{"id":2607,"date":"2011-07-26T23:16:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2011-07-26T23:17:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:17:16","slug":"beyonce-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/beyonce-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BEYONC\u00c9"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"B<\/strong>EYONC\u00c9<\/strong><\/h2>\n

4<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Columbia]<\/p>\n

Of course Beyonc\u00e9 can move your booty: She is, after all, the auteur behind radio mega-jams like \u201cCrazy in Love\u201d and \u201cSingle Ladies (Put a Ring on It).\u201d But Beyonc\u00e9 is more interested in moving your heart on her latest, a collection of songs that focuses on her smoldering side with little of the speaker-rattling sonic bombast of previous efforts. She\u2019s coming from the heart on 4<\/em>, delivering persuasive takes on heartache, longing and, on \u201cBest Thing I Never Had,\u201d a touch of scornful triumph. Queen B of course has her pick of writing and producing talent from the R&B world, and 4<\/em> features contributions from Kanye West, Diane Warren, Kenneth \u201cBabyface\u201d Edmonds, The-Dream and Tricky, along with a smooth collection of rhymes from OutKast\u2019s Andre 3000 on \u201cParty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not all of it works\u2014the album flags in the middle with a handful of indistinct songs that don\u2019t take enough advantage of the size and sheer power of Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s charisma. That\u2019s the same quality, though, that holds 4<\/em> together. Beyonc\u00e9 radiates emotion on the wringing opener \u201c1+1,\u201d gets a little salty over heart-tugging piano as she gives thanks for a would-be romance that fell through on \u201cBest Thing I Never Had\u201d and digs out a deep bass line that carries the spare, sighing \u201cI Miss You.\u201d One last relentless blast of dance fever comes at the end with \u201cRun the World (Girls),\u201d a monster girl-power anthem laced with blaring electro lines and martial drums. It\u2019s a reminder that soul baring and dance-floor domination don\u2019t have to be mutually exclusive. \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BEYONC\u00c9 4 [Columbia] Of course Beyonc\u00e9 can move your booty: She is, after all, the auteur behind radio mega-jams like \u201cCrazy in Love\u201d and \u201cSingle Ladies (Put a Ring on It).\u201d But Beyonc\u00e9 is more interested in moving your heart on her latest, a collection of songs that focuses on her smoldering side with little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[2062,196,1342,389,1636],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}