4
It's a more mature album with songs about the intricacies of relationships, but 4 has its share of stunning tracks, many co-written by The-Dream.
Read the review of Beyonce's fourth studio album '4' featuring tracks 'Love On Top', 'I Care' and 'Run The World (Girls)'.
When you're Beyoncé Knowles, machining the sheets of throbbing summer singles—muscular anthems that merge thick modern R&B, hip-hop-inflected beats and enough female-empowerment lyric hooks to run the gamut of "Crazy In Love" to "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"—comes easy. So easy and so jaw-droppingly good for what it is, 4 comes as almost a shock to the system. With a couple twisting guitar lines, a descending line of organ, a few sparse piano chords and a cascading vocal that sweeps into an ethereal top of the range flicker, then drops down into an almost guttural dirt'n'chur...
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Beyonce - 4 review: The queen reigns over her kingdom, a place where cynicism and romanticism don't have to be enemies, where love is the only real battle worth fighting for. And damn, she can sing.