German #9: Beyoncé "Halo"

Lady Gaga's Poker Face is now on number 1 for 5 weeks.
Hard to come up with a snappy comment...

Boooooooooooooring!

Beyoncé has made quite a career from pretty girl combo lead singer to increasingly serious artist. When listening to the releases of her latest album so far, If I Were A Boy and Single Ladies (Put A Ring On), this notion becomes again apparent.
Beyoncé has certainly not the voice of a Whitney Houston or the acting talent of a Halle Berry, but she is not doing bad in either category and her flawless looks, nice moves and crowd compatible songs make her face one of the first that comes to my mind when thinking of a black artist in particular and pop singer in general.



If you think about what can be a recipe to write a successful song, Beyoncé is now often relying on slow R&B tunes with longing, melancholic singing.

And so Halo is building on this, too - and is missing yet something more memorable. If I Were A Boy took these ingredients and provided a not new but still engaging angle to classical male and female behaviours (especially in the video). Irreplacable, as another example, had some spice in the lyrics and a good pop rhythm that keeps you going.

Halo lacks such building blocks and hence remains an average and - through its overdone drama - almost annoying song.