B'Day
by Beyoncé
  • Record Label: Sony
  • Release Date: Sep 5, 2006
User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 722 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 550 out of 722
  2. Mixed: 50 out of 722
  3. Negative: 122 out of 722

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  1. CharlesN
    Sep 6, 2006
    1
    This album truly could have been better,, I gave it a change , a listen and it gave me a refund..
  2. laurenC
    Apr 10, 2007
    1
    Definately her worst album yet. I liked her other ones but this one just didn't cut it. Is she trying to be Thalia now or what?
  3. JennyC
    Sep 16, 2006
    1
    This album is such a disappointment! If you want a Beyonce album, buy Dangerously In Love instead! Don't waste your money on this garbage! There is not one good song, sad.
  4. PhoebeM
    Sep 16, 2006
    1
    Far from the maturity of Dangerously in Love, this incredible vocalist appears to have regressed to the days when shouting through a song and wailing incomprehensibly were acceptable. Beyonce needs to learn fast that she is mistaken. Most of the tracks, with the exception of singles Deja Vu and Ring the Alarm, and down-beat potential single Irreplaceable, are impossible to understand, Far from the maturity of Dangerously in Love, this incredible vocalist appears to have regressed to the days when shouting through a song and wailing incomprehensibly were acceptable. Beyonce needs to learn fast that she is mistaken. Most of the tracks, with the exception of singles Deja Vu and Ring the Alarm, and down-beat potential single Irreplaceable, are impossible to understand, with Beyonce alternately mumbling and screaming her words to no good effect. Most of the songs, even with the lyrics on screen to read from, are nonsensical and pointless at best, silly lyrics with bad vocals over alternately dull and migraine inducing repetitive beats. Her vocals, then, are sub-par too. She knocked this album up in a matter of a few weeks, and it shows. Songs like Ring the Alarm, Suga Mamma, Freakum Dress and the like could easily have been performed by a vocalist of Ashanti or Britney's calibre, and while Beyonce would of course sound better singing them than they would, the fact remains that she is wasting the incredible voice that she was so gifted to have. In the days when her contemporaries are producing major release double disc albums, Beyonce's ten sub-par tunes just aren't going to cut it.… Expand
  5. AlexSans
    Sep 16, 2020
    1
    Este álbum no se merece tener tan buenas criticas porque es un álbum normal sus letras y mensajes repetitivos y nada innovador sus melodías y sonidos igual.
  6. RamesesP
    Sep 15, 2006
    0
    Garbage.. this album sucks..WTF happend to beyonce, she used to be good!!!!!!!!!
  7. Jack
    Sep 5, 2006
    0
    My sister recently bought this album and won't stop listening to at full volume. I can easily say without a doubt that my ears haven't been so fully raped since her last atrocity. Beyonce just another celeb with no talent and only gets by on looks. Avoid this cd at all costs.
  8. GalrothP
    Sep 15, 2006
    0
    In the history of her carreer I have yet to hear such garbage!!
  9. jeff
    Sep 25, 2006
    0
    its sad that this album got good reviews.. since when did syncopated beats and tuneless melodies become music?
  10. CurrentOptions
    Sep 2, 2006
    0
    This album recycles a bunch of old stuff. The album is not creative at all/
  11. lionelb
    Sep 6, 2006
    0
    a terrible album
  12. cleaner
    Sep 6, 2006
    0
    The first thing that grabed me about this album is the name. B-DAY just reminds me of that european bathroom Accessory the Bidet ( pronounced BDAY here in the UK, and they are for washing your bum hole) and strangly enough the album also has the same effect as a BDAY
  13. KatieG
    Oct 3, 2006
    0
    May I give this a double ZERO!!! Horrible album, all that damn screaming, and for what??? Please get a creative side of your own and stop bitting off Janet... I saw you "try" a re-create her rhythm nation routine at the '06 VMA, booo and now you're using the same sound on that ring the alram crap as Janet did on her velvet rope album... Move around and stop swinging on Jay May I give this a double ZERO!!! Horrible album, all that damn screaming, and for what??? Please get a creative side of your own and stop bitting off Janet... I saw you "try" a re-create her rhythm nation routine at the '06 VMA, booo and now you're using the same sound on that ring the alram crap as Janet did on her velvet rope album... Move around and stop swinging on Jay Z's nutts and do something yourself. PS... you fired your dad just like Janet did around the same age.... do your own thing girl and stop bittin'… Expand
  14. ElrondR
    Sep 15, 2006
    0
    Weak.. this album is horrid and shouldnt be purchased.
