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So good, so good, so good: Destiny’s Child’s greatest songs – ranked!
As their classic album The Writing’s on the Wall turns 25, we appraise the best of a girl group whose futuristic sound still sounds fresh – and who gave the world Beyoncé
Amid the Survivor album’s Stevie Nicks samples and futuristic beats, Brown Eyes is an old-fashioned pop-R&B ballad that wouldn’t be out of place on Mellow Magic – tellingly, it was co-written by Mariah Carey’s longstanding collaborator Walter Afanasieff. Home to the oddest lyric in the Destiny’s Child oeuvre – “Starin’ at me, had my nostrils open wide” – Apple Pie à la Mode is fabulous nonetheless: super-cool, low-slung funk with a supremely creative vocal arrangement that weaves the three singers’ contributions intricately around each other. The album version is great, but the take on Through With Love you want is the one recorded live on the Destiny Fulfilled tour: wind machines turned up to full, gospel choir on stage and – for once – Williams’ super-powerful testifying vocal stealing the spotlight.
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