Beyonce

Beyoncé's already dealing with leaks ahead of her "Renaissance" album release, and now she's facing accusations of theft from Kelis ... who says she had no ...

The eclectic singer also claims she wasn’t notified prior to the album announcement, having to learn about her inclusion as if she were a normie. The track "Energy" samples Kelis’ "Get Along With You," which The Neptunes produced for her 1999 debut album -- so, the song's understandably close to her heart. Beyoncé’s already dealing with leaks ahead of her "Renaissance" album release, and now she's facing accusations of theft from Kelis ... who says she had no part in clearing a sample for Bey's record.

On her unapologetically escapist seventh album, the pop superstar unleashes everything from disco bangers to global house hedonism.

Her sense of freedom throughout is palpable, and an infectious spur to action. She samples 90s drag artist Moi Renee, categorises herself as a “bad bitch” on Alien Superstar, and steps into an affectedly poised, staccato delivery on Pure/Honey. It’s knowingly done – her instruction “get your money money, cunty hunty” just about skirts caricature for humour. I feel a renaissance emerging, and I want to be part of nurturing that escape in any way possible.” But Renaissance, for the most part, ventures beyond pastiche into far more eclectic, adventurous territory – a fine soundtrack for a feral summer of chaos and joy. Where initially many people were baffled by the anticapitalist sentiment of Break My Soul given Beyoncé’s evidently very commercial enterprise, her claim that she “just quit my job” finds context here. She sells it (certainly better than Drake) thanks to her convincing vocal power: beautifully melismatic on Virgo’s Groove, commanding on Move, channelling her Houston roots in quick-fire bars on the ferocious, exhilarating breakdown on Heated.

The singer's seventh studio album, “Renaissance,” is fast approaching, and Queen Bey has been sprinkling a trail of breadcrumbs leading to its release. On June ...

“I’m tellin’ everybody, everybody.” —”Heated” —”Move” —”Energy” On Wednesday, however, the album reportedly leaked online approximately 36 hours before its scheduled release. A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking.

Kelis put Beyoncé and Pharrell Williams on blast Thursday for sampling one of the singer's songs without her permission or even advance notice.

“It’s called thievery because ... the definition of collaboration, it means that we are working together,” she added. “My mind is blown too because the level of disrespect and utter ignorance of all 3 parties involved is astounding,” she wrote in the comments of the fan account’s post. “The reality is, all of this female empowerment, it only counts if you really do it,” she said. He does this all the time, it’s very petty,” she said, while insisting that she is not jealous of Beyoncé. “If you’re really living it and walking the walk. I have the right to be frustrated,” she said in the first video, just hours before Beyoncé's new album is set to be released.

Minutes before the album's release Beyonce, posted to Instagram thanking fans for their "love and protection" following the reported early leak of ...

While Beyoncé has a songwriting credit for every song on the new album, her decision to tap many collaborators for the project is in keeping with her past work.

One only need look as far as “Break My Soul,” which credits house legend Robin S., thanks to an interpolation of the synths from her oft-sampled song “Show Me Love.” While the interpolation itself is fairly subtle, Beyoncé shows an admirable dedication to giving credit where credit is due to the artists whose work has touched her albums. Sampling and interpolation have now become mainstays of the music industry, especially as hip hop and R&B, genres that have long relied on samples as part of the craft, have become more mainstream. The most surprising of the songwriters might just be the polarizing indie rocker Father John Misty, who got connected with Beyoncé through the producer Emile Haynie (also a credited songwriter on the track). Father John Misty ended up writing the first verse and the catchy “jealous and crazy” refrain. However, the songwriting credits for rapper Soulja Boy probably best epitomize why contemporary music, especially hip hop and R&B with their heavy sampling and interpolation, has so many songwriters. That album boasted 72 songwriters in addition to Queen Bey. The sizable number spawned many a think piece and even a questionable meme, with detractors making the case that Beyoncé’s creative talent or finished project was somehow diminished by working with multiple collaborators. A single which dropped in June, “Break My Soul,” suggested that the album might be strongly influenced by house music.

More than six years after the lauded visual album Lemonade, Beyoncé returns, evolves and responds to a very different world.

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Kelis shared some heated words after finding out that one of her songs was sampled on Beyoncé's new Renaissance album. Find out why she considers the sample ...

