New Beyonce album in 2014?

There are like two billion Beyonce threads so I didn't know which one to post the preview for the "Grown Woman" video.

http://wearebeyhive.tumblr.com/post/69300382949/grown-woman-music-video-preview

ty for this. way more exciting than what he's doing but the end makes it sound like timbo is on the beat?

i'm so confused

Hope there's a version of the video without the '90s VHS tape aesthetic.

it's as if she felt she wasn't trolling hard enough with song snippets she had to start dropping video snippets

i hate her

i miss matthew :(

if "grown woman" ends up being the first single i'll be pretty fucking annoyed tbh

i mean, i know that sounds ridiculous and entitled, but, this song has been floating around for most of the year! why couldn't she have just released it earlier.

yeah same here -- "Grown Woman" never seemed remotely promising so if she's circling back to that, ugh.

someone posted a Hot 97 playlist recently that said "Standing On The Sun" is their #4 song right now -- did a full-length studio version of that song ever actually get released? i loved the snippet in the ad.

idk about its official radio release status but just in terms of hearing it then (short answer) yes. studio leak chronology goes like this afaiui

http://soundcloud.com/blessed-gabriel/standing-on-the-sun-extra
http://soundcloud.com/blessed-gabriel/standing-on-the-sun-sos
http://soundcloud.com/blessed-gabriel/standing-on-the-sun-the-mrs

http://soundcloud.com/blessed-gabriel/grown-woman-acoustic-countr

ooo and look what else is on that soundcloud... love it

haha all her little grunts and ad libs over just a guitar

yeah!! but like the semi-comedic ease with herself in that makes it seem way more truthfully, engagingly grown than the gameface bluster of the og

they play "standing on the sun" on hot 97 frequently, idk what version or if it's official or what

song is aight

it's gonna be funny watching people who were wretching over timberlake letting timbaland produce his entire album have to turn around and act like beyonce just dropped manna from heaven w/ an album that tim is gonna have like 6 beats on

yes when the strawman becomes a different kind of strawman, the fun they will have

oh my god the country version of "grown woman"!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3 <3

I LOVE THIS

it's so very "when i am old i shall wear purple"

grandma beyoncé gives no fucks <3

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a536967/beyonce-album-will-be-monumental-insists-record-label-boss.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=dsuk&utm_campaign=twdsuk

"obviously, at some point"

:(

C'mon bey

extension of that bloody never-ending album-avoiding tour :((((

surely there'll be a new single before the tour and the album will come out afterwards or during. SURELY.

^^a post from this time last year

so...

what the fuck is this

hahaha

they really went all out with this cover, stunning

omg

is this called "beyonce"

simple title/packaging seems like a pretty deliberate part of the 'statement'

'Temporarily unavailable' now?

Oh wait there it...how the fuck long is...wait what?

there's 14 songs of the album and then videos for every song

this has donna written all over it

Hey, without that digital booklet it would be nothing.

BTW, this tweet owns

https://twitter.com/MeLaMachinko/status/411366965916495872

donna?

OH MY BEYONCE

everyone's year end lists are going to be so fucked now

The amount of comments and posts I'm seeing already going "On iTunes? WHY NOT SPOTIFY" is honestly doing my head in.

"This visual album is available exclusively on iTunes" :)))

caroline polacheck wrote and produced a track on this https://twitter.com/carolineplz/status/411369657648418816

The amount of comments and posts I'm seeing already going "On iTunes? WHY NOT SPOTIFY" is honestly doing my head in.

I pretty much gave myself over to Spotify in 2013. I rarely listen to music any other way. I spend the $10/month or whatever for unlimited ad-free listening.

That said, I'm really tempted to buy this right now.

xp Wow!!

donna?

donda* lol sorry

had an iTunes voucher sitting in my account for like 3 years. Finally found a reason to use it!

so great to have a release actually be a surprise!

otm

The production on "Rocket" reminds me of D'Angelo.

damn it i bought the clean version by accident! *buys again*

this is cool

beyonce's dad also taking country back:

"In 2016, through Music World Music, Knowles acquired the country music catalog Compadre, which includes Johnny Cash, Billy Joe Shaver, James McMurty, Trent Willmon, and Kate Campbell."

james mcmurty...shiit....that's a name i haven't thought abt in a long time

uh oh. she really means business if she's making that Trent Willmon money

btw:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/09/investing/red-lobster-beyonce-formation/

red lobster is what the hopheads call a trap house

Well, I thought it was great to find the hot-sauce thing seemingly as ubiquitous in the US as it is here. Ancona hot pepper sauce is definitely a part of the black British experience, including having an emergency supply stashed in your mum's handbag for those awkwardly bland restaurant meals, and that's as true for ppl w/West African roots as it is for ppl with Caribbean/West Indian roots. Can't think of a blatant pop-culture example apart from a woman on Come Dine With Me who kept whipping it out at the other contestants' homes.

