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Calm down . Beyoncé has released an album on a Friday in December with no official announcements , but calm down . Rumors of a new collection of the singer had become insistent in recent months, and circulated from even before she decides what would be the mode of publication. In a sense , shift the focus from the individual album so unconventional was the only sensible move he could do after that with the excellent " 4" could not even insert a song in the top 10 U.S. . But Beyoncé has never been far from the spotlight in the last year (or any year of the Lord, when he started to sing ), and Bowie can rest assured to release the most amazing surprise of 2013 is still his .
The album (sorry, visual album, because it also contains 17 videos ) is less unpredictable from the point of view of music and the reason is to be found in the credits : Both a text and one of Ryan Tedder ; duets with Drake, Frank Ocean and the husband ; Pharrell found some retro beats and some of Timbaland and Timberlake. Excluding two signatures unexpected ( Caroline Polacheck of Chairlift and the mysterious producer Boots ) , there is all the zeitgeist of pop / r & b in recent years. It is not at all a bad thing, because everyone seems to have made the best contribution possible. Beyoncé no longer accepts demo recycled as other pop star , then the amount of filler is kept to a minimum and the average quality is very high .
But in all this perfection expensive , it is hard to find a new classic. The best candidates could be "Heaven" , rending ballad dedicated to a missing person (or perhaps the first child that Beyoncé has failed to have) , and "Pretty Hurts" , a critical bit 'obvious cosmetic surgery , however, accompanied by a video documenting the bitter behind the scenes of a beauty contest. Reflections on the image of women and their role in society continue in the trap abrasive " *** Flawless " brilliant reinterpretation of 've heard "Bow Down " and containing the sampling of a TED talk about feminism Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie . It is laudable idea that few other singers could afford, but highlights the irritating cerchiobottismo Beyoncé : on the one hand , hymns seriosissimi emancipation , and on the other hand , songs and videos in which you put at the full disposal of the man who view by drawing an imaginary sexual anything but progressive. Much of the album follows this thematic strand with musical ideas as dated but very effective : the funk of "Blow " (the title says it all ) is the perfect meeting point between Pharrell and Timbaland , the lascivious "Rocket " seems the female response to " Untitled " by D'Angelo (and it is written by the best heir of D'Angelo Miguel ), the obscure r & b electronic " Partition" is colored with double entenders rapped (unfortunately without much irony ), " Drunk in love " with Jay -Z is the continuation of more explicit , more detailed and slower than " Crazy in Love " .
It is finally a bit ' of pure lightness in Motown dreamy Frank Ocean in " Superpower " (which could be one of the best songs of "channel ORANGE " ) and release " XO " which, combined with an equally festive video , it would be ( and , it is said , will be) a good single . They are the only two licenses of a very dark album , and staff for anything commercial , in which one of the best voices in the world proves that he has the means and vision to do his own thing . It has no fillers or obvious defects but also peaks potentially memorable , and it is perhaps this lack of teasers to the radio or the charts the most distinctive trait of " Beyoncé " - as well as the most significant revolution of an album released on a Friday in December without official announcements .
TRACKLIST :
Pretty hurts
Haunted
Drunk in love feat. Jay -Z
Blow
No angel
Partition
Jealous
Rocket
Mine feat. Drake
XO
Flawless *** feat. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Superpower feat. Frank Ocean
Heaven
Blue feat. Blue Ivy
