If show business were high school (and it's not, really?), Will Beyoncé be a harbinger of higher education.
Beyoncé's '4′ Muddles Its Message
This is a class act and off the charts, you can make a girl who shares her gifts with everyone, keeping your beyond fabulous life - Obama's Speed Dial, Jay-Z table - in much himself.
During his three previous records, she matured from Destiny Child-hood in a great solo hitmaker with two of the most transcendent pop music chart toppers-,''Love''og''Single Crazy Ladies,''stored in pocket Deréon his jeans.
So why does it feel like Beyonce is fighting so hard to prove "4?" The whole album is a song - for himself tangle of conflicting ambitions: he wants to be at the forefront, yet familiar, accessible, but art, hot blood, but strictly impersonal.
These tensions were injured in the first half of the forest, a bird returned to rebel no one expects out of the box of the murderers of radio. Instead, we have a dream considering ballad, launched by the municipality et''I du''1 arid Miss Prince +1' 'You,''in which Bey sweatshirts and pants and grunts (in except, you know as sexy-), his voice rising ever higher in search of a high octave and maintenance.
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"I do not know much about guns / But I shot at you,''he yelps on''1 one,''as if the love of the bullet actually breaking the skin Vocally, he has never sounded better - . guttural and precise - but the songs here just not his equal.While these efforts are small, some of the "four" runs under the impression that he raised unsuccessfully in the study of captivity for the consumer. Those familiar with Lite-FM Best emphasis on Thing''''Je never had 2006''''frappé Irreplaceable test is just that.
''I came here,''co-written by Diane Warren, when Lifetime-movie level Schmaltz, while promising navn''Party,''featuring Kanye and Andre 3000 is proving to be an invitation to a slow jam after hours mixing with refreshments.And when the 29-year-old imitates Luther Vandross and Diana Ross is a charming, goofy ja''Rakkaus is 01:59 Top''ja''Pikemminkin Die Young,''vague in his idols' polyester wrapped in shadows.
Not surprisingly, Beyonce is at its best when it sounds like nobody but himself. She takes off her dress with a reliable Freakum mothballs for the marching-band funk ja''Countdown,''which contains such a joy that leads kuten''Minä texts and boof, boof boof, and my horse.''På''Run World (girls),''the first single from the album, she turns to postfeminism cheesy martial arts feet Stomper, crackling like a shower of pirate radio agitpop. (It bombed accordingly on maps public.)
And Time''seethes loistava''End equilibrium with the harmonies, MJ-style "Off the Wall" with horns and Bionic Bo Diddley beat, all the while Bey roars of his eternal love for everyone and no one in particular.
This is exactly the kind of genre-busting risk that few pop stars today even try, let alone shoot well with a shrug, not more. With more moments like that, "4" album could have been entirely worthy of his talent. As it is, however, even students get the B. Casual Star
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