Talk:4 (Beyoncé album)

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A NIGHT WITH BEYONCÉ special will finally debut in the UK

http://thelavalizard.com/2011/11/sneak-peek-beyonces-a-night-with-beyonce-special/

A Night With was recorded last summer at London's Fountain Studios with host Steve Jones and included stellar performances of some of her biggest hits from her previous albums and her new number one album, "4"! - Sunday 4th December 9:00pm Duration: 52 minutes - Special show in which global superstar Beyonce performs some of her best-known hits in front of an audience of her biggest fans. She will also take questions from the crowd.

http://www.beyonceonline.com/uk/news/night-beyonc%C3%A9-itv-special http://www.beyonceonline.com/uk/news/did-you-see-beyonc%C3%A9%C2%92s-itv-special

She may have donned glammed up sexy looks for last night's special, but she also did something she's never really done. Beyonce did a segment of her performances for "A Night With Beyonce", which was an hour and 15 minute special hosted by "X Factor USA" presenter Steve Jones, in the this relaxed blue pajama-like pants and blouse. She rocked 2 Ralph & Russo looks for the performances, and the designers commented on this exclusive collaboration: "Beyonce’s performances are always so incredible and spectacular that we really wanted to design something very special to reflect this. Both outfits were created especially for the evening to create a fun but edgy feel to the show."

http://theybf.com/2011/12/05/beyonce-rocks-out-for-itv-special-a-night-with-beyonce-in-the-uk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.168.200.163 (talk) 22:16, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Inspired by Beyonce's 4

• White Rabbit. Jivesh1205 (Talk) 07:00, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

NPR LISTS BEYONCÉ'S '4' AS ONE OF THE TOP FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2011

• http://www.beyonceonline.com/us/news/npr-lists-beyonc%C3%A9s-4-one-top-favorite-albums-2011

Jivesh1205 (Talk) 18:21, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

I found the link here. I also found their review of 4 here and it was written by Ken Tucker so it must be reliable. My love is love (talk) 20:42, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Another

• http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2011/12/the-best-music-of-2011-the-british-singers.html

Jivesh1205 (Talk) 18:24, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

BBC Music Writers' Top 25 Albums of 2011

7. Beyonce's 4

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcmusic/2011/12/bbc_music_writers_top_25_album.html  Done

Jivesh1205 (Talk) 18:39, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

The full BBC review http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/zw4z — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.168.200.163 (talk) 22:16, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

MTV: Top 20 Best Albums of 2011

• http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1675398/best-albums-2011-drake-adele.jhtml  Done

Jivesh1205 (Talk) 18:54, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Hahahah. I added this one before 4 minutes. Lol. My love is love (talk) 18:56, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Lol at 4 minutes. Jivesh1205 (Talk) 18:57, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

2011’s Best Albums: Idolator’s Favorite 10 Out Of ‘11

• http://idolator.com/6092572/favorite-albums-2011-idolator

Jivesh1205 (Talk) 04:21, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

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More

• NME 38. RTW

• Blitz > 16 - Beyoncé: 4

• The New Yorker: Best Music of 2011 > 10 - Beyoncé: 4

• ROLLING STONE TOP 50 ALBUMS > 25 Beyoncé – 4

• MSN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR > 2. Beyoncé - '4'

• Stereogum Top 50 Albums of 2011: Number 18

• Idolator's 10 Favourite Albums of 2011 ... Made the list

'4' was picked as one of the favorite albums of 2011 by MSN.co.uk. "We weren't sure about this the first time we heard it but now it's definitely one of our favourites of the year. With a more grown up sound than we're use to, Beyoncé stayed away from the safe, familiar sounds a lot of mainstream artists are choosing at the moment, went wild with Diplo for Run the World and stamped her empowering style all over it. With ballads pulled from the core of her heart, faster tracks to evoke the good times, and some perfectly judged mid-tempo tunes, this is a wonderful coming-of-age record from mum-to-be B." - MSN.co.uk http://music.uk.msn.com/features/msn-albums-of-the-year-2011#image=3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.168.200.163 (talk) 13:34, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Rolling Stone Magazine calls "4" one of the Best Albums of 2011 "The world's shrewdest diva turns on her star power full blast, indulges her oddball side and flaunts her mastery of seemingly every modern pop mode – from the riotous hiphop love ode "Countdown" to the sweet, faux-Stevie retrosoul ditty "Love on Top" to the futuristic stomper "Run the World (Girls)" http://www.beyonceonline.com/us/news/rolling-stone-magazine-calls-4-one-best-albums-2011 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-albums-of-2011-20111207/beyonce-4-19691231

