Eras Analyzed: Beyonce's Self-Titled
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Today we're talking Beyonce's self-titled album, which we all know was dropped with no warning or announcement whatsoever. It's one of Beyonce's darkest and most experimental record yet, containing songs about her relationship with Jay-Z, motherhood, and her career. We'll talk singles like Drunk In Love, XO, Pretty Hurts, and Partition. We'll also talk about other poular songs on the album like Flawless and Blow. And then of course, we'll talk the Mrs. Carter World Tour, the On the Run Tour, and some of the controversy caused by the singles. It's one of Beyonce's most memorable works and eras for several reasons, including the surprise release, popularizing visual albums, changing album release dates to Fridays, and of course the infamous Grammy snub where Beck took home the Grammy for album of the year over Beyonce.
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Beyoncé’s self titled era is one of those eras that you just had to be there! this was the era that solidified her as a legend! at the time artists were just dropping bunch of singles but Beyoncé was able to release a whole body of work with visuals for every song
so true 🔥
That’s the era that made me a fan ! At 13 years old 😭.. I’ll never forget my reaction to Drunk In Love & On The Run PRT 2
Yes! I still remember where I was when I found out it dropped. Legendary.
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This album release is enough proof that there will never be another Beyoncé. At least not for a *very* long time. Her vocals, dancing, performance, and mystique cannot be replicated. Literally changed the game. The visuals. The surprise. The spectacle. The Friday release. The classy raunchiness. The glamour. The surfbordt. None of the newer girls are touching her on her worst day!!
Also Haunted and Mine are *criminally* underrated.
the surfbordt 😂
And jealous!!!
Haunted is my fave Bey song closely followed by the Flawless Nicki remix ❤️
Omg i Love this álbum but the vídeo of haunted really scares me so much. 😅
God bless the SURFBOARDT! 🙌🏾
THIS album propelled Beyoncé to the top of the pack. She was solidified as the queen after this. It took the industry a MINUTE to regroup after this release
This comments is 🎯
This album unfortunately came out when I was in middle school, so the themes and impact went entirely over my head. Now, I look back at this era as a grown woman who has been educated in feminist theory and more experience under my belt, and I'm so grateful for this project. It was a risk, but it was well worth it. There's something so fierce, unapologetic, feminist, and sexually liberating about this album.
Okay yesss I had to grow into this album a little too. Feel like I could just start listening to Blow a couple years ago wo feeling weird 😭
It annoys me how much people deny Beyoncé success/impact on the music industry. She continues to follow her own rules, puts meticulous effort into her music and creates a universe for people to enjoy that most artist lack
i’ll never forget when this album came out. i remember being surprised by how forward beyonce was with her confidence, vulnerability and sexuality😭 but it still holds up extremely well (much like a lot of her albums lol)
I remember when self titled drop,radio stations were playing it non stop especially Drunk in Love,Partition,7/11,and Flawless. This solidified her as a living legend. The drop was definitely a culture reset to the point it changed the typically dropping date for albums. (Haunted,No Angel,and Jealous are underrated bops)
We will be needing a Lemonade era analyzed at some point. Thank you!
Was looking for this comment before I said it myself!
I still remember waking up and everybody talking about a new Beyoncé album. At first I didn’t believe it but when I saw it was real I WAS GAGGED! It was one of the biggest pop culture plot twist. We can still feel the impact and aftershock of this release
Yesss!! And it was so fun seeing people’s thoughts come out real time bc everyone was just trying to catch up and digest the album!!
As a big Beyonce fan, I'll never forget that entire year before the album dropped. She dropped the "Grown Woman" song with the Pepsi commercial, "Standing On the Sun" with the H&M commercial , the GQ magazine cover and the Superbowl. I think initially the album was supposed to had came out around the time of those advertisements and there were rumors that she scrapped an entire album that she had recorded. Then she was on the Mrs Carter Tour that would have supported the record. So us fans had no idea when the album was coming after all the events and promo had passed. Then she did the surprise drop and shocked everybody. With the lukewarm reaction to 4, I was surprised and happy to see the new direction that she was going in. She made the right decision because self-titled was a success! 😁😁😁🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
The album that got scropped was in 2010 before 4. The Dream confirmed years ago that she had basically recorded an entire album with afrobeat sounds inspired by the worlk of Fela Kuti who pioneered the genre in the 70s End of Time was one of those songs that ended up on 4. That was the direction she was initially going for
This album cured my postpartum depression!!
