Let's just wrap this up because I have better things to do on a Saturday (spoiler: not really).
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SCORE: 8.652
Highest Score: 10 x 27 (
@Sprockrooster @Jam @enjoy @Terminus @lalaclairi_ @constantino @munro @push the button @K94 @ericcccc @Sam de Jour @kermit_the_frog @beyoncésweave @Lost In Japan. @ohnostalgia @Beginner @KAG @Push @Pinkie @WarmBlood11 @joe_alouder @PLUTO @CasuallyCrazed @Can't @Speak French
@supersoon @Mr.Arroz @Petty Mayonnaise)
Lowest Score: 5 x 1 (
@HeartSwells)
My Score: 6.5/10
Um.
Okay.
To put this into some horrifying context: out of the seventy-nine people that voted in this rate, only
five people gave it a score below 7/10 (Me,
@HeartSwells,
@2014,
@RainOnFire, and my good judy
@IMHO) and
sixty of you awarded it an 8 or higher. Yes, that's right. An 8/10 or higher to this bland, basic, white-bread, vacant kiss off that Beyoncé has taken, refined, bettered, and essentially now abandoned in 2016. Yet you heifers have not only managed to drag it into the Top 20 when it should have finished outside Top 40, but you have also managed to pull it up past every other B'Day track and make it
the highest rated song on the fucking album. Reasons? Explanations? Excuses? I'm all fucking ears, ladies. You can start trying to justify this at
any fucking time. Now for the commentary I had written before I realised you all had awful, awful taste.
At my Formation Tour show, it dawned on me that I actually don’t really know the lyrics to this outside of the chorus. So I was basically just like, “adsjdefdjdaddefuhensdkjdaajkwdhaYOU MUST NOT KNOW ‘BOUT ME…” when the audience started singing it. What I’m trying to say is that it doesn’t feel that noteworthy at this point, does it? Like a lot of Beyoncé’s old mega hits, they just don’t connect to the artist she is now. Fun in concert though, I guess.
ericcccc: "Such a well-written pop song. Brilliant." In 2006, perhaps. I fix
Sprockrooster's spelling mistakes because if you're going commit to an opinion this bad it might as well be coherent, "Amazingly easy on the ears and consequently transcends time with ease."
constantino serves more consense... get it? "Iconic inspirational dumping ANTHEM! The final chorus is HEAVENLY; the horns, the guitar melody, the harmonies, the synths? Fuck me UP." Shut you UP. Even
Oceandrive seems quite besotted, and I despair, "It is admittedly quite tired now, but it holds its place in her discography well. Irreplaceable serves as the huge commercial hit that B'Day sorely needed and proved it's worth particularly in Bey's Glasonbury set as a huge singalong anthem."
Jersey can grab his clothes and get gone as far as I'm concerned, "Stargate's stale ass production doesn't stop this from still being great. Sure, the sheen has worn a little since it first dropped but a pre-4 track that B should definitely still be proud of."
CasuallyCrazed serves casual insanity, like the username would suggest, "Such an iconic, beautiful, bittersweet song. Still one of my favorite Bey vocals of all time. Spanish version is even more fun to sing incorrectly - “jello bess jello bess"" Meanwhile,
ohnostalgia is in awe of Beyoncé's deathgrip on the zeitgeist, "Sometimes I forget how many catchphrases Queen Bey coined. To the left, to the left..." All this song is is a catchphrase.
IMHO is torn but ultimately makes the right decision and matches my average score, "Another tough one to place when you're forced to way up its actual merit vs. its overwhelming ubiquity." It can fuck off, quite frankly.
K94 lets me down, but I'm used to it by now, "Never gets old for me despite the 29383327943893 times she’s done that acoustic performance. Still one of her very best."
"This would literally slot into Lemonade and it’d fit the story perfectly." NO
MUNRO. NO IT WOULDN'T. Because it has all the lyrical depth of a fucking puddle. A case of Britneys can be found in
FresherThanYou, who says, " Somehow feels very iconic in her discography.. Nostalgic Beyonce!" Ugh. Stockholm Syndrome takes full effect as far as
KAG is concerned, "I used to hate this song. Whenever it came on the radio (and it came on
a lot), I used to switch over immediately but it’s grown on me considerably over the years. The melody’s great, she sounds great and ‘to the left, to the left’ is pure earworm and has become a special part of her live shows." Meanwhile, poor
ThighHighs is going to be distraught at this performance, "Shockingly, my least favorite song on the standard edition. 7.5. Maybe I blame its omnipresence in every live performance since it came out (what a welcome omision from FWT), but fatigure on this one hit hard. However, the production is appropriately light and airy and her vocals are impeccable as ever." You slightly enabled this with your score, sis. You did.
We close with
joe_alouder, " That classic anthem. I will never not be lip syncing with finger wagging." Can you please go and do that in another thread thank you.
Performances, video, yadda yadda yadda FUCK OFF.