I cook plenty of West Indian meat dishes (jerk chicken, curry chicken, curry goat, oxtail stew) because a) love them and b) a Jamaican took pity on me and took me through some of her family recipes about 10 years ago. No matter how FIRE the basic dish, someone will always want to put hot sauce on top. I have a habanero sauce (amongst many) in my cupboard that makes grown-ups weep.

people carrying around hot sauce is definitely a thing

i have a colleague who is often sought after during work parties because she has the hot sauce in her bag

Got hot takes in my bag

loooooool those Red Lobster tweets

"uh oh. she really means business if she's making that Trent Willmon money"

beyonce's dad bought that catalog, not beyonce.

hot sauce in the bag always makes me think of my jazz mentor Richard Davis, who always wears a fanny pack containing a bottle of Tabasco.

and i still say the Red Lobster line is a flip of old bounce lyrics

https://youtu.be/H4xE9guGSGw?list=RDH4xE9guGSGw

https://youtu.be/XG0NTB3TVDI?t=215

(i apologize for the profanity and misogyny in these songs)

bounce artists are so talented, it's a shame they think they need to work blue

james mcmurty...shiit....that's a name i haven't thought abt in a long time

― uptown garfunkel (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 17:03 (1 hour ago) Permalink

FYI, he put out an album last year that's worth a listen.

why does the version downloaded at tidal doesn't have the voices of Messy Mya and Big Freedia? the song is way better with them.

wouldn't be unusual for certain audio to be added to the song in the video that aren't in the radio/album version of the song

now i wanna listen to some old juvy albums

I apparently phrased my initial post poorly so let me try again: other than 'Top Five', can anyone think of a prior-to-'Formation' pop culture reference or song lyric that associates carrying a bottle of hot sauce as being a black and/or southern signifier?

― ulysses, Wednesday, February 10, 2016 11:40 AM (2 hours ago)

now that you mention it, beyonce (or whoever wrote this song) definitely had this scene from "undercover brother" in mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubV3t9_CwDc

let's all just start naming movies cinemax shows in the afternoon

i was loving this song the other day - and that battle cry of EGGS BACON GRITS!! - but then the revelation halfway through that Lil Mama only eats turkey bacon was kind of a letdown for some reason. i mean it's fine and she gives religious reasons for avoiding swine but it kinda took the wind out of the chorus cuz who has a turkey bacon battle cry? still like the video a lot though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSGOOCxLGuQ

no mention of hot sauce though. sorry.

"got hot sauce in my rollie" not very catchy tho

a wild THOUGHT PIECE appeared!
http://www.eater.com/2016/2/10/10959538/hot-sauce-in-her-bag-beyonce-black-southern-identity
it's super effective!

During Jim Crow, Black people could pick up food at establishments that served white people, but they often could not eat in them. When custom demanded that Black people be served separately from whites, they were often required to have their own utensils, serving dishes, and condiments. So it was customary for Black families who were traveling to carry everything they might possibly need so that (with the help of the Green Book, the guide that helped Black travelers eat, sleep, and move as safely as possible) they could navigate America in relative comfort.

we took hot sauce to Germany on our second trip there because they didn't have hot sauce and we were used to eating a little hot sauce here and there. our motivation was, we wanted some hot sauce on our food and weren't sure we'd be able to get it otherwise. in Germany they put paprika on stuff when they want to eat spicy food. then eight hours later they shit onto porcelain shelves for the whole world to see

they don't use hot sauce that their shit might stay on the shelf, man

lol when I saw "Germany" I knew that post would be quality

Turkish shops all over Germany can give you all the spicy sauces you'll ever need (and your subsequent shit-on-a-shelf will be that bit more interesting).

Did we have to being inspection shelves into the Beyonce thread?

shit got serious

okay ladies now let's get information/about that poop, it requires inspection

Also, should we start a new thread considering there'll likely be a new record coming out?

okay ladies now let's get information/about that poop, it requires inspection

how the hell did you get here

do we know who bey the singer has endorsed for the presidency yet?

herself ?

hahaha

https://twitter.com/arikakane/status/697076223126667266

Who is this insane person

after posting my KING review, her PR people sent me a blurb and link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hLa0DloPY4

Didn't T-Swift already learn this lady's lesson for her?

yes please somebody start a new thread, trying to load the whole thing to catch up after a day or two is killing my telephone, thank you

i thought the White Feminist twitter account had changed its name at first

why does the version downloaded at tidal doesn't have the voices of Messy Mya and Big Freedia? the song is way better with them.

― Nourry, Wednesday, February 10, 2016 1:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

given that there was some confusion (at best) with crediting I'd guess that's why

http://whattimedoestheformationvideostart.com/
^single serving youtube dirty version site

also, response to NYT writer
https://twitter.com/jennydeluxe/status/697530166092947456

also, it took about seven listens but i am completely down with this song

same for me, loving it now

also, it took about seven listens but i am completely down with this song

yep

same

Beyonce in 2015 - 'Formation' and Album title TBA