According To Spin Magazine
"COUNTDOWN"
Is ONE OF THE TOP SONGS OF THE
YEAR
Is ONE OF THE TOP SONGS OF THE
YEAR
"The sort of aggressively and joyously avant pop
production that rearranges your sense of time and
space with an effortless hair flip (which is obviously
the product of Olympian training and skill).
"Countdown" is Beyoncé's gangsta throwdown as an
artiste, bumping and grinding and skipping and
skating and caressing and catcalling and bearing
witness all over the beat like nobody since MJ — full
stop. The Afro brass blasts, the minimalist synth boop
boop, the jazzy Boyz II Men breakdown, the
syncopated shiftiness back-to-front. A masterpiece,
with legs for days."
