6 Inch: Difference between revisions

| cover = Beyoncé - 6 Inch.png

| caption = Taken from ''Lemonade'' album booklet

| album = [[Lemonade (Beyoncé album)|Lemonade]]

| writer = {{hlist|[[The Weeknd|Abel Tesfaye]]|[[Beyoncé]]|[[DannyBoyStyles|Danny Schofield]]|[[Ben Billions|Ben Diehl]]|[[The-Dream|Terius Nash]]|[[Ahmad Balshe]]|[[Boots (musician)|Jordan Asher]]|[[Avey Tare|David Portner]]|[[Panda Bear (musician)|Noah Lennox]]|[[Geologist (musician)|Brian Weitz]]|[[Burt Bacharach]]|[[Hal David]]}}

Music producer [[Ben Billions|Ben "Billions" Diehl]] talked to ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' about his work with great artists and mentioned that Beyoncé had already known of a song named "6 Inch" since 2013. According to Diehl, he, rapper [[Belly (rapper)|Belly]] and producer DannyBoyStyles met in October of the same year to work on music. "Originally a Belly song with participation from [[French Montana]]," Diehl said. "We got a response that Beyoncé had liked and then we decided: we should continue working together, I think they get somewhere. It turns out you do not know when that day will come." When a singershe released [[Beyoncé (album)|her surprise visual album]] in December 2013, Diehl was quick to check out athe track listlisting of songs, but "6 Inch" was not there. ''"''Everything went well," Diehl concludes. After three years, in 2016, the song finally came out on Beyoncé's sixth album, ''Lemonade'', with a guest appearance from [[the Weeknd]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Leight|first=Elias|date=2017-01-January 17, 2017|title=Producer Ben Billions on Making Hits for The Weeknd, Belly & Beyoncé: 'If The Artist Loves It, I Love It'|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/producer-ben-billions-making-hits-weeknd-belly-beyonce-7655333/|access-date=2022-02-February 18, 2022|magazine=Billboard|language=en-US}}</ref>

== CriticsCritical reception ==

''[[The Guardian]]'' writer [[Alexis Petridis]] described the song as a "weird, affecting mixture of defiance and vulnerability" on which Beyoncé "slurs and snarls about howbeing rich, and hard-working" in "ominous electronics" sounds.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Petridis |first=Alexis |author-link=Alexis Petridis |date=April 25, 2016 |title='Beyoncé is not a woman to be messed with' – Lemonade review |language=en-GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/24/beyonce-lemonade-review-a-woman-not-to-be-messed-with |access-date=June 5, 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Larry Bartleet ''[[NME]]'' defined the song the "personal track" of the album and the "Beyoncé’s ode to hard-working women".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bartleet |first=Larry |date=25 April 25, 2016 |title=Beyonce – 'Lemonade' Review |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-beyonce-16452-306409 |access-date=5 June 5, 2023 |website=[[NME]] |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Emily J. Lordi of ''[[The Fader]]'' wrote that the song sound "aggressive and lively", believing that it "exploits Hayes' great orchestral work to tell the story of one woman", considering the latter to be "the cleverness" thing as the song "inserts the stories of multiple women into the image of a singular figure".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Emily J. |first=Lordi |date=6 May 6, 2016 |title=Beyoncé’sBeyoncé's Other Women: Considering The Soul Muses Of Lemonade |url=https://www.thefader.com/2016/05/06/beyonce-lemonade-women-soul-muses |access-date=5 June 5, 2023 |website=[[The Fader]] |language=en}}</ref>

!scope="row"|Iceland ([[RÚV]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ruv.is/persona/beyonce|publisher=[[RÚV]]|title= HBeyonce Chart History|date=30 March 30, 2016 |access-date=May 24, 2017}}</ref>