Beyonce - I Am... [November 18th]

Queen B is back bitches! Two new singles:

http://www.beyoncenow.net/fotos/albums/If%20I%20Were%20a%20Boy%2C%20single%20cover/01.jpg

http://photos.ultimate-bee.com/albums/atwork/IIsl/normal_beyonce2.jpg

Album out November 18th.

Yes!

When singles out?

They're out now, search around for them

"Single Ladies":

http://www.zshare.net/audio/2020973561835f57/

"If I Were A Boy":

http://www.zshare.net/audio/202015566d3f3f85

http://www.sinternet.com/beyonce.html

god, you think too much about these songs, just listen to them

what are you talking about

uh, is "if i were a boy" based on a sample from "what if god was one of us"?

interesting title (if i were a boy). easy to make jokes about too. shouldnt have used that sample though.

Call Her Miss Beyonce: "If I Were a Boy"/"Single Ladies"

Ciara's Like A Boy >>>>> Beyonce's If I Were A Boy.

right on. I just put ciara on because I was thinking the same thing!

more excited for the new ciara, really. not liking these new beyonce songs much at all. "single ladies" seems a little generic and unmemorable. "if I were a boy" just kind of sucks. oh well.

Thanks "Brainwasher"!

She really missed an opportunity with the cover for "If I were a boy"

so

if i was a boy= a fake carrie underwood leak

single ladies= a pretty good amerie song (did rich harrison do this?)

no, dream & tricky did it

daaaaamn :D :D

"Fox News" commented on the release of "If I Were a Boy" by saying: "And the news is: It’s Beyonce’s best record ever in her career, a total smash, an unexpected coup. You can hear it!" [21]

smh @ that fucking Buzz Lightyear bridge on "Single Ladies." Big Tigger played these on his radio show today and kept reading all these e-mails and texts from people that were straight up shitting on both songs, it was hysterical.

as usual, i'm going to trust the opinion of fox news

you were on point, though, the words "Carrie Underwood" actually entered my mind the first time I heard that song.

yeah me too, and then immediately after entered the joke from scrubs where the sleazy surgeon says "i'm carrying under wood"

Both Ciara's "Like a Boy" and Fefe Dobson's "If I Was a Guy" trump Beyonce's attempt at weird gender play pop. Just sayin'.

hmm i will hold off any final judgments (remember how everyone was shitting on 'deja vu' when that first emerged? and how everyone was wrong) but this isn't promising :(

remember how everyone was shitting on 'deja vu' when that first emerged?

yes!

and how everyone was wrong

er, not really.

btw you might've meant in general and not just on this board but this thread was generally pretty positive at first: Beyonce - "Deja Vu"

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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

well that didn't come out right... but anyway both videos are excellent, I need to learn the "Single Ladies" dance routine ASAP lol

she better fucking have called the Freemasons to save the day because Single Ladies is in desperate need of remix treatment and you KNOW the Freemasons will turn that into a jam and perhaps give it a melody or something crazy like that

no no no not the freemasons anyone but them

i kind of feel like j-hud and beyonce got some songs mixed up in the post...j-hud's 'pocketbook' is pretty good but she's not agile enough to make it really great, but she'd've torn up 'if i were a boy'

maybe it's the video effect (not that it's that amazing or anything) but lovin' 'Single Ladies'

fuck a melody, the rhythm track to single ladies is INSANE, that song is such an anthem.. it doesn't need to be remixed.

Anyway, this was confimed by Beyonce to be a double-album. Beyonce vs. Sasha I'm thinking....

http://www.whoissashafierce.com/

http://i38.tinypic.com/5urdp1.jpg

wow, an R&B double album with a split personality concept...squeeze some form of the word "evolution" into the title and i think i might roll my eyes so hard they fall right out of my head.

http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/88/69/74/17/0088697417352_500X500.jpg

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Disc 1( of 2)
1. If I Were A Boy
2. Halo
3. Disappear
4. Broken-Hearted Girl
5. Ave Maria
6. Smash Into You
7. Satellites
8. That's Why You're Beautiful

Disc 2( of 2)

1. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
2. Radio
3. Diva
4. Sweet Dreams
5. Video Phone
6. Hello
7. Ego
8. Scared Of Lonely

OMGGGGGG I LOVE "Scared of Lonely"

Beyonce is gonna kill this one.

