GOSSIP: Beyonce Wants a Classic Album
Beyonce has said she sought “critical acclaim” with her new album 4 — instead of hit songs for the radio. She told Access Hollywood that she wanted 4 to be a classic album. She said, “I really wanted to make a great body of work and a great classic album, and I focused more on the music from beginning to end. I really wanted to get the critical acclaim.” She continued, “I feel like the longer I do this – I’ve been doing it for 15 years now – No. 1s are amazing, but to see some of the comments that the Rolling Stones and The New York Times and all of these credible, amazing, really critical magazines and papers [are saying] has really made me my proudest.”She added, “Just getting the respect from my peers and reading the really tough, tough critics, them acknowledging my growth and my bravery ’cause that was really what I wanted to do is go against the grain and try to put chords and bridges and lyrics and music back on the radio.” Bey also said that out of her previous albums, she only considers her debut, Dangerously in Love to be a classic. She said, “I think my first album was a classic album. The other two were great, but I didn’t focus on that. I focused more on singles and this time I said, ‘Let me take it back to when people just listened from beginning to end.'”