“It's a more mature album with songs about the intricacies of relationships, but 4 has its share of stunning tracks, many co-written by The-Dream.”
“Girls run the world. But who runs the girls? For most of the past 10 years, the answer has been Beyoncé Knowles. In the Estrogen Era – a period in which women seized pop music's center stage – Beyoncé has been the prima donna, the diva of divas: the girl with the funkiest songs, the flashiest Bob Fosse-meets-hip-hop dance moves and, as Kanye West memorably declared, the Greatest Video of All Time.”
“It’s not been a vintage year for Beyonce thus far. The whole Gadaffi business was far from the ideal way to kick things off; then it was announced that she would no longer be managed by her dad, Mathew Knowles, who had steered her career since the earliest days of Destiny’s Child; then ‘Run The World (Girls)’ failed – by Beyoncé single standards, at least – to set the charts on fire; and then her ”
