Beyonce’s ‘I Am… Sasha Fierce’ Turns 5: Stan & Deliver
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4. Broken-Hearted Girl
The Babyface and Stargate-helmed ballad “Broken-Hearted Girl” wasn’t a favorite on I Am…Sasha Fierce for many critics, who called the production “unfinished” and the diva’s normally hurricane-like vocals as sounding “thin”!
But the song’s devastating lyrics and emotive delivery mean that it’s still an exceptional song in its DNA — which is best revealed by Alan Braxe‘s official remix of the song, which transforms it into a French disco masterpiece, all heartbreaking, breathy snippets and wobbly synths working in tandem to make it the ultimate crying-on-the-dancefloor jam.
Leave it to King Bey: For the one song on the record that the haters dared to call conventional, she commissioned a remix that transformed it into one of the best songs in her whole oeuvre.
