"B'Day" is Beyonce's second solo album and is the follow up to her huge first solo album "Dangerously in Love." Prior to her solo career Beyonce made up of a third of American r n b girl group "Destiny's Child" and even from the start was clearly the leader both vocally and talent wise. Her first album found her great success as a solo artist worldwide but even prior to this album being released in the UK there was an immense amount of criticism flying about regarding the quality of it. I was a huge fan of her first album and so decided to have a listen to her second album to see if it lived up to my expectations…

"Suga Mama" is next up and has a somewhat softer, calmer feel than the previous two tracks - it's still one you could dance to but also one I could see myself listening to while in the car. It does sound strangely like "Work it Out" at times and in my opinion is another slightly weak track on the album. "Let me be, I wants to be, gots to be, your suga give mama some suga mama." This is followed by her second duet with Jay Z on the album entitled "Upgrade U." Again I have to add some criticism to this track as it just wasn't really that big a hit with me, it just feels like it's lacking a certain spark that I've come to expect from Beyonce. If I'm honest this is something that I feel with quite a few tracks on the album. In contrast this song is one that I could listen to and is an improvement on the previous two tracks of the album so it does bring some slight relief to the ear drums. "Notice you the type that like to keep them on a leash though, I'm known to walk alone but I'm alone for a reason, sending me a drink ain't appeasing, believe me."

"Freakum Dress" reverts back to the incessant and loud beat that is Beyonce's typical sound on this album it would seem. It could possibly work well as her third single release off this album but I do worry that she faces the problem of all of her singles becoming somewhat monotone. It is more catchy that the previous club beats on the album and I do actually like it, however the whole feel of the track is somewhat samey in a sense to the rest of the album. It's quite simply about a dress she has that "freaks" everyone, "Soon as you saw me, turned on by how the dress was fitting right, short and backless." "Green Light" is next up and was produced by the Neptunes, it's a little immature sounding in a sense to Beyonce's typical sound and does sound more like something safe a newcomer may produce. It's quite slick and could work as a dance track in a club but isn't really one that sticks in your memory once you've heard it. It talks of green in a figurative sense like when she's in a club and someone approaches her and she likes them, "You got the green light, you the king right, you holdin up traffic, green means go."

So what do I think of the album? Well if you regularly read my music reviews you'll probably realise that this one is quite a bit shorter than the normal ones and the reason for that is that I simply don't have as much to say on this one. The tracks don't really appeal to me and I've found it quite hard to give an in-depth review of some of them as quite frankly I don't like them. For me the final two tracks on the album are by far the best which is very unusual, normally the latter tracks of an album are generally the poorer ones.