IN LOVE: A Critical Analysis of Beyoncé’s Discography
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- HAPPY RENAISSANCE TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE! 🥳🐎🪩
Looking through Beyoncé’s musical catalogue, I discuss the connective thread across all of her six studio albums and what they reveal her relationship to husband and collaborator, JAY-Z; and how romantic idealism and love are constant themes in Beyoncé’s music - creating a narrative, a saga which explores different dimensions of love.
Main Projects analysed:
Dangerously in Love (2003)
B’Day (2006)
I Am… Sasha Fierce (2008)
4 (2011)
Magna Carta… Holy Grail (2013)
BEYONCÉ (2013)
LEMONADE (2016)
4:44 (2017)
EVERYTHING IS LOVE (2018)
The Lion King: The Gift (2019) / Black is King (2020)
@Fabsocialism The Ultimate Pick Me: Beyoncé - • The Ultimate Pick Me: ... [referenced in INTRO]
DISSECT Podcast with Cole Kushner is a great resource to unpacking the minute detail in Beyoncé’s LEMONADE and Black is King projects - open.spotify.com/show/2b025hq...
CHAPTER CODES
00:00 - INTRO
02:24 - Dangerously in Love (2003)
05:12 - B'Day (2006)
07:03 - I Am...Sasha Fierce (2008)
09:44 - 4 (2011)
11:57 - BEYONCÉ (2013)
15:02 - LEMONADE (2016)
20:19 - SALUD!
TWITTER - @saint_adamson
This is incredible. I would've never came to this conclusion about her discography on my own. What's interesting is how it parallels with Kendrick Lamar’s discography.
Section 80 - identifying the problem
GKMC - explaining the problem through story
TPAB - Trying to fix the problem (savior complex)
DAMN - realizing he can't fix the problem (damned if you do, damned if you don't
Mr. Morale - coming to peace with the problem and fixing himself.
They're genius and will be looked back on hundreds of years from now for their contribution to the industry, society, and art.
Omg. I just realized this!
I really appreciate this perspective on Beyoncé's albums. I'll admit I'm not a fan of the "pick me" conversation regarding her music because it ignores the history of R&B and the natural hyperbole that has always been involved when writing and singing about love. I also dislike that she is the only one tagged with this brush. That said, I do believe that there is a trilogy songs that showcase her shifting relationship with her father from the idealistic (Daddy) to the disappointment (Daddy Lessons) to the acceptance of her father as his own flawed human being(Find Your Way Back)
You know you’ve made a good point about natural hyperbole within R&B. I just think the hyperbole of female R&B contradicts the hyperbolic toxicity of male R&B and hip-hop, so women end up in situations they deserve, such as infidelity. I don’t think she’s the only one cast with this stroke, I mentioned her influences such as Mary J. Blige (the whole My Life album) but even Aretha Franklin with for example, I’ve Never Loved A Man the Way I’ve Loved You. I think Beyoncé’s “pick-me”-ness (which I don’t think is a fair assessment) only gets discussed because 1. She’s Beyoncé and 2. She was so open about her relationship in LEMONADE. When Summer Walker released Still Over It, she got a similar, albeit smaller reaction too.
Thank you so much for commenting, I’ve really valued your perspective.
there's room to accept the hyperbole of rnb and still critically think about what the hyperbolic statements mean under patriarchy and misogyny. the pick me video also talked about how acts of service isnt wrong or bad, but it should be performed where it is celebrated, where it is cherished. so while beyonce can sing in hyperbole in cater 2 u or upgrade u, etc...the socio political context in which she sings it in still matters
@@chiamakanwadike3688 "acts of service isn't bad, but should be performed where celebrated" is the entire premise of Cater to You. The songs first lines express that the partner is someone who does right by them, works hard and motivates, and the "catering" is reciprocal. Like that's my whole thing. This entire premise comes out of the discussion of "Cater To You" being pick me and I just disagree. There is that one line from Kelly that is problematic but the set up and sentiment is fundamentally NOT pick me(unless being reciprocal in a relationship with a man is pick me).
