I've had 3 days to listen and my verdict is: not good. Her music, in last 5 years has turned into a big therapy session for her marriage. Why 9 tracks only? It looks to me like a TIDAL-promo LP and NOT an album.
I want Beyonce by herself. I don't want Jay-Z. I am not a Beyonce fan because of Jay-Z. I love Beyonce dipping a bit into hip/hop but hip/hop is not why I love Beyonce.

This LP is lackluster, it feels rushed (and this article proves it), and TOO MUCH. Oh my god the amount of autotune is distracting. Beyonce can sing, why so much autotune why? Why? Why? Why?
I'm convinced that they didn't have new music and they saw the complaints (particularly from the American Hive) about wanting new music and they paid a few writers to quickly cook this mess up.

Also, am I the only one who cringes everytime Beyonce does the trap-style phrasing? Beyonce needs to stay away from that trap rubbish. Ew.

I love ONE song, "Heard about us" is brilliant; the beat, the BASS GUITAR her VOCAL runs at the end of the song are AMAZING "if you don't know now you ni**a" but once again even this song is destroyed by Jay's annoying adlibs and unnecessary verse. This song is soooooooooo good.
I want "Dangerously in love" Bey, I want BDay Bey, I want VOCAL Bey, I want acoustic Bey, I want live instrumental Bey, I want RNB Bey, I want mid-tempo Bey but most of all I WANT SOLO BEY!

I downloaded "summertime" and "heard about us" ILLIGALLY because of this stupid TIDAL-exclusive BS. I'm afraid my Beyonce collection will be missing 1 "album"/LP cause I'm not buying this with my money.

All in all the LONG wait for B8 now begins. Fuck this life.