I love backstories like this. Sometimes the environment, timing,  and captive audience align to pitch a specific beat or song (Crazy In Love, Why Don't You Love Me). Or sometimes a song will be more potent on a future project (6 Inch).

This beat is ~8 years old, and still sounds FRESH. 

I really hope that what we’re seeing is Beyoncé moving to make Cuff It the next single. It’s the smart thing to do. They can always allow AS to be the dark horse. Anything activity to move with these two songs is a win! 

Girl, if she performs Snooze on the Sofa on tour, I’m throwing tomatoes. That, and Thique (worst song on the album).

Siriusxm radio station, which broadcast in every city, has a program where they only play viral songs on TikTok. Radio DJ always, without fail, look into what’s viral to pick what to play. Alien Superstar is tailor made for radio. If you cant hear that, thats a you problem 
Alien Superstar is not my favorite song from the album but it’s the obvious next single. This isn’t about our personal opinions and feelings. It’s about making a smart decision. 
Anyway, the entire album is a smash so there isn’t much room for failure, but let’s just give the people want they want. Like even my local friends have been posting Alien Superstar

5 minutes ago, Flanders said:

Y’all still think we’re getting three albums? It’s gonna be 1: album>2: visuals>3: tour

I mean it be weird to refer to Renaissance as “act i” implying future acts will be something musically. 

The Thique and POTS slander is childish. 

9 minutes ago, jane said:

I think Bey just wanted to build a new music catalog so when she goes on tour again, she doesn't sing the same old tired songs. After Homecoming, i got the feeling she was going to retire a lot of songs anyway on her next tour. If there will be 3 albums then she will be able to do an entire new set list with barely any songs from albums before Renaissance. That's even more exciting to me. Imagine if she doesn't have to ever single Halo, Crazy in love etc.. live again, that'd be a complete new experience for the fans.

Renaissance is so perfectly sequenced, it’s hard to imagine any previous Beyoncé song intertwined or even deviating from the order on the album for a tour set list.
 

Low key, I hope she releases all 3 Acts prior to the tour and she only performs songs from Acts I,II, & III

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14 minutes ago, Flanders said:

Y’all still think we’re getting three albums? It’s gonna be 1: album>2: visuals>3: tour

It’s not realistic. This is exactly what I expect of this proposed trilogy. Or maybe one of the acts is another facet of the era, disregarding the tour. Either way, I honestly can’t see Beyoncé risking over-saturating the market with multiple full-length albums in such a short span of time. Renaissance itself already took 2-3 years to record and produce, and it offered 16 whole songs, which is wild. There’s likely an elaborate plan in place to roll-out the rest of this era.

 

Act II - likely a visual film in the same vein as Black is King to accompany the album. Act III is still up the air.

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I was just thinking doesn’t this era need a name?

 

act I: Renaissance 

act II: _ _ _ _
actIII: _ _ _ _
 

But what’s the name of the play?

3 minutes ago, Space&Time said:

Renaissance is so perfectly sequenced, it’s hard to imagine any previous Beyoncé song intertwined or even deviating from the order on the album for a tour set list.
 

Low key, I hope she releases all 3 Acts prior to the tour and she only performs songs from Acts I,II, & III

I think that's the plan. Bey is smart. She is aware that we have at least one more year of this pandemic. Nothing is going away. She will probably only tour early 2024 or near the end of 2023. In the meantime she releases the music, has time to let people process it, learn the lyrics and get excited for the coming tour. She will become the most anticipated artist to tour and can you imagine the tour gross? she is planning things out for the next 3 years at least­. That's why i believe 100% that two more albums are coming or at least one more and the third act could be a film tying both together.

It sucks for Bey because everybody else and their momma is touring and no one cares.

 

But once Beyoncé does one date it’s gonna be all over the news that she doesn’t care about the pandemic.

1 minute ago, simon said:

It sucks for Bey because everybody else and their momma is touring and no one cares.

 

But once Beyoncé does one date it’s gonna be all over the news that she doesn’t care about the pandemic.

“How Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour has lead to more Covid deaths”

 

”Monkeypox cases soar after Beyoncé superspreader event”

51 minutes ago, Rhythm said:

Girl, if she performs Snooze on the Sofa on tour, I’m throwing tomatoes. That, and Thique (worst song on the album).

She will. And if you throw tomatoes, I'm throwing them right back at you.

 

For real, I think the only mid-slow songs to make it would be Virgo's G. and Halo. Idk about Thique. 

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53 minutes ago, Devin said:

Bold of you to think Halo will leave the setlist. 

People said the same about Single Ladies and Irreplacable. Halo was not performed on her last tour or Coachella.

 

The only song that will always be a must is Crazy in Love

2 minutes ago, simon said:

It sucks for Bey because everybody else and their momma is touring and no one cares.

 

But once Beyoncé does one date it’s gonna be all over the news that she doesn’t care about the pandemic.

Because at this point who has more touring power than Bey? i think touring could be even more dangerous for her for that reason too. What if a deranged person targets her on stage? people got even crazier since the pandemic. All the dancers and people around her, she could get seriously sick. People are getting the most weird stuff too, look at what happened to Justin Bieber while he was touring? like is it really worth it? 

Act 2 — visuals to help push singles 2&3. 
 

Act 3 — Renaissance rerelease remix album in the vein of future nostalgia moonlight edition with accompanying features from singles 4.) Heated(ft Drake), and 5.) Thique(ft Megan)

 

this rolls her into January/February where she cleans house at the Grammys, and releases a SB commercial announcing the Club Renaissance tour coming Summer 2023

11 minutes ago, Devin said:

I mean it be weird to refer to Renaissance as “act i” implying future acts will be something musically. 

I don’t think it was implied. People read into it what they would like to think is gonna happen

I’m annoyed that we don’t have agreement of what act I means. I thought we settled on them being albums since she said she ‘recorded’ a three part project. 
 

She didn’t say I recorded, filmed, and created a tour. Idk

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2 minutes ago, Flanders said:

I don’t think it was implied. People read into it what they would like to think is gonna happen

Aren’t u doing the same thing?

 

Act 2 and Act 3 are albums. The producers have already alluded to it. 

I think it’s gonna be a three-album trilogy.

37 minutes ago, sillycilla said:

No I agree with you as well! I experienced a similar feeling.

Glad to hear others are sharing that sentiment 

I love that she never defined what act ii and iii are.

 

10 minutes ago, Space&Time said:

I’m annoyed that we don’t have agreement of what act I means. I thought we settled on them being albums since she said she ‘recorded’ a three part project. 
 

She didn’t say I recorded, filmed, and created a tour. Idk

She clearly said ''three part project RECORDED....''  Unless she is about to release a pre-recorded virtual tour, how can you even add a tour in that? lol. As for the visuals, it could be included in what she recorded but again a visual album would be act 2, what about act 3?

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Act 1. Renaissance 

Act 2. Rodeo

Act 3. Standing Ovation

 

and in that order