Beyoncé. You done lost-yo-mind.mp3 with this B’Day 20th anniversary release

Beyoncé is releasing a 20th anniversary edition of B’Day, which is really cool. But the package is a little bit of a weird mess. Which isn’t cool. But the original release of B’Day — for those who remember it well — was a bit of a weird mess. So I guess it’s fitting that its anniversary release would be too.

The 20th anniversary edition of B’Day releases on 4th September and will come in 3 versions.

• The deluxe 4 disc vinyl with 27 songs and a photobook.
• The standard 2 disc vinyl with 15 songs.
• A CD with 15 songs.

Beyoncé - B’Day (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) | Parkwood / Columbia Records

Below is the tracklist for the deluxe edition. Only tracks 1–15 feature on the standard edition.

1. Déjà Vu
2. Get Me Bodied
3. Suga Mama
4. Upgrade U
5. Ring the Alarm
6. Kitty Kat
7. Freakum Dress
8. Green Light
9. Irreplaceable
10. Check on It
11. Beautiful Liar
12. Flaws and All
13. Resentment
14. Listen
15. Morning Dew (Donk)
16. My First Time
17. Can I Watch You
18. Welcome to Hollywood
19. Lost Yo Mind
20. Creole
21. Back Up
22. Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix)
23. Irreplaceable (Irreemplazable)
24. Amor Gitano
25. Listen (Oye)
26. Beautiful Liar (Bello Embustero)
27. Get Me Bodied (Mueve el Cuerpo)

So, there are a couple of weird things about this anniversary release. First off, is that it features the song “Morning Dew (Donk)”, which was originally recorded during the sessions for Beyoncé’s 2013 self-titled album. So including it on a B’Day re-release is…a bit weird. Secondly, despite a self-titled leftover being included on the album, a song from the B’Day sessions which had featured on the original deluxe edition of the album (the Darkchild produced “World Wide Woman”) is absent. Thirdly, is that the branding of the album is in the style of Beyoncé’s act albums — which makes sense, but also doesn’t. And last of all, the deluxe anniversary edition is only available on vinyl, as the CD version is the standard anniversary edition. But in all honesty, releasing the standard 20th anniversary edition of this album on CD at all is crazy, because the original deluxe edition of B’Day not only features a decent chunk of the songs on the 20th anniversary deluxe edition, but it also includes “World Wide Woman” and ALL of the music videos, and you can still easily buy it now.

Beyoncé - B’Day (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) | Parkwood / Columbia Records

It seems that Beyoncé and Parkwood think that the act i, ii and iii branding is enough of a selling point for fans who bought Renaissance and Cowboy Carter and want visual consistency in their post 2010 Beyoncé collections. And this line of thinking isn’t wrong. There are fans out there who will absolutely dig this branding choice and like that they can put B’day amongst their copies of Renaissance of Cowboy Carter. But I do wish that the tracklisting for this release was a bit better and featured more of what we hadn’t heard before. The tracklist for this 20th anniversary deluxe edition would have been fine in 2026 had we not gotten the OG B’Day deluxe edition back in 2006. This 20th anniversary edition of B’Day should have featured at least one other previously unreleased song and some remixes. Also, where is “Suena la alarma”? There should not have been editions of this anniversary release without the full 27 songs. The ‘deluxe’ in the deluxe edition should have just been the photobook, the vinyl colour and maybe 1 or 2 extra songs.

And if Beyoncé really wanted to include B’day in the Yoncé Cinemactic Universe, she should have included dance remixes of B’Day songs in the vein of Renaissance and country remixes in the vein of Cowboy Carter. If you’re going to fold B’day into the world of those albums, then run all the way with it. B’Day is the one Beyoncé album where you could so easily re-work songs into the sounds of Renaissance and Cowboy Carter — because all of the songs are loud, dancey and pretty twangy anyway.

I already own the deluxe edition of the OG B’Day, so I for sure will not be buying this. This anniversary release is just too low of an effort for me. Beyoncé already done pissed me off with how awful the physical release of Cowboy Carter was. I still don’t own a physical copy of the album, because I refused to buy the sloppy Beyincé edition, didn’t wanna pay hundreds of pounds for the ‘official vinyl’ version (which shoulda been the initial release) and the re-release was on vinyl only when I wanted it on CD.

If Beyoncé does anniversary releases for her other albums, I hope she does them better than this.

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