ARTIST: BeyoncΘ
TITLE: B'Day
LABEL: Sony
GENRE: R&B
BITRATE: 184kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 52min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-09-05
RIP DATE: 2006-08-25
Track List
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01. Deja Vu (Feat. Jay-Z) 4:00
02. Get Me Bodied 3:25
03. Suga Mama 3:25
04. Upgrade U (Feat. Jay-Z) 4:32
05. Ring The Alarm 3:23
06. Kitty Kat 3:55
07. Freakum Dress 3:20
08. Green Light 3:29
09. Irreplaceable 3:47
10. Resentment 4:40
11. Check On It (Feat. Bun B & 14:18
Slim Thug) + Hidden Track
Release Notes:
History may prove BeyoncΘ's B'Day to be a rare double-whammy of an achievement.
Not only is it destined to hold up as one of the thumpingest, most
polished-sounding discs of 2006, it's also bound to loose a new phrase into the
popular lexicon: a "freekum dress" (n.), as described on a same-named track
halfway through this excellent CD, is a "right-fittin'" garment owned by every
woman; "when they act wrong, that's when you put it on." Linguistic hijinks
aside, here is BeyoncΘ as the public rarely sees her: fully liberated and
artistically fearless. "Ring the Alarm," a big-banging, fire-alarm-clanging
wake-up call to a cheating man, finds her seething; "Kitty Kat," a feline-like
size-up of a stale relationship helped along by the still innovative Neptunes,
shows her spurned; the womanly, fire-in-the-belly come-on "Suga Mama" gets her
way, way worked up; and the crackling, vocally volcanic "Resentment" steeps her
in Aretha-caliber soul. For all the disc's solo trailblazing, though, where it
really soars is on one of two duets with Jay-Z: While "Up Grade U" chugs along
entertainingly enough about the good life ("I'm talkin' spa bags and fly pads
and rooms at the Bloomberg"), opener "Deja Vu" blasts out a bomp-bomp beat
nobody with a head to nod could resist. Cake, candles, and Cristal or no, B'Days
rarely get this good.