  15. tarajih
    Sep 16, 2006
    0
    awful pathtic and horrible
  16. keishad
    Sep 16, 2006
    0
    This was a waste of money, there is nothing impressive about this album. My buddys bought the cd before me and told me it was garbage, next time i will listen to them and save my money for something that is worth it.
  17. despor
    Sep 17, 2006
    0
    This album is bad, no good songs and way to rushed. Dont bother getting it when there are far better cd's out that you can get.
  18. Emmanuel
    Sep 21, 2006
    0
    horrible i want my 10.99 back
  19. PostmanP
    Sep 25, 2006
    0
    Trash.
  20. anthonyhildreth
    Sep 5, 2006
    0
    i want my money back KNOW!!!!!!!!!!
  21. DarylM
    Sep 6, 2006
    0
    Word of mouth on this album has been dreadful. Press screening and reviews HAVE BEEN KIND to this album with hopes that it could at least stablize the already dwindling market and 2006 record sales. Also please aquire the correct information , because from what I'm hearing industry experts, and radio stations both think this album is detestable. For instance yesterday on Word of mouth on this album has been dreadful. Press screening and reviews HAVE BEEN KIND to this album with hopes that it could at least stablize the already dwindling market and 2006 record sales. Also please aquire the correct information , because from what I'm hearing industry experts, and radio stations both think this album is detestable. For instance yesterday on Amazon.com(US) Beyonce Bday album was rated at 5 stars(highest rating) with over 30 reviews(Primarly Fan reviews with little or no comment besides "It's Hot" or "I love Deja Vu".) After a 24 hr period on Amazon her album has slipped to 3.5 stars and will be lucky to maintain that,(at the rate of decline it is facing). True fans of Beyonce really should acknowlege this album is rushed and the overall content is atrocious. If not Beyonce may fall into the same hole Mariaih fell into in the med 90's - early 2000 period. Don't get me wrong Beyonce WILL SELL ALOT OF RECORDS, because in the U.S all you need is alittle sex appeal and a large fan-base to go platnium..Record companies manuplaite the public into thinking that their music is marvelous, superb, and praiseworthy!! Realizing the deplorable quality of this album they(Columbia Records & Rodeny Jerkins)are attempting to market it as "Beyonce growth as an artist", "Beyonce's change of style or genre" or the wider known "Beyonce's crossing the musical confines of contempery R&B and Hip-Hop". This is just a commenplace marketing scheme. You listen to it for yourself and youll relaize her eariler work is far superior and more distinguished, then this rubbish. Don't allow yourself to become a mindless victim of pop marketing, you have your own brain(USE IT).… Expand
  22. lianac
    Sep 11, 2006
    0
    Doesn't come close to her debut album. She rushed BDay and it shows
  23. database
    Nov 11, 2007
    0
    Garbage. if beyonce weighed three hundred pounds, and was not good looking, we wouldn't even be having this conversation
  24. Zone111
    Mar 23, 2012
    0
    Not good album.
  25. KingdomHeart
    Dec 15, 2013
    0
    Incorporating elements of Candomblé in his music, Beyoncé makes another major disaster, poorly produced songs and lackluster lyrics, B'Day souounds like an album that Janet Jackson could do when were with diarrhea.
  26. italoverdade
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    a clear copy of which she had already been doing since his time of the group with their backs, dancing scolding wig and fan, nothing innovative to deserve a green note, all I see is too bright and little content.
  27. cuzinho1
    Mar 19, 2021
    0
    It's still a career high, but B'Day could have been released at any point in the last three-and-a-half years and, in a year which has given us tracks like Justin Timberlake's 'SexyBack', it already sounds stale.
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Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. Slant Magazine
    70
    Whereas Beyoncé's debut was accomplished in its diversity, albeit a sure sign of a new solo artist trying to find her voice, B'Day sounds like the album "Crazy In Love" initially forecasted.
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  2. Blender
    80
    B'Day never cools down, and swaety up-tempo numbers prove the best platform for Beyonce's rapperly phrasing and pipe-flaunting fireballs. [Sep 2006, p.138]
  3. The Guardian
    80
    Apart from a few pop-R&B space-fillers, there's not much to dislike about B'Day.
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