'' Vibe '' ranked " Ring the Alarm " at number forty-eight on its list of the Top 60 Songs of 2006 , complimenting the vocal distortion and the way Knowles shouts on the chorus and the hook . Frances Romero of '' Time '' listed " Ring the Alarm " at number nine on her list of the Top 10 Angry Breakup Songs of the 2000s decade , writing : " Critics had mixed feelings about the song ... In the end , what it does show is that Beyoncé will have her way . " Staff members of Pitchfork ranked the song on their list of The Top 100 Tracks of 2006 at number eighty-five . The song was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards ( 2007 ) but lost to Mary J. Blige 's song " Be Without You " ( 2005 ) . Jody Rosen from '' The New Yorker '' credited the jarring timbral and tonal variations on the song for giving a new musical sound that did n't exist in the world before Knowles . He further wrote , " If they sound ' normal ' now , it 's because Beyoncé , and her many followers , have retrained our ears . " On their ranking of the best singles of aughts , '' Slant Magazine '' included " Ring the Alarm " at number two-hundred-and-twenty-six
49th Annual Grammy Awards
49th Annual Grammy Awards
Ring the Alarm