Customer Reviews
DAM GOOD!!!! .....No matter what , some of the other reviewers have to say!! 
2007-06-08
If you only like her up beat songs like crazy in love, you do not appreciate her as an artist!. On this cd for me 10/15 tracks are good example, Yes... some people would not think mush of as it is not great song writing but sometimes simple things can work!. I think that is one of the reasons R&B is in the bad state it is in today, as all these record company's want from their artist is to write songs about the same old topics because they think that is what will sell and they brain wash the world into thinking like them,(starting with the teens as these topics are more or less new to them and they forget that people gow up and by the time they get to their late 20't 30't they are fed up of these same topics, especially if they are into the old R&B also) so that is all most people want and other more creative songs, will never be considered to be released as singles, keeping today's R&B down in the rubbish bin. One other example of this (a little better song writing on this one) is Signs, different! new! a great song!( I know of Tyrese's signs, good also).
The other tracks most people know... Be With You, Me Myself And I, Baby Boy, Naughty Girl, Dangerously In Love and Work It Out, more or less in order of quality, bonnie and Clyde with JayZ are all good songs, making this cd a must have.
mixed reviews, I'll give it a 3.5 
2007-04-27
crazy in love, baby boy and naughty girl are the big dance numbers on this album and all 3 were huge hits in 2003 and 2004, but you won't find the rest of the album sounding like those 3 songs. The rest is full of ballads and mid tempo r&b tracks, only 4 to 5 of which I truly enjoy including me myself & I, daddy, be with you, signs, speechless and of course dangerously in love, which originally appeared on the destiny's child survivor album.
If you're a fan of beyonce, I guess you will enjoy this album a lot, but I prefer the B'day album so much more, I can listen to that from start to finish without getting bored, while with this CD I can't sit through the whole thing though the songs I do love are well done.
3 1/2 Stars...Not Great But Better Than B'day 
2007-03-16
I was very anxious about getting this album but it didn't meet up to all the hype it was getting. The best tracks are the ballads "Speechless & "The Closer I Get To You", "Crazy In Love". It was nothing incredible but not a complete disappointment. She's alot better in the group with the material that's presented on the albums especially Destiny Fulfilled. Don't bother with B'day, it only has 10 tracks and doesn't pay to have an album that doesn't live up to the hype.
2nd time buying 2007-01-10
I played the first one so much, I had to buy it again.
Dangerously in love is still my favorite.
Thanks B.
I love this CD, but B'Day is better! 2007-01-07
Beyonce's debut "Dangerously In Love" is amazing. I love "Crazy In Love", and for the rest of the album it is great. But the beat is digital, and it's like Pop music and Beyonce has a R&B/Soul voice, and on her "B'Day" album she shows her vocal talents and I love it!
Great first 3 SINGLES & everything else is just AVERAGE! 2008-05-05
Great first 3 SINGLES & everything else is just AVERAGE!
Beyonce is one of the few artist in R&B that seems to have striked an addiction with fans around the world. She is also one of the few acts where i feel people will run out to buy her CD even if your not a huge R&B fan. I do find her as a SINGER to be very interesting and i like her voice and ENERGY. But i dont like her during interviews because she talks really slow and sometimes so SLOW that she actually makes the interviewer forget what question he initially asked her. That's how long it takes her to answer questions on live TV interviews. She is so powerful at answering slow that she can literally throw you off of track from the main topic. WOW!! With that being said i like her as an artist and she has a fascinating & powerful voice. Crazy In Love is beyond ADDICTIVE when it was 1st released and still is to this day when you hear it. With beats & lyrics like that how can you not want to dance? To top off her successful solo debut her 2nd & 3rd singles were amazing. But that was it!!! Every other song on the album is a DUD! I didnt expect a stellar album but she's a commercial artist so i expected atleast 5 good songs on this album. But only 3 were worthy of being mentioned. 3 stars for 3 great singles and nothing else.
BEAUTIFUL ALBUM!! 2007-11-14
This CD beyonce honey i love it,there is a song in here called speechless that song an how it uses the saxaphone im teling you, baby making music she kinda goes back to the old school love jams type music i love it an then her fast songs are crazy around the time this came out there were no other beats an hooks things like this out at that time, i dont see how you could give this a rating lower than a 4 i gave it a 5 because i truely believe she did her thang in this album i was kinda tired of the dangerously in love some people tend to say she over sings that but other than that beautiful album
Dangerously Lame 
2007-10-16
Dangerously in Love is a terrible terrible album, within an exeption of a few songs.
Beyonce can sing, but what good is her voice when all she's goona do is sing [...] like this.
[...], because the singles you release are HOT!, but when you listen to the album, it just turns out to be lame [...]. Signs and Speechless have to be some of the most annoying songs i've ever heard,
Sorry B. but you are a great performer, your voice is beautiful, but your material is WEAK AND LAME
Very underrated IMO... 2007-10-06
Crazy In Love is hot, as is Naughty Girl, Baby Boy, Signs is great, Speechless is one of the best modern contemporary ballads I've ever heard, Dangerously In Love 2 is better than the original, grew on me and is the second best track here, Gift From Virgo is one of the most insightful yet heartfelt interludes I've ever heard and Daddy and Yes are fantastic. Especially the former.
Yes is great though because it's a kiss off and I LOVE kiss-offs, especially by females. Ne-Yo did one too, on his current album, Because Of You named Go On Girl and is easily one of the highlights of the CD and made a great closer.
To me, this is one of the greatest albums that blends R&B and Pop songs alike. Similar in vein to Brandy's Never Say Never and Tracie Spencer's Tracie album. But Tracie couldn't do it as well.
Favorites in order: Daddy, Dangerously In Love 2, Gift From Virgo, Baby Boi, The Closer I Get To You & Signs.
No filler whatsoever although Hip Hop Star is somewhat of a head scratcher that grew on me lots.
69.75/15 = 4.65
4.65 stars.
Not a prime candidate for a spot in the R&B Hall Of Fame, but at least she beats the crap out of Ashanti 2007-10-05
For me, giving a good review to anything that's less than 10 years old can be difficult, because I do believe that today's popular music has already dug itself into an impossibly deep hole that it will never get out of, and while this album will not change that, it is nonetheless a fairly respectable album from a decent if not extraordinary entertainer. The hits "Me, Myself & I", "Baby Boy" and "Crazy In Love" were fun and catchy tunes that can be enjoyable nowadays since their days of being played out have subsided. Of course, the appeal of these songs and the album is diminished somewhat by the fact that some of them are sample-based, but overall, this album was definitely better than some of its directly competing counterparts at the time.
