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    @pscentral event 19 → music
    Beyoncé + music genres

    "It is hard to think of a recent album that feels more commanding and imperious than Lemonade, not just in its lyrics – where defiant woman-scorned wrath meets righteous social anger – but in its music. […] “Country, alt-rock, left-field electronics, hoary Jack White blues-rock? I can do the lot.” That seems to be one of its messages. […]

    The sense of an artist being pulled uncomfortably in two opposing directions reached its peak with [I Am…Sasha Fierce]: one disc full of self-help-motto power ballads […] and another that suggested…a willingness to experiment – the percussion battery and oddly doomy minor chords of Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), Video Phone’s minimal fusion of crunk rhythms, sampled groans, and needling synthesisers. […]

    4 built on its predecessor’s more experimental aspects, and introduced the I-can-do-anything musical expansiveness that you hear on Lemonade. There were influences drawn from Afrobeat, dancehall and alt-rock; […] the Sleepy Jackson’s Luke Steele contributed the psychedelicised Philly soul of Rather Die Young." — The Guardian

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