unofficial import reissue on black vinyl - includes a whole side of rare bonus tracks!!
Easily her best album since B'day, it's among her most entertaining and sexually explicit work, yet it's substantive in every respect. Beyoncé co-wrote and co-produced all of the songs with A-listers like Pharrell, Timbaland, James Fauntleroy, Hit-Boy, and the-Dream, as well as emerging Detroiters Detail and Key Wane and the previously unknown Boots. There are deep references to Beyoncé's competitive showbiz upbringing and acknowledgments of her beloved Houston hometown. "Mine" and "Blue" involve vivid expressions regarding the turbulence and thrill of motherhood. Central track "***Flawless" opens with Ed McMahon's introduction of her preteen group on Star Search, incorporates the combative "Bow Down" and a portion of celebrated Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TED talk on feminism, as well as a booming, quotable-packed victory lap. It concludes with McMahon's dismissal of her group, as if to say, "Yeah, but look at me now." There's also a whole lot of romance, heartache, and, most prominently, monogamous sex -- in the kitchen, in a chauffeur-driven car, while drunk. In time, it should be seen as a career highlight from a superstar -- one of the hardest-working people in the business, a new mother, in total control, at her creative and commercial peak. - Andy KellmanA1 Pretty Hurts 4:17
A2 Haunted 6:08
A3 Drunk In Love 5:23
A4 Blow 5:09
A5 No Angel 3:48
B1 Partition 5:19
B2 Jealous 3:03
B3 Rocket 6:31
B4 Mine 6:18
B5 XO 3:35
C1 ***Flawless 4:10
C2 Superpower 4:36
C3 Heaven 3:50
C4 Blue 4:26
C5 7/11
D1 ***Flawless Remix (feat. Nicki Minaj)
D2 Drunk In Love Remix (feat. Jay-Z & Kanye West)
D3 Ring Off
D4 Blow Remix (feat. Pharrell Williams)
D5 Standing On The Sun (feat. Mr. Vegas)
