Ok why is Beyonce's corny WACK ass even being mentioned superior to anybody??? songwriter??? my thick boriqua tail...Mariah is cool and I will agree she made her mark...she has just become vocally lazy...and these low self esteem sucka self pitty joints she's writing are not the tea...not to get off subject but Beyonce superior anything???? twisted my wig all back,I am sorry call me deaf but I don't hear it.

VoicesCarry said:

She was on B96 here in Chicago (via phone) last week, and she said that most of the songs on her new albums are ballads. She said that she was trying to find some uptempo songs which go along with the ballads.

Having said that, as much as I love this woman and can't stand all of the hating going on all over this thread, it is fair to say that she has not put out a "masterpiece" album. Granted, she has concentrated on writing singles most of her career, and the biggest complaint I have heard about her has been that her vocals are TPEE (technically perfect; emotionally empty) and her lyrics have been banal. I believe that "Butterfly" was the closest to a complete and emotionally open concept album that she has done, but she has a tendency to be inconsistent. Her best songs (Vanishing, Until The End of Time, Melt Away, Close My Eyes, Petals, Reflections, My Saving Grace) don't even get released as singles, and I think that for the last six years or so, she has gotten lazy and tried to write hit songs instead of something more emotionally honest. I would love to hear her sing an entire album about her emotional travails, and she is extremely capable of doing an album that would put "Ray of Light" and "The Velvet Rope" to shame, but I don't know if she is willing to open herself up to that.

728huey said:

If there are a lot of ballads, then there's hope. But ballad-heavy records often sound too "same-y" and sag in the middle stretch, so we'll see.

I do Butterfly, though. Easily her best album (along w/ her debut and Daydream).

Hmmm, I'd like to see her put an album like "Velvet Rope" & "Ray of Light" to shame.....I don't believe she can do it. Even Christina Aguilera (whose been referred to as the "new Mariah though she favors more Whitney) is writing more mature music than she is. Forget songs like "Dirrty", listen to the album "Stripped" and you'll know what I am talking about. I am dissapointed in Mariah, it sucks having to pimp rappers for hits these days & trying your hardest to fit in with the Beyonces, Ciaras, and Ashanti's by writing 2nd rate material.

Scorpion said:

and there it is!