I wonder what innovational idea was going through her mind here.
Are you guys ready for a new album? What new sounds do you want her to explore?
The genre-hopping Lemonade (Parkwood Entertainment, 2016) was another attempt to promote her to auteur. An industry artifact with no personality, Beyonce swings between the playful reggae of Hold Up and the gospel hymn Freedom via the piano elegy Sandcastles. Best is probably Don't Hurt Yourself, which is quintessential Aretha Franklin. The collaboration with James Blake yields two of the most boring ballads of his career. All the media hype does little to make this album more than a marketing project. In fact, it's even less musical than Beyonce. She's a mediocre singer and an awful songwriter, and no amount of production work can fully hide that.
>>74036139
Wow, so presséd! Lemme guess, this was written by sum white male in his 30's.
Lemonade changed the industry and set the bar to high for anyone else to reach in the foreseeable future, hun. These are just facts, baby.
xoxo
>>74036139
uh oh, white boi m e l t d o w n
>>74036597
but you aren't a white boy?!
>>74036258
what difference does it make?
a white artist could release some sort of garbage and another white person could critique it, but you wouldn't be calling race into the equation then.
white americans trying desperately to not seem racist by overly-backing black people really bothers the rest of the world, by the way.
>>74036128
I never really listened to Beyonce outside of Destiny's Child until Lemonade. My favorite track on the album is Don't Hurt Yourself.