Beyoncé, End of Time | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the 54^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2025), we highlight “End of time” performed by Grammy-winning superstar, Beyoncé. 

Bring on the bold, fierce songs! Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 serves up background info and insight into songs of various styles, especially songs that raise eyebrows and stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new.  In the 54^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2025), we break down “End of Time” performed by Beyoncé.

“Come take my hand, I won’t let you go / I’ll be your friend, I will love you so deeply.” Woo! Even music superstars have underrated and undervalued albums and songs. For Beyoncé, that underrated album came in 2011 with 4 (her fourth studio album).  4  was still a massive success for the Grammy-winning diva; it was certified quadruple platinum in 2022 by the Recording Industry Association of America. Yet, for whatever reason, this jam-packed LP seems to get less notoriety.  One of the songs from 4 that I even underrated back during the album cycle was the single, “End of Time”.  I was not the only one not to give the seventh single from the LP love. To be fair, when you’re on an album’s final single, the allure of the project is wearing off. But it is shocking that “End of Time,” which was certified platinum in 2022, failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.  That is very un-Beyoncé-like 👀!

Thanks to our favorite viral app, TikTok, “End of Time” got new life. But, revisiting this song before the addictive, entertaining app, it deserved more love regardless of its virality. Bey, The-Dream, Diplo, and Switch produced this ear-catching number.  What makes it ear-catching, you ask? Primarily, it is the mammoth-sounding drums and those biting, menacing, mean-sounding horns. The horn arrangement is superb. The ear candy is R-E-A-L! Not only does the instrumental scream ‘bold,’ but so is Beyoncé. The girl is F-I-E-R-C-E, fierce, hunty! Following the kick-ass instrumental intro, she impresses with the chorus (excerpted earlier), vowing, “I will be the one to kiss you at night / I will love you until the end of time,” and encouraging him to, “Say you’ll never let me go.” Later, in the breakdown section, she keeps imploring him to NEVER let her go. Bey has love on her mind, encouraging him in the second verse, “Baby, come on, get up on it / Show me that you really want it.” Can I get a hell yeah? More could be said about “End of Time”, but the big takeaway is that this epic pop and R&B should have gotten its ‘just due’ in 2011.  It speaks to the artistry of Beyoncé, who always has many musical tricks up her sleeves.