Line #54 Music/Beyonce2013


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:''Let me hear you say "Hey, Miss Carter..."'']]
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4	->''Changed the game with that digital drop''
5	->''Know where you was when that digital popped''
6	->''I stopped the world''
7	->''Male or female, it make no difference, I stop the world''
8	-->-- '''Beyoncé''', referencing ''Beyoncé's'' surprise release on Music/NickiMinaj's "Feeling Myself"
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10	''Beyoncé'' is the fifth studio album by American singer Music/{{Beyonce}}. It is Beyoncé's first SelfTitledAlbum, and is also a visual album where each song is accompanied by a music video. The album is also notable for being released in the middle of the night on December 13, 2013 on Creator/{{Apple}} [=iTunes=] without ''any'' announcement or promotion.
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12	Beyoncé collaborated with several artists for the album, such as Music/{{Sia}}, Music/FrankOcean, Music/PharrellWilliams, Music/{{Timbaland}}, Music/JustinTimberlake and virtually unknown singer-songwriter BOOTS (Jordan Cruz). She wanted the songs to connect with a visual element to help show her thoughts and emotions for each track and had music videos shot in secret while she was on tour through 2012-2013. The album marks a darker, more introspective direction for the singer, with its themes including motherhood, feminism, sexuality, insecurity, and empowerment.
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14	While the concept of a SurpriseRelease wasn't new in the music industry, having already been used by Music/{{Radiohead}} for ''Music/InRainbows'' and Music/DavidBowie for [[Music/TheNextDay "Where Are We Now?"]], Beyoncé's use of it brought the idea to the forefront thanks to her stature. Beyoncé would later comment that she was getting tired of the usual album cycle promotion and wanted to release her music in different ways to surprise fans. The album's release would mark a turn for the entire music industry. Not only would it be credited with the popularization of surprise albums, but many other big artists such as Music/KanyeWest, Music/{{Drake}}, and Music/{{Eminem}} started to forego the usual promotional campaign for new projects and simply turned to social media to promote projects and/or release with little advance hype.
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16	The album is also credited for inventing the modern definition of the visual album, although it isn't Beyoncé's first of such albums (that would be her second album ''Music/BDay'').
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18	Despite the surprise release and physical copies being released a week later, ''Beyoncé'' was Beyoncé's fifth number-one album, and had her highest first-week album sales.
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20	!!Tracklisting (Standard Edition)
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22	# "Pretty Hurts" (4:17)
23	# "Haunted" [[labelnote:hidden track]]"Ghost"[[/labelnote]] (6:09)
24	# "Drunk in Love" [-(featuring Music/JayZ)-] (5:23)
25	# "Blow" (5:09)
26	# "No Angel" (3:48)
27	# "Partition" [[labelnote:hidden track]]"Yoncé"[[/labelnote]] (5:19)
28	# "Jealous" (3:04)
29	# "Rocket" (6:31)
30	# "Mine" [-(featuring Music/{{Drake}})-] (6:18)
31	# "XO" (3:35)
32	# "[=***Flawless=]" [-(featuring Creator/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie)-] (4:10)
33	# "Superpower" [-(featuring Music/FrankOcean)-] (4:36)
34	# "Heaven" (3:50)
35	# "Blue" [-(featuring Blue Ivy)-] (4:26)
36	[-Each song is accompanied by a music video (including the hidden tracks "Ghost" and "Yoncé"), there is a bonus video for the song "Grown Woman."-]
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38	!!Singles
39	* "[[https://youtu.be/3xUfCUFPL-8?si=btO3ztyE-Td4oL8E XO]]", "[[https://youtu.be/p1JPKLa-Ofc?si=JSEfba4aAtBVEpDY Drunk in Love]]", "[[https://youtu.be/pZ12_E5R3qc?si=AaKV37jJmu4sRSre Partition]]", "[[https://youtu.be/LXXQLa-5n5w?si=9vHg9LjHy5EFGbVB Pretty Hurts]]", "[[https://youtu.be/k4YRWT_Aldo?si=wH-AArH1deTXGAM_ 7/11]]", "Ring Off"
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41	!!''Let me sit these troooooooooooooooopes on you''
42	* AppearanceAngst: "Pretty Hurts" which reflects on the stress society puts women through in order to maintain their beauty and meet impossible beauty standards. Bonus points for the video revolving around a beauty pageant.
43	* BilingualBonus: The bridge of "Partition" is a spoken word passage in French.
44	-->''Est-ce que tu aimes le sexe?\
45	Le sexe, je veux dire: l'activité physique, le coït. Tu aimes ça?\
46	Tu ne t'intéresses pas au sexe?\
47	Les hommes pensent que les féministes détestent le sexe\
48	Mais c'est une activité très stimulante et naturelle que les femmes adorent''
49	* BoastfulRap: Beyoncé toys with this in "Bow Down," which upset a few of her fellow celebrities. Originally, this song was the other half to "I Been On," where Beyoncé boasts even further. "I Been On" was later scrapped for ''Beyoncé'' and "Bow Down" was merged into "Flawless."
50	* DarkerAndEdgier: This was Beyoncé's moodiest album until ''Music/{{Lemonade\|2016}}'' took that slot.
51	* EpicRocking: The straightest examples are "Mine" at six minutes and 18 seconds and "Rocket," clocking in at six minutes and 31 minutes.
52	* FaceOnTheCover: Purposely averted with just her name in pink text against a black background. This is the first Beyoncé album to not feature her face on the cover. Ironic considering how every song on the album is paired with a visual component.
53	* GenreShift: From the Contemporary R&B of her first four albums to a more alternative R&B direction, mixed in with Hip-Hop, Soul, and Electronic.
54	* HiddenTrack: "Ghost" and "Yoncé" are this. The former serves as the prelude to "Haunted" and the latter as the prelude to "Partition."
55	* HollywoodHypeMachine: Completely averted, the album was released in the dead of night with no announcement and without any leaks or indication that Beyoncé was even ''recording'' for a new album.
56	* HotterAndSexier: This album is quite explicit and easily Beyoncé's most sexually charged album.
57	* IntercourseWithYou: “Blow”, “Drunk in Love,” and ''especially'' "Partition" and “Rocket.”
58	* MinimalisticCoverArt: The album art is all black with just Beyoncé's name written in pink all-caps.
59	* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Rocket" has some lyrics referring to this, with Beyoncé wanting to be punished for being a "bad girl".
60	* PietaPlagiarism: [[http://i.imgur.com/RX6RC4t.jpg In the "Mine" video.]]
61	* SeductionLyric: "Lemme sit this aaaaaaaaaaaassssssss on you..."
62	* ShoutOut: "Partition"'s bridge in French is very similar to a piece of dialogue from ''Film/TheBigLebowski.''
63	* UpdatedRerelease: The Platinum edition adds several songs and remixes, including "7/11" and "Ring Off".
64	* WeightWoe: The stress of trying to win the beauty pageant in "Pretty Hurts" causes Beyoncé to turn to bulimia.

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