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Ahead Of ‘Black Is King’, 10 Brilliant Beyoncé Songs You’ve Probably Never Heard Before - British Vogue Posted: 04 Jul 2020 10:46 AM PDT We all know — and love — the big Beyoncé hits: Baby Boy, Crazy in Love, Halo, Run the World (Girls), Formation, Drunk in Love and Single Ladies, to name but a few. The formidable singer and songwriter from Houston, Texas, has a back catalogue built from bangers, ballads and big number-one singles (10 on the US Billboard chart to date). She also has an arsenal of moments that many of us might have forgotten. We celebrate the announcement of her new visual album, Black is King — which, she says on Instagram, will celebrate black resistance and culture — by remembering some of Queen B's lesser-known remixes, guest spots, hidden tracks and bonus songs. "Not Enough Black Women Had A Seat At The Table, So I Had To Build My Own Table" — 13 Empowering Lessons From Beyoncé's Message To The Class Of 2020 'Say My Name' (Cyril Hahn remix), 2012 This superlative remix of the Destiny's Child classic by Swiss-born, Vancouver-based producer Cyril Hahn transforms the 1999 megahit from a crisp R&B classic into something instantly familiar yet eerily alien at the same time. Pitching Beyoncé's vocals all the way down and throwing on some spacey synths, this remix threatens to take you to a whole new dimension. Perfection. 'Party', 2011 Despite selling over 1.5 million copies in the US alone, Beyoncé's fourth solo album, 4, became euphemistically described as 'critically acclaimed', which is generally a polite way of saying 'commercial flop'. While it may not have done the massive numbers Bey is known for, 4 is a superb album. Ignoring the EDM dominating the charts at the time, the album was emboldened by '70s soul, bracing funk and backed by a 20-piece all-female band during live performances. It's hard to pick just one song from such a great record, but the soulful smooch of "Party" is pretty perfect. Produced by Kanye West, and featuring a Slick Rick sample and an outstanding Andre 3000 verse, this song should be mentioned in every single 'Best of Beyoncé' list ever. 'Sweet Dreams' (remix), 2009 This unofficial collaboration, recorded for Lil Wayne's 2009 No Ceilings mixtape, was released at the height of his fame and established Nicki Minaj as the most exciting new name in rap. Arguably one of the best remixes of all time, Bey's memorable chorus graciously makes way for Minaj's scene-stealing verse that, in approximately 70 seconds, covers BMXing, Louisiana, Minaj's superior sexual prowess and her superpowers as a rapper. Lil Wayne's appearance arrives by way of a flickering lighter and a promise that he'll "turn nuns into tricks". Both a sweet dream and a beautiful nightmare all round. 'Nothing Out There for Me', 2002 An obscure album track found on Missy Elliott's fourth record, Under Construction, this skittish song produced by Elliott, Nisan Stewart and Craig Brockman presents as a phone conversation between the pair, with Elliott trying to persuade B to ditch her boyfriend and come out partying instead. Featuring gorgeous backing vocals from Elliott's then-protege Tweet, this inventive cut sounds as great in 2020 as it did in 2002. 'Dangerously in Love', 2001 / 'Dangerously in Love 2', 2002 Originally found on the end of Destiny's Child's Survivor album, B returned to this mega ballad a year later to name her debut album in its honour, so granted it's hardly a long-lost number. But can we take a moment to appreciate this flawless five minutes in all of its vocal glory? It's a song that rarely makes the live set these days, but Dangerously in Love (or Dangerously in Love 2, as it became on the solo album) packs a powerful gut punch. Starting with an insouciant Spanish guitar, the song builds to a crescendo of impossible harmonies and audacious ad-libs as Beyoncé sings her whole heart out reminding everybody — as if we'd forget — that she is a really, really good singer. So good, in fact, that this song won a Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. 'Through With Love', 2004 Slipped in towards the end of Destiny's Child's swansong, Destiny Fulfilled, this marvellously menacing banger was written by Beyoncé and produced by the multi-talented Mario Winans. Winans pushes the harmonies to the forefront as Rowland, Williams and Knowles wrestle (vocally and lyrically) with self-esteem and self-worth, ultimately finding redemption through religion. 'Until the End of Time', 2007 Beginning life as a solo Justin Timberlake album track, Bey teamed up with JT on the deluxe edition of Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds with this rather sublime futuristic funk duet written by Timberlake, Danja and Timbaland. Essentially a take on Imagine or All You Need is Love, the pair propose that all the world really needs is that little four-letter word. 'Dreams', 2014 One of the first records that producer, songwriter, rapper and singer Jordan Asher Cruz (also known as Boots) worked on was Beyoncé's self-titled fifth album. He ended up writing and producing on nine of the album's tracks, including "Drunk in Love" and "Partition" and by way of returning the favour, Beyoncé featured on this relatively obscure song from his debut mixtape, 2014's Winter Spring Summer Fall, which also featured contributions from Sia and Kelela. Boots hasn't released his own music since 2018, but he's still working behind the scenes, with recent cuts on Phantogram and Run the Jewels releases. '03 Bonnie & Clyde', 2002 The best Jay-Z and Beyoncé collab is, of course, this one. Based on Tupac's 1996 single Me and My Girlfriend and the lead single on Jay's The Blueprint2: The Gift & the Curse album, producer Kanye West upped the volume on the Spanish guitar and added two killer verses from him and a beautiful chorus from her. It not only gave Beyoncé her first top-10 single away from Destiny's Child, but it allowed us all a glimpse into the couple's life, which seemed to consist of B sitting round watching Sex and the City re-runs, eerily predicting how life would become for us all in 2020. 