@@MissAlmostFine I think what @Chiamaka Nwadike said that was significant was "the socio political context in which she sings it in still matters".
Also accepting her similarity to her father in "daughter" from Cowboy Carter
Beyoncé was always the student and have always studied. It was with lemonade where she showed us what she learned.
I don’t know where but someone said Beyoncé replaced her dad with Jay. She was never alone with her self and that have it’s pros and cons.
Lemonade is my favorite album of hers not just cause of the infidelity but because of the ancestry background she incorporated in the videos and music 🔥
YES, YES - and I love the fact she did Black Is King to really expand on this idea.
@@saintadamson yess this too
This video is excellent. I was expecting a discussion simply about beyonce's evolving sound, but beyonce is so much more than that. Your discussion of love within her discography provides an interesting perspective i never really thought about. Thank you 🙏
I'm really glad you got something from it! 🙏🏾
Until now I hadn’t come across a more in depth video about her discography and how it tells a beautiful story of love and its many different perspectives. This video was just amazing and informative, I am apart of the BeyHive and it’s just hard to put some of my appreciation for her craft into words and how she has inspired me in many ways. This is a thank you from me to you, I wish you nothing but the best and success. You gained a new sub, I am looking forward to more of your content.
Thank you so much I really appreciate this comment 🥹 More content is coming, again thanks for watching and commenting it means the world 🙏🏾
@@Noir_Nouveau if you want to join just say that, you'll have to sacrifice a pet on the new moon. Bless your heart.
@@Noir_Nouveau Lol I won't deny that some fans would. The "cult" behavior can be found in every fandom, it's not exclusive to the BeyHive. I will say as a fan, Beyoncé means a lot to us and she never gets online to defend herself -like ever, she rarely even speaks outside of her music. To top it off, often times misinformation about her spreads like wildfire and people uses it an excuse to spread hate so the energy is returned by the Hive.
What's really beautiful is Renaissance talks about the highest form of love; SELF-LOVE!
It’s like she steps into her own power and takes responsibility for the woman she is… at that point jay z holds no influence on how she feels about herself only her
Her “my muse” statement to jay z in the new album credits. This video makes perfect sense! Brilliant
Never liked jay but lemonade and her decision made me respect her on a whole another level
Right! Even whilst researching and writing, I finally saw the beauty in her sticking besides JAY and understood what led her to that choice. And the artistic expression of that is beautiful, mayn!
Beyonce' has never shyed away from the fact that she and Jay have had their issues in her Music..It's very refreshing that she is willing to be so honest no matter the ridicule
Wow, this was an amazingly in depth look at Beyoncé’s discography. I got emotional throughout the self titled and lemonade portions of this video. Love is such a powerful emotion and journey- especially when you start to build a family.
Thank you for taking the time to analyze her art because it is hard for me who had her albums and projects on repeat when they came out but never looked at the underlying message of ALL of them at once throughout these years. Lemonade STILL makes me cry and is one of my favorite works she put out to this day.
Great job! Subscribing!!
Thank you so much! It sounds so silly but even whilst recording I was getting emotional just deeping how beautiful the story she has been telling and how Lemonade (especially with the visual component) just brings it all together 🥹 When I started researching I wasn’t even expecting to make a lucid argument but I’m glad it came across the way it did 😭🙏🏾
@@saintadamson It doesn’t sound silly to me at all! Music is an extremely emotional and personal experience for me, so when I feel like an artist put their heart out there it always makes me super emotional. And your argument was more than lucid, it was great!!
I’m so glad teanna’s video inspired you to make yours and that she shouted you out because I now have another black creator to keep an eye on. Keep it up!
This is truly one of the most beautiful and descriptive analysis of beyonce’s discography I’ve ever seen
Thank you!
I mean dating someone a whole decade older than you and no one else ever will definitely do that to you.
