Destiny Fulfilled
- Destiny's Child
- Band Name: Destiny's Child
- Record Label: Sony
- Release Date: Nov 16, 2004
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80While it's no surprise that Destiny Fulfilled showcases advanced production values, the songwriting and vocal abilities are just as impressive. [Jan 2005, p.81]
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70The lyrics veer towards simplistic, but Destiny pull it off, mainly through muscular production and stunning vocal interplay. [Jan 2005, p.97]
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The singers balance resilience with vulnerability, worldly desires with divine aspirations, but the material is simply overblown, puffed up with soap-bubble ideas and endless repetition. [14 Nov 2004]
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There are simply too many stodgy slowies. [13 Nov 2004, p.57]
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60It's fun enough, until the interminable breakup theme that drags down the second half. [Dec 2004, p.136]
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Often moves at a molasses-like pace, weighted down with a preponderance of exquisitely executed but ultimately dull ballads. [26 Nov 2004, p.117]
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50The thing is, charisma and human warmth – or at least a plausible facsimile of them – are vital to the success of a ballad. And the bald fact is that Beyoncé and her handmaidens are utterly incapable of faking sentimentality.
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Unlike many R&B artists, Destiny's Child are actively bad at singing ballads, which mostly turn out mawkish, aimless and dull.
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The album winds up sounding too reserved and heavy-handed, which makes it a disappointment not only compared to what the group has done before, but also to what the girls have achieved outside the group.
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50The first word that comes to mind while listening to Destiny Fulfilled is: boring!
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A surprisingly perfunctory disc that never quite justifies its existence. [22 Nov 2004]
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40Feels for the most part like a vanity side project from Beyonce's solo career. [Jan 2005, p.115]
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40It's disappointing to find a glut of songs seemingly calibrated to appease the demographics. [Jan 2005, p.126]
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Despite a handful of strong cuts, Destiny Fulfilled sounds like the kind of album you make when you're saving your best material for your next solo album.
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40Once you get past the first two songs - the fantastic, legs-in-the-air Lose My Breath and the juddering Soldier, featuring rapper Li'l Wayne - you're stranded on a huge landmass of ballads.
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Destiny Fulfilled sounds distant and detached, and its pronounced ballad-fancy only occasionally raises a flag for the group dynamic it serves to restore.
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Destiny Fulfilled starts off pitifully and only gets worse.
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papib3Wack album.
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