
39. Schoolin’ Life (Outro)

 

I think Hold Up and Sorry are just perfect. I love the entire album, really.

 

closing with schoolin life is so baller lol

 

That set list is incredible. Haunted and XO would be the only songs I wish were played. Kinda gave up hoping for some older songs, even though those albums are represented really well in the set list.

 

She's doing "Me, Myself & I" and closing with "Schoolin' Life" and I can't go. HEAVY SIGH.

 

I'd pay to see her perform countdown on repeat tbh

 

I want to be present for a live performance of "Love On Top" just once before I die

 

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So this did about 664k first week, for anyone who cares.

 

Are there tracks that do a weird skipping thing on this album or is it just my copy? Like on "Don't Hurt Yourself".

 

Beat expectations if that's accurate

 

"All Night" might be my song of the year

 

I get where people are coming from with articles like this, and it's not like I want to feel "included" or whatever, but 1) it's pretty easy to appreciate it and relate to being cheated on, which is how I think most of the white people I've spoken to feel about it, and 2) for an album that's made with the black American woman in mind, Bey could've done a better job than having 18 out of 20 producers of this album be white men...not saying she should've found 20 black women as producers but just not having almost all of them be white men would help.

 

Re: the article posted above

I agree with the notion and am working toward figuring out how to best discuss this album given my position. I guess that's the part that I'm unsure of. I know it isn't meant for me, and I know what I think about it doesn't necessarily matter. But should I not talk about it with people at all or should I just make sure I don't talk over someone else?

Is it bad to tell people I like the album a lot?

Sorry if I sound overtly ignorant here. I just don't know if there is a place in the conversation where I fit at all or if I should just keep it to myself-- which I'm fine with. Just wanna make sure I'm going about it right.

 

I can't stop listening to Sorry.


I'm also not sure I understand where or why there's a difference between intended audience and authorial intention. Especially considering in criticism authorial intention is often set aside to let the work speak for itself. The intended audience of Lemonade may be southern, Black women (according to many of the think pieces I've seen at least and I'd say I'd agree with that), but the actual audience is the majority of music listeners in the western world. What makes the authorial intention different in this case as opposed to so many others?