There's no working together if you are not even checking to see if everything's cool," she added. "It has to do with the fact that, from one artist to another, you should have the decency and common sense and the courtesy to call." In Instagram videos shared on July 28, Kelis said that Beyoncé " should have at least reached out" to her about sampling her song.

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“I can be the one that takes you there/I can be your ecstasy,” she sings on “Virgo’s Groove” while inviting the lover she’s relaxing with to lift her blouse. “I like it rough,” she lilts on “Plastic off the Sofa.” For “Heated,” she flirts, “Now I want to flaunt it/Panty and a bra/We can get involved.” She also seemingly references chemical substances. However, she also clarifies on “I’m That Girl,” “Don’t need drugs for some freak shit/I’m just high all the time.” “Comfortable in my skin/Cozy with who I am,” she sings on “Cozy.” “Paint the world pussy pink.” “I just fell in love/I just quit my job,” she sings. (As with everything Beyoncé does, this one verse generated Great Resignation headlines by itself.) Meanwhile, on “Energy,” she rhymes, “I just entered the country with Derringers/’Cause them Karens just turned into terrorists.” “Just know I roll with them goons/In case you start acting familiar/This kind of love, big business,” she asserts in a sung-rap flow. Songs like “Halo” and “Irreplaceable” remain some of the most treasured numbers in her extensive catalog. Just as the interpolation of Robin S.’s “Show Me Love” in “Break My Soul”promised, Renaissance has melodies that hearken to peak hours in club history. No one expects Honey Dijon — the famed DJ who co-produced “Cozy” with another Chicago house legend, the delightful oddball Green Velvet — to throw on a beat-stopping ballad in the middle of a Boiler Room set. “Crazy in Love,” “Baby Boy,” “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” “Love on Top,” “***Flawless”: there are too many classics to list here. From the instant hit “Break My Soul” to her photo shoot for British Vogue and making physical copies available for pre-order on her website (sorry, they’re currently sold out), the release of Reniassance has been one of the more refreshing, and exciting, rollouts of the past year.

"Act I" of Beyoncé's seventh studio album, recorded over the last three years of pandemic life, has just gone live.

Really, what could say “I desire a release from ennui” like riding through the universe on a horse made out of the galaxy brain meme? Said themes include a general desire for freedom, escape, joy, and other reliefs from the monotony that we imagine gets down even those of us who happen to be Beyoncé; of course, you didn’t really need us to lay that out for you, since all those ideas are perfectly encapsulated in the album’s cover. More specifically, she’s released Renaissance: Act I, but since this thing is 16 tracks long, we’re going to go ahead and take it as qutie a bit more than a prologue.

Beyoncé's seventh album, "Renaissance," is a 16-song opus that delves into sex and self-worth, all while beckoning listeners onto the dance floor.

“Summer Renaissance”: Beyoncé wraps her ambitious opus with a nod to Donna Summer as a sample of “I Feel Love” swirls in the background. “Plastic Off the Sofa”: Beyoncé’s tremendous vocals are showcased in this pretty package of soulful nostalgia that cools down the tempo with woozy guitar strains and angelic backing vocals. “Energy”: A spicy banger that features Jamaican rapper Beam and samples Kelis’ 1999 song “Get Along With You,” which has incited some controversy. “America Has a Problem”: The most intriguingly titled song on the album includes production from The-Dream, a co-write by husband Jay-Z and a jittery hi-hat powering the production. “Move”: With guests Grace Jones (!) and Nigerian singer Tems backing her, Beyoncé is strident and fierce. “Alien Superstar”: Synthesizers creep in the background of this futuristic romp that is lyrically rich and musically zigzagging.

Kelis reportedly did not approve of Beyoncé using a sample from her 1999 hit “Get Along With You” on 'Renaissance.' The Neptunes' Pharrell Williams and Chad ...