Lol im being dramatic but backstory my son was just born and was often very sick and I was so tied up with being a new young single mom, with a sick baby I loved so much and postpartum issues- my friends invited me to a night out. I didn’t want to go but my brother said I can use his new studio beats. I listened to this album in commute on the Ferry to hang out. I remember looking out to the water listening to this masterpiece. I felt like a kid again just listening to some dope ass music with not a worry in the world. That moment of joy made me optimistic for the first time since my son’s birth and now My son is now a big handsome 10 year old and his dad and I got back together and stayed strong. I don’t attribute this to Beyoncé in the way that she fixed everything😂 I just remember life turning around for me after this album
Strange attribution I know but Thankyou Naomi for helping me relive that moment with this awesome vid 🤍
Ah this is beautiful!! I’m glad things are working out ♥️
Shes been snubbed 3 times now for record of the year. The audacity... with that said. Self titled was really a reset and solidified her place as a legend. There was no denying at that point
I remember. She literally started a wave with this album, so many artists tried to drop surprise albums after that, but it just wasn't hitting the same or doing the same numbers!
She really said "here y'all go" and dropped it out of nowhere
😂😂😂😂😂❤ what a legend
Self-titled came out at a time in my life when I felt "asleep". I grew up in the suburbs in a low income household, all at a time in my life I didn't really have any dreams or goals. When this album came out, it was so sudden and striking. It really woke me tf up. Everything about self-titled was so different to what I knew about my then boring life. This album changed my life. I felt liberated. I felt like I had a life I needed to live for. Also, this album also came out at a time I was settling in to my sexuality. There were countless "sexual" music, of course. But Self-titled felt natural, like it's innate in human beings. Self-titled was my awakening in so many ways.
I remember being awake watching videos that my sister sent me from Beyoncé’s Dec 2013 concert in Chicago when she dropped this album that same night. The surprise release alone revived the trend of those types of releases but having MVs for every track was pretty unprecedented. The performances, the energy, the fashions, you really just had to be there
I was just listening to this album a few weeks ago and fell in love! This album was so experimental! And i never noticed how much i was sleeping on HAUNTED, and PARTITION!
ICONIC era, she changes the albuns format with this álbum. I absolutely love and respect Beyoncé.
Merry christmas Naomi. ♥️🎄
Merry Christmas 🎄
This is my favourite Beyoncé album. Everyone knows the phrase "i woke up like this", it's iconic. Also so many other celebs would drop "surprise" albums in the years after - but Beyoncé did it first! She's a true icon.
Naomi gave us as an early Christmas gift with this video lmao
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This album is when I actually became a beyonce FANNN in middle school 😭 drunk in love had me in a chokehold
Not me fulling living through this era as a music stan just learning about how Drunk in Love started as a Future song, and it’s actually…good??? Why am I such a Future apologist 😫 also Justin Timberlake should be publicly grovelling at Bey for his only positive contribution to society, that bucket beat 📣
Right!! Had no idea either
I was sleep at midnight but I was a 16 year old Sophmore walking into school to them already singing what I now know was Drunk In Love lol literally HAD to be there and old enough to remember
Right it was still a school night but boyyy what a surprise to wake up to!!
I'll always remember this album drop. it was the end of my first semester of college, I had a horrible year, and it low-key saved my life
this era turned me into a certified beyoncé stan at 15 years old 🐝🩷 so iconic and game changing it’s definitely my favorite album!
I’m significantly older than you Naomi (I’ll be 48 in May)…but I love how you speak to all ages.
I do remember exactly where I was when this album dropped and I’ve been obsessed with it ever since. I’ve had “Grown Woman” playing on repeat since it appeared on iTunes.
I don’t have much to say but I just wanted to leave a comment saying I support the wonderful work you’re putting out. Great job, as always, lil sis💕
Thank you so much 💕
Fun Fact: Standing on the sun was Originally used for her H&M line promo
The amount of people who think Caroline Polachek is some random popstar who just spawned out of nowhere is amazing.
Like she has been here for a lot more than a decade
I love Caroline Polachek! You should check out her most recent album: Desire, I Want to Turn Into You. It's no surprise that Beyoncé has worked with her, Beyoncé has and still does work with the best of the best in the industry to help realize and create her vision to the best possible outcome 💚
Yep, No Angel is an absolute banger. I only recently on the album's 10 year anniversary found out Caroline wrote it and was even involved in the album. It made total sense.
