B'Day

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共27首歌曲

艺人: Beyoncé
语种: 英语
厂牌: Columbia Records
发行时间: 2006年09月04日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

这张《B'day》是Beyonce的第二张个人专辑，由于在她25岁生日当天发行，因此这张专辑被命名为《B'day》。在发行首周，《B'Day》以近期罕见的54万1千张的单周销量轻松获得冠军。这个成绩不仅比本周的亚军专辑高出了近40万张，也比她本人的首张专辑《Dangerously in Love》高出了22万多张。在日益萧条的美国唱片市场，54万1千张这个数字真是相当难得，当然，这也反映出Beyonce目前在美国的人气。就连花蝴蝶玛丽亚·凯丽（Mariah Carey）去年大获成功的专辑《The Emancipation Of Mimi》在发行首周也只是卖了40万零4千张。与此同时，在本周的R&B/Hip-Hop专辑榜中，Beyonce的这张《B'Day》也同样毫无争议的夺得冠军。Beyonce的首张个人专辑是2003年的《Dangerously in Love》，发行首周同样在Billboard 200专辑榜中问鼎冠军，首周的销量也达到31万7千张。

在《B'day》的制作名单中，我们意外的发现Jay-Z并没有出现在制作人名单当中，他只是作为嘉宾，与Beyonce对唱了主打单曲《Deja Vu》和《Suga Mama》，Beyonce不仅一人担任专辑的制作人和执行制作人，而且还亲自负责混音的工作。但敏感的歌迷一听这张专辑马上就能够感觉到Beyonce受男友Jay-Z的影响是很重的。虽然只是在两首歌中出任Rapper，但Jay-Z对Beyonce这张专辑的影响是显而易见的。在我们的印象中，《Suga Mama》中的Beyonce才是我们最熟悉的，这更像她以前的风格，而在《Get Me Bodied》和《Ring The Alarm》等一些歌曲中，无论是曲风还是Beyonce的演唱都比她以前的歌融入了更多Hip-Hop的元素。另外，虽然主打单曲《Deja Vu》在各大排行榜中的成绩还算不错，但这张专辑中并没有一首像Beyonce以前的《Say My Name》或者是《Crazy in Love》那样比较出众的单曲。

At least one tactic or event preceding the release of Beyoncé's second solo album inspired a bemused three-syllable exclamation from anyone who was paying attention. The lead single, the late-'70s-funk-inspired "Deja Vu," had the audacity to not be as monstrous as "Crazy in Love" -- its stay at the top of the charts was relatively brief, so clearly there was evidence of some drop-off there. This was quickly followed by "Ring the Alarm," an angered, atonal, and out-of-character song with an accompanying video that invited all kinds of perplexed analysis, along with debate on whether Beyoncé was being autobiographical or, as the singer claimed, channeling her Dreamgirls character. All of this gave the haters plenty of ammo when anything less than 100% polite, ladylike, and expected was bound to do the trick. Add to this an album title that can be pronounced just like "bidet," along with the advertisement that the album's ten songs were whipped up in two weeks, and you have yourself a career-killing train wreck. B'day isn't even close to that. While Beyoncé does sound like she's in a bit of a hurry throughout the album, and there are no songs with the smooth elegance of "Me, Myself and I" or "Be with You," it is lean in a beneficial way, propelled by just as many highlights as the overlong Dangerously in Love. Two collaborations with Rich Harrison swagger and preen: "Been locked up in the house way too long/It's time to get it, 'cause once again he's out doing wrong" (the blaring/marching "Freakum Dress"); "Don't give me no lip, let mama do it all" (the spectacularly layered "Suga Mama"). The Neptunes assist on "Green Light," an ambitious, fleet-footed number that continually switches tempos and sounds, as well as "Kitty Kat," a deceptively sweet, rainbow-colored track -- where what sounds like purrs are more like claws-out dismissals -- that could've been pulled from one of the first three Kelis albums. And even with an entirely bonkers line like "I can do for you what Marvin did for the people," "Upgrade U" is the most potent track on the album, a low-slung Cameron Wallace production where Beyoncé wears and buys the pants while making her proposition sound more like empowerment than emasculation. If the circus surrounding this whole thing -- which could take up to ten pages to -- was an elaborate ploy to transform Beyoncé into an underdog, there really is some kind of genius at play, but it's extremely unlikely that anyone in her camp could've predicted that the expectations and reactions would be less rational than any of Beyoncé's decisions and actions. There is nothing desperate or weak about this album.

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