Right- the age and power dynamic definitely played a role - the first clips about how JAY-Z taught her to be a woman is very interesting. RENAISSANCE illustrates that there has been real reconciliation and again wholeness has been found.
@@saintadamson thank youuu because I was like what I miss in the album LMAOOO
she had a boyfriend for like 6 years before Jay. he also cheated on her.
This is soooo GOOD! Because I’ve always said that she’s been with him her entire solo career so it’s definitely a huge influence (good bad and everything in between). But it makes her music raw and authentic. I would love to hear a bonus clip to this about Renaissance bc you broke it DOWN!!
Thank you! I'm currently developing some interesting ideas I wanna discuss about RENAISSANCE - coming soon!
@@saintadamson yayyyy. I just subscribed. I loved your edits too. Great job!!
@@ChelleInTheCity what you think about Renaissance, I haven’t heard anything
beyoncé and jay z love story isn’t perfect and people on the internet definitely point that but every time to all night and everything in love i only dream to have that love they have and someday have someone to dedicate those songs to. your analysis and video are top tier🙌
* sees acknowledgement of The Gift *
* subscribes, likes, knows you have taste 😭 *
Nah because she ate that whole album down!
One of my favorites!!
Awesome video dude. Probably the most insightful take I’ve heard on lemonade as well, that breakdown of how she sees her marriage like religion was really eye opening and puts the rest of her albums into perspective. Keep it up
This is a truly amazing video! I love your analysis!
Omg your analysis are amazing!!! Keep up the amazing work!!!
Such an awesome contextualization of her work! Thoroughly enjoyed ❤️
Very very very good video! Love all the connections you made. I really learned something. Thanks!
What a wonderful video essay! Smart, thorough and beautifully done. Bravo!! 🙌
This was an AMAZING breakdown! Very in depth and made sooooo much sense. You did a great job
Woww!!! This was thorough! Thanks for sharing this and using your time to break this down!! Beautiful!!!!!
This was beautiful 😍
You literally killed this essay!!! I thoroughly enjoyed listening to your interpretation of beyonce's discography. And, I agree wholeheartedly!
Absolutely loved this. Love actually listening too the albums and hearing the story and trying too feel the connections how they link and you smashed it 🙌🏼♥️ It’s all a embodiment off work ✨✨👑
Thank you. Hugely insightful and massively relatable since we all want love and love Beyoncé’s music.
Applause, round of applause!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 awesome job!
This was so amazing and added a different dimension to the way I listen to her work. Now I need to hear your breakdown of Renaissance!
Amazing job on this video! Ren really feels like expressing love with a focus on self and community tbh. Like I feel so whole listening to this album and to now add it to her discography with this video’s explanation really brings the story and exploration of love over the years full circle for me.
This was an interesting analysis! Thank you!
This video is so well thought out, so honest and objective I love it! Thank you for your analysis on this. Beyoncé’ body of work is crazy! We literally grew with her yes she doesn’t let us in her private life much, but all we need to know is in the music you just have to pay attention to it!
Love this! Fabulous. Your voice is great…
Your in depth look at this is parallel to B’ s mind and really how she reveals her life to us - 🤔Its like hidden in plain sight…
Great revelation! Got chills💋
Well done
I actually started crying during the Lemonade part. What an in depth video!! 💓
Incredible scholarly analysis of her discography. Thank you!!!
Ugh, this analysis is pure excellence. I’m left with thoughts and questions that I now want to explore. Her career is so beautifully and intelligently analyzed in this video and I think it’s something even Beyonce herself would appreciate. Well done.
This is a phenomenal breakdown of Beyoncé's discography and her longstanding relationship with love as a concept. You have earned yourself a new subscriber!
She always gives of a story with her albums and videos. It is not just a single song that makes the story great.
You’re absolutely going to blow up from this succinct deep dive! Thank you so much for your time and effort.
