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Listen: Beyonce's new single, 'Girls (Who Run the World)'

How fierce is she?

By Melinda Newman Tuesday, Apr 19, 2011 4:09 PM

<p>Beyonce in January</p>

Beyonce in January

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A week after snippets leaked out, we’re getting a  full listen of Beyonce’s “Girls (Who Run the World)” and it’s clear she’s taking no prisoners. Listen to it below.

For all its sassiness, her mega-hit “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It),” was basically an old-fashioned look at marriage being the ultimate goal. That Bey is gone, replaced by a fierce, trash-talking female, who isn’t looking for man’s proposal to validate her self-worth. Even when she coos “Boy... I hope you still like me,” you know she’s going to throw that boy to the side as soon as she’s done with him.

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Musically,  the Diplo-produced “Girls” is  more of a chant than a song and it feels like it came straight out of Bollywood by way of a very cool sample of Major Lazer’s “Pon de Floor.” (The rhythm sounds more Indian to us, but the video supposedly features 200 female African dancers). After a dozen listens or so, it’s grown on us. At first, we thought it was a throw-away track, but we’re coming around and love the percussive precision and lack of an identifiable chorus. There’s not a lot of build here; it stays at one level from start to finish, but it works.  We also love the part about "Who runs this mutha," which may be the hippest shout out to Mother Earth we've ever heard.

The word is that Beyonce will drop a new album in late June, right around the same time she headlines Glastonbury. 

[Update:  Stream removed upon request of the artist.] Check out this link for a site that still has the single streaming.

 

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    Damon

    SUCKS, but american people loves these kind of shit

    April 19, 2011 at 6:41PM EST Reply to Comment
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      m.seago It absolutely sucks and so do the two other songs that came out. WTF? Who is advising her?

      June 14, 2011 at 1:13PM EST
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    Haiku

    GREAT tune! The more you listen the more you hear how layered it is - there are quite a lot of harmonies going on. The beat is asian, the synths are dance, the lyrics are hip Pop, the bridge melody is R&B etc it's a great track!

    April 20, 2011 at 6:30AM EST Reply to Comment
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    obamarocks

    Everybody go to Youtube. Theres a remix of this single produced by this guy name Fyuchur. Its Hot!! Even her fans love it

    May 10, 2011 at 9:50PM EST Reply to Comment

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