Beyonce’s new album “4” isn’t out for another four weeks, but we’re hearing another track today. That’s three and counting.
In another daring feat of Beyonce ballads, the sometimes feminist songwriter unveiled her new this morning: “Best Thing I Never Had.” Channeling her feisty Sasha Fierce, “Best Thing I Never Had” is a love song about not being in love. If she wasn’t madly in love with Jay-Z, we’d think her love life was the most tragic, temperamental experience full of a plethora of abuses prompting Beyonce to take a stand.
A sampling of the lyrics show another fed-up Beyonce:
Per MTV:
“I wanted you bad/I’m so through with it/Cuz honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had/You turned out to be the best thing I never had/And I’m gon’ always be the best thing you never had/I bet it sucks to be you right now.”
With some of her best, most raw vocals to date and the “innovative” subject, this anti-love love ballad should be a winning song. However, there is something about the average mid-tempo beat that puts me into a deep sleep. Unfortunately, the train wreck line of “It sucks to be you right now,” repeated throughout, threatens to ruin the song. That’s some lazy, horrible songwriting right there. Still, it’s definitely worth a few listens and it’s definitely a prime number to be sang into our loafah-mic in the shower or our hairbrush-mic in the bedroom.
Thoughts?
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The song is alright personally I think its better then “Who Runs the World”