Six years after her landmark “Lemonade,” Beyoncé has returned with #Renaissance, the bracing, ravenous album the past two terrible years demanded.
Tipped as Bey’s most overt dip yet into club music, the record delivers on every inch of that promise. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Tipped as Bey’s most overt dip yet into club music, the record delivers on every inch of that promise. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” is also in a deep and uneasy conversation with the fear and chaos of recent life in America, and the worries yet to come.
Here, @AugustBrown details six takeaways from the highly anticipated album. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Here, @AugustBrown details six takeaways from the highly anticipated album. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Following the record’s leak, Beyoncé’ was humbled by fans waiting to experience it together. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” wrote the artist. “I appreciate you for calling out anyone that was trying to sneak into the club early.” latimes.com/entertainment-…
~This~ is the club record of summer.
#Renaissance is head-spinning for the sheer amount of ideas — swerving, staggering, crunching and pristine — in service of sexual mayhem and spiritual redemption. latimes.com/entertainment-…
#Renaissance is head-spinning for the sheer amount of ideas — swerving, staggering, crunching and pristine — in service of sexual mayhem and spiritual redemption. latimes.com/entertainment-…
“If Drake hoped his house-influenced ‘Honestly, Nevermind’ would be the floor-filler of the season, it just got wiped off the decks,“ writes @AugustBrown. latimes.com/entertainment-…
#Renaissance is the sexiest history lesson of the year.
#Renaissance is the sexiest history lesson of the year.
The album’s guest stars track a path through the past and future of queer Black club music. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Beyoncé's work has always been in a deep dialogue with geography and history. With #Renaissance, she’s paying the debt backward and forward, tracing out a Black and queer tradition of nightclub rebellion and exaltation that cuts across genre and era. latimes.com/entertainment-…
#Renaissance is a body album in every way.
A DJ could credibly leave “Renaissance” on loop and watch a room of bodies writhe. But Beyoncé’s lyrics tap into a complicated well of feeling about physical existence, and the pleasures and perils of it. latimes.com/entertainment-…
A DJ could credibly leave “Renaissance” on loop and watch a room of bodies writhe. But Beyoncé’s lyrics tap into a complicated well of feeling about physical existence, and the pleasures and perils of it. latimes.com/entertainment-…
The entanglement of sacred and sultry, and violence and resilience, defines her writing. “I need more nudity and ecstasy” she sings on “Virgo’s Groove.” “Kiss me where you bruise me.” latimes.com/entertainment-…
A gay family member inspired #Renaissance.
Like Kendrick Lamar’s track “Auntie Diaries,” Beyoncé’s album is in part a loving tribute to an LGBTQ family member whose life helped shape her art. The album us dedicated in part to her late uncle Johnny. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Like Kendrick Lamar’s track “Auntie Diaries,” Beyoncé’s album is in part a loving tribute to an LGBTQ family member whose life helped shape her art. The album us dedicated in part to her late uncle Johnny. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Johnny was “my godmother and the first person to expose me to a lot of the music and culture that serve as inspiration for this album,” she wrote. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Learn everything we know about Beyoncé's #Renaissance. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Read @AugustBrown’s comprehensive break down of the new album. latimes.com/entertainment-…
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