The Queen B has returned like she never left with continued fierceness on her 3rd album I Am... Sasha Fierce. Beyonce has proven that she can give her listeners what they want, don't want, the unexpected, and more. I Am... Sasha Fierce force feeds its listeners with fresh unfamiliar sounds of folk, soul, and pop music packaged into a double album.
Beyonce always seems to release an album right on time for the ladies to demand nothing, but the utmost respect and treatment from the fellas and send an urgent wake up call to those who need to step their relationship game up a couple of notches.
On her leading single Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) Beyonce blazes the track in her lyrics announcing that going with the flow will not keep your woman around, "Cuz if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it, If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it! Don't be mad once you see that he want it!" On this album she delivers more than enough empowering female anthems like she did on B-Day for the Divas around the world on tracks Diva which is inevitably the female version of Lil Wayne's Milli, Video Phone, where she confidently spits, "Boy you cute and you ballin/ You like it when i shake it/ Shawty on a mission what yo name is?/ What?/ You want me naked?/ If you liking this position you can tape it on ya video phone." The risky lyrics are unlikely to hear from Beyonce, but Miss Sasha is unapologetic about her sassiness.
Beyonce's debut album Dangerously In Love was all about her new found love and discovery of her subtle inner diva, on B-Day she snatched her golden mic and revealed Sasha to the world, and now Sasha is front and center shattering everyone's musical expectations. On I Am... Sasha Fierce Beyonce collaborates with producers and writers Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Stargate, C. "Tricky" Stewart & Terius "The-Dream" Nash, Rodney "DarkChild" Jerkins, Sean "The Pen" Garrett, Jim Jonsin, Rico Love, little sister Solange, and Ryan Tedder.
Songs on Beyonce's I Am... disk reveals a more personal side of the 27-year old newly wed and now she's singing about having found love instead of being in tumultuous relationships with shady dudes where she had to send them to the left. Don't get it twisted because she takes you back to that fierce woman that will check a dude in a minute on songs If I Were A Boy and Broken Hearted Girl. Songs that do the album justice include Hello, Disappear and Ego where Beyonce sings, "He talks like this cuz he can back it up/ He got a big ego/Such a huge ego/ I love his big ego/ It's too much/ He walks like this/ Cuz he can back it up". Is this song about her hubby, Jay-Z? Well, Beyonce leaves that up to her listeners to decide in their analyzation of tracks such as Hello, Halo and Sweet Dreams. The album is very versatile, but could have done without tracks Ave Maria, Satellites, and even Radio.
I Am... Sasha Fierce definitely meets the expectations of her last album and shows that Beyonce-Sasha is unstoppable.
