Sasha Fierce Has Arrived

Beyonce's third album, the amazingly titled I Am...Sasha Fierce was released Tuesday. Surprisingly, I'm not going crazy over the album. It doesn't have the singles Dangerously in Love had (the classic Crazy in Love, Baby Boy, Naughty Girl) or the consistency and lack of filler that B'Day had. I usually adore Beyonce's upbeat numbers, but only a few have grabbed me on this new album. The slower songs are quite good though. I don't like how she split the album up into ballads and upbeat songs. I know she's trying to make a point, but it's kind of silly. People want a mix of ballads and dance tunes on pop records or in my case, all upbeat tunes. I love my Beyonce though, and I admire her for the risk she's taking. She's expanding her horizons. I'm liking Halo, Disappear, Ego, Scared of Lonely, Sweet Dreams, Radio and Single Ladies at the moment. The other songs on the album just didn't really jump out at me. The rest of the ballads sounded kind of the same and could have been sung by anyone. Radio, Scared of Lonely, and Single Ladies are great though. Radio and Scared of Lonely are very modern and of the moment especially the screechy synth laser sounds in Radio. I also love how Scared of Lonely has this hard bouncy walking beat. Single Ladies is a dazzling, dizzying mess of fierceness, sassy lyrics, and hard-hitting, super fast, back-breaking, workout-inducing beats that works pretty darn well. It's super catchy. The video is also amazing with the sick nasty choreography and crazy silver glove. It really shows how talented Beyonce is. The video for If I Were a Boy is even better. It's truly moving and enhances the song, giving it more meaning and context which is rare for a video to do. I watched her AOL Sessions and her voice is just crazy good (obviously). It can soar or it can have grit as she shown in a cover of Etta James' At Last. The photo on the left was taken at the AOL sessions. I love it. It's simple, and I love the Suga Mama in the background. All my love Sasha.