God this album is incredible. Also hilarious after Pitchfork revisited Random Access Memories and revised the raising lower because it didn't inspire a disco or dance resurgence… well they were a decade early.
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Beyoncé - act i - RENAISSANCE - July 29
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GODDDDDAAAAAAMMMMMMMM! I just woke up to listen and I can't! What the fuck is this! This is one of the best albums I have ever heard. This is definitely her best album. Holy shit. Those who saying they not feeling it, I am honestly wondering how, album is pure plasma in yo veins.
lol@ How Energy into Break My Soul redeems the later. Great sequencing, wonder if she had a DJ help.
All Up In Your Mind is my standout out in the album so far. Makes me wish SOPHIE was still alive because I can see her being on this album
The album as a whole is incredibly strong, the influences are just 👌🏻
The album as a whole is incredibly strong, the influences are just 👌🏻
The throwback in THIQUE with her Destiny's Child voice has an ungodly grip on me. It's so short, but I just wanna hear more of it. So many colors to her voice in this album.
Yeah it fits in so well in the album. It's a good single but so much better when listening to the album
This album is nuts. I can't believe she fully committed to a concept like this. This is exactly what I wanted from late stage Beyoncé.
Yeah, I knew she'd rock the dance joints, but for the better part of two decades I've been begging her to do a neo-soul song, and Plastic off the Sofa is the irrefutable evidence that she could totally eat that shit up. It's amazing how pristine her vocals still are after all these years, and how she's still finding ways to manipulate her voice for artistic effect.
So far, this is all over the place. I don't know what I'm listening to. This Alien song sounds like one part Prince, one part Missy and one part Kanye. I'm hoping it gets more focused. Cuff it is much better. But the lyrics sounds like some Doja cat song.
This is the first album of her career where I actually believe she contributed to writing. The lack of lyricism here is funny as hell. The "yummy yummy eat it bummy" or whatever took me tf out. Writing has definitely been much stronger in the past.
To be fair. Cuff it sonically is amazing. The bassline was great.
As this goes on. I agree. The instrumental on this is really great.
Seriously. I thought a different song was playing a few times in the track.
I was really into it but I also regret Beyoncé saying "spazzin' on that ass/spaz on that ass" in "HEATED".
Really? 🤣"Checks credits for HEATED"
Written by Aubery Drake Graham
Edit: Never mind, found it. I thought it sounded like something he'd sing, even the production give me Drake vibes.
It ends in a sample from the Legendary Moi Renee.
View: https://twitter.com/beyonceupdtes/status/1550069731906015233?t=5nPx7Ek3SJNFCRIRrW98IA&s=19
So much of this album is a love letter to Black Queer culture.
Finished the album and god damn it can run on repeat forever and it just flows perfectly. "Summer Renaissance" back into "I'm That Girl" works so well.
Favorites of the album are "I'm That Girl", "Pure/Honey" and the "Cuff It"/"Energy"/"Break My Soul" trio. Also "Cozy". Love the whole damn thing, though.
I saw some people talking about the lyrics in songs like "Thique" and "Pure/Honey" and like…they aren't genius-level classical poetry but did they need to be? The themes, the music, and Beyoncé's vocals are fantastic.
Favorites of the album are "I'm That Girl", "Pure/Honey" and the "Cuff It"/"Energy"/"Break My Soul" trio. Also "Cozy". Love the whole damn thing, though.
I saw some people talking about the lyrics in songs like "Thique" and "Pure/Honey" and like…they aren't genius-level classical poetry but did they need to be? The themes, the music, and Beyoncé's vocals are fantastic.
This. There's a time and place for Mariah Carey-esque wordsmithing in pop music, but here the most important thing is being immersed in the specific mood, which Beyonce's vocal delivery does expertly. More than any other vocalist still active in the industry, she enhances every line with a stunning deliberateness and imbues the song with a rare animation and exhilaration that others like Dua and even Adele or Gaga can't.
She effortlessly goes from tender to tough to playful and back again, just with her vocal instincts and not necessarily the lyrics. In short, no one else could've done this album.
Agreed. Lyrics don't matter here. Like I love the way she says certain lines on this album. "You sexy muthafucker" 😍😎 lol
My favorite lyrical Beyoncé is Partition but I think
the corny lyrics actually fit the camp here
the corny lyrics actually fit the camp here
That's a goooood album, well worth the wait. And I guess she's got at least two more on the way soon?? Concerts are going to be insane
Still haven't internalized a lot of the lyrics tbh but they seem fine to me so far? Think "Tig Ol Bitties" was the only thing that got an eyebrow raise out of me lmao
Still haven't internalized a lot of the lyrics tbh but they seem fine to me so far? Think "Tig Ol Bitties" was the only thing that got an eyebrow raise out of me lmao