beyonce - b'day poll

thought about tacking "check on it" on there too because it's so b'day in feel, but there will be more polls, i'm sure

irreplaceable, no contest , b'serious

"upgrade u"

dude s'rsly

b'itch please

"Get Me Bodied" for the extended version. Danced to that a whole.

i seriously have no idea, i'm listening to this right now and i LOVE EVERY SONG

a whole lot, I mean. (xp to myself)

2 the left 2 the left all yr ill formed opinions in the box 2 the left

prolly upgrade u

its a fucking cable commercial

i hope this does really well in the 05-09 poll, i assume it will

yeah i'm def voting for it

"Get Me Bodied" for the extended version. Danced to that a whole.

― maciej recognizing trill, Monday, February 8, 2010 12:39 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"Get Me Bodied" is the best song she's done

would rank the rest:

Irreplacable
Deja Vu
Upgrade U
Ring the Alarm
Freakum Dress
Green Light
Resentment
Suga Mama
Kitty Kat

Irreplaceable
Upgrade U
Get Me Bodied (Extended Version)
Ring The Alarm
Deja Vu
Freakum Dress
Suga Mama
Resentment
Green Light
Kitty Kat

i like "suga mama" and "green light" a lot more than everyone else apparently, maybe i should stop talking about beyonce

"ring the alarm" is one of my least favorite songs, i only liked it in the context of that awesome vmas performance from a few years back

(i think that was also the vmas that had t.i doing "what you know" but he brought out dro to do a half a verse of "shoulder lean" first)

oh, I like every song on the album, those two just aren't as good as some of the others. "Ring the Alarm" I hated for a while but grew to like

ah i'd forgotten that great "ring the alarm" vmas performance!! so good. great video too.

great album to poll anyway - the whole thing is like beyoncé going, so what if i was ACTUALLY CRAZY like MENTALLY DERANGED in love?? - "check on it" is on my copy though and i'd have included the tracks that came with the reissue and the sundry bonus cuts, cuz there's gold in there. i basically love all of it, except maybe "green light".

1. suga mama (beyoncé has never hollered so well - SIT ON MAMA LAP, YEAH!)
2. ring the alarm
3. irreplaceable
4. get me bodied (extended version) (do the naomi campbell walk! the naomi campbell walk! *throws diamond-encrusted mobile phone at maid's head*)
5. upgrade u
6. freakum dress (the gravitational pull on the chorus is immense)

BUT no discussion of this album is complete w/o these three excellent songs being noted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JPn8NE0NDY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9yWHCxnBYE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNk8-sHAu-8

think "kitty kat" is gonna get forgotten here

Tim's ranking looks about right, but I gave "Upgrade U" the edge and my vote (just barely).

"Suga Mama" is the shit.

has there been a better female r&b album since this one?

even the ones that i cross off the list first ("suga mama", "resentment", "green light") i still love and feel bad for neglecting

has there been a better female r&b album since this one?

― vag gangsta (k3vin k.), Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:46 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i could say Badu but i know that's not what you're asking

or e-red

oh duh badu - e red is close imo

i thought that too but i thought 'female solo artist' was implied

Because I Love It *ducks*

Back to Black, too, but that's not what you're asking either

I think I could take those 5 as the 5 best female r&b albums of the latter half of the decade pretty easy, unless I'm forgetting something fairly obvious

i should've voted "freakum dress"

Something prevents me from totally loving this album, even though on a track by track basis I think it's pretty great. I have a much stronger emotional connection to many objectively weaker female R&B albums.

well, it is a pretty one note album imo -- the one note that it does strike (beyonce as super feminist party banshee) is pretty great, but it's more nakedly emotional tracks ("irreplaceable" aside but as great as it is it feels kind of canned in the context of the album) are kind of shit

hey "Resentment" is pretty good. it's stuff from the deluxe edition like "Flaws And All" that's terrible.

i ended up copping this album after it'd been out a long time and thinking hey, now i can get that deluxe edition used, but then i realized other than "Check On It" i hate pretty much every song they added.

ha, you know, i was pretty much specifically referring to "flaws and all" &" welcome to hollywood" which i had jammed in the middle of my tracklisting, i guess i forgot to delete them when i trimmed my deluxe download into the standard edition