Yesss need to get into that album! I love the cover
This is my all time favorite Beyonce album and era. My favorite songs were dunk in love, jealous, pretty hurts, xo but the entire album had bops. I still think the whole visual album was her best. I remember the shock and excitement of her album release and Good Morning America doing a segment on it. This was the moment I thought Beyonce is an artist.
Beyoncé is a genius with this album. That album was a masterpiece. She changed the game with self tittle. It had no promotion but still selling millions with this album,that's so iconic. This is a great body of work. Because of her,people are releasing albums on Fridays.
This album was for her, and the tracks that weren’t chart toppers still remain talked about. I personally love Haunted and Standing on the Sun those songs resonated with me. Hearing about how we wanted to be desired and her full self while going through postpartum makes me appreciate this era. S/o to 7/11, Blue, and Pretty Hurts too. Amazing tracks
Unforgettable! Definitely a culture shifting event!
Yesss so many memes and social media moments came from this album!!
This is my favorite Beyoncè album! So glad you covered this.
Her selft-titled album will always remain iconic i swear, she gave us her sex appeal, her freak side and and her emotional side as well. She has always been versatile on what she did.
But people think taylor is better
Freaking crazy
Beyoncé changed the game forever back to back with Beyoncé and lemonade
Taylor is sooooooo Mediocre and especially since I can name and remember some other country girls that can sanggggg her lil a$$ under the table and frfr have better voices and albums and Leann Rhimes is one, Carrie Underwood, Shania Twain, Reba Macintire are a Few to start with🤌🏾👌🏾👏🏾🤷🏾♀️😂😂😂 TAYLOR WHOOOO🙄🤔😳🫢🥴😂😂😂
This was a phenomenal album, it’s the album that made me into a fan of Beyoncé. I was at home on Tumblr at midnight and saw the tracks doing second by second and it was chaos. What a great night
I feel this way about Lemonade! It shifted everything imo. More bold, vulnerable and the visuals complimented each other.
Also female celebrities face mass scrutiny which leads to deep insecurities so she’s not going to change how she approaches beauty over night, it’s a process
Also maybe she stopped looking good for others, ain’t no shame in looking good for yourself and being comfortable in taking care of yourself, it’s not out of pain but out of health physically and mentally
The era is my favourite of hers, it felt like a whole rebrand. The surprise release with a music video for every song on release was iconic. It paved the way for lemonade. She’s the reason people put out albums on Fridays.
This is my favorite B era. The drop by itself can never be repeated (I do remember where I was when it happened). I loved some songs on first listen and others grew on me by time, resulting in me loving almost every track (even the Platinum edition with Standing on the Sun remix). The production is SUPERB. She managed to express her sexuality raw and classy at the same time. The budget for all video's was big and HOW did she manage to keep filming and recording a secret. Plus The Mrs Carter tour 'part 2' with the addition of the new songs was my favorite concert ever (the run the world opening, the Blow and Yonce choreo). Plus her VMA performance was also my favorite (the pole dancing with the lighting, the girls with the golden legs on the stairs). This area was peak Beyoncé for me personally with her Virgo eye for detail, even the pink font. 'Yonce Yonce, are you happy to be in Paris?'
I remember being in Tumblr and every part of that site exploding with excitement, I had to translate what were they talking about (I only could understand Beyoncé) because I didn't knew how to read english back then. Oh that album is an experience is my favorite even if I am Sasha fierce made me her fan (listening her singing in spanish is a gift) but Beyoncé the album did truly mark me.
I think even if she was one of the greatest pop stars before, her self titled album put her in legend status. She can do whatever she wants and it will turn in gold.
Yes loved seeing all the GIFs/ lyric dissections on tumblr
I always forget how much I love XO because it makes me cry it is so beautiful but also sounds sad opposed to something like halo. you explained it perfectly. i really do rem where I was when I heard self titled for the first time but you appreciate it when you're older and even more now that you explained things I missed. also that future / drunk in love trended on tiktok for a whileeee.
