Just now, Devin said:

thique being a villian anthem?

The beat is. Argue with ya mama.

18 minutes ago, jadeabove said:

Where is this gif from?

Summer Renaissance visuals

DONK gets the single treatment with the official radio push. Yep, no act III this year.

In Celebration of Renaissance, 4 years later these are my thoughts:

BEST SONG - VIRGO'S GROOVE

MOST UNDERRATED SONG - MOVE

SONG I SKIP - SUMMER RENAISSANCE

15 hours ago, LibraSnake01 said:

Do you guys see her beginning the ACT III era around late October/early November after the B'Day release?

is nicki a democrat ?

2 hours ago, Devin said:

page 500. yall better be giving renaissance an anniversary stream.

did my duty and listened to ha (and Confessions II) on my run this morning

sadly did not achieve my goal of making it the entire way around the lake (13.5 miles) because it just got way too hot and sunny (like pushing 90F just after 8 am), but just over 9 miles still isn't too bad

14 minutes ago, Redporus said:

SONG I SKIP - SUMMER RENAISSANCE

sister i'm going to miss you when you burn in hell for this

4 minutes ago, cloudbusting said:

sister i'm going to miss you when you burn in hell for this

After 4 years of RENAISSANCE which song do you skip?

best song: ahap / virgo

most underrated: thique

most skipped: all up in ur anus

4 years since she released her best album

Edited July 29Jul 29 by Red Velvet

23 minutes ago, Redporus said:

After 4 years of RENAISSANCE which song do you skip?

i don't skip any, but i don't really listen to CONDOM OFF THE PEN!S unless i'm listening to the full album (or when i do seek it out i have to at least let VG play because that transition is NASTY)

38 minutes ago, Redporus said:

After 4 years of RENAISSANCE which song do you skip?

Thique

Is LMVH divesting from SirDavis a sign it's not doing well, and Parkwood is just spinning it as a reclamation of the brand? This isn't me being shady, as I'm genuinely curious.

You could read it as they helped launch it and then received their investment back, or that they don't see a future for it, so they're taking the buyout now rather than lose more money. They didn't release a statement alongside hers, and that seems odd to me. Not even the "We're grateful to have launched this alongside Beyonce" usual nonsense

Edited July 29Jul 29 by ShouldersSideways

Renny is still so good.

31 minutes ago, Devin said:

best song: ahap / virgo

most underrated: thique

most skipped: all up in ur anus

AUIYM actually grew on me

22 minutes ago, cloudbusting said:

i don't skip any, but i don't really listen to CONDOM OFF THE PEN!S unless i'm listening to the full album (or when i do seek it out i have to at least let VG play because that transition is NASTY)

I only play the last 15 seconds of POTS so it can give em the dopamine of the BEST transition on the album.

9 minutes ago, Lose My Breath said:

Thique

Initially I tolerated this song cuz it was fun but the lyrics made me cringe over time

11 minutes ago, ShouldersSideways said:

Is LMVH divesting from SirDavis a sign it's not doing well, and Parkwood is just spinning it as a reclamation of the brand? This isn't me being shady, as I'm genuinely curious.

You could read it as they helped launch it and then received their investment back, or that they don't see a future for it, so they're taking the buyout now rather than lose more money. They didn't release a statement alongside hers, and that seems odd to me. Not even the "We're grateful to have launched this alongside Beyonce" usual nonsense

No it was actually successful on a global scale as well. https://drinks-intel.com/news/moet-hennessy-hands-over-full-ownership-of-sirdavis-american-whisky-to-beyonce/

LVMH is currrently doing a major restructuring and they are offloading a lot of brands, those doing well those not doing well. Bey was not going to sell off her brand to someone else. She needed them for the launch now she can go from here.

Edited July 29Jul 29 by Kingdom

3 hours ago, Devin said:

page 500. yall better be giving renaissance an anniversary stream.

let me play the best (almost) single church gworl

Just listened to POTS into VG and Renaissance is still the greatest album of all time iktr

I know they are different artists, but I can't seem to shake the fact that I see parallels in Bey and Madge's discographies when it comes to:

RENAISSANCE and Confessions on a Dancefloorboth exceptional dance albums, Madge did more euro/house/pop while Bey delved much deeper and bended more genres.

COWBOY CARTER and Music - more so in the iconography and visual motifs being Americana, obv Music is an Electronic/Dance/Folk album, both of them having their own twist on the genre listen, btw listen Riiverdance and Dont Tell Me they are basically sisters sonically.

BEYONCE and Erotica - both sexually liberated, career-defining albums that were tied to massive media coverage ST being positive and highly acclaimed while Erotica being negative and highly polarizing.

