Dangerously in Love.
| Beyonce
Dangerously in Love.
Dangerously in Love is the debut solo studio album by American singer Beyoncé. It was released on June 17, 2003, through Columbia Records and Music World Entertainment. During the recording of Destiny's Child's third studio album Survivor (2001), the group announced that they would produce solo albums to be released. Recording sessions for the album took place from March 2002 to March 2003 at several studios, during the hiatus of her then-group Destiny's Child. As executive producer of the album, Beyoncé took a wider role in its production, co-writing a majority of the songs, choosing which ones to produce and sharing ideas on the mixing and mastering of tracks. -Wikipedia
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Slant Magazine
Dangerously in Love, explodes out of the gate with the aforementioned hit, two Middle Eastern-infused club tracks (the vampy “Naughty Girl,” in which she delivers a convincing impression of Donna Summer, and the dancehall-meets-ragga “Baby Boy”), and a hip-hop/rock hybrid worthy of N.E.R.D. (“Hip Hop Star”).
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The Austin Chronicle
in order to keep pace with peers like Mya, whose excellent Moodring explores its author's erogenous zones even more graphically, Miss B needs to quit daydreaming about Jay-Z and get back down to the business of being bootylicious.
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NME
Not, by any means, a disaster. More a cruel glimpse of a talent that occasionally blazes but is frustratingly inconsistent.
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BBC
Knowles co-wrote and co-produced nearly all the tracks here (and least we forget nearly all of those with Destiny's Child too), and despite commendable attempts from her soul sisters, Kelly and Michelle, to prove otherwise, there's only ever gonna be one winner in the Queen of Destiny's Child sweepstakes & and her names Beyoncé.
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All Music
Still, the first half is good enough to make Dangerously in Love one of the best mainstream urban R&B records released in 2003, and makes a strong case that Knowles might be better off fulfilling this destiny instead of reuniting with Destiny.
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Sputnik Music
When it’s all said and done, Beyonce’s debut album is easily her weakest, lacking the ambition and visceral emotion of her latest release, and even the spark of maturity present on its successor B’Day. It’s a bit dated sounding, and it’s definitely top heavy, but overall, it’s a pretty enjoyable album. If you enjoy laid-back R&B, there’s plenty of that here. If you enjoy bristling and creative pop numbers, well, there’s four of them right there at the front. You can take out the CD after that.
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The Guardian
Perhaps inevitably, the desperate urge to cover every musical base from dancefloor to soul-ballad means that there is barely a track here with any distinctive identity or even a tune.
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Uncut
Initially electrifying, ultimately frustrating solo debut by Destiny's Child mainwoman.
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