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This album is a celebration and a milestone. I love this album. Soulfully deep, emotionally expanseive, musically far reaching and filled with banging beats,muscular rhythms and lyris that are mature, smart and flat out sexy. This CD is a hit just like her first album. She belts, sings, and pours out her heart on this album. The sound of an artist raising the bar is this record. This album has been certified 3x Platinum.
I received the cd very fast; haven't listen to it yet but it appears to be in excellent condition as promised.
It would also be nice if Beyonce could showcase that melodic voice of hers from time to time. I didn't purchase the original B'Day because I knew I would be ripped off paying 10+ dollars for a ~9 track album that Beyonce finished in two weeks. It is overall, one of Beyonce's better songs in her inventory, and quite possibly, her best ballad. The rest of the album is tolerable, very consistent, and filled with mostly third and fourth single potential songs that are spread evenly throughout track list. The beats are loud, chaotic, and work well for clubs, but in a more reserved audio or speaker system, the some of the songs' weaknesses and lack of melodic production might appear stale at times. "Listen" basically exposes Beyonce's voice for what it is, moderately powerful when it needs to be, and a good depiction of her necessary emotion and shades of soul and impressive range(she belts out an Eb5 in FULL VOICE). The only ones that come to mind is "Listen", "Irreplaceable", and "Amor Gitano".
Her voice truly does shine on this piece, and definitely solidifies her as one of the top five singing divas of today's modern age. The lyrics are also virtually immaculate, which always helps tons in a ballad. Definitely an "Upgrade" and necessary revision of her previous load of scraps album B'day the original. "Amor Gitano" is a fierce duet between Alejandro Fernandez and Beyonce. An upbeat, infectious Spanish tune. However, some of the songs don't have the necessary hook or production that are necessary to catch the listener's ear upon first hearing. So fans who are expecting R&B sounds or electronically dance infused pop music should be warned right now. While "Dangerously In Love" focused more on R&B, slow sultry sounds, this album's focus was more on chaotic, dance tunes, without the electronica tint.
However, this revised copy was not too bad, and should've been the original B'day.The album is overall VERY consistent, but at the same time it doesn't really have any groundbreaking masterpiece song that boasts the quality of Beyonce's previous "Crazy In Love", "Speechless", Be With You", "Me Myself and I" masterpiece tunes featured in "Dangerously In Love". The only song in here that showcases her impressive vocals and range is pretty much, "Listen" and "Resentment".One thing about this is the overall new sound Beyonce took. "Irreplaceable" was milked to death over the radio, but it was a huge hit for Beyonce, and for good reason. A very catchy pop tune where Beyonce's voice soars with its attitude and supporting guitar sounds in the back. Not an innovative sound by any means, and pretty much absent of the robotic, futuristic sounds of Justin Timberlake's Futuresex/Lovesounds, but it's a far cry from Beyonce's previous "Dangerously In Love". 4/5 stars.
Great price and I love the songs in spanish as well as the collaboration with Shakira on "Beautiful Liar."
ok i like this CD i love how there is a lot of dance songs but its not better than her first one i thought she put more into it then this one she made this one after she did dreamgirls she said it inspired her but i thought if she would have took more time it could have been a better album. her slow songs of course are great she really knows how to sing about love an how it feels or how it hurts an i appreciate her for that. its good to hear someone else going through or feeling what your feeling if you love beyonce you would buy this album
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