I love this! You are deeply and carefully insightful, I still wanted you to keep going at the end of the video. I've never come across someone who intelligently disects Beyonce like you did. I don't even know you but am proud of you, keep it up a d keep it coming. You have a new subscriber 🙋🏽♀️
Excellent excellent excellent video. Your video style and editing is top tier.
Beautiful work.
I really appreciate you breakdown and interceptive view of all Beyoncé albums and also the personal view into all of Beyoncé, she just so beautiful. I know she's impacted my life in a such a personal level, she's an icon! I love her and her wonderful music!!! She's everything!!! 🎶
Saint, your analysis has opened up my eyes more to Beyoncé's songs and albums. From the way her albums are layed out it seems that the essence in her music is Love. From the raw emotions that comes with romantic love, especially when you have been with the same person for decades and have built a life and family with this person, the perspective on love for that person changes overtime. 💘 Also, love plays a role in her music when it comes to her children and parents, the maternal love and parental love perspectives of Love. 💓💞 Saint, You did a GREAT job with breaking down Beyoncé's discography. Thank you for sharing this video with us! 😊
An amazing analysis! Thank you!
Thank you. I enjoyed this insightful breakdown.❤
Incredibly intelligent and articulate young man. You did some great detective work on this. Thoroughly researched, insightful and thought provoking on more levels than just Beyonce's discography. All the best to you and your channel.
Such a great analysis of her career thus far!
Thank you! 🙏🏾
This is an amazing video. Thank you!
this video made me reach a new respect for beyoncé’s discography and also made me reflect on my ideas about love. this was so well done and i thank you
Thank you so much for your kind words!
You did a phenomenal job with this
Such a great research and analysis!
This is such a fantastic video and a great analysis on Beyonce's discography and its relation to love❤❤
Thank you so much! Glad you liked!
This is dope bro, very well put together video - liked the way you managed to see the greater narrative throughout 👌🏾
I appreciate this! Thank you so much for watching!
This video is so good. I always find myself coming back to it every few months.
Thank you this feedback is great to hear!
Great video, Saint. You put Beyoncé’s story (music wise) into a new lens. I noticed similar things that you mentioned, but certain things no, so this helped💯
P.S. - Thank you to Teanna for sharing this on her feed. I needed this video before work😭
Glad you got something from it! Thanks for your comment 🥹
you did such a great job on this video. Excellent work! im literally watching it again. your approach and analysis is compelling. Its no surprise that your subscribers and views are growing. Keep up the excellent work. We're all waiting to see more!
Thank you! More is on the way!
This is Gold 🏅your commentary skills are 🎯🎯
Wonderful video!! Lemonade will always hold a very special place on my heart. 🍋👑🐝 Also JayZ’s 4:44 album was highly underrated IMHO
Yes! That album is one of his best - I’m pretty sure he said last year he considers it top 3 in his discography!
what a brilliant analysis of her discography!! new subscriber
Thank you for the sub!
This is such a good analysis!!!
Is there such thing as a perfect video essay? Cause imo this is 👌🏽
This was so good. Thank you.
Amazing job!!! You did that
This was such an immacualte deep dive into bey’s career. I have genuinely learnt so so so much. Saint i thank you for your time and dedication. You are such a fantastic human being, so incredibly smart and wow your personality just shines through so extensively. I loved this so much. Super duper proud of you, please keep it up.
Ose 🥹
this video is so good! thank you so much for sharing it. i want it on the internet history books that i was your 486th subscriber!!
Beautiful❗️I hope she or someone from parkwood sees this 💖
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT dissection of her discography, which I also believe in turn tied into her life and career overall. lol I'm sure that's not what you intended but that's what happened. This also reals another layer of why we love Beyoncé so much because of the authenticity within her artistry, as you said, "She bare it all in her music." She barely lets us TRULY know certain things about her and her family in interviews but she puts it all in her music, but she CODES it and it is the listeners job to DECODE the messages of what she wants the world to know about her through the music. You've got to listen with a FINE TUNED EAR to really sometimes understand what she's really trying to say
Good job! Really interesting!🔥
Wow this video leads up to RENAISSANCE perfectly.
