Beyonce i am sasha fierce album song list
Bangladesh is certainly an experimenter, so I suppose I can see what drew Beyonce to work with him here, but unfortunately his ‘experiments’ always turn out horrifically unlistenable, and this was no exception. Unfortunately, the two most experimental tracks are collaborations with star producer Bangladesh, of “A Milli” and “Break Up” fame. And items like “Sweet Dreams”, which has such a heavy electronic sound that it almost qualifies as EDM, yet never loses its R&B edge “Radio”, which sounds uncannily like a Prince composition or “Ego”, an R&B jam that abruptly turns into a piano ballad two-third of the way through, all represent some of the smartest and most sophisticated mainstream R&B of the era. The big hit from this disc, “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)”, is so familiar today that we generally don’t notice that it actually has a very unusual structure for a Pop song.
The second disc is supposedly sung from the perspective of Beyonce’s performing alter ego at the time, the titular Sasha Fierce, and features a heavy R&B sound and a sophisticated and even somewhat experimental style.
BEYONCE I AM SASHA FIERCE ALBUM SONG LIST FREE
To be fair, Beyonce didn’t write this…it’s literally the only song on the entire album she doesn’t have a writing credit on…and I’m fairly sure she doesn’t actually think it, but the fact that she chose of her own free will to record it means that she kind of brought the accusations of misandry that have dogged her ever since on herself. The song is set to a pretty melody just like the others, but the lyric is a misandrist rant about how all men are shallow, philandering, insensitive creeps…and yes, I mean all men. The only problem is that one of these songs (the first track on the album, in fact) has lyrics so horribly offensive that Beyonce is still paying the price for them regarding her reputation. In addition, all of the song are lovely as music, with exceptionally pretty melodies and the softest and gentlest vocals Beyonce has ever provided. And if the songs are perhaps too similar to each other in sound, the disc works as a soul-baring exercise, offering Beyonce minus the attitude and glitz, and several of the songs offer a rather touching glimpse into the real person underneath the glamour. The first disc, titled I Am…, is Beyonce singing in her ‘normal’ persona, and consists almost entirely of soft, pretty piano ballads with singer-songwriter-style lyrics. The only thing that isn’t consistent about this album is the quality…the good material is often very, very good, but the album unfortunately contains three of the worst songs of the entire 2000s decade, and all three of them were unwisely promoted as singles.
It has a clear overarching concept, and each of the two dual discs has a consistent sound and style, with a deliberate contrast between them. This double album was the first time Beyonce attempted to make an ‘album statement’, as they say. This, her third album, was her first real stab at joining the prestigious ranks of the ‘album artists’, and while it admittedly didn’t entirely succeed on the first try, there’s still much more first-rate material here than on her first two albums.
Her second album, B’Day, was more consistent, but still had little ambition to be more than a collection of individual Pop songs. Her material with Destiny’s Child was primarily singles-oriented, after all, and her first solo album, Dangerously In Love, was downright uneven, with entirely too much dull Scott Storch-penned material. It may seem hard to believe after the acclaim her last three albums received, but there was a time when Beyonce was thought of strictly as a ‘singles artist’.