Leak be damned, we have finally trotted our way to a new Beyonce album!
Six years after making history with her sixth studio album ‘Lemonade,’ the Queen is looking to reign atop the Billboard 200 once more – this time with the long-awaited LP ‘Renaissance.’
The first installment of a three-part musical series, ‘Renaissance’ is being brought to the masses on the wings of the smash hit ‘Break My Soul,’ which broke the diva into uncharted territory when it soared into Hot 100’s top 10 weeks ago all ahead of the release of its official video.
Featuring appearances and contributions from the likes of Drake, JAY-Z, The-Dream, Tems, Solange, Raphael Saadiq, Grace Jones, Hit-Boy, Kelis (much to her chagrin), and many other big names, the 16-track affair easily comes as the year’s most highly anticipated yet.
Does it live up to the hype? Tell us after you stream it inside courtesy of Apple Music and Spotify.
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Literally the worst album of her career
Yup I agree and boring as hell I skipped every single song. Her voice is so bland. Voice brings no emotion 😐.
The critics seem to disagree since it got a overall score of 88.
Tho I haven’t listened to ACT 1 I’m perfectly aware that this is exactly what Beys lengthy career needs… A risky experimental spontaneous innovative unapolegetic ‘chromatica on hydrolics’ type album that literally says “F you” to everyone that doesn’t like it. 😂
Clearly Yonce is tired of being Pretty and the Hive is here for it. 🐝
Critics are bought and paid for. The streets are the real Critics, are the streets say the album sucks & she’s just pandering to the gay community to seem edgy and she fails.
Where is the video? This is weird why is she taking so long???
We need the music videos to understand her songs
I remember the first time I heard formation, I was like, wtf is this mess. Until I watched the music video and everything started making sense
wjerw the mf video ? ?
Whoa sounds good so far !!
sound like the gay club b****
Wow that’s 🔥. I’m that girl plastic. Sofa America has a problem. Are pure hit. All the songs have their vibe. 🤩 that’s a dope album . Don’t f*** with my sis the queen she is comfortable in her skin. Cozzy juicy. You hate her cuz you want her . She is swagg . B**** pay her .. 😉
This album sounds made for a bunch of queens I’ll pass but the queen fems will love it terrible album
Girl you’re a sissy ass queen too. Lighten up and enjoy yourself to the sound of the Queen’s Renaissance cause your fav ain’t close to dropping her album anytime soon
Yaaaaaaaaaaas Paulo!!! lmaoooooooooo 🤣
the queens in the hood bumpin this all night in the street a b**** aint get no sleep
Ran through it in 5 minutes. Caught my attention at Virgo grooves, reeled me in a lil more at Heated. Then kind of fizzled out. Love her, though.
The album is giving and is actually creative ! Good job B
Wow I’m shocked ! Very creative ! It’s different. I wasn’t expecting to like the album. There are some potential singles Virgos Groove, Cozy, Alien Superstar, Plastic Off The Sofa. 95/100
Yesssss all 4 of those songs are in my Top 5!!!! The last one for me is “America Has A Problem”
Cuff It and Move are also standouts.
I’m shocked that she feels good about this album. The music is very lackluster, and I feel like the lyrics are wasteful and sometimes too immature for her. It doesn’t sound organic or that she’s even enjoying herself – just a bunch of nonsensical talk-singing. What a shame.
ACT II PLEASE?????? Because this album is giving me vogue sessions and my knees are disappointed they can’t twerk down they been waiting to stretch 🙄
Love it! Virgo’s Groove, Cuff It, Summer Renaissance, Pure/Honey, Thique, Alien Superstar, Plastic Off The Sofa… 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I want to listen so bad but I’m trying to hold off until my vinyl arrives 😭 But I’m guessing I’m in for a treat!
Its 11:35 pm here in California and im already on the last track. I wanted to wait until the morning but couldn’t resist 😂. She really did her thing on this album. It’s so upbeat reminds me of her Dangerously In Love/Bday eras but with a House vibe. Bey made this album for the Queens and it shows. You’re gonna love it!
I’ve given in and hit play on Apple Music. I’m up to Church Girl so far. I think I need a few more listens to appreciate it. I’ve been obsessively listening to nothing but Björk these last few weeks as she has some beautiful music but I needed a drop like Beyoncé to pull me away from it for a bit before I end up driving myself crazy 🤣
I can’t believe the first single actually had me having high hopes for this. It’s a mess from start to finish. Girl…you cannot do bounce/ballroom the way you think you can – You are not Azealia Banks. You are also not a rapper. It does not suit you to constantly brag about your ass and your money and just generally being vulgar. Have we forgotten this is the same girl that sung “Nasty Girl” and would get pissed at reporters who didn’t ask purely Mormon/Amish type questions back in the 90s & 00s? 😂 Who are you girl?! Sonically it’s also a mess. How dare you sample Donna Summer and Kelis – superior black women who can actually make dance music that is cohesive and timeless. Beyonce’s lost whatever she had as a recording artist back in 2013 when she released her last listenable album and even that didn’t hold a candle to her previous work. Put a fork in it sis, you’re done to those of us with working eardrums – of course the sheep will continue to praise your vapid, meaningless trash. You know, the type of low intellect peasants who made Google searches for “renaissance meaning” jump because you have a fanbase whose collective IQ you named an album after – 4.
I hate to say I agree with you. I want to be positive but this sounds like a Solange reject album. I get the long rollout now, if she would’ve surprise dropped this it would have tanked. Break my soul is the best song all the album by a mile. She’ll definitely need an emancipation of mimi Era after this.
So your opinion is the only one that matters and everyone elses is wrong if they dont agree? What an arrogant h**. The audacity to actually post that. The only vapid thing is your tired
Know it all act. You a nobody posting nothing but fart in a comments section. Get it together rapidly 😩
You eat farts directly out of my a**. Go Scoopz some poop, then eat it..
