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BookPrices.net - I Am...Sasha Fierce (Deluxe Edition)
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List Price: $22.98
Our Price: $12.50
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0886974098027
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2008-11-18
Studio: Sony
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Summary: Sasha
Comment: I can't believe she had 70 songs to choose from and she chose these. It is pure garbage. I can't believe she didn't put these songs on one album.I am not going to visit that whole alter ego thing.That is a just a mess. Why the heck is she singing Ava Maria?
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Summary: Exploration for Beyonce
Comment: Beyonce took a chance with this music endevor. But I think it worked. She did what she wanted with the slow ballad type of songs but still gave her hard core listeners what they crave from her.
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Summary: My girl is BACK!!!
Comment: Wow! I'm so impressed with this cd! I've been a Beyonce fan since the days of the first Destiny's Child cd, but along the way she has really come to let me down. I was very happy with her first solo effort and loved the mellow adult groove of that cd. But with the release of B'day I was really left questioning her judgment, her management, and most importantly, her discretion. I really felt like she had to have know that cd was garbage, and that she was simply pandering to a certain youth market audience that she felt was her main "fan base". Well, I think she has since learned that as many 25+ people had been loving her all along, as well as her teen fans, and now my girl has REALLY come with it! I actually was put off from buying this cd earlier after reading several lukewarm reviews on here and not being overly impressed with the song clips. I said to myself, "self, do you really want to put out [...] bucks and be disappointed again?" However, I threw caution to the wind and prayed that perhaps this time she could deliver again. I sure am glad that I did!
Yes, this is Beyonce branching into a new, more "alternative" direction, which many feel is contrived. To me it sounds so pure and clean that if this is contrived, than bring on the fake B! I had really grown extremely critical of her voice, which if anyone who has been lucky enough to see her in concert, knows is nothing short of magical. But after the Dreamgirls fiasco, she began this shrieking/yodeling period, that really made me want to cut my ears off. I even hated Resentment, the song which so many thought was the mature shinning star of her last album. Shrieking garbage if you ask me! I guess Beyonce has been kicking it heavy with her vocal coach though, because I'm happy to report that the voice is back! I'm over the moon! I mean honestly, her voice simply soars on most of the Disc 1 tracks. Namely Broken-Hearted Girl and Smash Into You ( I literally get chills on certain parts of these songs), but honestly there isn't a bad track on the first disc! Really! I never thought I'd live to see the day. In fact, it is so good that it makes you wonder how she came to choose If I Were a Boy to be her first single, because it's probably the worst song on the first Disc, and even it's pretty good!
Second disc, well after being so thoroughly satisfied with the first, I was ok with her having her little club-time/ teeny-bopper album. I was all prepared to not like it, and I was fine with that, because for me she had fulfilled my more "sophisticated" musical needs already. But amazingly, I LIKE IT TOO! WOWsa! I was shocked. Now I'm not going to say that Disc 2 is a complete success, as Disc 1 is, but Diva, Sweet Dreams, Ego (love this one, very cute song) and Scared of Lonely (best on this side) are great. The others are even decent. She sounds a bit insane on the Hello chorus, but after I got over that, I came to like this song too! I don't know if it was low expectations, but I'm just so happy that Beyonce has finally grown and matured her music appropriately. I think releasing the non-deluxe disc was a bad idea (really don't understand that), but the un-abashed Beyonce hate really must end people. I mean come on! This cd is amazing. Anyway, I'm sure I'll swing over to the Keyshia Cole page and see 5 star reviews all over the place for her dud of a 2nd cd...some people just really hate Miss B and all she has come to represent. And that's ok, you don't have to like the girl. Heck, I don't know her, and neither do you guys! But credit must be given were credit is due, and this cd is simply a gem. Job well done Mrs. Carter!
