Shockwaves surged through fans (and, honestly, the world) when Beyoncé released her eponymous LP, Beyoncé, without any sort of warning. Prior to the drop, the biggest Beyoncé news of the year had been her documentary, Life Is But a Dream, and her Super Bowl halftime show with Destiny's Child. But those happenings couldn't hold a candle to her 14-track collection of bops. The shocking release broke an iTunes record as 828,773 copies of Beyoncé were sold worldwide within three days. And so began the era of "Pretty Hurts," "Drunk in Love," "Partition," "XO," and "Flawless."
The following year, in 2014, Bey celebrated the album's success by dropping Beyoncé: Platinum Edition that included additional tracks, such as "7/11" and "Flawless (Remix)" with Nicki Minaj, which preceded their glorious 2015 collaboration "Feeling Myself."
The remix of "Flawless" particularly caused a stir after Beyoncé cleverly addressed one of 2014's biggest pop culture stories: Solange and JAY-Z's lift fight. Ah, yes, that scandal. We'll probably never know what exactly happened when JAY-Z and Solange got into an altercation at the 2014 Met Gala. But in "Flawless (Remix)," she sings, "Of course sometimes sh*t go down when it's a billion dollars on an lift." Still, we'd like to know what that "sh*t" is. But it'll probably remain one of the greatest mysteries of all time.