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Beyoncé - act i - RENAISSANCE - July 29
- Thread starter Zutroy
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Just listened to it. Ain't sharin how or where.
It is everything I hoped it would be. What a fucking bop.
It is everything I hoped it would be. What a fucking bop.
Right. I need a tour like now. Jesus the crowds gonna be wild at the first Beyoncé tour since the pandemic with this album.
The entire 16 track album plays like one continuous DJ'd dance track. It's amazing
Well I'll tell you it's a highlight on the album and showcases her musicality. So many details in her voice and runs.
I listened to the album and it's by far her most experimental. AOTY for me.
It's one of the weakest songs on the album IMO. The rest of what's here is so good in runs, musicality, lyricism, I'm personally just in awe of this album. Every time I listen my ears peel back more layers of production and detail I didn't notice the first time.
Looks like this will be released at midnight local time, probably because of the leak:
View: https://open.spotify.com/album/6FJxoadUE4JNVwWHghBwnb
View: https://open.spotify.com/album/6FJxoadUE4JNVwWHghBwnb
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y'all I NEED to talk more about this album
It is fucking EXQUISITE
I'm listening on my Plex server connected to my 5.1 Atmos home theater with Klipsch Reference Premier 8000F series speakers and JBL 550 10" sub.
Let me tell you this is one of her finest achievements. I can't believe how much I adore EVERY song on this album compared to just having just a few .favorites on each of her previous albums.
Every song is danceable
The entire album sounds like one continuous monologue/stream of consciousness played to the beat of a crazy talented DJ that switches styles for every song, but each song even musically TRANSITIONS into the next, raising the tempo and modulating the beat and rhythm. Like an homage to Chromatica.
Yet each vocal chorus and verse is just an intense, thoughtful reflection on love, sex, companionship, self-esteem, black excellence, success, social/racial justice, and black feminism, married to absurdly talented runs, harmonies and musicality strewn elegantly over the flexing tempo to each song change like pearls on a string. The more powerful the word in the lyric, the more ambitious of a vocal acrobatic endeavor she attempts, in order to perform musical gymnastics around these notes.
It's exceedingly impressive from a music production standpoint yet also unstoppably immaculate in every other quality category for me in music: Something to say? Check. Songwriting? Check. Talent? Check. ? Surprising? Check. Historically conscious/honorable? Double check.
Black people had a huge role in developing the first house and disco music. She intertwines that with her classic R&B/pop style. She honors that by sewing a dazzling tapestry of musical references that gleam like jewels. Disco rhythms mixed with ballads from R&B that seamlessly transition into funk or house with an altered tempo and suffer from outrageously addicting melodies that proliferate the best pop. Vocalizations, historical shouting and audio snippets, ancient disco synths, a variety of sounds and instruments from across her genre, vocals, and past lyrics, feel perfectly mixed for Beyoncé alone.
Every song sounds characteristically Beyoncé, and yet totally new and musically never attempted from this angle.
It's just groundbreaking. I can leave it on all day on repeat and I feel invigorated. It's uplifting, it's emotional, it's confident, and it's needed in todays culture. I learn something from it every repeat. And technically, it's just a marvel. Again, the clever, amazing transitions from song to song with an ever present heartbeat across the tracks makes it infinitely danceable. Infinitely seamless.
The amazing remixes of the future will be made of this albums sounds.
I am listening to this album on my speaker set and it's literally the best fucking bop and dance beat I've heard since when clubbing was more of a thing pre-2020.
It also is one of the few songs that actually activates my sub. My sub is calibrated to have a pretty low LFE transition frequency because my Klipsch's have a wide bass range. So it activates during rare low roars in movies from monsters or earthquakes or rock slides in movies. Pretty infrequently, because the Klipsch's can handle low frequencies. Well Beyoncé got my sub fucking howling during different songs.
Idk I wrote this high this album is just my fucking jam rn and I want to dance it into eternity
It is fucking EXQUISITE
I'm listening on my Plex server connected to my 5.1 Atmos home theater with Klipsch Reference Premier 8000F series speakers and JBL 550 10" sub.
Let me tell you this is one of her finest achievements. I can't believe how much I adore EVERY song on this album compared to just having just a few .favorites on each of her previous albums.