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Summary: One word...TERRIBLE
Comment: I really am a Beyonce fan, but this album totally sucked! This whole "cross-over" thing she's trying to do is only going to make her LOSE all the fans that got her to this point, if you ask me. The first album made me feel so DEPRESSED I had to go pull out my bible and read scriptures to cheer me up! Where's the R&B? Where's the soul? Where's the creativity? Where ever it is, its not on this album. Dangerously In Love was a classic cd! This album here doesn't even come close to making the cut! I hope she never makes another album like this. If you haven't already bought the album, do yourself a favor and don't, unless you like depressing, slow, and alternative music!
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Summary: Finest Since Dangerously in Love
Comment: After taking a year to mature and grow into herself, Beyonce has come back full force showing two new sides of herself, with no accompanying artists or covers in tow (not even hubby Jay-Z!). Beyonce has also found a neat way to satisfy her fetish for separating the up-tempos from the slow songs--a double disk release.
Together the two discs are a collection of Beyonce's highs and lows, honest acoustic accounts of love rapidly transformed into the speaker thumping club hits that make up SASHA FIERCE.
SASHA FIERCE gives the average listener a wave of different sounds to enjoy: from the infectiously complex dance rhythms found in declaration joints such as Single Ladies & Ego, to the Euro pop influenced Radio (my personal favorite) & Sweet Dreams. Moving on to the unapologetically sincere Scared to Be Lonely in which Ms. Fierce bares her heart over a fast paced Darkchild beat to reveal that her innermost fears are not that much different from that of her listeners.
I AM... is basically the polar opposite of SASHA, and introduces the "real" Beyonce to listeners in a set of gorgeous balladry. However, each song has Beyonce crossing boundaries that have previously boxed her in as an R&B soul diva in the past. On one such track, That's Why You're Beautiful, Beyonce sings a highly meaningful adult alternative ballad with much ease, and puts her own soulful edge on the rock-tinged If I Were A Boy, a song which envisions Beyonce as the unfaithful member in her relationship so as to put her cheating man in her shoes.
The acoustic Satellites is a song dripping with depth and pure emotion as Beyonce sings about her life in the limelight. Smash Into U is a truly sweet love song I absolutely adore, and has obvious country influences, however Beyonce makes it her own by embellishing it with her own superior vocal dexterity. Beyonce takes cue from Leona Lewis by singing a charming ballad about the perfect man over a hard beat in the easily likable Halo.
One track that failed desperately was the annoying Broken Hearted Girl; I usually enjoy pieces written by Babyface; however this one is an exception as I mostly just got confused with the lyrics and bored by the melody. Another track that should have been left of the album was the ridiculously trashy nonsense called Video Phone. It makes me sad to think that such trash was left on the disc, when it could have been just as easily replaced by the unreleased gem Why Don't You Love Me, with its mind-numbingly passionate vocals layered over a pulsating drum beat, and lyrics written by Beyonce's younger sister Solange, who also penned the tongue-in cheek lyrics found on Beyonce's urban smash hit Upgrade U.
Other than the two songs mentioned above, I truly love the entire album. I found that a lot of people seem to enjoy the music found on the album, but simply dislike the sequence of songs. I suggest that such people should buy the album and then create their own order for the songs in a personal playlist on their ipods--which is personally what I do for almost every album I buy :O
The overall rating for this product would have been five stars, since this is indeed a very solid effort catering to a whole spectrum of listeners, but I think the decision to release an unnecessary "standard" version of this same album was a very greedy ploy to pry more money out of the hands of unsuspecting customers...hence my ultimate rating is 4 stars. :)
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Editorial Reviews:
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Deluxe two CD pressing containing five bonus tracks. One of 2008's most hotly anticipated album releases, I Am..Sasha Fierce marks the artist's first new studio collection since the Grammy-winning multi-platinum-selling B'Day debuted at #1 on charts around the world shortly after its international release on September 4, 2006. With all songs co-written and co-produced by Beyonc‚, the artist's third studio album is her most personal, reflective and revelatory collection to-date. 16 tracks.
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