“You’re the one that gives your all. You’re the one I can always call. When I need to make everything stop finally you put my love on top.” As an artist who has won Grammys and awards, Beyoncé is definitely at the top her game. She is at a place in her career where she can make an album that reflects the experiences she is going through in her life. The southern sweetheart released her fourth studio album on June 28, 2011 that she titled “4”. Although it was leaked onto the internet a few weeks before its release, it still managed to sell 310,000 copies in its first week. “4” has a different feel than her other previously released albums. It focuses heavy on being happy in a monogamous relationship which mirrors her life currently. She is currently what seems to be happily married to Jay Z. Her previous albums had songs like “Me, Myself, and I” which was about women in unhappy relationships that needed to focus on what’s best for themselves. We can see how she has stepped away from that message to a message that is showing women it is okay to be head over heels in love.
Beyoncé’s “4” has many more ballads and slow songs than we usually get from the songstress. She tests her singing abilities on many of these tracks in ways the world is not used to. This album shows how versatile she is because she pulls different types of genres together and makes it her own. “4” has some reflections of R&B, pop, vintage soul, rap, and reggae. She has featured artist like Kanye West, and Andre 3000 who both have two different styles of music. Beyoncé doesn’t completely forget her roots as she has songs like “Run the World”, “Countdown”, and “End of Time” which are upbeat dance songs that still exude her overall message of love.
With this album Beyoncé has opened up to the world in a different way. She is not afraid to say she is in love and is in a good place. The fans really connect with this album because we have all watched Beyoncé grow from a young teenage member of Destiny Child who sang about being an independent woman, to a wife and mother. Beyoncé is singing new songs now that say “And it’s me and you and that’s all we’ll have when the world is through. Cause baby we aint got nothing without love.”
I have always been a fan of Beyoncé because her songs were always catchy and had a meaning behind them. I admire her because she has always been a respectable fierce woman. Like you said, she has such a mix of style and diverse selection of songs. Because she has such a mix of catchy songs, I believe that her music will never go out of style and will always be a classic American favorite pop star.
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