The return of the queen. Beyoncé is lastly gearing as much as launch her seventh solo album — and it’s coming a lot earlier than you suppose.
The Grammy winner, 40, introduced Renaissance on Thursday, June 16, days after followers started speculating {that a} new undertaking was within the works. The “Drunk in Love” singer had beforehand wiped her Instagram account, main observers to guess that she would quickly begin selling a brand new album. Her mom, Tina Knowles-Lawson, additionally “appreciated” an Instagram submit about an artwork change on Beyoncé’s web site.
The Texas native’s final solo studio album was Lemonade, which debuted in April 2016. She later launched 2018’s Every little thing Is Love along with her husband, Jay-Z, following it up with two initiatives in 2019: her Homecoming reside album and The Lion King: The Reward, which additionally featured Kendrick Lamar, Burna Boy, Infantile Gambino and extra.
After the “Formation” songstress introduced Renaissance, followers realized that she might have dropped a touch in regards to the album’s title a couple of 12 months prior.
“With all of the isolation and injustice over the previous 12 months, I feel we’re all prepared to flee, journey, love and chortle once more,” Beyoncé instructed Harper’s Bazaar in August 2021, answering a query about when listeners might count on new music. “I really feel a renaissance rising, and I need to be a part of nurturing that escape in any manner doable. I’ve been within the studio for a 12 months and a half.”
The Renaissance reveal additionally got here with a serious shock: a launch date. Beyoncé famously dropped her self-titled fifth album in December 2013 with no warning, then debuted Lemonade by way of an HBO particular that was shrouded in secrecy earlier than its launch. (Renaissance is ready to drop on July 29.)
“We haven’t had an official launch date from Beyonce since twenty fourth July 2011,” tweeted one fan, referring to the pop icon’s fourth album, 4. “Y’all don’t perceive how seeing that 29 July has me feeling.”
One other Twitter person added: “Beyoncé doing pre orders, foreshadowing and really ANNOUNCING a launch date … she’s coming for BLOOD.”
Apart from the discharge date, nevertheless, the “Halo” singer revealed only a few particulars about what Renaissance will sound like. In a British Vogue cowl story printed the identical day because the album announcement, editor in chief Edward Enninful provided readers a quick tease at what he heard throughout his interview with the Oscar nominee.
“Immediately, a wall of sound hits me,” he wrote. “Hovering vocals and fierce beats mix and in a cut up second I’m transported again to the golf equipment of my youth. I need to rise up and begin throwing strikes.”
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