AMAZON - The Best Pop Albums of 2011: Number 2 http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359149462_27?ie=UTF8&plgroup=2&docId=1000757171&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=browse&pf_rd_r=1V7DGFGR57PCCAE5H624&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1339025582&pf_rd_i=3454852011

• Does The Boombox list matter? Oz ^talk 06:15, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Put this information in Accolades. It's appropriate! I think it's good and important information about the album, his quality and reception. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.168.200.163 (talk) 10:54, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Yes post everything you can, then we can decide what is accepted or not. Jivesh1205 (Talk) 11:00, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

The Rolling Stone I think it's important to accept: "The world's shrewdest diva turns on her star power full blast, indulges her oddball side and flaunts her mastery of seemingly every modern pop mode – from the riotous hiphop love ode "Countdown" to the sweet, faux-Stevie retrosoul ditty "Love on Top" to the futuristic stomper "Run the World (Girls)"

• http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2011/12/the-best-music-of-2011-the-american-singers.html

Jivesh1205 (Talk) 08:18, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Q review

Q Magazine (UK) - Beyoncé '4' Album Review

At Glastonbury she dazzled; here she plays it safe. Asked to bet on which of this year's Glastonbury headliners would supply its defining "political" moment, it's unlikely anyone would have chosen Beyonce over seasoned collection-box rattlers U2 and Coldplay. Nonetheless she did, the Amazon-thighed diva's cover of Etta James's At Last against a civil rights montage climaxing in a salute to Barack Obama as simple as it was audibly soul-stirring among the crowd. The first female artist to headline the Pyramid Stage in more than 20 years, hers was in every sense a game-changing turn burying the last Luddite bleats insisting Glastonbury should never cater for mainsteam pop six feet under the Somerset mud.

Still, that historic performance wasn't without timely cunning, its high-camp feminist floorshow dazzing enough to cut her sufficient slck to repeatedly "play y'all something from my new record" out the weekend. So it's ironic that it, her fourth album, should act as a sovering reminder why anyone questioned her Glasto suitability in the first place: slickly produced, imbeccably sung, often beautiful but never venturing beyond safely established R&B horizons.

4's predecessor, 2008's I Am... Sasha Fierce, attempted reinvention with its Jekyll/Hyde format demonstating the two sides of Knowles, that of broken-heated balladeer and ring-demanding ballbreaker. While both return here, its the former who grabs the lioness' share of 4 from the opening 1+1, a stunning statement of betrothal marked by Beyonces rib-trembling power to leap octaves at the end of each line like a whistling kettle. Its breast-clutching tour de fource is matched by I Was Here, another potential funeral favourate from veteran songwriter Diane Warren (Toni Braxton, Celine Dion). Rather Die Young also pushes to the fore as a 21st century Shangri-Las; Knowles preffering the grave to a life without her "James Dean" lookalike boyfriend over a melody not so far from Massive Attack's Protection.

Yet this emphasis on balladry makes for an inevitably sluggish pace puntuated by too few breathers where her much-need "Fierce" self lets loose. Best Thing I Never Had delivers a fabulously breezy kick in the groin to he who dared wrong-do her ("I bet it sucks to be you right now"). The marvellous Run The World (Girls) sounds like Germaine Greers idea of The A-Team theme, a similar military rat-a-tat driving the equally infectious End Of Time. Less effective, if Countdown is forgivably daft fly-girl vaudeville ("Me and my boo in my boo coupe ridin'...") neither guests Andre 300 nor Kanye West can rescue the bland vibes permeating Party.

Back at Glastonbury, Beyonce said she'd "always wanted to be a rock star". That night she was, but as far as 4's comfortably accomplished R&B is concerned, she isn't fooling anyone.

SIMON GODDARD

Download: Run The World (Girls)/I Was Here/1+1/ Best Thing I never Had/ Rather Die Young

I found this on Atrl.net. Is this the real Q review? My love is love (talk) 15:26, 10 December 2011 (UTC)