"flaws & all" was giving me horrible disc 1 of 'sasha fierce' acid reflux

i think even more highly of this album now that i don't feel like i was cheating when i skipped those songs

"Hollywood" is so terrible -- the drivetime DJ on the rap station here would throw that song into mixes like at least a couple times a week for 3 years, until I called him out in print for it, don't know if he actually stopped after that but I would like to think so

freakum dress is

so

good

i really don't know if there's a better way to get ready for going out

"horrible songs that otherwise good drivetime DJs insist on routinely playing during mixes" would be a funny thread -- this great dj down in miami always play this "supaman high" freestyle by some fake nicki minaj chick that had to have been his sister/girlfriend etc -- so infuriating

ramz ^_^

"freakum dress" embodies your mindstate, def

To be or not to be, not!

btw "super feminist party banshee" is right on lolll

i'm not feelin it, I'M NOT FEELIN IT

yeah the bonus tracks were terrific, never heard the If You Let Him one though

Get Me Bodied all the way, the rich man's Single Ladies

xp word

also the Kitty Cat video is mad funny, had totally forgotten about it

WAIT!

...let me fix my hair up.

ha, you know, i was pretty much specifically referring to "flaws and all" &" welcome to hollywood"

yeah these are both pretty horrible but the reissue's worth it for "if".

has there been a better female r&b album since this one?

Ciara - Promise
Amerie - Because I Love It
Ne-Yo - Year of the Gentleman

to name three (still a good album).

best part of "Deja Vu" vid is when she is going down on a completely oblivious Jigga

Tim is otm about the gravy aspect of those songs. Like, there's no good reason why "Ring the Alarm" and "Resentment" should sit well on the same album, but those tracks provide a solid middle ground so the extremes don't feel too jarring.

thx fr comments

three-pose thing > b taking forever to work out the mechanics of belt-opening

yeah zvook if you like the singles you will like the album, guaranteed. plus it's only ten songs

i've only heard the singles from this, but the thread is making me feel i should have it plus the prime cuts from the extended. the singles are fantastic, but i'm a little worried it's a little relentless and one-note-y all together, with all those hooks piled on top of hooks? am i crazy?

No this is how I found it at the time - I'd start to switch off mentally (and then frequently in fact) for the stretch between "Ring The Alarm" and "Irreplaceable" even though there's not really any significant drop in quality.

<3ed it at the time and still do

altho my favorite songs all switched around except for "Get Me Bodied" which is boss forever

irreplaceable, but outside that it's first among equals

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ahhh

i'm pretty excited about the prospect of dream & tricky doing the whole ciara album -- i think it could be much closer to the e-red album than mariah's was and their songs on 'fantasy ride' are pretty great

otoh idk why any label would allow that to happen considering how much e-red & mariah's albums tanked

― birdman mumia (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:12 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ciara's last album performed much further below expectations than either of those albums, and producers like Dream/Tricky are only judged by labels on the basis of their latest hits (which are many and recent), not the albums they helm -- you think anyone ever went "gee, we could get Timbaland for this project but that Ms. Jade album really didn't do well"?

well i think it's one thing to get dream & trick in the studio with her, but doing the WHOLE album is a whole different thing. at least with mariah they had already done "touch my body" together, but what is laface like "gotta get ciara locked down with terius & tricky CUZ WE NEED ANOTHER 'HIGH PRICE' STAT"

i think it's great for the listener mind you, just from a business standpoint it doesn't seem to make a whole bunch of sense. who knows if it's even true or not.

i dunno -- again, i doubt things like chemistry or past hits by the same artist/producer combination even come into consideration. in these desperate times all known quantities are looked as interchangeable, the words "a Lil Wayne collaboration might not be the right look for this particular project" are never uttered, shit's just getting thrown at the wall as far as i can tell. plus, having one A-list production team do a whole album as a package deal is probably cheaper than getting 10 different ones to do a track or two at their usual rate.

plus, having one A-list production team do a whole album as a package deal is probably cheaper than getting 10 different ones to do a track or two at their usual rate.