I have to say that one of my favorite Beyoncé albums is her self titled album. It was one of the most exciting albums she’s released and really fun to listen to. I still listen to it till this day. From beginning to end. One of her best work in my opinion 💛🐝
I hate when celebrities make those apology “statements” either properly apologize or leave it alone
I was in the 8th grade when self titled dropped. I used to watch the Today show before going to school everyday & they announced that the album came out then I spent the whole day at school waiting to get home to hear it. I made this very youtube account to watch the snippets of the music videos that day. Pretty Hurts & XO were 13 year old me’s anthems. Fast forward 10 years & I finally got to see her live for the Renaissance tour🥹
Also this album being the reason music is released on Friday 😭✨ ICONIC
though now being a recording Artist myself Tuesday is low-key the best day frfr
I was a junior in High school, the morning that it dropped. Not everybody knew at that point but i was getting my life in the hallways that day 😂😂😂
I definitely had to put on my Pirate hat to listen but the original transitions from Yonce to Partition ✨ literally awakened my love for Music theory.
"BOW DOWN 🍑" Ok if Mother says so, we bow down
This was the album that made me join the beehive! She broke the world when she dropped this outta nowhere
The challenger sample in XO is actually insane 😭😭 reminds me of the 9/11 diva performance she did
been waiting for this one!! truly her best era and best album in my opinion. i just wish i was older when it came out. middle school me was hype tho 👏🏾
Beyoncé's self titled changed the game! I'll never forget the day I woke up to the news of Beyoncé having dropped her album, with 17 music videos!! 🎉🥹
An AMAZING ERA!!
This is definitely a Christmas treat ✨️ Thank you!!! Also this is one of my favorite albums of all time because of how memorable and beautiful the whole project is. Love it! 🩵
Such a wonderful, thoughtful, & informative review.
I was in my room, 19 yrs old, I had just came home from overtime at work and was checking for her album information almost daily at this point because I was anticipating it all year. I was so tired and literally had like $21 in my account, & suddenly it dropped everywhere and I spent the last of my money for that week on the album immediately. I just so happened to open up social media right as it all happened. Will literally never forget.
Self titled is my 2nd favorite album of hers. Renaissance knocked it out of it’s longstanding 1st.
i haven’t been a viewer for long but i love watching your channel grow. thank you for the frequent uploads naomi!!
Thank you for watching 🫶🏾
This is a great video! I wasn’t paying any attention to pop music when Self-Titled dropped -I’m the same age as Beyoncé, and I had just moved to a new country to start a new job - but I’m eternally grateful for my friend who visited me in January 2014 and gave me a copy of it. I’ve been a fan ever since.
Loved this video-thanks algorithm! Very happy to subscribe.
This album will always be my favorite album of all time in my life. Just so amazing..
Nooo naomi how you described xo is literally what i feel when I listen to that song. It somehow has a bittersweet feeling in a sense that it feels sad even tho the production and lyrics says otherwise.
Definitely remember where I was when this dropped! I was home and on my laptop! This was ICONIC! Still a favorite Beyoncé album! You DID that! 💖✨🙌🏾
I was in high school when this dropped lol. It made such a big splash, most memorable songs were drunk in love, partition, 7/11,flawless. I also remember being confused when lemonade dropped not too long later
Self-titled made me a Beyonce fan. It was my playlist as I applied to graduate school. I love it.
I was on my couch. I think I had just woken up from a small nap and I remember it clearly that day I had let my sister borrow my laptop. She took it to her house then I immediately called her and told her to download this album for me on my laptop back then you know it was connected to your phone so I had it on my phone too lol. Pretty Hurts is my favorite song off of Beyoncé. And I always quote "what is your aspiration in life? My aspiration in life is.... to be happy." Because that's all everybody wants at the end of the day.
Pretty Hurts is one of my faves off this album
This was a very well done video, Naomi!! I also didn't know that there was so much controversy involving this album, so it was good to know!
I’ll never forget this album drop!! Such a wonderful surprise 😍🥰
Ring Off, Haunted, n Blue are my absolute favs from the album🖤
Man, I remember exactly where I was when I heard this album dropped, down to where I was standing in the room 😆 I had just gotten into school, as soon as I heard, my 18 year old fingers were clicking and clacking on my iPhone 5S searching for the album on Apple Music. Good memories 🤣🤣
I was just listening to this album the other day (after not doing so for a long time) and honestly it still sounds as fresh as it did the day it released.
The industry was never the same
for me it's the most friendly to listen to album from B. I was there when it was a surprised, but due to that I am on many forums and reddit I kinda knew
This is the album that brought me back to Beyoncé and solidified me as a fan as I wasn’t too crazy about I Am Sasha Fierce and Four, though there were individual songs I liked. I didn’t play those albums forward to back like Dangerously and BDay.
