album Beyoncé - 'RENAISSANCE'

[Ice Cream Skies]

My Top 5 after a week:

 

1. America Has a Problem

2. Church Girl

3. Pure/Honey

4. Thique

5. All Up In Your Mind

[Breathe On Moi]

The way CUFF IT has CLICKED for me these past few days holy **** 

 

 

I cannot wait to watch her perform this because I can just tell this is a song she has FUN singing and I can tell she had to fight to have this on the album. She’s gonna have so much fun performing it 

[QueenBLadyG]

Collaborations for the Deluxe Edition

 

Cozy: Megan Thee Stallion and Lizzo

Alien Superstar: Gaga and/or Cher

Cuff It: Silk Sonic

Break My Soul: Madonna

Heated: Drake

Thique: Cardi B

All Up In Your Mind: The Weeknd 

Edited August 7, 2022 by QueenBLadyG

[Hallad173]

Not me finding myself teary after the flow of POTS into Virgos Groove. Whew, that 1-2 punch. this b***h!  

 

I remember the VMA’s when she said “There was a time when music made you feel so good” The time is now!!!  

[Hallad173]

26 minutes ago, QueenBLadyG said:

Collaborations for the Deluxe Edition

 

Cozy: Megan Thee Stallion and Lizzo

Alien Superstar: Gaga and/or Cher

Cuff It: Silk Sonic

Break My Soul: Madonna

Heated: Drake

Thique: Cardi B

All Up In Your Mind: The Weeknd 

Lizzo would slide on Cozy.

Drake is cool as long as long as that outro remains!

 

Cardi, no shade but I feel like she’d get lost in Thique ?, I think I’d prefer Nicki she can change her flow up with the track easily and would make for a more interesting remix. 

All up in your Mind with RiRi would be a serve since she is a pro at that edgy, raspy vocal thing Beyoncé was doing. The Weekend would also eat on AUIYM tho. 

Also, I think Ciara would be a good addition to AHAP. 

[satellites.™]

 

[Airhead]

7 hours ago, AM98GJ said:

PURE/HONEY & America Has A Problem my top 2 streamed since release iktr

 

 

exact same.

[Finkypop]

Never been a big fan of Bey’s but I love this album. Finally had the chance to listen and I loved/saved most of the tracks. I immediately recognized the Donna Summer sample/nod in Summer Renaissance when it first played and when I heard her go there with the I Feel Love hook I smiled. A triumphant body of work, I’m for once sold and eating it up 

[Triton]

Any idea what the WW numbers are? 

[AnonnonA]

This has been the only thing I listened to over the past week. Flawless 11/10 album and definitely shot its way to the top of my 2022 AOTY list. It is basically an upgraded, more fun version of Self-Titled (my fav Bey album that I regrettably didn’t appreciate at the time of its release and only retrospectively appreciated some of the more unconventional song structures and genre-bending). So many elements on Renaissance remind me of some of my fav songs on ST (Haunted, Partition and Blow in particular) 

Edited August 7, 2022 by AnonnonA

[giRLbye.]

if the rock & country stuff is true for Acts II & III

 

if this is currently her COADF moment...the rock era will be her "Private Dancer" moment...then the alleged country album will be...what??

[*-ChriZ-*]

10 minutes ago, giRLbye. said:

if the rock & country stuff is true for Acts II & III

 

if this is currently her COADF moment...the rock era will be her "Private Dancer" moment...then the alleged country album will be...what??

Her this.moment, her that moment.

 

The entire trilogy will be a BEYONCE moment. A legendary trilogy.

[Serendipity]

Pure/Honey, Alien Superstar are Top 2  

[giRLbye.]

23 minutes ago, *-ChriZ-* said:

Her this.moment, her that moment.

 

The entire trilogy will be a BEYONCE moment. A legendary trilogy.

Clearly

 

I'm just making a sarcastic comparison to other veteran musical diva moments

[Virgos Groove]

53 minutes ago, giRLbye. said:

if the rock & country stuff is true for Acts II & III

 

if this is currently her COADF moment...the rock era will be her "Private Dancer" moment...then the alleged country album will be...what??

Her Come on Over

[Matangi]

I still don't believe shes dropping two more 16-tracks projects, I'm sorry

This is not the album of the year, its the album of a lifetime. And the era could even be bigger with visuals, more promo etc, that is the most incredible thing about it. But she really said "let the MUSIC speak"

 

[Lovett]

21 minutes ago, Matangi said:

I still don't believe shes dropping two more 16-tracks projects, I'm sorry

Who said either album would be 16-tracks in length though?

[Cbreezy]

3 minutes ago, MrLovett said:

Who said either album would be 16-tracks in length though?

Right. 

 

I really do "get" both sides of the more music vs keep it to Ren debate. 

 

The drought has been real, so I will always (always) want more. It'll help with her streaming too. 

 

On the other side, it's less a case of quality control (Bey always delivers), it's more the reality that this album really deserves its moment. A full moment. Visuals specific to Ren. Multiple singles from Ren. Public propelling certain songs to career definers...again from Ren. More music within even 6months kinda of reduces the chances of that given the need to then push that material and possibly more material after that. Also not sure what a tour looks like in that regard either.

 

At the same time, I'd love for them to find a way to do it all. Bey's career (especially in the last decade) has been about being bold, groundbreaking, and shaking the table. I'd much rather she continued to go BIG rather than essentially do what she's BEEN doing (e.g. album + visuals + tour). 

