In the weeks preceding the release of "Renaissance" Beyonce teased the album with the steady stream of glossy, curated portraits of herself that over the past decade have become her signature.īut though she's received wide praise for keeping the world of music videos on the cutting edge, Beyonce put out her latest record sans visuals (they're promised at a later date.) It was a beautiful journey of exploration." 'Expansive listening journey' "A place to scream, release, feel freedom.
A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking."
"My intention was to create a safe place, a place without judgment. "It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving," she continued. "Creating this album allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world," Beyonce on her website.#photo1 The megastar has indicated that "Renaissance" is but the first act of three, in a project she said she recorded over the course of three years during the pandemic. Prior to releasing her opus Beyonce had dropped "Break My Soul" to acclaim, setting the tone for her house revival that highlighted the Black, queer and working-class artists and communities who molded the electronic dance genre, which first developed in Chicago in the 1980s. Six years after she shook the culture with her powerful visual album "Lemonade," Beyonce's seventh solo studio work is a pulsating, sweaty collection of club tracks aimed at liberating a world consumed by ennui.Įminently danceable and rife with nods to disco and EDM history - Queen Bey interpolates Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder along with James Brown and the archetypal synth line from "Show Me Love," the 1990s house smash by Robin S - the 16-song album is poised to reign over the season.
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