Every song is danceable
The entire album sounds like one continuous monologue/stream of consciousness played to the beat of a crazy talented DJ that switches styles for every song, but each song even musically TRANSITIONS into the next, raising the tempo and modulating the beat and rhythm. Like an homage to Chromatica.
Yet each vocal chorus and verse is just an intense, thoughtful reflection on love, sex, companionship, self-esteem, black excellence, success, social/racial justice, and black feminism, married to absurdly talented runs, harmonies and musicality strewn elegantly over the flexing tempo to each song change like pearls on a string. The more powerful the word in the lyric, the more ambitious of a vocal acrobatic endeavor she attempts, in order to perform musical gymnastics around these notes.
It's exceedingly impressive from a music production standpoint yet also unstoppably immaculate in every other quality category for me in music: Something to say? Check. Songwriting? Check. Talent? Check. ? Surprising? Check. Historically conscious/honorable? Double check.
Black people had a huge role in developing the first house and disco music. She intertwines that with her classic R&B/pop style. She honors that by sewing a dazzling tapestry of musical references that gleam like jewels. Disco rhythms mixed with ballads from R&B that seamlessly transition into funk or house with an altered tempo and suffer from outrageously addicting melodies that proliferate the best pop. Vocalizations, historical shouting and audio snippets, ancient disco synths, a variety of sounds and instruments from across her genre, vocals, and past lyrics, feel perfectly mixed for Beyoncé alone.
Every song sounds characteristically Beyoncé, and yet totally new and musically never attempted from this angle.
It's just groundbreaking. I can leave it on all day on repeat and I feel invigorated. It's uplifting, it's emotional, it's confident, and it's needed in todays culture. I learn something from it every repeat. And technically, it's just a marvel. Again, the clever, amazing transitions from song to song with an ever present heartbeat across the tracks makes it infinitely danceable. Infinitely seamless.
The amazing remixes of the future will be made of this albums sounds.
I am listening to this album on my speaker set and it's literally the best fucking bop and dance beat I've heard since when clubbing was more of a thing pre-2020.
It also is one of the few songs that actually activates my sub. My sub is calibrated to have a pretty low LFE transition frequency because my Klipsch's have a wide bass range. So it activates during rare low roars in movies from monsters or earthquakes or rock slides in movies. Pretty infrequently, because the Klipsch's can handle low frequencies. Well Beyoncé got my sub fucking howling during different songs.
Idk I wrote this high this album is just my fucking jam rn and I want to dance it into eternity
This is actually the first album in years I will be physically buying at release in addition to streaming regularly through Apple Music and Spotify. I'm actually gonna eventually l break out my external drive to rip the physical media at the highest quality I can to put on my Plex server. And I never even bother with that. It just deserves my money and time.
Please tell me Break My Soul was the weakest track?
As a House dancer, it was super underwhelming to me, unfortunately.
Hope the rest of the album slaps tho
As a House dancer, it was super underwhelming to me, unfortunately.
Hope the rest of the album slaps tho
It's iconic but to me it is yes the weakest track on there. It's immediately recognizable but be warned this album is not just full house. It has house, disco, pop and R&B elements in unfathomable musical combinations IMO.
I'd say Break My Soul outranks Move and Heated. The album is basically flawless though despite that somewhat sedate middle portion.
Mte.
I guess the album makes sense given there's … 3 coming. I'm sure between the 3 there's a solid chunk of good content. But it's hard not to feel like this was a massive step down from both Lemonade and Self Titled.
Lord, I'm only three tracks in but...
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Absolutely her best album from me. Seeing her growth and growing with her music from 98 to now, the complexity of this is CRAZY. The production, the vocals. Nobody is doin it like her these days. She's learned from the greats like MJ, Prince, Mariah, Janet and it SHOWS.
Yeah, my standout too. ☄️
Amazing album though. She let the work percolate over the last few years, and it's a nice direction she went in after her previous stuff. Love it
I got legit teary eyed when it switched to the chorus, I did not expect that at all.
This album on tour? It's going to be something magical to see Alien Superstar live
Yes 😭😭😭She put crack on Alien Superstar's chorus woah
I'm too classy for this world, forever, I'm that girl
Feed you diamonds and pearls, ooh, baby
I'm too classy to be touched, I paid them all in dust
I'm stingy with my love, ooh, baby
I'm
UNIQUE
I'm sure this will be divisive, but I love this album.