For the past 2 days, my walkman phone has been blaring all B'Day music. As y'all might know, it was our midterm week, which in real life translates to lack of sleep, constant cramming, bajillion deadlines from the Midterm period and all those sh*te. Anyway, Beyonce's music helped me cope with fast-paced proceedings because as y'all may have read by now in the MTVAsia.com review of B'Day, it is really an angry, aggressive album. And it's obvious in the music.
Imagine this, a really sleepy, languorous afternoon and I really do not want to study. I put on B'Day music: Ring The Alarm, a siren-filled number where B is constantly shouting that she'll "be damned" if she "sees another chick in her man's arm"; Freakdum Dress, a song where B is telling her girls to "put their Freakdum Dress on". It is a very energetic song whose intensity builds up as it goes along. If those songs are not enough to wake up my sluggish self, there are the songs called Get Me Bodied, with a Sean Paul-esque beat, and Green Light", which had Beyonce telling me to " Go, Go, Go, Go" and that "If I want to, I got the green light" the songs just made wanna run amok in the library and just dance my booty off. And if these really won't suffice, there's always the much maligned Deja Vu to add to the ongoing commotion.
Well, despite being a hard-hitting Street Record, B'Day also offers slow numbers, my favorite being Irreplaceable. This song just makes me wonder to whom did Beyonce dedicate the song to. The song starts with: "To the left, to the left... /everything you own in the box to the left" it proceeds with "Baby drop them keys/ hurry up before your taxi leaves". In the chorus Beyonce sings this "You must not know about me/ I can have another you in a minute/ matter fact he'll be here in a minute... I can have another You by tomorrow/ So don't you ever for a second get to thinking/ you're irreplaceable." What I mean is, I can almost see Beyonce kicking Jay-Z out of her house. Hmmmm....
Anyway, having said these, I don't think B'day is all crap, as most of the early reviews say. I think it was a result of Deja Vu being a weak single and the entire album being prejudged based on it. I just think she could have came up with better stuff. That's it y'all!
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PS: If you're too lazy to read the entire ranting above, then here is the review in capsule form:
Definitely Download:
Got Me Bodied, Ring The Alarm, Freakdum Dress, Green Light and Irreplaceable.
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