Renaissance

Beyoncé’s new album Renaissance is an immersion of dance, house, and soul music that captures that Friday-night-just-got-paid-anything-can-happen feeling. To achieve this, she paid homage to dance music history by sampling an impressive list of pioneers, from Robin S to Teena Marie and Donna Summer, while also presenting a fresh take for a new generation of fans.More than just highlighting the evolution of dance, though, Renaissance also shows Beyoncé’s own evolution as an artist over the past two decades. She presents…

Ignore the leaks — Beyonce’s seventh studio album “Renaissance” has officially arrived. As hinted, it’s an all-encompassing album for the dance floor, blending house, disco, afrobeat and more on a 16-song body of work, that compels you to simply “Move.”Beyoncé revealed Thursday that she made the album in honor of her “Uncle Jonny,” who passed away from HIV complications. Jonny was the nephew of Beyoncé's mother, Tina Knowles, and she’s paid tribute to him in the past. She credited him for exposing her to the sounds that…

After a six-year wait, Beyoncé’s new album Renaissance is finally here, and it’s made for the dance floor.“To all of my fans: I hope you find joy in this music,” Beyoncé wrote in a letter to fans this week. “I hope it inspires you to release the wiggle. And to feel as unique, strong, and sexy as you are.”She recorded the 16-track album throughout the pandemic, explaining that it helped her find escape during an extremely difficult time. And now that it’s finally being released into the world, it’s her hope that it will…

Beyoncé’s dance-driven new record Renaissance arrived on streaming services last night, and it features a number of notable samples in its varied production.The list of songwriters and producers involved in the record, her first solo effort since 2016’s Lemonade, is extensive. But some of the names showed up in the album’s credits because of a sample, or a sly interpolation of lyrics or melodies. Ten of the album’s 16 tracks feature one or multiple prominent samples, from club classics and vintage Memphis rap, to Donna…

Beyoncé’s new solo album, Renaissance, is her first proper solo release in six years. The Guardian’s reviewer Tara Joshi writes:“Touted as Act I of a confirmed trilogy, Renaissance falls short of being Beyoncé’s best full-length, but it still fulfils her liberationist aims. It’s a celebration of living abundantly and outside the realms of others’ expectations, and acts as a reminder of how rare it is to witness this hyper-disciplined artist simply having fun on her own terms. Her sense of freedom throughout is palpable,…

Beyonce has recently given fans a rare look at all three of her children she shares with longtime husband Jay-Z ahead of the release of her new album Renaissance. In a post published to her official website, the superstar included a sweet snap of daughter Blue Ivy, and twins Rumi and Sir sleeping beside her in bed. Beyonce went on to publicly thank her kids, husband and other close family members for giving her the ‘space, creativity and inspiration she needed to create her latest work. Renaissance is Beyonce’s seventh…

Beyoncé has released her long-anticipated album Renaissance – her first solo studio record in six years – to a blockbuster response from fans and critics, as well as a spot of controversy.A 16-track dance record packed with high-profile, genre-spanning collaborators including Drake, Skrillex and Grace Jones, Renaissance is the first in a planned trilogy, Beyoncé said, in a statement uploaded to her website the day before the album’s release.“This three act project was recorded over three years during the pandemic,” the…

Six years after her landmark LP “Lemonade,” Beyoncé has returned with the bracing, ravenous album two terrible years demanded.The 16-track “Renaissance,” tipped for weeks as Bey’s most overt dip yet into club music, delivers on every inch of that promise. But it’s also in a deep and uneasy conversation with the fear and chaos of recent life in America, and the worries yet to come.Here are six takeaways from the album’s first (official) hour in the world.1. Yes, that leak annoyed her.“Renaissance” leaked two days before…

Beyoncé’s new album Renaissance has arrived, six long years since her last solo offering Lemonade took over the world. The 28-time Grammy winner’s seventh studio release follows her 2018 collaboration with Jay-Z, Everything Is Love, plus 2019’s Homecoming live album/film and Lion King soundtrack The Gift.Deemed Act I of a “three-act project,” Renaissance clocks in at 16 tracks and 62 minutes long with guest appearances from Tems, Grace Jones, and Beam. The extensive composer credits boast the likes of Hov, Drake, the…

Beyoncé returns with Renaissance, her highly anticipated seventh studio album that she released on Friday via Columbia Records and Parkwood Entertainment. The pop superstar released “Act 1” of Renaissance with 16 tracks, including guest appearances from BEAM on “Energy” as well as Grace Jones and Tems on “Move.” More superstars are enlisted on the writing and producing credits, such as her husband Jay-Z, Drake, Skrillex, The-Dream, Syd, Lucky Daye, Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers, Nija…