B'Day is somehow slept on for whatever reason. The same way people talk about self-titled is how I think they should that album. Every song is a hit.
they did different things, beyonce was like real grown ass beyonce, music got a lot sexier and and she stopped presenting herself as the super perfect media trained artist she had been from DC days to 4, it was a surprise after a 3 year break, which was long for her at the time. plus the whole surprise drop.
bday was a chartbuster (just saw she had 14 different versions of this album

), but it was very expected music expertly crafted by all the top writers and producers, like you better chart well with the dream, neyo, rich harrison, sean garrett, pharrell, dark child and good beat swizz beats all on one album - they made a shiny package of pretty radio songs