Yes, I try to explain this to people but my words aren’t as eloquent as yours, but I definitely love this analysis…
I loved your interpretation!
Brilliant analysis!
Excellent video essay. I hope she sees it.
And Renaissance I just realized through this video is about Self Love. Wow .
YES and self-acceptance and liberation. A complete different thematic landscape for Beyoncé to explore.
Thank youuu guys cause I was confused 😂😂🤍 but yess Renaissance is about Self discovery and self worth
That was beautiful and so dead on! And you’re right, we are now in a era!
I love this!!!!
Damn this was a good view of her albums and it makes soo much sense
I am not even half way but chef's kiss 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
This is great
I watched this nearly 2 years ago and have been searching for this vid for a couple months now, can’t wait to flick through your channel to see if you dissected Renaissance and Cowboy Carter (which came out last week Friday).
I’ve been working on a huge Renaissance video essay for a few months it just always ends up expanding beyond its remit 😭 I think it will be a track by track analysis
@@saintadamson I look forward to hearing your thoughts!!!
Awesome video bow down!!
This was awesome. New subscriber here!
This video is brilliant
I Love This Video! Great Job! Very interdisciplinary. I Love How you Included interviews and movies. Very inspiring aswell! I do short Review Videos in German on TikTok and you make me think about doing longer Reviews on UA-cam aswell 🙏♥️
My Top 5 Beyoncé Albums
1. 4
2. Bday
3. Dangerously in Love
4. Beyoncé
5. Sasha Fierce
Great choice!
Great analysis, thank you! 👍
Thank you so much for watching and for your comment!
Great analysis
excellent video 👏
Message of the day.
To make pressure of self from things that could've broke you.
To literally harden or define self based on endured trial
Your mouth is your second thought.
Just because you speak never meant you will have something accurate to say.
Speaking is an expression until you think with not only your throat,your vocal speaker....
Its when you think with your throat that speaks the expression that aims and lands on its targeted thought
wow I love this
Can you do more in depth analysis on other musicians such as Frank Ocean, Rihanna, SZA etc? This one was dope 🙌🏾
I’ve been working a WAY more detailed version of this for Janet Jackson for the past 4-5 months. Four parts, coming soon.
@@saintadamson Can’t wait
good work!
Saint, you did a GREAT Job on the analysis of Beyoncé's discography. 👍🏿👍🏿💯
Could you possibly do a analysis on Rihanna's discography too?
Great video ✅
You get it!
I´ve never seen this channel before.
I do love bey and her way of writing and how she approches things, and the way you got into this whole discography without leaving out her as a person, just makes me feel so understood.
In her Music she does give away alot of information. What people don´t realize is also, that alot ot things she is talking about it happend a while ago. So everytime she is presenting it to us, she been trought the emotions. When Sean openly said he cheated and said, someting like "everybody needs their time" or "people are ready to different times" sort of, I knew she had to process it, she wanted to let the world know, but that she gave the paste.
She also has a strong base. She loves life, and her mom really is appreciated. She does idealize Sean, because him and her dad are very similar just from a business point of view and probably the way they are moving. Also I think he is really helping her emotionaly and in the studio, they both have the same hobby, and as you said, he was very open about his emotions as well.. they do really love each other. And just from a standpoint of a woman, I often listened to No. 4, and I felt sorry, because she really is a perfectionist, and didn´t just wanted the relationship go, because of the public or other reasons, but because she dreamed about all of what she has in her life, since she was very young.
AND she was really young when she met him, I seen an interview with her, where she was touring already alone and she was so child like, but on the stage sasha, if she knew it back then or not.
I loved this Video, thank you! Subscribed :)
Bravo.
Dope video
That’s how I feel 😂I can never rank her music (songs or albums).
Same, it’s hard😭💯