In 2020, she revealed to the Guardian that she allegedly did not make any money from the sales of her first two albums, which were produced by the duo. Kelis, known for hits like “Bossy” and “Milkshake,” is publicly criticizing Beyoncé for not receiving a heads up that her 1999 song “Get Along With You” was being used on the Renaissance cut “Energy.” But the issue is larger than just the one track: Kelis is also criticizing the Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, who she worked with on her first album, for not crediting her to begin with on the original song and then, 20 years later, using it without even notifying her. The R&B singer soon commented on the post, expressing her disbelief: “My mind is blown too because the level of disrespect and utter ignorance of all 3 parties involved is astounding. In a follow-up post, Kelis said that “all this female empowerment stuff only counts if you really do it if you’re really living it and walking the walk” and then noted the hypocrisy when it comes to Williams and music ownership, citing a Variety interview where Williams championed artist rights and ownership of their work. Kelis called Williams “petty” and that he “does this shit all the time” in order to spite her. It all started on July 25, when a Kelis fan page on Instagram posted that Beyoncé would be sampling ”Get Along With You,” thus breaking the news to Kelis herself.

The artist's first record since Lemonade has been met with a blockbuster response – and a spot of controversy.

In a Guardian interview from 2020, Kelis claimed she was “blatantly lied to and tricked” by her early collaborators the Neptunes and, as a result, “made nothing from sales of her first two albums”. In a Vulture interview earlier this year, Hugo brushed off the comments: “I heard about her sentiment toward that. House musician Robin S, whose track Show Me Love is sampled in Beyoncé’s Break My Soul, has said she was also unaware of the usage before the single’s release – though she received the news more positively. “I appreciate you for calling out anyone that was trying to sneak into the club early.” “I can’t thank y’all enough for your love and protection,” she said. A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. A place to scream, release, feel freedom.”

Il y a toujours, dans l'art du sampling, une forme d'hommage rendu aux compositeurs et interprètes des oeuvres originales. L'énumération des chansons ...

Sur Pure/Honey en fin d’album, c’est Miss Honey (1992) de Moi Renee, considéré comme un hymne de la scène ballroom new-yorkaise de l’époque. Avec succès, déjà : la chanson Break My Soul est maintenant en 7e position du Hot 100 de Billboard, son meilleur succès populaire depuis Drunk in Love, paru en 2013. Cela m’a permis de me sentir libre et aventureuse au moment où rien d’autre ne bougeait », a déclaré la diva dans un message publié hier à propos de cet album hédoniste, rafraîchissant et joyeusement sens dessus dessous, qui amalgame presque cinq décennies de musiques de club, du disco au drill, du house au hyperpop.

More than six years after the lauded visual album Lemonade, Beyoncé returns, evolves and responds to a very different world.

"A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. She addressed the leak, and the backlash from patient fans it received on social media, in a post just ahead of the album's actual release, writing: "I appreciate you for calling out anyone that was trying to sneak into the club early ... we are going to take our time and enjoy the music." Ha! And to feel as unique, strong, and sexy as you are." "My intention was to create a safe place, a place without judgment," Beyoncé's statement on her website reads. On her website, Beyoncé wrote of Renaissance, "This three act project was recorded over three years during the pandemic. Beyoncé's long-awaited and highly anticipated seventh studio album, Renaissance, is now available for the world to hear.

Beyoncé dropped her seventh solo album, “Renaissance,” on Thursday night as scheduled, calling out those who leaked the album two days early.

Late last month, Beyoncé surprise-dropped “Break My Soul,” the first single from the album. "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.

The pop star's seventh solo album is “Act I” of work born during the pandemic, a time she “found to be the most creative,” she said in a statement.

“He was my godmother and the first person to expose me to a lot of the music and culture that serve as an inspiration for this album,” she wrote. The performance was later turned into a Netflix special and an album, both titled “Homecoming.” In an explanatory statement posted to Instagram last month that Beyoncé expanded on her website on Thursday, she said “Renaissance” was part of a “three act project” she recorded during the pandemic. A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. She announced the album more than a month ahead of time, did an interview with British Vogue, put out the single “Break My Soul,” revealed a track list and finally began posting on TikTok. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” she added, thanking her followers “for your love and protection.”

Beyonce, seen here performing in 2016, just dropped her new album. (CNN) You should know by now that a Beyoncé album release is ...

Witnessing his battle with HIV was one of the most painful experiences I've ever lived." "I appreciate you for calling out anyone that was trying to sneak into the club early," she wrote. "He was brave and unapologetic during a time when this country wasn't as accepting. This is a celebration for you." So much to digest, so much to dissect and so much to dance to. "I've never seen anything like it.

Six ans après «Lemonade», devenu un classique, les fans ont retrouvé leur reine, «Queen B», en pleine Renaissance, titre de cet album de 16 morceaux destinés à ...

