Beyoncé
by Beyoncé
  • Record Label: Columbia
  • Release Date: Dec 13, 2013
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 1750 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 1,482 out of 1750
  2. Mixed: 66 out of 1750
  3. Negative: 202 out of 1750

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  1. mariana1981
    Mar 7, 2023
    10
    Beyoncé has just changed the course of the music industry, with each work she delivers, she shows more and more that she is a music legend. I have nothing else to say but thank you Beyoncé for giving us the surprise gift of this incredible album.
  2. ray32
    Mar 3, 2023
    0
    This album has it's highs and lows. Personally, Rihanna is way better and is the queen.
  3. Gsaf
    Nov 12, 2022
    10
    Esse álbum é magnífico, esse álbum é a própria perfeição! O melhor que já escutei até hoje. Poucos álbuns tem o poder de fazer a gente escutar todas as faixas seguidas, uma atrás da outra.
  4. andreialismo
    Oct 14, 2022
    0
    Beyoncé break the rulles and give us the best album of 2013. Global icon, she breaks the internet and, after this, nothing are as before.
  5. Aleknowles
    Aug 23, 2022
    10
    Beyonce is a living legend of our time, undervalued for the great artist who is none like her
    The greats masterpiece
  6. juancho017
    Aug 22, 2022
    10
    El álbum que cimentó el título de leyenda para Beyoncé. Dejo de ser una artista más con muchos hits o que no deja de sorprender con sus vocales a pesar de hacer coreografías impresionantes. Si no que fue más allá, deslumbró visualmente, sorprendió en cuanto a marketing y cambio la industria musical con un álbum arriesgado al menos en su formato de lanzamiento y promoción, pero que estabaEl álbum que cimentó el título de leyenda para Beyoncé. Dejo de ser una artista más con muchos hits o que no deja de sorprender con sus vocales a pesar de hacer coreografías impresionantes. Si no que fue más allá, deslumbró visualmente, sorprendió en cuanto a marketing y cambio la industria musical con un álbum arriesgado al menos en su formato de lanzamiento y promoción, pero que estaba destinado al éxito por su contenido.… Expand
  7. naomexecomahive
    Aug 21, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. . Slay Queen Slay Queen Slay Queen Slay Queen Slay Queen Slay Queen Slay Queen Slay Queen… Expand
  8. AceYejii
    Aug 21, 2022
    10
    This album is perfect. Her vocals are amazing and this is such a cohesive album. Thank you Beyoncé for this masterpiece !
  9. Mandara123
    Aug 21, 2022
    10
    Amazing album with great music!
    Beyonce show a deep aspects of herself that as never been seen on media. Dark and twisted in a beautiful way!
  10. jonantlew
    Aug 21, 2022
    10
    Know where you was when that digital popped! She stop the world! Another instant classic from the queen
  11. Jellowpe
    Aug 16, 2022
    10
    You can hear real specific production and amazing vocals and lyrics ! Beyonce outdid jher self again in my opinion
  12. luisefrndz
    Aug 14, 2022
    10
    This album is revolutionary, not only in the release but the content and strategy behind it.
  13. Dammy
    Aug 11, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The self titled release from Beyoncé marked a turning point in her career. A bold, sexy statement of her life and career.… Expand
  14. Panchogul
    Aug 7, 2022
    9
    No soy taaan fan de este disco, pero es indudable el impacto que tuvo, cambió por completo las reglas del juego.
  15. Marloz1210
    Aug 2, 2022
    10
    Not a single skip. Every song sounds different from the other. The year is 2022 eight and a half years later and pop artists still couldn't catch up to create something as great as this today. So experimental, so fun, so perfect. What we needed from her but I could've never seen coming because it's so unique. And the visuals take it to another level. This is how you make an album thatNot a single skip. Every song sounds different from the other. The year is 2022 eight and a half years later and pop artists still couldn't catch up to create something as great as this today. So experimental, so fun, so perfect. What we needed from her but I could've never seen coming because it's so unique. And the visuals take it to another level. This is how you make an album that moves your career forward and impacts the music industry.… Expand
  16. danielhere
    Jul 29, 2022
    10
    Her best album..there's no argument..her best with visuals, lyrics, every single thing
  17. beyhiveking
    Jul 29, 2022
    10
    This an album of a lifetime! Spectacular! Perfection! Deserved Album of the Year
  18. Guillemgamell
    Jul 29, 2022
    10
    She shook the world and shifted the industry forever... This album will forever remain her first of a streak of defying and defining albums that cemented her as the greatest of our time.
  19. attitudebey
    Jul 29, 2022
    10
    My favourite Beyonce album of all time. Haunted and Partition are some her best work EVER
  20. submnibiriyae
    May 21, 2022
    10
    Best album of 2013!!! Visuals? AMAZING. It slaps and all bops. SHE DID IT AGAIN. BIAAATXHH. MOTHAAAAAAAAARRRR
  21. All_ButTrU4
    Nov 27, 2021
    9
    Would it be hyperbolic to say Beyoncé invented feminism? Well imma go ahead and no cap that,personally at least. Her self titled really is as personal as the name suggests:This is her. Not promoted at yet still having the biggest impact in music history.

    Opening with the motivational Sia penned ballad "Pretty Hurts" filled with the staple anthemic Knowles choruses she's perfected since    Would it be hyperbolic to say Beyoncé invented feminism? Well imma go ahead and no cap that,personally at least. Her self titled really is as personal as the name suggests:This is her. Not promoted at yet still having the biggest impact in music history.

    Opening with the motivational Sia penned ballad "Pretty Hurts" filled with the staple anthemic Knowles choruses she's perfected since "B'day". This just being the first of the karaoke ready ballads.