When self-titled dropped my little sister called me screaming in the middle of the night and I got up, bought it and watched the whole thing at like 2am even though I had work in the morning. Good times. I was out of my parents house finally and in my first real true love adult relationship with the man I am now married to and am close to Beyonces age so really identified with the feeling of maturity and becoming grown having been listening to Destiny’s Child since I was also their same age.
I actually think Rocket and Blow were underrated and remain two of the best songs she’s ever made.
I was just listening to this album on my roadtrip last night and was just in awe at how amazing this album still is!
She dropped this on my bday 😊
happy birthdayy!!! 🎂🎂💞
She dropped lemonade on mine!!
@@naomi.cannibal ahhhh! Yasssss
Ooh, I can't wait to watch this video! 🫶🏾
This was so good🥰
I was at Disney world with my family and i happened to wake up in the middle of the night and saw self-titled dropped on IG. Went to the lobby of the hotel and got on a computer to but it. Great album.
Do lemonade next. That album was beautiful and sad.❤
she changed middle schoolers lives!
YESSSS this is the true Era for Beyoncé where she became a legend. The sound, the visuals, the vibe, the theme and messages behind all the song
*chef’s kiss. This is when I became a huge fan. In my opinion , Beyoncé could’ve retired after that album and that would of solidify her legacy.
OMG IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS THANK YOUUUUU 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
still my favorite Queen Bey era 💜
THIS WAS SUCH A GOOD VIDEO
Always has and always will be my favourite Beyoncé project 💗🖤
Having a video for every song on the album was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
You did great on this video! I’ve been subscribed for about a year now, I look forward to each Saturday for your uploads.
Thank you ♥️
Naomi, that little tidbit about your friend at the end made this deep dive x10 more special - love that bow tie at the end ♥️
Love love love these eras videos!
I’m glad 🫶🏾 they’re so fun to do!
As always Naomi well spoken coming through on point well structured and resourced 🔥
Where was I you ask 😈 well let’s just say I got a baby for partition and one for drunken love 😅 I was busy 🤣
2 souvenirs from the era!! I love it lol
A special time. I remember one of my friends posted about it on fb...yeah people still used that back then lol...and I thought he was playin. I immediately bought that shit and was in a group chat will all my gays that night. We were texting each other all night watching the videos together remotely. I remember at work all week, I would watch the videos in the car on my phone on my lunch break. hahah a time to be alive. AND I thought damn, this is incredible, she'll never be able to outdo this....then lemonade dropped...and then renaissance dropped. How she continues to outdo herself, I can't comprehend, but I am here for it and my standom just gets deeper and deeper each year.
PS - thank you for this. that breakdown of "XO" had me in my feelings. Always loved that song but the deeper meaning you associated it with loss added an extra element to the song 🥹❤
YES!!!! So excited to watch this one on lunch break. ♥️♥️
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This is why the world started calling it "Beyoncé's internet". ONLY Beyoncé could drop an album with NO 🙅🏾♀️ promo, NO 🙅🏾♀️ press runs, and do SOOO well.
This is the reason why I feel that she the only artist to be compared to Michael Jackson
This album is when she threw away commercial Beyoncé and went niche.
A lot of white america rejected this hip hop less pop ballad version of her
And she hasn’t has as wide appeal since
However lovers of music have loved her more and more since
19:46 "Bow down bitches" was actually a mantra she came up with for herself after she gave birth and read a disrespectful article about her. A lot of people felt that her career was going to decline after 4's poor sales and because she was now a wife and a mother. She surprise-dropped the song on SoundCloud out of anger, and I think it translates so well into the rest of the era/album. Flawless in general perfectly encapsulates why she put out the album in such an unconventional way, she was sick of the expectations put on her as a female pop star who are often victims of ageism and sexism once they've settled down
second love all you videos💗💗 top 3 of beyonces albummm
I’m sorry, did you say 10 year anniversary?!?! 🤯🤯🤯
can’t believe it either
When the album released I was barely getting into music and everyone screaming about (at the time) This Beyonce Girl I was very confused. So when I queued up the album I wasn’t expecting much but left absolutely in love.
Had a 10ish year old me shouting “DRUNK IN LOVEEEEE” and singing about being a mother.
Which followed the trend of me going back into her discography (including Destiny’s Child) and I was having a grand ol’ time.
Now Yonce remains one of my top artist EVER.
please do pink friday and roman reloaded
Waiting for this deep dive🥰
please do a video analyzing a whitney houston era