“You ain’t never seen a fire like the one imma cause,” warns Ring the Alarm’s protagonist to her cheating partner. She appends their country sound with old-fashioned New Orleans jazz-infused R&B, a stunning act of artistic dot-joining and evidence of a genuinely original, eclectic musical mind. Daddy Lessons (2016)Īlways smart in her choice of collaborators, Beyoncé’s pairing here with Nashville refuseniks the Chicks is particularly inspired. The original version of I Care is great, a maelstrom of drums and floating, ambient synth over which Beyoncé does her wronged-woman thing with style, but the live version on Homecoming turns everything – rhythm track, emotional intensity – up to full, and throws in marching band horns for added urgency. And the vocal is spectacular – check out the improvisation panning between left and right speakers at 3min 36sec. The negative image of Crazy in Love, Me, Myself and I moves seamlessly from heartbroken to screw you – “come pick up your clothes” – to sing-it-with-me-girls empowerment over a super-cool G-funk-ish beat. Interest in Lemonade tended to focus on what it revealed about the state of the Carter-Knowles marriage, but it was as musically adventurous as it was soul-bearing, as evidenced by Freedom, a flatly astonishing explosion of 60s psychedelia, Alan Lomax field recordings, punishing beats and ferocious Kendrick Lamar guest appearance.Īt the 2008 American Music awards. Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s collaborative album, Everything Is Love, paled a little by comparison to their preceding solo releases, particularly Lemonade, but it had its moments, not least the trap-infused Apeshit, which proved what Savage later underlined: that Beyoncé is pretty great at rapping. It’s electrifying from start to finish: the see-sawing organ part, the pounding drums, the explosive backing vocals, the unexpected melodic climb into the chorus. Freakum Dress (2006)Ī song that belatedly provoked a TikTok meme, quite why Freakum Dress wasn’t released as a single from B-Day remains an enduring mystery. “A diva,” announces Beyoncé’s drag-queen-inspired alter ego Sasha Fierce, “is a female version of a hustler”. Diva (2008)Īudibly similar to Lil Wayne’s A Milli, but none the worse for that, Diva’s brilliance lies in the way it snappily reclaims an insult hurled at women, particularly successful ones. Photograph: Courtesy of Parkwood Entertainment/Parkwood Entertainment 23. A beautifully written song about the seldom-explored topic of long-term monogamy, its musical setting nods towards 60s southern soul, lent extra power by the emotional commitment in her voice.Ī still from Homecoming. All Night (2016)Ī low-key delight amid Lemonade’s attention-grabbing hell-hath-no-fury, All Night is, in its own way, as striking as anything on the album. There’s an argument that, while less hooky, it’s a melodically stronger song than its more famous sibling, and the intro, where Beyoncé gradually introduces each instrument over an urgent bassline, is spectacularly exciting. Déjà Vu (feat Jay-Z) (2006)Ī Jay-Z guest slot, blasting brass and a distinct old-school funk feel, but Déjà Vu is more than just Crazy in Love 2.0. A song about the messy cocktail of alcohol and sex, its lyrics are filled with gleeful double entendres – “park it in my lot”, “ride it on my surfboard” – while its music is equal parts woozy and euphoric. Drunk in Love (feat Jay-Z) (2013)ĭrunk in Love feels symbolic of a distinct loosening up of Beyoncé’s expertly choreographed image. But it’s all about the vocal performance on her solo version, its switches from intimacy and vulnerability to full-throttle power always maintaining a hint of rawness. On one level, Dangerously in Love – previously recorded by Destiny’s Child – is a decent, standard-issue R&B ballad, nothing like as distinctive as Beyoncé’s greatest songs. Photograph: Kevin Winter/BET/Getty Images for BET 27. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).At the 2016 BET awards in Los Angeles. 10 Album Lyrics1.1, 2, 3, 4 (Acoustic Guitar In the Style of Plain White T's)2.Broken Strings (Acoustic Guitar In the Style of James Morrison)3.Halo (Acoustic Guitar In the Style of Beyonce)4.Hands (Acoustic Guitar In the Style of Jewel)5.I Run to You (Acoustic Guitar In the Style of Lady Antebellum)6.I Told You So (Acoustic Guitar In the Style of Carrie Underwood)7.If Today Was Your Last Day (Acoustic Guitar In the Style of Nickelback)8.Just Dance (Acoustic Guitar In the Style of Lady Gaga)9.Soulmate (Acoustic Guitar In the Style of Natasha Bedingfield)10.Waking Up In Vegas (Acoustic Guitar In the Style of Katy Perry)Kris Farrow Lyrics provided by Get the embed code Kris Farrow - Acoustic Guitar Karaoke, Vol. Gravity can't forget to pull me back to the ground again
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