'Savage' (remix), 2020 If Sweet Dreams is the best remix ever, then Beyoncé's take on Megan Thee Stallion's TikTok smash is a close second. Meg rewrote her whole verse in Bey's honour, but nothing could match Beyoncé's savage, classy, bougie verses: "If you don't jump to put jeans on, baby, you don't feel my pain." And with that, the game was done, over, finished. Beyoncé will release her new visual album, Black is King on Disney+ on 31 July More from British Vogue:

Beyoncé's Strike Observe 'Irreplaceable' Was Pretty much a Region Tune - Winged Express Posted: 04 Jul 2020 02:41 PM PDT Beyoncé has recorded many legendary tracks over her a lot more than 20-calendar year profession, but a person of her most unforgettable tunes to date is her 2006 hit, "Irreplaceable." The single's about the breakdown of a partnership and includes the concept that when Beyoncé is the irreplaceable Queen B, the person who cheated on her was just yet another man she could switch "in a minute" with someone greater. But regardless of "Irreplaceable" being 1 of Beyoncé's most highly regarded tracks, it just about didn't turn into the R&B one we all know and enjoy. Beyoncé | Anthony Harvey/Getty Pictures "Irreplaceable" was at first intended for two region stars Right before "Irreplaceable" grew to become 1 of Beyoncé's legendary tracks, it was supposed to be a hit track for a handful of well-known musicians. Although singer-songwriter Ne-Yo and manufacturing duo Stargate in the beginning wrote the song for Bey, they felt that the tune did not match her voice and re-wrote the lyrics from a male perspective. Ne-Yo and Beyoncé | Michael Kovac/WireImage Linked: Which Beyoncé Tunes Feature Her Daughter, Blue Ivy Carter? Immediately after hearing "Irreplaceable" aloud accompanied by an acoustic guitar, Ne-Yo imagined it gave off additional of a nation vibe and was certain the track would be great for country artists Religion Hill or Shania Twain. "When I initial listened to the monitor, produced by Norwegian manufacturing team Stargate, they just played the guitar. There were being no drums to it and sounded like state-western music," Ne-Yo told BlackFilm in 2007. Immediately after hearing drum beats with the lyrics, Ne-Yo viewed as earning an R&B place-western music alternatively and ran the keep track of by Beyoncé, who instantaneously fell in like with it. And as the expressing goes, the rest is background. 'Irreplaceable' grew to become an fast hit Just after functioning in the studio with Ne-Yo to create a track persons of possibly gender could relate to, Beyoncé recorded "Irreplaceable," and it was produced on her second solo studio album, B'Day, in 2006. https://www.youtube.com/look at?v=2EwViQxSJJQ Similar: Beyoncé: How 'If I Were a Boy' Was Taken From One more Singer The observe went on to become Beyoncé's fourth variety-one single in the U.S. and remained at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for 10 consecutive weeks. Impressively, "Irreplaceable" acquired these kinds of prominence that Rolling Stone placed it on their lists of Greatest Songs of the 2000s. It was also named the twenty-fifth most productive song of the 2000s (10 years) in the U.S. The tune prompted main controversy in 2011 4 several years following "Irreplaceable" was launched, controversy arose bordering its songwriting credits. For the duration of a 2011 interview, Ne-Yo reported that he'd wished he retained the music for himself relatively than passing it about to Beyoncé, who'd allegedly claimed in the course of 1 of her demonstrates that she had penned the track. "One tune that I gave away and didn't want to, but it's essentially a excellent detail that I did, is Beyoncé's 'Irreplaceable.' I truthfully wrote that music for myself, but that song taught me a quite intriguing lesson: Many women really don't consider that in a different way. … Nonetheless, a male singing it comes throughout a small bit misogynistic, a minimal little bit indicate," Ne-Yo mentioned. Right after his remark surfaced, Beyoncé supporters were being offended by the singer's phrases, seemingly certain that he reduced-vital dissed their Queen B. Next some intensive backlash on social media, Ne-Yo took to Twitter to protect his remarks. "Aiight my dude. Ship me the backlink to wherever I explained Anything at all disrespectful about Beyoncé, Make sure you! Dying to hear this," he wrote. "Just listened to the audio where by I supposedly dissed Beyoncé. ARE Y'ALL Serious!?! Did y'all even pay attention to what I stated!?! Ne-Yo ongoing, "I said I initially wrote the tune for me. Which is genuine, so OF System I didn't want to give it absent originally. IT WAS FOR ME. After I realized how the song comes throughout if sung by a male, that's when I made a decision to give it absent. HOW IS THAT DISSING BEYONCE!?! She took the tune and made it a smash, No person can deny that."

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