"Single Ladies" by Beyoncé

Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

Music Commentary, Music, Musicreviews

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On this episode, Kirk dives into one of the greatest pop songs of all time. STRONG SONGS ON PATREON Strong Songs has a Patreon! If you liked this episode (or, you know, any of them), we hope you'll consider supporting the show. Learn more here: https://www.patreon.com/strongsongs UP IN THE CLUB Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" is arguably the defining song of the last decade, but it's far from your average pop tune. With its unusual tensions and unstoppable groove, it defies safe harmony and resolution, and its composers were more than happy to flip the beat and leave their audience searching for the downbeat. Band/Artist: Beyoncé Album: I Am... Sasha Fierce, 2008 Composed by: Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Christopher Stewart, Terius Nash, Thaddis Harrell Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify NEWSLETTER/MAILING LIST Sign up for Kirk's mailing list to start getting monthly-ish newsletters with music recommendations, links, news, and extra thoughts on new Strong Songs episodes: https://kirkhamilton.substack.com/subscribe STRONG MERCH! Visit the Strong Songs merch store for some very cool t-shirts, mugs, totes, and more: store.strongsongspodcast.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome
0:05.0	Welcome back to Strong Songs a podcast about music.
0:09.0	I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and I'm so glad that you've joined me yet again to go deep into another strong song and talk about what makes the song
0:17.0	So strong if you're a new subscriber and I guess pretty much everyone let's to this is still a new subscriber.
0:23.2	I really appreciate that you have signed up to listen to me every other week and yeah if you
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0:37.5	I'm really counting on word of mouth to get this thing out there.
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0:44.8	think of anybody you know who might like it please tell them so far so I made
0:49.6	this podcast public a couple of weeks ago the reception reception has been really wonderful. Everyone who's
0:54.0	sent a nice note to me or said that they liked the show. I really appreciate it and
0:58.3	and yeah that just that means a lot and it's very very exciting. So this week's strong song is a very strong one and a very
1:06.0	fun one that I've been looking forward to talking about on this show for a little while.
1:09.6	It is a song that you probably know and it really just has one challenge for you and that challenge is this That's right, right, if you like it thing you should have put a ring on it.
1:23.0	Don't be near what you see that you want it.
1:25.0	If you like it thing you should have put a ring on.
1:28.0	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
1:30.0	That's right, if you liked it, then you really should have put a ring on it.
1:34.0	This week we're going to be talking about Beyonce's single ladies,
1:37.0	the full title of which is Single Ladies,
1:39.0	Put a ring on it.
1:40.0	It is an outstanding pop song, and one of the songs that I always think of when people say to me
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