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SCORE: 8.041
11/10
@ericcccc
Highest Score: 10 x 18 (
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Lowest Score: 3 x 1 (
@Wild Man.)
My Score: 8/10
And Lemonade loses another! Arguably the most atmospheric track on the entire album. "Love Drought" is so easy to get lost in for me; it's like standing underneath a waterfall and being able to hear nothing but your own blood pounding in your ears. Cooling, soothing, and everything in between. For a song about a drought, it's an utterly thirst-quenching oasis after the red-hot rage of the album before it.
Let's open with
lalaclairi_ since we get to do so very rarely, "This slowly climbed up to my favorite song from Lemonade; it's Beyoncé at her best, reflective and vulnerable. Her calm vocal delivery makes the lyrics even more touching, and the echoes of the chorus at the end are perfectly haunting." Yes, add haunting to my adjectives above.
constantino's enthusiasm refuses to dull, "YAS Bey gag me with that immaculately produced, woozy and nocturnal slow-burner. This is definitely the grower of the album." I feel this is too explosive a reaction for this track.
FresherThanYou is fucking WRONG, "The verses are the best part of the song. It's production feels very full and luscious however it's the only track I forget and feel is treading in filler territory." There is no filler on this album though.
Remyky22 simply declares it, "Atmospheric, hazy, magical." and
ThighHighs says, "She's done this better, but this is more vulnerable than the other times, so I give it most of it's points just for the strength of it's lyrics."
Oceandrive floods this write up with details, "I feel like this will be slept on and done wrong, but due to the sheer level of detail here it gets a 10. Can we talk about how the second verse left my wig in tatters? Or shall we talk about how by the end the production becomes almost aquatic to signal the end of the Drought? Or shall we just mention how the theme of water quite literally flows into the Sandcastle that follows it?" Yes, clock every single little touch. In "Words Gays Didn't Know Before 2012" News, it's
CasuallyCrazed with some foolishness, "Dreamy vocal, but this is basically a reductive version of “No Angel” aka the worst song on the self titled." This sounds nothing like "No Angel" though. In the slightest. Thankfully
ohnostalgia is here to end this drought of taste, "Gorgeous beyond belief." and so is
IMHO, albeit with a more critical eye, "This dreamy mid-tempo doesn't really stand out among the more obvious tracks on offers but it's a grower and I love the contrast between the heady production and the prickly verses before they melt into that gooey refrain, the whole song has this great tension between hard and soft, defiance and vulnerability which is more compelling than first meets the eye."
Jersey is another who joins the Weird Song Reference Club, "The Jealous of Lemonade. A continuation, or just a similar feeling. I'm not quite sure but they work well played after one another. The, 'nine times out of ten.. ten times out of nine', refrain remains one of the best hooks delivered on the album. Smooth and striking."
We'll finish with
ericcccc, who think this is Beyoncé's best song, "The standout track on this album for me. So ethereal and it has some of my favorite lyrics from Beyoncé: “Nine times out of ten, I'm in my feelings/But ten times out of nine, I'm only human/Tell me, what did I do wrong?” Her vocals are so understated throughout the track, which is why I think it shines. When listening to songs from earlier albums, it sounds like she has something to prove with every belt and excessive ad-lib. Thankfully, that isn’t here, and it makes sense. She’s proved herself to be more than capable. There isn’t much to prove when everyone knows that you’re one of the best."
