Survivor
(Columbia)
Release Date: 05/01/2001 12:00
LOréal pitchbabe Beyoncé and her supreme flankettes have outstripped the bugaboos, bill collectors and bounced bandmates that might have held them back. Hard as onyx, Independent Women Part II reconstitutes sisterly solidarity as threat, while the mock-opera melody is pulverized by a four-to-the-floor beat-down. Bootielicious manages to be both Christian and sexy thanks to a sample from Stevie Nickss lusty Edge of Seventeen. Aside from disposable ballads and the sappy Perfect Man, Survivor blasts haters, child molesters and been-around-the-block-females, keeping the blood up as they whup ass.