Beyoncé Disc
1. “If I Were a Boy” (Toby Gad and Beyoncé Knowles)
2. “Halo” (Ryan Tedder and Beyoncé Knowles)
3. “Disappear” (Amanda Ghost, Dave McCracken, Ian Dench, and Beyoncé Knowles)
4. “Broken-Hearted Girl” (Stargate and Beyoncé Knowles)
5. “Ave Maria” (Stargate and Beyoncé Knowles)
6. “Smash Into You” (C. “Tricky” Stewart, Terius “The-Dream” Nash, and Beyoncé Knowles)
7. “Satellites” (Amanda Ghost, Dave McCracken, Ian Dench, and Beyoncé Knowles)
8. “That’s Why You’re Beautiful” (Andrew Hey and Beyoncé Knowles)

Sasha Disc
1. “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” (C. “Tricky” Stewart, Terius “The-Dream” Nash, and Beyoncé Knowles)
2. “Radio” (Jim Jonsin, D-Town, Rico Love, and Beyoncé Knowles)
3. “Diva” (Shondrae “Mr. Bangladesh” Crawford, Sean Garrett, and Beyoncé Knowles)
4. “Sweet Dreams” (Jim Jonsin, Wayne Wilkins, Rico Love, and Beyoncé Knowles)
5. “Video Phone” (Shondrae “Mr. Bangladesh” Crawford, Sean Garrett, and Beyoncé Knowles)
6. “Hello” (REO and Beyoncé Knowles)
7. “Ego” (Elvis “BlacElvis” Williams, Harold Lilly, and Beyoncé Knowles)
8. “Scared of Lonely” (Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins)
9. “Why Don’t You Love Me?” (Beyoncé Knowles, Solange Knowles, and Bama Boyz)

I'm glad she's working with Bangladesh, the stuff he did on Kelis Was Here is classic.

TS: Chris Gaines v Sasha Fierce

production credits look serious but really what the fuck is this

Sasha isn't new, she's been talking about her since the DIL era. It's her sexy, crazy alter-ego.

5. “Ave Maria” (Stargate and Beyoncé Knowles)

haha what

anyway both singles have totally grown on me! though only when i realised that 'single ladies' is a less good version of 'get me bodied', sigh.

single ladies : get me bodied :: womanizer : ooh ooh baby

8. “Scared of Lonely” (Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins)

^^This is surprising, no? I thought Beyonce insisted on a songwriting credit on all her songs? Like even "Resentment," which, iirc, was a song posh spice sang first?

http://i38.tinypic.com/5urdp1.jpg

hypno gif

err

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^^This is surprising, no? I thought Beyonce insisted on a songwriting credit on all her songs? Like even "Resentment," which, iirc, was a song posh spice sang first?

Those are production credits I think. And Jazmine Sullivan sang "Resentment" first iirc.

Single Ladies = Orphans video by Beck

i love single ladies, and the video is so great

quickly becoming kind of obsessed. the synth that pops up in the chorus is awesome.

RedOne as done the new Sugababes single too - as if losing Keisha wasn't already a hammer blow to the 'character' of their tunes! That said I really like 'Remedy' and Poker Face

sooo, halo is much better as a dance trak, it turns out

(last.fm)

uh

http://vimeo.com/11465235

new video. watch it.

uhhh wow. that was pretty much the biggest turnaround on a song that a video has elicited from me. so weird to release a random and unremarkable bonus track as the 948578334th single from an album and then put so much effort into the video that it turns out amazing. raddled, middle-aged darkside sequel to ashanti's "good good", 10 years on.

kinda love the song!

yeah i love what i was hearing there but i also know i've had the mp3 for over a year and it's never inspired me to give it a second thought, much less second listen!

tell me more abt this dance vers. of halo tho

lololol at her dusting her grammys in the vid:

http://i40.tinypic.com/n2ocbr.jpg

typical beyoncé.

it's just fuckin good. it's like, it lifts all the heaviness out of the song

(xp)

lol grammys

While I'm glad I can buy these bonus tracks individually, I'm still so sick of these "deluxe editions" that feature new singles and punish the fans that bought the original album.

