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‘Renaissance’ Review: America Has a Problem and Beyoncé Ain’t It

It’s too much, this is alive. Too heavy, too uncertain, chronically radical, too warlike, unwell, too lucky, Sensing Of the error. Anyway, the word for the last few years has been “unstable” in American activists and academia. This can be an idea of ​​danger, negligence, contingency, or risk. Basic: worry. When: We are worried that you are not worried enoughAs I said: That’s too much.

If I’m a world-famous musician and all the blinks are tested for meaning, now is the time to mean something else, look light, float, bob, splash, writhe, grind, It may be time to discover how Sashey Chante feels. .. Finding “new salvation” by laying her “own foundation” for her.

If I were that musician, now might be the time to call my freestyle jam “There is a problem in America” Don’t say what’s wrong. A) Psyche! B) What do I say you don’t know yet? And C) The person who actually plays this song knows that “the loot does what it wants to do.” Now is the time to move your body instead of losing your mind. “America” ​​is one of the closing tracks for Beyonce’s seventh solo studio album, “Renaissance,” and she investigated her stakes and concluded that it was too high. When she sings on her first single, it’s time to remember to “tell everyone.” “Break My Soul” — There is no discourse without disco.

What a fun time this is! All 16 songs come from places with dance floors — nightclubs, strip clubs, ballrooms, basements, TatooineMost of them are soaked in Black Queer Brabad or fully implemented. And to almost everyone, Beyonce sounds like they are experiencing something personally new and personally glorious. It’s an unmitigated ecstasy. It takes many forms: obviously bliss. But also sexy rigor. The exercise of control is as entertaining on this album as the stress Akumaharai.

Like “Renaissance” (one song credits 20 writers, including samples and interpolation), it’s expensive to produce, but Beyonce’s song here goes beyond any price tag. The range of her voice is approaching the galaxy. Her imagination to move it qualifies as a movie. She’s cousin, growls, growls, doubles and triples. She has the perfect ratio of butter, mustard, foie gras, icing and cupcakes.

You will receive something called “Plastic Off the Sofa” on the way. Well, some of me cried. Because they are words that she doesn’t even care about singing. Plastic from the sofa? I got it again! The rest of me cried because the song she sings seems to come from somewhere beyond the human throat in a wave of intense Olympic-level emissions: the ocean? oven? However, this is one of the few songs recorded on live instruments, with guitar plinking and some fluttering percussion. (The musical plastic comes off the album sofa.) The baseline swells, bends, and continues to bloom until the flowerbed grows. So is Beyonce’s voice. It surfs the swell. It smells like roses. The “Renaissance” turns into the gospel here and there — the bravest of the “Church Girl”. This is the only one that sounds like it was recorded in Eden.

It takes a minute for all the delights of the “Renaissance” to begin. First comes a mission statement (“I’m the girl”) that Beyonce warns that her love is her medicine. Next, we move on to the national anthem “Cozy,” which depicts a luxurious black woman on her skin. It has a bottom as heavy as a cast iron frying pan, and the Richter scale has a non-negligible bounce. “Cozy” is about comfort, but it sounds like an oncoming army. The first true exhalation is “cuff it”. This is a roller skating jam raised by Nile Rodgers’ signature guitar flutter, provided by Horn’s fleet for afterburn. Here, Beyonce wants to go out and have a good time she can’t print. And she’s so contagious that she later thinks too much about her disposable lines like “I want to go missing.” I sober.

I have a lot of laughter. Thanks for the Big Freedia and Ts Madison samples. “Dark skin, light skin, beige” — Madison draws “cozy” — “fluorescence beige. “Thanks to Tabuloido TV’s keyboard blast for” America has a problem. ” But Beyonce herself was less interesting than she was here. She would only need the rigor she applies to the word “no” in “America.” But there is her impersonation of Grace Jones’ “movement.” This is the refraction of a sharp, winding dancehall that commands Pourvous to “break up like the Red Sea” when the Queen passes by. (I’m not talking about who the Queen is in that scenario.) Pop music has been influenced by Jones for 45 years. This is one of the few mainstream acknowledgments for her rich musical power. At the end of “Heated” is Beyonce’s vamp, she says her fan is spreading.It’s one of them Round table freestyle It goes down with some balls. Some of her include:Euncle Jonny made my dress / that cheap spandex / she looks messed up. “

This is an album that cherishes the house. And the feeling of the house is huge. Mansion music. The “Renaissance” is adjacent to where the pop was: pulsing and throbbing. Its muscles are larger, its limbs are more flexible, and its ego is safe. I haven’t heard of market concerns. Its adventurous spirit is off the map of the genre, but I know all the coordination very well. It is the result of synthesis that never sounds like slabs or synthesis. These songs are testing this music and celebrating how big and flexible it is. That’s why I may love “Break My Soul”. It’s track 6, but it feels like the backbone of the album’s theme. There is kindness, determination and ideas — Beyonce mediates two different approaches to the church.

In “Pure / Honey,” Beyonce breaks through the walls one after another until she reaches the room that houses all her cousins. 2013 Sizzler “Blow”. It ends with her next to the sample Drug artist Moi Lenny “Miss Honey? Miss Honey!” And it’s close B-52 Because Beyonce’s song may come. (But Kate, Cindy, Fred, Keith: Call her anyway!)

The album’s house hug, for example, clearly matches Beyonce with strange black people, not traps. On the one hand, that means she’s just an elite pop star with particularly enthusiastic support. But the “Renaissance” is more than a fan service. It is directed to a particular history. There is one knotty symbiosis between Sith women and gay men. The spoofing and compliment doors rotate by centrifugal force.

In Beyonce, her drug appears to be released rather than obfuscated. Her music has absorbed more than just these lesser-known gay and trance artists and personalities. Another artist. In “Blow,” Beyonce wondered how she felt to her partner when she loved her. Now, the strange thing is, how does she feel about making her love, and sometimes art, like someone else?The last song on the album “Summer Renaissance” And it begins with the heartbeat of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love.” This is not the first time she has quoted La Donna. However, the nod is not only there, but the reference is explicitly stated. It’s in the rich middle of the album, including its sofa song and “Virgo’s Groove”, perhaps the most fascinating track Beyonce has ever recorded. In short, “Renaissance” is an album about past performances of other pop music, but in the end, it’s a 40-year-old star who is in a time when there is a real risk of acting like nothing to lose. Beyonce’s album.

Another history is in the title of the album. A hundred years ago, when things were too much for black Americans — Lynch, a national “race riot” — and flying from south to north seemed like a healthy alternative to murder. In Harlem, Alan Rock, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, Aaron Douglas and Jesse Faucet were at the heart of the art explosion to pick five people. album. The artist was gay and straight, and anything in between. The important thing is that they also called it the Renaissance. It sustained and provided joy and provocation, despite the crisis around it, and gave those looking for a home something close to home. New salvation, old foundation.

Beyonce
“Renaissance”
(Parkwood Entertainment / Colombia)

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