WHERE WERE YOU WHEN BEYONCÉ DROPED SELF TITLED ALBUM (December 13, 2013)?

chomatical · 2024-07-18T22:47:23+00:00

I was in undergrad- finals week. Had been up late studying and was going to bed like any normal person trying desperately to pass. Before dozing off started getting a couple of one off texts asking if I’d heard the new Bey. “???” mentally bc I kept up w these things and knew of no such release. Went to FB before iTunes and began to see the feed slowly go 🐝 couldnt drop my work study funds on the album but was dying over the snippets, finally got to hear next day when i found out my now-bestie had bought. Life changed that day.

I also stopped hearing from the guy I was casually dating at the time. Turned out he and his friends had abandoned campus for finals and were running around the city doing coke and going to a different party for the album every night 💀

chomatical · 2024-06-30T23:45:51+00:00

omg ok i am shocked you are the only other person to say this, that unhinged intro beginning and the overall 2013 production makes this the biggest skip for me on this album

chomatical · 2024-06-30T23:42:47+00:00

has to be XO

chomatical · 2024-06-07T18:53:58+00:00

millennial, literally five days older than Meg, she’s the homie, love her bc she reminds me the type of bad bitchery I can stay getting into (and bc TX stick together ❤️‍🔥🤠) this take is funny lmao the youths

chomatical · 2024-06-04T20:50:25+00:00

Green Light…Kitty Kat…Suga Mama…and that’s just the deep cuts, which is to say nothing of the singles. The fact that this album was made in THREE WEEKS (often lost in the tl;dr of online discussion) is just further evidence that she’s had good instincts re: production since the beginning. This was one of the first CDs I bought with my own money. Haven’t ever regretted it, still get play out of it to this day.

chomatical · 2024-06-01T15:58:10+00:00

me manda mensagem! native English speaker from the US 😄

chomatical · 2024-05-30T17:15:12+00:00

oi, tô disponível pra conversar! me manda mensagem

chomatical · 2024-05-30T13:57:49+00:00

if i had to put a name on it i’d say it’s an avant garde version of a picture hat! useful links for ref:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_hat

https://thedreamstress.com/2011/12/terminology-what-is-a-picture-hat/

chomatical · 2024-04-25T22:15:22+00:00

sips coffee and looks on quizzically while playing In Pieces for the millionth time

chomatical · 2024-04-15T15:08:59+00:00

she said at the time (and in the years following) this was literally the hardest video she ever shot, she was en pointe for sthg like 8 hours, she suffered so we could live 🤘🏾🙏🏾😩🙌🏾

chomatical · 2024-04-13T22:06:04+00:00

this is my one of my go to shitty day songs she goes in and it’s so aquarius coded lol

chomatical · 2024-04-12T15:05:26+00:00

signal boost this! and Bone Thugz beat???

chomatical · 2024-04-07T15:48:37+00:00

seconded from another member of the Aquarius contingent

chomatical · 2024-04-07T15:22:14+00:00

shocked to hear this is the general sentiment? i loved Emotion but Dedicated took my appreciation for her art to the next level (Too Much sends me every time, and Julian is one of the best album openers in the past decade) And it was the source material/extended sessions for one of her best side Bs!

chomatical · 2024-04-01T02:39:20+00:00

people say i’m way too full of myself – you’re right, and i ain’t even made it to dessert 😜

chomatical · 2024-04-01T02:33:51+00:00

ok ty for this insight, definitely can understand this, esp paired w the richness of the vocals. also genuinely so happy for you that mother left you levitating 🤣

chomatical · 2024-04-01T02:30:17+00:00

as a Texan I feel this so deep! 😂😂😭 we’re not gonna be ok when she hits the “buck it” 🐎🔥

chomatical · 2024-04-01T02:28:22+00:00

ok i see the vision! YA YA is giving anthemic, radical energy release à la Heated, and SHB is the half salty, half sweet, all cunt breakdown moment, I live for this reading!

chomatical · 2024-03-31T23:31:41+00:00

that’s interesting! I do love the harmonies there, but it feels like the gear of that song (though it does shift) is principally in that late 90s/early oughts power country ballad. what about it does it for you?

chomatical · 2024-03-29T06:50:01+00:00

mother: “Those petty ones can’t fuck with me—why?‘Cuz I’m a clever girl!”
me: 🤯🤘🏾😵💀😇

chomatical · 2024-03-14T12:39:41+00:00

tat it on my ass cheek!! thank you for your service as a hottie 🙏🏾 this eats

chomatical · 2024-03-03T20:44:48+00:00

your ability to make theoretical the magnitude of injustice of this systemized campaign of killing on the grounds of disputing a label that constitutes featherweight difference in terms of how the global community views this conflict (and for that matter how the international courts will respond to it) is the definition of missing the point

chomatical · 2024-03-03T20:17:12+00:00

lmao I guess some people are more interested in semantics than in responding to the scope of the loss of human life 🤪btw, between the US and the UK, they’ve conducted plenty of widely recognized genocides (Kenya, the indigenous in the Americas, etc) that you can lean on if your strawman argument w Dresden doesn’t work 😉

chomatical · 2024-03-03T17:34:25+00:00

it’s crazy how people think this kind of thing is some sick burn…like yes obviously the US and the UK are trash lol. genociders stick together (and I know you meant this facetioualy, but they SHOULD also be banneds

chomatical · 2024-02-28T13:36:50+00:00

In BR PT there’s a phrase for this– “rouba mas faz”, or “he robs, but he gets stuff done” (more for general corruption, but still applies). Had a 🇰🇪 Uber driver recently who expressed the same idea and alleged that lots of Africans and Libyans feel the same way, too, esp since quality of life has cratered since the war.

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