Beyoncé: I Am… Sasha Fierce

By Colin McGuire

A so-so double-disc that would have been better served cut in half. [6 February 2009]

Beyonce: B-Day

By Mike Joseph

I still think that Beyonce has a perfect masterpiece in her, but I guess we'll have to wait until the next album to find out. [11 September 2006]

Beyoncé: Dangerously in Love

By Mark Anthony Neal

Sound Affects: Why Sasha Fierce is more than just “the female version of the hustler”

Seeing these moves come home confirms that they’ve always been the source of B.’s latest trends. This pop diva has managed an effective way of reproducing stardom, like Madonna, mining our dance floors, hiring us sissies to teach them how to assert their masculinity and femininity at the same time. [7 April 2009]

Sound Affects: ‘Irreplaceable’ & more attacks on love

We live in a world were the love ethic is under attack from all sides, not lest of which is its commercialization and commodification, or even distillation down to the romanticized romantic view, providing plenty of excuses for acting unloved, satiated with material possession. [16 February 2009]