Beyonce!!: YAAAAAAAASSSSSSS!!!!

 



One word...no explanation needed.
 

12 am, December 13^th, the world stopped gathered around together and let out a unified YAAAAAAAASSSSS! With no leaks, and using nothing but speculation and anticipation as promo, Beyonce released her 5^th studio album. The massive self-titled juggarnaut debuted No.1 in 72 countries within the first 3 hours of release, and No.1 in 100 countries in the first 24 hours! Queen Bey made sure she rewarded her loyal Bey Hive with as much Mrs. Carter as we could stand. The iTunes exclusive project included 14 tracks to dance in your room to, and 17 visuals to marvel at.



Heeeeeeyyyyy Miss Carter

The album in its entirety is something to appreciate after you get over the initial shock.  Beyonce breathed life into her sexy persona Mrs. Carter. And compared to Sasha Fierce, Mrs. Carter is more grown and raunchier. But of course leave it to bored, sex deprived, pearl wearing housewives to have a problem with Yonce’s new image. Liberal Christian women mourned the loss of their daughter’s perfect role model, while their husbands grabbed their crotches watching her post-baby body gyrate in Parisian lingerie. While it’s entertaining to watch the critics clutch their pearls, the raunchiness of the album is a hit or miss throughout the album. The vocal excellence of Rocket needs to be the sound score for a sex scene in a movie while Partition, although a banger, sounds a church girl trying too hard to impress her gangster boyfriend.   

                    "Sneezed on the beat and the beat got sicker, Yonce’ all on his mouth like liquor"

Each song does a good job of taking on its own personality, even without the visuals. Bey provides everything that we expect from her and then some. The hip-hop heiress, Blue Ivy made her debut on her mother’s heartfelt dedication. Both the turnt up love ballad, Drunk in Love with her hubby Jay Z and the revamp of producer HitBoy’s Bow Down (2013), renamed Flawless will be played in the clubs for a while, although club anthems are uncharacteristic of the R&B, pop Queen. Ignoring Drake living out his lifelong, light skinned fantasy of harmonizing with Beyonce, Mine, and No Angel are made with Drake’s smooth, easy listening style. Tracks like Haunted, have a sexy, eerie, sound that appeases the pop music genre. Bey still gives us the typical feel good, feminist friendly, dance hits and dramatic vocal performances, but the whole album sounds like something Bey has been trying to get out for a while.  It’s going to be interesting to see how she incorporates this new, cocky, rebellious style into her legendary performances that she’s known for. While some of the songs can be easily over looked, as a dedicated bee of the Bey Hive, I must rule that Beyonce is definitely Tay Approved.

Thank you Ms. Pope. I was wondering what I was going to do until Scandal came back on.