Beyoncé a l'habitude de créer l'événement et la surprise dès qu'elle sort une oeuvre. Parmi les collaborations de l'album, figurent Nile Rodgers, Skrillex, Grace Jones, et, évidemment, son mari, le rappeur et homme d'affaires Jay-Z, avec lequel elle forme l'un des couples les plus glamour et les plus influents de la culture populaire. «Faire cet album m'a permis de rêver et de m'évader pendant une période effrayante pour le monde.

Six ans après «Lemonade», devenu un classique, les fans ont retrouvé leur reine, «Queen B», en pleine «Renaissance», titre de cet album de 16 morceaux destinés ...

Parmi les collaborations de l'album, figurent Nile Rodgers, Skrillex, Grace Jones, et, évidemment, son mari, le rappeur et homme d'affaires Jay-Z, avec lequel elle forme l'un des couples les plus glamour et les plus influents de la culture populaire. Beyonce a l'habitude de créer l'événement et la surprise dès qu'elle sort une oeuvre. «Faire cet album m'a permis de rêver et de m'évader pendant une période effrayante pour le monde.

On her 2016 masterpiece, Lemonade, Beyoncé gifted us with a stunning “visual album” that was at the vanguard of Black contemporary art — an aural analog to ...

The cleverly titled “America Has a Problem,” which samples from Atlanta rapper Kilo Ali’s 1990 song “Cocaine (America Has a Problem),” is a cool-as-the-inside-of-an-ice-cream-truck banger, driven by stark chords and jittery drums, wherein Bey talks up her addictive properties (”I’m-a make you go weak for me/Make you wait a whole week for me”), insinuating that when a bossed-up Black woman is as swaggy and on-point as she always is, that’s a threat to the very power structure in this country. But for the woman who coined the actual Webster’s term “bootylicious” some 20 years ago, “Thique,” with its would-be salacious references to “that jelly, baby,” “that candy-girl piñata,” and “that oochie coochie la la” come off a tad trite, as if Beyoncé absentmindedly consulted some instant IG caption generator. And she sings with plain-spoken passion, confessing later on that “I think you’re so cool, even though I’m cooler than you,” while sounding flirty and down-to-earth, as if she’s just some regular woman enjoying her baecation, and not the most famous singer on the planet in a state-of-the-art home with multiple Basquiat paintings hanging on its walls. On the languorous “Plastic on the Sofa,” Bey croons, “I love the little things that make you you,” over lilting bass and sunny guitars whose warm Seventies aura recalls peak Minnie Riperton. It’s a heartfelt ode to everything Beyoncé loves about being in love. Most captains of industry with roughly the same net worth as Bey will tell you that coolness doesn’t scale — you can’t do Kmart numbers if the very “it” factor to your boutique brand is owed to its exclusivity. On her 2016 masterpiece, Lemonade, Beyoncé gifted us with a stunning “visual album” that was at the vanguard of Black contemporary art — an aural analog to curator Kimberly Drew’s beloved Tumblr theme around Black artists.

A roundup of the songwriters who collaborated with Bey on 'Renaissance' -- and the songs that are sampled or interpolated on the album. By Joe Lynch ...

