BEYONCE

Beyonce. Need I say more? Always incredibly bootylicious!

Crazy In Love

The remixes are pretty fun, but I think I prefer the single version above all. I was never really into Beyonce, or Destiny's Child for that matter, but this song's really infectious and the message is cool. ^_^ Pretty cool song.

Halfway There

Beyonce', marketed and produced to appear to be the new Janet Jackson, is a better singer than JJ by about a million miles.

It is her marketing and production team that is crippling Beyonce's artistic arc. The marching-band-on-crack horns on "Crazy In Love" are fantastic, but the decision to drop in the now-obligitory ABAB rhyming of Jay-Z brings the record to a stumbling end. Even worse are the mumbled ramblings of P. Diddy (or P-Daddy or Puff Daddy or whatever silly name The Most Overrated Man In Show Business is going by these days) on "Summertime." It could have been a nice record, but the King of Self Promotion killed it.

Beyonce' needs to set aside the pseudo-Janet Jackson pretentions and kick the washed up rappers off of her records before I'll be able to take her seriously. If she must ape another musician, Diana Ross would make more sense. Beyonce' may have the pipes to pull it off.