BEYONCÉ'S RENAISSANCE (with The New Yorker's Doreen St. Félix)

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English - August 04, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 60.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 444 ratings
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Beyoncé’s seventh studio album and her first in over six years, Renaissance, is finally upon us!

For the fourth and final episode of our series on Queen B, DJ Louie is joined by The New Yorker’s Doreen St. Félix to discuss the new record. Louie and Doreen share gut-check reactions, break down Renaissance's themes of bacchanalia and sexual freak-dom and how they register through Beyoncé’s signature meticulousness, its lush, dynamic sonic palette which runs the gamut from house to disco to afrobeat, this weekend’s controversy with Kelis and whether an artist of B’s stature’s can celebrate other artists and sub-cultures- like ballroom- without subsuming them, and why this may be a superlative pandemic record, a manifestation of Beyoncé’s delayed adolescence and of a superstar’s fantasy of what life is like for people who, unlike her, can actually go to a club.

Read Louie's review of Renaissance in Buzzfeed

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BEYONCÉ'S RENAISSANCE (with The New Yorker's Doreen St. Félix)

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