WRITTEN BY BEYONCÉ, DENISIA “@BLU_JUNE” ANDREWS FOR @NOVAWAV, BRITTANY “@CHI_CONEY” CONEY FOR @NOVAWAV, TERIUS “THE-DREAM” GESTEELDE-DIAMANT, LEVEN KALI, MIKE DEAN, ATIA BOGGS P/K/A INK, LEVAR COPPIN, SALIOU DIAGNE , RICKY LAWSON, DONNA SUMMER, GIORGIO MORODER, PETER BELLOTTE CONTAINS SAMPLE OF “COCAINE” WRITTEN BY TINO SANTRON MCINTOSH AND KILO AND PERFORMED BY KILO ALI. PUBLISHED BY OLIK MUSIC (BMI), SANTRON PUBLISHING (BMI) Renaissance was preceded by “Break My Soul,” a house-indebted anthem of resilience featuring frequent collaborator Big Freedia, which hit No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. WRITTEN BY BEYONCÉ, MICHAEL TUCKER, DARIUS DIXSON, MICHAEL POLLACK, DENISIA “@BLU_JUNE” ANDREWS FOR @NOVAWAV, BRITTANY “@CHI_CONEY” CONEY FOR @NOVAWAV, TERIUS “THE-DREAM” GESTEELDE-DIAMANT, RAPHAEL SAADIQ, MOI RENEE, ERIC SNEAD, JEREL BLACK, MICHAEL D COX , KEVIN MARQUIS BELLMON, ANDREW RICHARDSON, COUNT MAURICE "Thique" CONTAINS AN INTERPOLATION OF “OOO LA LA LA” WRITTEN BY MARY CHRISTINE BROCKERT, ALLEN HENRY MCGRIER AND PERFORMED BY TEENA MARIE. PUBLISHED BY MC NELLA MUSIC (ASCAP), MIDNIGHT MAGNET MUSIC PUBLISHING (ASCAP). CONTAINS AN INTERPOLATION OF “MILKSHAKE” WRITTEN BY PHARRELL WILLIAMS, CHAD HUGO AND PERFORMED BY KELIS. PUBLISHED BY WATERS OF NAZARETH PUBLISHING (GMR), EMI POP MUSIC PUBLISHING (GMR) AND UNIVERSAL MUSIC – CAREERS (BMI). CONTAINS A SAMPLE OF “EXPLODE” WRITTEN BY ADAM JAMES PIGOTT, FREEDIE ROSS AND PERFORMED BY BIG FREEDIA. PUBLISHED BY ADAM JAMES PIGOTT PUBLISHING DESIGNEE (BMI) AND GIRL DOWN (BMI). CONTAINS ELEMENTS OF “SHOW ME LOVE” WRITTEN BY GEORGE ALLEN, FRED CRAIG MCFARLANE AND PERFORMED BY ROBIN S. PUBLISHED BY EMI BLACKWOOD MUSIC INC (BMI) AND SONG A TRON MUSIC (BMI). CONTAINS A SAMPLE OF “EXPLODE” WRITTEN BY ADAM JAMES PIGOTT, FREEDIE ROSS AND PERFORMED BY BIG FREEDIA. PUBLISHED BY ADAM JAMES PIGOTT PUBLISHING DESIGNEE (BMI) AND GIRL DOWN (BMI). "Heated" Check out our ranking of the Renaissance tracks here and see which songwriters Beyoncé collaborated with on each of the 16 songs on Renaissance below. WRITTEN BY BEYONCÉ, RICHARD ISONG, ARIOWA IROSOGIE, DENISIA “@BLU_JUNE” ANDREWS FOR @NOVAWAV, BRITTANY “@CHI_CONEY” CONEY FOR @NOVAWAV, TEMILADE OPENIYI, RONALD BANFUL WRITTEN BY BEYONCÉ, DENISIA “@BLU_JUNE” ANDREWS FOR @NOVAWAV, BRITTANY “@CHI_CONEY” CONEY FOR @NOVAWAV, MORTEN RISTORP, RAPHAEL SAADIQ, TERIUS “THE-DREAM” GESTEELDE-DIAMANT, MARY CHRISTINE BROCKERT, ALLEN HENRY MC GRIER, NILE RODGERS "Cozy"

Beyoncé released her highly anticipated seventh album, Renaissance, on July 29. E! News breaks down all the tracks below.

However, as she notes, it’s only a matter of time before they fall for her too: "I try to get all up in your mind / It stops at a crime and I’m gonna make you mine." "Heated" is all about the importance of knowing one’s worth—both romantically and financially. It's a truth universally acknowledged that any song that samples Donna Summer's influential 1977 single "I Feel Love" is going to be outrageously good. Speaking of piety, listening to "Plastic Off the Sofa" can only be described as a religious experience. All the pretty boys and girls to the floor! Beyonce turns up the heat on "Virgo’s Groove," a funky, disco-infused siren song that gets its namesake from her astrological sign. Between the track's title and its sample of "Center Thy Will" by The Clark Sisters, you'd think "Church Girl" would be the slightest bit pious—however, this is Beyoncé we're talking about here. There's no forgetting the A-1 lyrics, either—namely, "Bey is back, and I'm sleeping real good at night." There are no words to describe the mind-blowing transition between "Cozy" and "Alien Superstar." Beyoncé paid close attention to the oft-overlooked aspect throughout the album, and was therefore able to turn the listening process into an experience. "I hope it inspires you to release the wiggle. ) And while Beyoncé starts off by layering angel-like vocals with a contrasting sample of Tommy Wright III and Princess Loko's "Still Pimpin," she ultimately brings it home with a few fiery bars of her own. Ha! And to feel as unique, strong, and sexy as you are."