[OnMyCoolJ]

Bey isn’t going to be out here milking singles. She can care less. 
 

the trilogy >>>>

[Matangi]

46 minutes ago, MrLovett said:

Who said either album would be 16-tracks in length though?

 

33 minutes ago, Cbreezy said:

Right. 

 

I really do "get" both sides of the more music vs keep it to Ren debate. 

 

The drought has been real, so I will always (always) want more. It'll help with her streaming too. 

 

On the other side, it's less a case of quality control (Bey always delivers), it's more the reality that this album really deserves its moment. A full moment. Visuals specific to Ren. Multiple singles from Ren. Public propelling certain songs to career definers...again from Ren. More music within even 6months kinda of reduces the chances of that given the need to then push that material and possibly more material after that. Also not sure what a tour looks like in that regard either.

 

At the same time, I'd love for them to find a way to do it all. Bey's career (especially in the last decade) has been about being bold, groundbreaking, and shaking the table. I'd much rather she continued to go BIG rather than essentially do what she's BEEN doing (e.g. album + visuals + tour). 

No one said that, I just did, because Renaissance is her longest album to date so its even more unrealistic to expect more studio albums of that same lenght. Releasing three full studio albums would demand a lot of budget and costs, that no one even knows would fully come back in revenue. Obviously the tour is going to be the money maker for her, but apart from that music itself is obviously not that profitable anymore. She obviously said it is a "three-act-project", but that again could really mean anything. I, personally, just cannot see her really releasing three separate albums with all brandnew material. But no one knows of course.

[Lovett]

1 minute ago, Matangi said:

 

No one said that, I just did, because Renaissance is her longest album to date so its even more unrealistic to expect more studio albums of that same lenght. Releasing three full studio albums would demand a lot of budget and costs, that no one even knows would fully come back in revenue. Obviously the tour is going to be the money maker for her, but apart from that music itself is obviously not that profitable anymore. She obviously said it is a "three-act-project", but that again could really mean anything. I, personally, just cannot see her really releasing three separate albums with all brandnew material. But no one knows of course.

We know at least one of the projects is another album, as writers/producers involved have practically confirmed. Whether the third is an album, remains to be seen.

[*-ChriZ-*]

Just now, Matangi said:

 

No one said that, I just did, because Renaissance is her longest album to date so its even more unrealistic to expect more studio albums of that same lenght. Releasing three full studio albums would demand a lot of budget and costs, that no one even knows would fully come back in revenue. Obviously the tour is going to be the money maker for her, but apart from that music itself is obviously not that profitable anymore. She obviously said it is a "three-act-project", but that again could really mean anything. I, personally, just cannot see her really releasing three separate albums with all brandnew material. But no one knows of course.

Bey herself said she worked on this 3 act project (her words) for 3 years. She also said an "abundance of music" is coming in an interview last year. Abundance of music is not 16 songs, its 40 (just popping a random number here). 

It reads insane, but that even makes it more believable to me cause its Beyonce we are talking about. If not her, who else would do sth as ambitious as that?

She is the Queen of Pop of our generation for a reason.

[MrPiggyMoka]

5 minutes ago, *-ChriZ-* said:

Bey herself said she worked on this 3 act project (her words) for 3 years. She also said an "abundance of music" is coming in an interview last year. Abundance of music is not 16 songs, its 40 (just popping a random number here). 

It reads insane, but that even makes it more believable to me cause its Beyonce we are talking about. If not her, who else would do sth as ambitious as that?

She is the Queen of Pop of our generation for a reason.

Spill the teaaa

[Matangi]

31 minutes ago, MrLovett said:

We know at least one of the projects is another album, as writers/producers involved have practically confirmed. Whether the third is an album, remains to be seen.

If these people really know the rollout plan, then it might be true. But knowing Beyonce, who is the most secretive person about her work, she usually does not inform producers, directors, artists about the details. You just know if you make the album, when its out or about to be released. It was the same with ST and Lemonade, everything was completely done in secret.

30 minutes ago, *-ChriZ-* said:

Bey herself said she worked on this 3 act project (her words) for 3 years. She also said an "abundance of music" is coming in an interview last year. Abundance of music is not 16 songs, its 40 (just popping a random number here). 

It reads insane, but that even makes it more believable to me cause its Beyonce we are talking about. If not her, who else would do sth as ambitious as that?

She is the Queen of Pop of our generation for a reason.

I also wrote that, which does not confirm studio albums. PROJECT does not mean ALBUM. The abundance of music was just from the Vogue article and could easily mean a long album + more remixes and other live recordings etc.

[*-ChriZ-*]

5 minutes ago, Matangi said:

If these people really know the rollout plan, then it might be true. But knowing Beyonce, who is the most secretive person about her work, she usually does not inform producers, directors, artists about the details. You just know if you make the album, when its out or about to be released. It was the same with ST and Lemonade, everything was completely done in secret.

I also wrote that, which does not confirm studio albums. PROJECT does not mean ALBUM. The abundance of music was just from the Vogue article and could easily mean a long album + more remixes and other live recordings etc.

Well it's all speculation anyway. I believe what I believe, I called the House album last year, my Spirit is high and im gonna say the 3 acts refer to music so it all comes true