― OMG Thanx Jeezy (some dude), Saturday, February 20, 2010 8:22 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark

this is more interesting & sensible to me -- anyway i would love to see more packaged albums b/w a-list producers & pop stars

can i just say off topic/kind of on topic that after some time, i can officially say that the song "fantasy ride" sucks balls

:D

i feel like it's something the trix rabbit would sing for his adult audience

so this beyonce album

it's pretty great afaict

http://literalminded.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/happy-rabbit.jpg

deja vu (that bassline!) vs. get me bodied (extended remix of awesome) vs. freakum dress (that everest-like ascent to the chorus!) vs. upgrade u.

edge probably goes to deja vu at the moment, but i have 16 hours to let freakum dress overtake it.

can i just say off topic/kind of on topic that after some time, i can officially say that the song "fantasy ride" sucks balls

― you have to forgive me (surm), Sunday, February 21, 2010 3:28 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark

I MEANT LOVE SEX MAGIC argh

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

didn't realize people were feeling "upgrade u" like that, kind of an annoying song imo

even tho i voted for it it kind of has the problem of the lil wayne version being totally superior

kinda bummed "resentment" didn't get a vote

a few years ago i would've said "irreplaceable," but i watched that "ring the alarm" video like 3 times in a row the other day and i love that song.

the other night, my bf and i were sippin martinis at home, listening to music, and i was having one of those nights where i just did NOT know what i wanted to listen to. well, then, ryan put "upgrade u" on and i just started dancing like woah. i felt like i wanted to tell u guys, as a testament to my vote, however uncertain about it i may still be.

to the left to the left

i am proud of this thread

this album is so massive

I requested "some Beyonce" at a club last month and the dj played Deja Vu, I feel like that was some bullshit and I would have been within my rights to throw my glass at him.

<3 deja vu

btw, welcome back!

thanks, it's been a while! ilx has that great layout that doesn't scream "not working," perfect for a cube dweller such as I.

Deja Vu isn't HORRIBLE but you can't dance to it, whereas a dj should read my mind and put Suga Mama on so all us drunk girls could get our twerk on. btw it was Havana in Cap Hill, maybe you've been. There should be some artist-song association index for choosing clubs, when I say "Beyonce" does the dj think "Ring the Alarm (Freemasons Mix)", "Creole," "Get on the Bus (Timbaland Hip-hop Rework)," "Crazy in Love (Radio Edit)" or what? I want to know these things before I pony up cover!!

Deja Vu isn't HORRIBLE but you can't dance to it

waht

that makes literally zero sense to me (especially when compared to "Suga Mama")

Havana is one of my fairly regular drinking spots. Don't go there at night much. tho. Usually just if I'm around Pike/Pine and need a drink in the afternoon/evening. ilxor Mackro Mackro djs there, so maybe he is the target of your ire.

I guess he djs during the week, so if you paid cover, probably not

I requested "some Beyonce" at a club last month and the dj played Deja Vu, I feel like that was some bullshit and I would have been within my rights to throw my glass at him.

― musically, Tuesday, March 27, 2012 5:49 PM (1 hour ago)

throws glass at u

Lynch U

uhhh

yeah dumb joke -- sorry

i grade her on a curve, Deja Vu is such a nothing cut, meanwhile Suga Mama gets me going (my new gym motivation kick is to listen to freakum songs like Suga Mama and Pony to visualize my bringing all the boys to the yard, etc etc), if that plays and all the girls aren't dropping it low then you are at the wrong club.

is mackro an asian dude? if so: lol omg.

any other ilxors dj in seattle?

mackro is not an asian dude, tho i think i know who you're talking about. other ilxors djing in seattle, not that i know of, although i'm trying to land a gig somewhere.

"deja vu" is dope cause it sounds like earth wind & fiyah

"deja vu" is one of her most danceable songs! so is "suga mama" though

post somewhere if you get a gig...do you have twitter?

@reverenddollars

does anybody know why "Get Me Bodied" recharted this week?

Some viral video, I think.

Anyway, I'm too lazy to read the whole thread but I'm sure someone noted how underrated "Freakum Dress" is in the poll results. Ergh.

http://www.idolator.com/7493726/beyonces-get-me-bodied-re-enters-the-billboard-hot-100-reaches-new-peak