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90
4 continues the Beyoncé tradition of making amazingly catchy, anthemic records with some of her best songs to date.
85
Her voice is the best it has ever been. Her music is the best it has ever been.
80
4 might be her most impressive collection yet.
60
It is for the most part a fun listen at worst and for her legion of fans it will probably translate to much more.
20
Where this album should be fresh and current, it sounds tired, repetitive and uninspired.
O trabalho mais injustiçado da discografia de Beyoncé e o início de uma grandiosa fase na carreira da Queen Bey. Traz uma evolução musical absurda em relação ao disco antecessor e mostra a Beyoncé em seu auge musical até então. Destaque para as canções influenciadas pela black music dos anos 1980 e 1990.
Nota: 81 - great
Favorite tracks: Best Thing I Ever Had, Party, Love On Top e Countdown.
Nota: 81 - great
Favorite tracks: Best Thing I Ever Had, Party, Love On Top e Countdown.
Somewhere in the middle of this, there’s the Beyonce that we all love and respect. Just not yet.
Decent 5
Decent 5
Refreshingly retro and playful, 4 is a pretty solid album even if it's quite underrated within Beyoncé's body-of-work. Listening to it now, it's clearly a transitional album, displaying her eagerness to explore new sounds while also keeping the album itself very straightforward and commercially viable. This shows especially on the ballads (I Miss You, 1+1) which feature traditional song structures and catchy hooks, but are also very different from the ... read more
Beyoncé orbita em sua própria velocidade, ritmo e ascenção em '4'. Polido sonoricamente através uma mistura de afrobeat, pop e R&B contemporâneo, parece firme em sua trajetória de nos apresentar uma artista longe das amarras comerciais e sem medo de experimentar sua voz e sua mensagem. Milimetricamente coeso, vocalmente impecável, indiscutivelmente memorável.
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Track List
- 1+1
- I Care
- I Miss You
- Best Thing I Never Had
- Party (Ft. Andre 3000)
- Rather Die Young
- Start Over
- Love On Top
- Countdown
- End of Time
- I Was Here
- Run the World (Girls)
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Added on: June 13, 2011