It's not a collab it's theft,” Kelis wrote on Instagram.

“I thought it was a beautiful and pure, creative safe space, but it ended up not being that at all.” “And it just so happens that I was thrown in this.” I usually hire business folks to help out with that kind of stuff.” And he never wrote a song, a lyric a day in his life,” she claimed. “It’s real cute and fun to sing all these girls’ songs — come on now. “The reality is, all of this female empowerment, it only counts if you really do it — if you’re really living it and walking the walk,” she said. This is a direct hit at me [and] he does this stuff all the time,” she said. “Someone has to talk about it and bring it up,” she said. “I heard about this the same way everyone else did,” she continued. “It’s fine, I don’t care about that.” I also know the lies that were told. “I know what I own and what I don’t own.

Moments after her new album release, Beyoncé shared a heartfelt post that addressed the numerous reports of her album leaking two days before the official ...

“So, the album leaked,” she wrote, “and you all actually waited until the proper release time so you all can enjoy it together … Thank you for being patient. We are going to take our time and enjoy the music.” That year, she also released “Homecoming,” a live album and concert film from her headlining Coachella set in 2018.

From marital bliss on “Plastic Off the Sofa” to a Drake co-written banger with “Heated,” here are the moments everyone's talking about.

“I want to dedicate this award to my uncle Jonny, the most fabulous gay man I have ever known, who helped raise me and my sister," she said. Presumably, she’s referring to the house and dance music that really animates Renaissance, which has long been connected to the Black LGBTQ community. She even goes full disco by sampling and interpolating one of the enduring hits of the 1970s, Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love,” on the closing cut, “Summer Renaissance.”

Une chose est claire : que l'on adhère ou non à cette nouvelle proposition, Beyoncé propose un projet où chaque chanson respire le plaisir.

Le titre Renaissance peut aussi faire écho à la Black Renaissance (ou Harlem Renaissance, marquée par l’effervescence de la culture afro-américaine et qui a eu un nouveau soubresaut dans les dernières années). Le terme n’a probablement pas été choisi sans une pleine conscience de cette résonance. Beyoncé renaît avec ce septième album, six ans après le chef-d’œuvre Lemonade. Elle fait aussi écho au travail de tous les artistes noirs qui l’ont précédée, fait renaître leur œuvre à travers la sienne. L’hommage à la house, à la dance-pop, est fait avec une intention de marquer la musique actuelle. Le niveau de créativité de l’artiste de 40 ans semble sans borne. L’aperçu que nous a donné le simple house Break My Soul (paru en juin) n’était pas tout à fait trompeur, mais pas non plus complètement représentatif de l’essence de l’album. Une raison simple : Renaissance ne s’attache à aucun style en particulier. Renaissance est « un endroit pour être libre de perfectionnisme et de réflexion excessive. Celui qu’elle tente de faire partager à ceux qui l’écouteront.

Événement musical de l'été, la reine Beyonce a sorti son septième album solo vendredi, un appel urgent à danser sous les lumières des boîtes de nuit ou sur ...

Parmi les collaborations de l’album, figurent Nile Rodgers, Skrillex, Grace Jones, et, évidemment, son mari, le rappeur et homme d’affaires Jay-Z, avec lequel elle forme l’un des couples les plus glamour et les plus influents de la culture populaire. Un endroit où on se sent libéré de tout perfectionnisme et de toute réflexion excessive. «Faire cet album m’a permis de rêver et de m’évader pendant une période effrayante pour le monde.

Beyoncé has never been known to release music that doesn't stand for something. On Thursday, the singer revealed that the dance album is dedicated to her gay ...

— 🧘🏾♀️ (@nyaaathreatt)July 29, 2022 — ACAB (@mjwc97KILLS)July 29, 2022 — Shayoncé (@Beyonshaay)July 29, 2022 — 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐎𝐑 (@WrittenByTerry)July 29, 2022 This is a celebration for you,” she added. Beyoncé has never been known to release music that doesn’t stand for something. — BEYONCÉ (@Beyonce)July 29, 2022 It means the world to me. “So, the album leaked, and you all actually waited until the proper release time so you all can enjoy it together. — JΔY💫 (@coooljayy)July 29, 2022 My heart is full. My ass is ready to shake.