Lemonade and Ray of Light??? - one would argue that these are the magnum opuses of both artists in terms of the artistic growth and weight they carry in terms of artistic expression and critical acclaim.

I still think sonically Bey is yet to do her Ray of Light (something extremely left field but great....Rennie came close, esp with Alien Superstar but there is still room for more innovation and sound exploration, me thinks.

Thoughts? lemme tag two of the Hive Scholars in this @swissman @Cbreezy

Edited July 29Jul 29 by Redporus

I wonder what's causing the uptick in streams for most of her discography on Spotify? Not complaining of course, it's just seemingly happening for no obvious reason ⚰️💀

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZGc4EwhRK3/?igsh=bXJ6bGNsdWZtb28z

The introducing Jay, Tina, Blue and Solo and curving the album release date question.

"My Children"

"I Love You Deep"

The accuracy

18 hours ago, Redporus said:

After 4 years of RENAISSANCE which song do you skip?

Church Girl 🫶🏾

It being the only song without a transition makes it so easy too

19 hours ago, ShouldersSideways said:

Is LMVH divesting from SirDavis a sign it's not doing well, and Parkwood is just spinning it as a reclamation of the brand? This isn't me being shady, as I'm genuinely curious.

You could read it as they helped launch it and then received their investment back, or that they don't see a future for it, so they're taking the buyout now rather than lose more money. They didn't release a statement alongside hers, and that seems odd to me. Not even the "We're grateful to have launched this alongside Beyonce" usual nonsense

I kind of wondered the same and alluded to this possibly being the case above.

That said, this was interesting...

19 hours ago, Kingdom said:

No it was actually successful on a global scale as well. https://drinks-intel.com/news/moet-hennessy-hands-over-full-ownership-of-sirdavis-american-whisky-to-beyonce/

LVMH is currrently doing a major restructuring and they are offloading a lot of brands, those doing well those not doing well. Bey was not going to sell off her brand to someone else. She needed them for the launch now she can go from here.

I do remember reading about LVMH's broader moves. So, that tracks.

At the same time, and not to lean in on the negative, if the brand was this barnstorming success, do we really think they would offload?

And that's not even to make it a leading question. Because there is a scenario where it could be showing earlier promise, but if the broader business need is to have a leaner, trimmer operation, it may have made for them to wilfully sell it back to her.

Also, while I'm not doom-and-gloom Hive, I'm always cautious not to immediately buy into "ah, it was her master plan all along" Hive mentality either.

The scenario of using a huge corporate giant to launch a brand to then take it on solo doesn't stand up to even the most basic scrutiny.

LVMH isn't just a bag or visibility; it's a huge infrastructure of expertise in beverages and beyond. It's extremely rare (arguably unheard of) for someone to start with that and then wilfully take on the burden of that solo. If keeping it indie is Bey's motif, she is now tasked with overseeing production, marketing, innovation, retail strategy, etc ...in house...with a team she now has to put in place. Are the sales margins / forecasted profits that big to warrant this? Again, not a leading question, but moreso a curious one.

Equally, there's a world where maybe they've crunched the numbers and have a strategy that will see the brand manage to sell (maybe d2c like Cecred and her perfumes).

One thing that is equally encouraging and frustrating (because Bey's yet to master it) is: she literally could cut through way more via better use of social media. Not even her channels but just savvier use of SirDavis' social presence. Like, as a billionaire, how hard is it to hire an iconic, proven social media company to make SirDavis a viral, almost-self-promoting enterprise with regular and well-aligned experiential activations? It's above my pay grade, but even permanent installations at arenas, airports etc all help offline visibility and bring the brand into the real world. Thus far, while the efforts have been encouraging, it still kind of felt tethered to whatever Bey had going on e.g. CCT.

It's like she wants in on the extracurricular stuff, doesn't go all in for whatever reason, gets the blowback of "another underperforming Beyonce venture" (rumblings of which I've seen today on Twitter and IG, just not loudly) and then re-ups with something else (arguably as a means of proving people wrong or just trying again afresh), only to kind of do the same thing again. Rinse and repeat lol. It's so odd.

I'll just leave this at: thank goodness for Cecred and I hope they find a successful landing for SirDavis.

20 hours ago, ShouldersSideways said:

Is LMVH divesting from SirDavis a sign it's not doing well, and Parkwood is just spinning it as a reclamation of the brand? This isn't me being shady, as I'm genuinely curious.

You could read it as they helped launch it and then received their investment back, or that they don't see a future for it, so they're taking the buyout now rather than lose more money. They didn't release a statement alongside hers, and that seems odd to me. Not even the "We're grateful to have launched this alongside Beyonce" usual nonsense

im glad someone clocked it...