![]() Even iTunes downloads (an already antiquated form of listening) freed listeners from the old, CD-era burden of having to purchase the entire album just to hear the one song they liked. Streaming, we’ve been reminded time and again, is oriented toward the single. ![]() Sure, in the immediate aftermath, surprise albums became an unavoidable trend, but now it’s also clear that many of pop’s A-list auteurs spent 20 lying low and returning to the drawing board, challenged by Queen Bey but ultimately liberated by the fact that a mainstream pop album could be at once more panoramic and more personal than a collection of would-be radio hits.Ģ016 shouldn’t have been a great year for the album, which is, by so many accounts, a format in a slow decline towards obsolescence. ![]() Beyoncé’s impact was so seismic that it’s taken the rest of the music world about two years to catch up. Pepper’s in the invigorating influence it has had on the shape, scope, and future of the pop record. ![]() As we approach the third anniversary of Beyoncé’s self-titled visual album, it does not feel hyperbolic to compare it to Pet Sounds or Sgt. The 2016 album renaissance technically began in the early morning hours of December 13, 2013, when a former Star Search runner-up from Houston changed the game ( as she’d later put it) with that digital drop. ![]()
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