Kelis accused Beyoncé and songwriter-producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of “thievery” late Thursday after discovering a track on Beyoncé's highly ...

“Show Me Love” is credited to Allen George and Fred McFarlane — who, similar to the situation with Williams and Hugo, earned writing credits on the Beyoncé track. “I also know the things that were stolen. “I also know the lies that were told,” she continued. But early on in her career, she struck a deal with Williams and Hugo that she now considers to be unfair. Neither Beyoncé nor Williams and Hugo were any under legal obligation to contact Kelis before drawing from “Milkshake,” Bennett said, as Williams and Hugo, who produced the 2003 single as the Neptunes, were also the only songwriters listed on it. A common industry model, called out in recent years by Taylor Swift, is for the record label to own the masters and the songwriters the musical work.

Beyonce released her seventh studio album, Renaissance, on Friday. The club-nostalgic blend of disco, dancehall and electronic music runs for 16 tracks, ...

Nothing is ever as it seems, some of the people in this business have no soul or integrity and they have everyone fooled." My intention was to create a safe place, a place without judgment." It's a departure from the visual-forward style of Beyonce's two previous albums, which were accompanied by short films and album-length music videos. In a statement on her website, Beyonce thanked her children and her husband Jay-Z, who she referred to as her "muse." Having recorded it for the better part of three years, mostly during the pandemic, Beyonce told fans that the album was a creative escape for her during a challenging time — and that she hopes listening to it is a freeing experience. "Creating this album allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world," the 40-year-old popstar wrote on Instagram in June. "It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving.

Beyoncé herself might admit that her seventh solo album, Renaissance, is a mess. Conventional songwriting rules, polite-taste paradigms, and the best ...

“No one else in this world can think like me,” she says, a brag that is true for all of us, whether we embrace it or not, as we cut a trail in this world. Somehow she has found a way to make messages of individual empowerment, which can be so trite in pop, jolt again. Conflict arises only in flickering mentions of haters and “Karens” who have “turned into terrorists.” Some boasts are corny; some are instant classics; many are both. On the opener, “I’m That Girl,” fragmented noises cut in and out, accelerating and decelerating in frequency, as if controlled by someone revving an engine. Instead, she has re-cemented her status as one of America’s edgiest superstars, a sorcerer of synthesis and excess. The pulsing beat of Renaissance almost never pauses, though it does morph—from the pistonlike pumping of house and techno to the snapping and swaying of Afrobeats to the tick-tick-boom of various dance- rap styles that serve the almighty twerk.

Événement musical de l'été, la reine Beyonce a sorti son septième album solo vendredi, un appel urgent à danser sous les lumières des boîtes de nuit ou sur ...

Parmi les collaborations de l’album, figurent Nile Rodgers, Skrillex, Grace Jones, et, évidemment, son mari, le rappeur et homme d’affaires Jay-Z, avec lequel elle forme l’un des couples les plus glamour et les plus influents de la culture populaire. Un endroit où on se sent libéré de tout perfectionnisme et de toute réflexion excessive. «Faire cet album m’a permis de rêver et de m’évader pendant une période effrayante pour le monde.

If the music is an homage to uninhibited movement, the still images are steeped in fashion history, high maintenance glamour and perfectionism.

