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But where Mary J. Blige has made scorned pain her art, Beyoncé delivers heartbreak with purpose: to remind us just how overwhelming love can be. Even her breakup songs are advertisements for romance.

 For Beyoncé, content always trumps structure, and she’s so relentlessly perfect that she’s able to appear to adapt to any sound or scene when she’s really just applying her signature gloss atop it. She’s tough enough for “Run the World (Girls),” which outright pilfers the Major Lazer digital dancehall semi-hit “Pon de Floor” and also coy enough for “Party,” a Kanye West production that recalls the tinny, casual early work of New Edition. “I’ll give it all away/Just don’t tell nobody tomorrow/So tonight I’ll do it every way,” Beyoncé coos, in her best impression of naughtiness.

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Interesting write up by the NYTIMES’ JON CARAMANICA, more here.