Love this video so much, I want to thank Lady Gaga, Jay-z and Solange for all inspiring a crazier, thuggier Beyonce

can we please quit crediting Lady Gaga with shit without doing our due diligence? Beyonce has been done the "crazy & thug" thing for a while, not that I get much of either from the video.

remember when the videos for "Deja Vu" and "Ring the Alarm" came out and everyone thought she'd lost her damn mind?

yeah for real -- the internet's long had gifs of crazy beyonce

Not with that pinup girl weave she's sporting though, mmm. Song does kind of remind me of Solange's Sandcastles, no surprise she co-wrote it.

not to say she should be credited for it, but i think what you're picking up on is that this look did kind of originate in the fusion with gaga, in the videophone video (which is definitely the better 'phone video, imo)

The new Beyonce video. I don't understand how anyone can be so damn infinitely sexy. She is truly one of the mysteries of the universe.

^^^

i love when she's on the phone in the beginning, her voice

Now, now, honey
You better sit down and look around
Cause you must've bumped yo head

check my credentials

yes, she is amazing

While I'm glad I can buy these bonus tracks individually, I'm still so sick of these "deluxe editions" that feature new singles and punish the fans that bought the original album.

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 5:26 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well, the deluxe edition that this song is on was released at the same time as the 'standard' album a year and a half ago, that's the big thing now. which is in a way even more fucked up.

I'm pretty sure that deluxe edition didn't come out at the exact same time, did it? Otherwise I think I would have bought that one. Maybe it was just at select retailers at the time? I don't know, either way, the trend annoys me. Its why I still haven't bought the latest Rihanna, just waiting for the inevitable expanded edition at this point.

exact same release date

the videophone video (which is definitely the better 'phone video, imo)

― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Monday, May 10, 2010 4:38 AM (13 hours ag

otm otm otm otm otm otm otm otm otm otm otm otm otm otm otm otm otm otm otm

I don't think there's any doubt about that

well i did use a lot of otms

no pussy wagon, no credibility. you guys ARE all dudes afaik, i feel like i am watching a porno w/video phone (not saying I don't like it..)

uh, I am pretty sure I'm the only straight dude agreeing with that position

it's just directed better

the bettie page bit looks better in videophone

Telephone is a jumbled mess, it should be a lot more fun than it is. At least with Video Phone it's fun to watch Beyonce do her thing.

xp to Dan - sexual preference doesn't really matter (though maybe I would enjoy the 'I am watching porn' aspect more if I were into ladies)

imo the Videophone vid is boner city and Telephone is mostly a longass ironic buzzkill

LOL that sums up what I was trying to say sorta, but obv I am a buzzkill too :)

i <3 u

<3 u too baby, ILX (in no small part thanks to you) has made me start listening to Gaga, more Beyonce than I ever did, Ke$ha and Roisin Murphy all in the last week. I am a bouncing ball of catchy pop music.

Videophone rant inspired by my best friend & I watching it together in uncomfortable silence (same best friend who participated in threesome for former boyfriend's birthday! that's how raunchy video seemed. Heh.)

so Beyonce says her new album is inspired by Fela Kuti...

Possibly price-signalling that she intends to outdo Kanye in the track length stakes. Hopefully means lots of stuff along the lines of the extended mix of "Get Me Bodied"?

I hope she just means choreography-wise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqnQC3RODl0&feature=related

http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/02/beyonce_sports_black_face_to_honor_fela_kuti.html

no one said she was particularly smart

RIP white beyonce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6X0PqIWfzQ&feature=player_embedded