But there’s no denying that these pictures also express a delight in the male gaze — as well as the female gaze, the non-gendered gaze and the gaze of anyone who’d like to look. The clothes tell the chaotic story of an era in pop culture when people were determined to have a good time. The dancing endured in the face of the AIDS epidemic, homophobia, economic peril and dire crime statistics. And after years of track pants and yoga pants and dressing only from the waist up, she also presents her audience with fashion that is turned out, spit polished, cinched up and exhausting. The world has borne witness to the seventh coming of Beyoncé in the form of her studio album “Renaissance.” The 16 tracks are an expression of her moods and desires during the height of the pandemic when she decided to record music that allowed her to dream and to escape, as she wrote on her website. Back then, the pleasure bubbled up despite — and perhaps because of — dire circumstances. The posture makes one think of the fashion photography of Helmut Newton and Jean-Paul Goude. There are spangled ones and molded ones and one that is really just a bit of silver chain and rhinestones. Beyoncé sits atop it wearing chains and spikes and wielding a white hat; it calls to mind the pop culture moment from 1978 when Bianca Jagger rode a white horse into Studio 54 and helped cement the night club’s reputation as the era’s non plus ultra location for decadence and debauchery. There’s more Alaïa on display in the form of a custom acid-green lace dress with Mongolian lamb trim. She doesn’t communicate that much in a glance that’s caught in the click of a shutter. Photographs on her social media aim to evoke those emotions in concrete terms — in the form of bodysuits, disco balls, hologram horses and bedazzled saddles.

Renaissance, Beyoncé (Columbia Records). Beyoncé has been reborn again; this time it's on a shimmering dance floor. But in her seventh studio album, ...

The singer’s long-awaited album is a successful reclaiming of dance music. She croons confidently in Cozy, that she is “comfortable in my skin. Standouts are Virgo’s Groove and Heated, which was co-written by Drake who dropped his own dance-inspired album earlier this summer.

Ignore the leaks — Beyonce's seventh studio album “Renaissance” has officially arrived. As hinted, it's an all-encompassing album for the dance floor, ...

More than 20 years later, Beyoncé's version remixes it with an eerie bassline that keeps that same emotion, comparing her addictiveness to that of the powder with lines like “I’ma make you go weak for me / Make you wait a whole week for me / I see you watching, fiending / I know you want it, scheming.” Beyoncé travels across the realm of Black music on “Renaissance,” as she’s done throughout her catalog. As a whole, the song turns the church on its head, opening with traditional gospel before trapping out the drums to let herself go, “Church girls acting loose, bad girls acting snotty,” she sings on the chorus while instructing you to drop it low and dance as you please. “And a special thanks to my beautiful husband and muse, who held me down during those late nights in the studio.” Beyoncé has shown love to her children across her catalog, but on track two of “Renaissance,” she honors her own body for bringing them into the world. She credited him for exposing her to the sounds that inspired “Renaissance.”

Fans celebrate the queer inspiration the music draws from as well as the Black LGBTQ artists who are featured on the album.

“This is Black culture, not the culture of kicking people out, not excluding people,” Tinsley said. “Break My Soul,” which has been celebrated as a gay anthem, was Beyoncé’s second collaboration with Big Freedia. She previously paired up with the rapper for “Formation” in 2016. The 16 tracks in “Renaissance” draw from house, disco and bounce music, genres that hark back to underground ballroom culture from the 1970s. They contrasted this joy with the political moment: “Renaissance” comes at a fraught time for the LGBTQ community amid an unprecedented onslaught of anti-LGBTQ legislation as well as recent protests and attacks at Pride events. “Thank you to all the pioneers who originate culture, to all of the fallen angels whose contributions have gone unrecognized for far too long.” In an era that has left LGBTQ rights vulnerable, Beyoncé has reaffirmed her support of the queer community.

Six ans après Lemonade, devenu un classique, les fans ont retrouvé leur reine, «Queen B», en pleine Renaissance, titre de cet album de 16 pièces destinées à un ...

Parmi les collaborateurs de l'album figurent Nile Rodgers, Skrillex, Grace Jones, et, évidemment, son mari, le rappeur et homme d'affaires Jay-Z, avec lequel elle forme l'un des couples les plus glamour et influents de la culture populaire. Un endroit où on se sent libéré de tout perfectionnisme et de toute réflexion excessive. «Faire cet album m'a permis de rêver et de m'évader pendant une période effrayante pour le monde.

Événement musical de l'été, la reine Beyonce a sorti son septième album solo vendredi, un appel urgent à danser sous les lumières des boîtes de nuit ou sur ...

Parmi les collaborations de l’album, figurent Nile Rodgers, Skrillex, Grace Jones, et, évidemment, son mari, le rappeur et homme d’affaires Jay-Z, avec lequel elle forme l’un des couples les plus glamour et les plus influents de la culture populaire. Un endroit où on se sent libéré de tout perfectionnisme et de toute réflexion excessive. «Faire cet album m’a permis de rêver et de m’évader pendant une période effrayante pour le monde.