    "Haunted "is a slow burn catharsis attached to the unsettling hidden track "ghost " that comments on music,record labels and creativity. It's a brave well executed risk that adds nuance to Beyoncé thesis oscillating from quasi-spoken word to explicit sensuality. The shedding of the Madonna/Whore complex is perhaps an unintentional theme throughout the Lp brought to epic fruition on the sensual masterpiece of D'angelo proportions,"Rocket". A torch song to her husband Jay z doesn't leave anything to the imagination. "Drunk in Love" is a fkn epic sequel to "Bonnie &Clyde " hyped up to raunchier heights as if it's as "Drunk "as the songs title.

    "No Angel " a Caroline Polachek assist comes in at a high register punctuated with breathy vocals and smootg falsetto. "Partition " which sounds like a forebearer to "Lemonade " takes a martial sexual rendezvous,it's steamy and confident.

    The feminist manifesto "***flawless" features a perfectly placed Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sample. By far the most notable song here featuring lines like "i woke up like this " that boast female empowerment without heavy handed cliches that marred "Run the World ". Drake appears in the slow "Mine ". There are no skips on this record all the risks taken were so successful they invoked copy cats and now sound commercial.

    With its sweeping highs are emotional lows. The insecurity of "jealous " seems pretty aware post Lemonade. The solemn "Heaven " mediates on a miscarriage and seems to reach acceptance preceding the maternal bliss of "Blue " which features Beyoncé daughter Blue Ivy.

    Arguably Beyoncé best record this album cemented her status as a musical icon, having immeasurable impact on culture.    … Expand
  22. ROBYWON
    Sep 5, 2021
    10
    A concentration of femininity, girl power, sensitivity and motherhood. Beyoncé narrates her soul as a mother and entrepreneur in a sophisticated concept album, with sounds that intertwine all the tracks. The queen is back. Catchy collaborations, such as Mine with Drake or Drunk in Love with Jay Z, vocals that take you to another dimension, with reflections on life, asking the questionA concentration of femininity, girl power, sensitivity and motherhood. Beyoncé narrates her soul as a mother and entrepreneur in a sophisticated concept album, with sounds that intertwine all the tracks. The queen is back. Catchy collaborations, such as Mine with Drake or Drunk in Love with Jay Z, vocals that take you to another dimension, with reflections on life, asking the question whether life is just work in the office or also the passion with those who surround you.… Expand
  23. arianagrande626
    May 9, 2021
    10
    My favorite of her. Amazing vocals and good songwriting. Some may say it's a bad album because it's mostly about sex but the other songs has great messages. My favorite is Pretty Hurts.
  24. CreatingReview
    Apr 6, 2021
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What an amazing surprise album. This is how you do it perfectly ! This is how you move the world and shook us all… Expand
  25. AnthonyRizo
    Apr 3, 2021
    10
    Epitome of a great visual album. A cultural reset. The Queen of iTunes. The Greatest Of All Time.
  26. diol-
    Mar 22, 2021
    10
    she is talking about sexuality and stardom and motherhood. remember this was made after she gave birth to her first child and the industry really doesn't encourage mothers to be stars so this an album for women and mothers, in general, to feel okay in their bodies
  27. cuzinho1
    Mar 19, 2021
    0
    Musically, it's the same kind of electro R&B with which radio is already awash--in large part because it's produced by the same small coterie of hip producers, with Timbaland appearing to take the most prominent role amongst the likes of Detail, Jerome Harmon, Pharrell Williams and Ryan Tedder.
  28. Lopesito27
    Jan 23, 2021
    9
    Beyoncé opens up about her sexual and emotional life while subtly experimenting with different production elements that were key for the change in R&B, but above all that, she seems to be enjoying every moment of it, which makes for a lot of gems. If you don't think this is the album with the most bops, you're just wrong. It's the album that made me fall in love with Beyoncé.
  29. liamxsean
    Dec 11, 2020
    10
    One of the greatest pieces of work i’ve ever heard... Every song tells a different story and the opening of the album is perfection.. Beyoncé did amazing as always
  30. bhkben
    Nov 27, 2020
    10
    this surprise release just prooved that no one does it as she does. don't waste your time trying to be, look, or act like Beyoncé - it will be a waste of time and autheticity. to see Beyoncé going from "Blow" to "No Angel", from "Pretty Hurts" to "Haunted" and from "Jealous" to "Rocket", it leaves me overwhelmed. the accompanying visuals for the album make it even better. aestheticallythis surprise release just prooved that no one does it as she does. don't waste your time trying to be, look, or act like Beyoncé - it will be a waste of time and autheticity. to see Beyoncé going from "Blow" to "No Angel", from "Pretty Hurts" to "Haunted" and from "Jealous" to "Rocket", it leaves me overwhelmed. the accompanying visuals for the album make it even better. aesthetically pleasings, this marked a new Beyoncé reset and a cultural reset itself. before lemonade, this was her sonically most adventurous album. constantly proving to be able to do better and better, she is the mother of the music industry.… Expand
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85

Universal acclaim - based on 34 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 34
  3. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. Sputnikmusic
    Feb 14, 2014
    90
    At its dizzying zenith, Beyoncé is a loaded fusion of generosity and self-empowerment. or perhaps, more accurately, it finds self-empowerment in generosity.
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  2. Mojo
    Feb 11, 2014
    60
    It's this continued need to feed her multi-platinum beast that stops the album from being the post-modern wheeze it could have been. [Mar 2014, p.94]
  3. The 405
    Jan 23, 2014
    90
    Though there are a million details about BEYONCÉ to examine--from the release strategy to the visual aspect and more--the strongest ideas are still found solely in the music. She addresses topics like beauty, body image, miscarriages, jealousy, sexuality, marriage, motherhood and self-worth.
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