New Beyonce album in 2014?

yes i was waiting for the british to wake up

"She recorded all over the world for a year and a half but the initial recording started after the writers and producers gathered under one roof in The Hamptons, New York’s beach enclave, in the summer of 2012 to live together, work together and to immerse themselves into her world and into her head."

she clearly watched that Marina Abramovic documentary

so the whole thing about them scrapping the entire album was probably bullshit right

this album dropping out of nowhere is a nice bookend to a year that started with the surprise mbv release.

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Imagine how different this album would be if Solange didn't have a falling out with Dev Hynes and Beyonce was hanging out with her sister like all siblings do and Solange was like, "you should work with my pal Dev Hynes, he was in a band called Test Icicles"

that probably would have sucked.

completely amazing

yes it would have sucked

lol @ a wikipedia page having been created 2 hours ago

"This article documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses."

true

it really is

PARTITION

YONCÉ ALL ON HIS MOUTH LIKE LIQUOR. YONCÉ ALL ON HIS MOUTH LIKE LIQUOR.

Loving this. She dropped a real Black Album, didn't she?

Pretty sure the closest thing this album has to a radio-friendly single is like, "Blow".

I love how we've had months of growing collective sighs and despondency regarding this album and suddenly like BOOM there it is.

Annoyingly I'm not sure I will get to listen to this today.

i think a lot of these songs would do well on r&b radio. and "xo" could be a pop hit (and a deserving one, though i was v skeptical when i saw both ryan tedder and terry richardson in the credits).

"rocket" just completely slayed me

'Partiton' is amazing

Just downloaded this, loading up for the trip to work. Not sure when I'll have time to watch the videos.

bzzz bzzz zhwap at the end of 'partition' is so cute/endearing

is 'pretty hurts' too much of a message song to be a single? i can see it being embraced by a tumblr/ONTD-type crowd

Guys the entire world is there buying this album at once I'm not sure Beyonce even cares about singles with this one.

I mean she probably understands the value of sudden unexpected joy and delight better than pretty much anyone in pop right now.

"Though an official single didn't precede the set, two tracks are expected to be announced as the lead singles for different formats next week. "

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/5827398/beyonce-unexpectedly-releases-new-self-titled-visual-album-on

I'm sure she'll release them, it's just that when you've just thrown the conventional promotional cycle out of the window they don't matter as much.

singles will just be victory laps whilst flicking the vees at the crowd

wish i'd opened this thread before i set off for work btw

oh my god the blue ivy song is actually beautiful

Contrast that with Jay's Blue Ivy song lol

What does this actually sound like?

I'll leave the description of this album's sound to someone else but for those of us still wondering about Boots, this might be of interest: https://soundcloud.com/thisisboots/sets/boots-album-tracks/s-fhzJ6

Wake up after a big sleep in, scrolling lazily through Facebook and some high school friend of mine is posting about being in a video for Beyoncé called ROCKET. Then went to google, and literally LEAPT out of bed in excitement

wtf just woken up what is going on omgomgomogmogmomg i'm in tears

"We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls “you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful otherwise you will threaten the man.” Because I am female I am expected to aspire to marriage I am expected to make life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Marriage can be a source of love, and joy and mutual support, but why do we do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same. We raise girls to see each others as competitors. Not for jobs or accomplishments which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the ways that boys are. Feminist; a person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes."

I WOKE UP LIKE THIS
I WOKE UP LIKE THIS

Partition.

Also experiencing that unfortunate thing of flashing on Jay-Z during the slowjamz :/

jay-z's verse is the worst bit of this, worse even than drake on that good girl bullshit yet again

Wow

My week is totally transformed now

Shit that's just changed:

1. My PJ ballot may now be useless, need to hear this first
2. All those year end think pieces about the insane/random event album releases of 2013 is slightly less relevant

What's the Miguel track like? I've not heard it yet.

SURFBOARD

got through seven tracks on the way to uni, if the rest is as good as all of that then it's AOTY by miles and miles

calm down, guys. Beyonce wants us to behave, for after all she runs the world.

"Blow" continuing the "TKO" format of having Timbaland chant about vagina is pretty disturbing but otherwise this is pretty great so far

i trust these videos will make on to youtube at some point? d/l fucked up and idk if i can be bothered

the album itself is pretty great on two listens

Dear 乒乓,

Your Apple ID, 乒✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧, was just used to purchase BEYONCÉ by Beyoncé from the iTunes Store

http://i.imgur.com/F7xPK7z.gif

partition is _so good_