I guess I'm just stuck in an old way of thinking but I was really hoping for more solidly structured songs with easily definable hooks and melodies. Granted I only caught the last 20 minutes of her HBO mess, I wasn't really floored by anything I heard.
This is probably just my nature but I really tend to cringe when people get all deep, so those spoken word segues and things in the video had me leaving the room

. Then again that could just be my issue, as a lot of other people seem to live for it. To me it's just doing the most (I HATE the Long Distance phone convo intro so I'm not just shading Beyonc?).
I like that she's being creative so I'll probably purchase when it's physically released. Maybe without the visuals I'll like the songs more.
Call me old fashioned but I miss technicallyperfectrobotonce