Beyoncé - Renaissance

I'm guessing those lines about "building my own foundation" are a preview for some big philanthropy program.

Maybe she's designing the Beyoncéverse version of Avengers Tower.

wow... talk about The Discourse:

https://i.imgur.com/cQ96SeN.jpg

sorry smartasses, i'm gonna be real for a second, last time and then i'm out of this thread for a while i promise, as a person who has struggled with finances his whole life and is now 40, the idea of building my own foundation means working 1.5 jobs, paying off credit card debt and escaping the abusive cult my family belongs to. it's cool that you all find it trite and are over it but i'm willing to bet this resonates with a lot of people because it feels lived in. also to "this house sound is boring" - that house sound is forever, fuck off lol.

I’m younger than you and it’s trite af. Pop argument can miss me as well, it’s crass and embarrassing, people are pointing out the contradictions for those reasons, not because contradictions are inherently alien to pop.

Like Beyoncé herself has done commentary so much better - Formation is full of clever, knowing lyrics. It literally ends with “always stay gracious, best revenge is your paper” - fuck your racism, I’ll succeed despite you - but the video is all about taking pride in blackness and also her anger about anti-blackness, and Beyoncé being rich doesn’t mean she can escape that. This? This is just basic in all senses.

i probably wouldnt even be giving it a second thought if she hadnt literally crossed a high profile picket line for a billionaire party a few months prior to this. the song is fine and im sure i will enjoy hearing it in clubs and hotel lobbies for many years to come, but i cant help but feel that context affecting the way i hear those lyrics. if others can enjoy it without that lens, that's great, but its a valid lens to look at the work through. its obv naive to call bullshit on a popstar just for being rich, but its equally naive to think that their celebrity persona isnt in dialogue with the music as its received, particularly w/someone like beyonce.

Thanks, Map - it’s good to hear how the song is working for you. (I really do think the foundation line is an Easter egg.) It makes for an interesting compliment to “Nice for What,” which was also a celebration of just getting by and staying strong.

i did find bey musing about "all these people on the planet working 9 to 5 just to stay alive" viscerally thrilling back on the self-titled

I doubt this song will have enough legs to be heard in clubs / hotel lobbies for many years to come. Regardless of how obnoxious or on point you think the lyrics are, it’s lacking that wow factor and hooks of some of her most successful singles have. I know repetitiveness is a feature on house music but it works against her. She’s trying to do too much with her vocals for it to really work for me.

We’ll see I guess… most of the pop charts have been super bland this year so far, so it might as well be the anthem lacking in lustre that 2022 deserves.

Different approaches since Beyonce is clearly a better singer, but compare this to Drake’s “Massive”. That one allows the track to breathe and there’s many parts where he allows the beat to carry the song.

There’s virtually no part in the Beyonce song where the song doesn’t have vocals either sampled or by beyonce.

As a house track it’s terrible imho, and as a pop track it’s also super constrained and confused and frankly tasteless.

I was excited about the idea of Beyonce doing a house album but this single doesn’t make me think she truly has the gear in place to pull it off.

yeah it is an indictment that there's stuff on the drake album more compelling than this

she encapsulates the Great Resignation, the Great Unionization

https://www.etonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/970xh/public/images/2015-05/500_beyonce_feeling_myself_champagne_still.jpg

I'm trying to decide how indicative it is that my IG feed is basically 90% dancing footage from films and tv shows synced to the chorus of "Break My Soul".

Funny how homing in on the drop into the chorus makes this song seem more exciting than it actually is.

(well it's indicative of several things, probably)

The Long Tail of Show Me Love:

Earlier last week, Robin S. got a call from her son informing her that she was trending on social media as a result of the apparent “Show Me Love” reference in Beyoncé’s song, which replicates that M1 Organ 2 sound (in a different rhythm). She and StoneBridge both said they had no idea what was coming. StoneBridge discovered the connection while searching for his name on Twitter.

still think the inspiration here is at least as much the MK Nocturnal Dub remix of “Push The Feeling On” (not exactly an obscurity either, but obviously much less famous) as the StoneBridge “Show Me Love”

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfb3ddsFe2S/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

still think the inspiration here is at least as much the MK Nocturnal Dub remix of “Push The Feeling On” (not exactly an obscurity either, but obviously much less famous) as the StoneBridge “Show Me Love”

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, June 28, 2022 6:39 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm, very mk sound

(not mark knight, marc kinchen, it took me too long to figure out they were different people lol)

Gotta be an NFT of this:

act i RENAISSANCE 7.29 https://t.co/6sfw3sBWnz pic.twitter.com/FPPhEW1OTK

— BEYONCÉ (@Beyonce) June 30, 2022

lol

during the Great Unionisation everyone will have a crystal horse of pure light

We just need the Studio 54 moon and spoon laced with cocaine in the background and the aesthetic is complete.

I would likely highly enjoy Beyonce making a quasi-concept album structured around the deeply impractical combination of quitting your job and doing coke.

Beyonce's been playing Elden Ring

I would likely highly enjoy Beyonce making a quasi-concept album structured around the deeply impractical combination of quitting your job and doing coke.

― Tim F, Thursday, June 30, 2022 2:01 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

All 70s disco is a soundtrack to an eventful, but regrettable weekend.

Not really feeling any of these vibes.

cover is hilariously godawful and makes me fear she’s reverted into sasha fierce

I can’t believe how bad that cover is.

it's a born this way-level cover

i wish!!!!

Born Again This Way

born this way cover is an explosion of camp, this could be aiming at camp but seems to land in a zone of tasteful tastelessness which is anticamp

Posing like a work of art, nude in the cosmos / void / constellations, motherly boobs and sculpted thighs on the stallion is pretty uninspired, cold, and bland symbolic. Any shot from the Apeshit video would have worked better.

She quit her job and now she can’t even afford a real horse.

The cover immediately made me think of Lil Nas X.

it made me think of Geocities

a zone of tasteful tastelessness which is anticamp

or kitsch, per Sontag

cover is hilariously godawful and makes me fear she’s reverted into sasha fierce

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, July 1, 2022 1:34 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

we know that's not the case bc "Break My Soul" comes nowhere close to "Single Ladies"

It sounds to me a little like "I already reused 'Get Me Bodied' once, I'd better do something different" was said at some point in the song's construction

Honey Dijon credited on the album lfg

Beyoncé | act i | #RENAISSANCE Tracklist.https://t.co/F0KnAWrupc pic.twitter.com/lfNKCGKAJx

— BEYLEGION is COZY (@BeyLegion) July 20, 2022

she made a typo

"America IS the problem"

lol angling for that fox news/breitbart promo i see

afropop alert: track 10 “Move” has credits for P2J and GuiltyBeatz as well as Tems.

lol it leaked

i'm at work someone please report

nothing here seems very exciting

setting aside "the carters," first album of the beyonce decline?