Beyoncé: Grown Woman
Details
Genre: R&BPros:
Neo MJ sounds, Timbaland's production creates an improvement over "Bow Down."Cons:
The last two minutes are worth muting all together, unless you're hungry for Bey to copy the half-and-half formula used in Justin Timberlake's 20/20 experienceQueen Bé is still commanding bitches to bow, but it’s forgivable Weeks after brewing her “bow down bitches” tirade and with her queendom entrenched all around her, Beyoncé is constantly reminding her listeners that she’s on the throne. It’s a very bad habit that just won’t go away. She’s been echoing the same law since […]
Queen Bé is still commanding bitches to bow, but it’s forgivable
Weeks after brewing her “bow down bitches” tirade and with her queendom entrenched all around her, Beyoncé is constantly reminding her listeners that she’s on the throne. It’s a very bad habit that just won’t go away. She’s been echoing the same law since Destiny’s Child “Independent Women.” You can trace that tangent on “Diva,” “Run the World (Girls)” and almost anything club-laced. Readying for her Mrs. Carter road show, she’s dropping “Grown Woman” and unleashing even more repetition of her now-famous quote: “Now bitches, I run this.” But she hasn’t sounded this cocky in quite some time and that’s because she surrounded by a beat-heavy Timbaland production loaded with Ferris Bueller horny calls. The beats sound like neo-MJ exercises and her pilgrimage into Rihanna “Rude Boy” camp seems like the snarky antithesis of a newborn mother (I’m a grown woman/So I know how to ride it/I’m a grown woman/And I’m so erotic”). Bey is clearly shaking off the baby fat and tossing more keresone into the twerking phenomenon that’s now the viral craze in pop culture. Even American Dad! most recently paid homage to the booty-shaking trend. When the song approaches the four-minute mark, the song cascades into a sunken calypso-driven pit that pales in comparison with what preceded it. Thankfully, it doesn’t take long for the second half to fade.
Some will poke holes in Knowles-Carter’s ego and suggest that she needs to put down her agenda of tailor making stuff for teenagers teetering on the banks of rebellion. And yes, it’s time for her to find some better material fit for a 30-year old “grown woman.” But if Madonna can get away with it after all these years, why can’t Beyoncé? This is an improvement over “Run the World (Girls)” and a happy ending to those who painstakingly endured “Bow Dow/I Been On.”