Listen Scoops, dear, art – actual art – can certainly be subjective. However, the following bottom of the barrel, cringe-inducing, uninspired, trash, unintelligent, desperate pandering to lowest common denominator content is not:
“That’s that thick, that’s that real s***
That’s that jelly, n****, that’s that really, n****”
And the album is full of meaningless talk-singing attempts at rap that are actually beneath her vocal capabilities (there you go, there’s a compliment).
She’s an embarrassment to her former self. A 40 year old woman from a privileged background trynna be ratchet by making the most brainless garbage imaginable while bragging about her superiority over over girls who actually have command of the English language.
So no, it’s not just my opinion and it’s not subjective – she has zero originality, zero class, zero taste and so do you. But you enjoy that hun, I’m happy for you.
Your post is nothing but full of facts.
Beyonce went totally nuts. People kiss her a$$ just because of who she is and not because of her work like they used to. She used to gain respect because of her work. She is pathetic right now.
This bottom feeders post is nothing but their opinion. You agreeing with their opinion does not automatically transform it into a fact. Accept that. Learn the difference between subjective and objective. Back to school you go.
You and the rest of the TermitHive will deal with the FACT that this trashywoman isn’t who she used to be. She used to deliver good music and you know damn well she is a joke right now for anyone with good tastes. A 40 years old woman singing about big D and her wealth for the last 8 years is pathetic.
Immediately no
Britney will never 💅🏾🖕🏿
How much y’all wanna bet Cuff It, Plastic Off the Sofa, or Virgo’s Groove will be her next single/video?
UPDATE: After listening to the album in one sitting, I take that back. I think Summer Renaissance might be the next release. Who ever did the marketing for this album deserves a raise. She did a live drop on her youtube album. Released each song one by one. So much fun for us fans to experience.
Yes I agree..I’m listening to it now..i think so too
I think All Up In Your Mind or America Has A Problem will be next.
She just posted a visual on her IG. Looks like she’ll be dropping a video soon. Tomorrow maybe? 🤔
Act II wya?????
Bey coming for blood watch
Gay/Trans Ballroom Scene:
Cozy
Alien Superstar
Pure
I’m That Girl
Thot Tunes:
Church Girl
Pop:
All Up In Your Mind
America Has A Problem
Summer Renaissance
Funk/Disco vibes:
Virgo’s Groove
Honey
This album has something for almost everyone in these comments, all shade meant and it was a fun experience!
just shut the f*** up b****
Gay/Trans Ballroom Scene???? Speaking for yourself, f a g 💅🏾 I know you people are excited and dancing with yo d I c k s out. Remember tuck those hairy balls in while you are twerking
DAMN! Now there’s a collector’s edition vinyl edition up for another $61 after already pre-ordering the limited edition vinyl last month so I just had to grab one of those too 🤦🏽♀️ She certainly knows how to make coin – put a “limited edition” up for pre-order, saying it’s a “one-time pressing” so that you order it fast, and then on day of release “by the way, now here’s a collector’s edition!” Damn b*****.
then why u out here coppin this s***
I’ll cop whatever the fùćk I want. You mad that you can’t?
Trash album by a trash woman with trash kids
find u a big black c***
Actually BWC is the cure for everything hunnie💅🏾 Those tasty mannut juice keeps this h o e alive💋💦🌧
immmmmm stillll not decided yet.
its a very fun album, but there’s obviously other artists that can pull this off waaaaay better. therefore making it, i dont know.
so it becomes a case of relativity and choosing how you want to take it. comparing it to other singers like Gaga/Kelis/Azelia or just from her previous works alone.
not her best full length but a very different one. its giving very underground Berlin q**** club vibes.
no b**** ever
Beyoncé has went all the way to the DARK SIDE. In some of these songs, she seriously sounds possessed. Like a spirt has taken over her mind and body.
This must be Sasha Fierce after contacting DARK SPIRITS. Chile I don’t even recognize Beyoncé in any of these tracks. It doesn’t even sound like POP or Lemonade Beyoncé.
Sonically this is easily the worst music I’ve heard from her. I feel she was more into channeling energies w/ this album.
It’s a HARD PASS!
f*** u old b****
Girl SHUT UP! 🤣
Absolutely Not!
If you don’t like TRUTHS….Don’t read my comments.
If you don’t like FACTS…Don’t read my comments B*tch.
This is like a weird mixture of Drake and Madonnas last album. But in bad
Did you notice that all songs on youtube have warnings for épilepsie? Did you only know that THIS is how some goverment hypnotise people? Beyoncé uses strategic words and these quick flashing lights to print them in your mind. Now take the time to see which are the words she’s using in these moments and you will understand.
u crazy as f*** b****
You are just d*mb and innocent in your brainwashed. You should learn from history, stop listening to the tv and radio and LEARN
in ur brainwashed? talk englsih b**** ! !
I do but I’m french, can you speak french like I speak english? No? STFU then, sit down and start to use your brain.
f*** u dumb french b**** ! ! !
Hunnie, the French are ANYTHING but dumb. The US could take some pointers from them.
F me? With what? 😂 you hate french people? So you’re a hater, what a surprise. It’s getting better and better and still you’re not able to do as much as I do. Crickets.
@Shayla, thank you 🙏🌷
No problem ❤️🇫🇷
why this b**** aint never come to the hood ? ?
Why can’t you stop opening your mouth ? ?
Album is 🔥🔥🔥☄️
Have a April 20th day & enjoy
P.s Beyoncé ate drakes attempt
This is so lit! I cannot stop crying! The creativity and originality and the emotional impact as I’m listening! Every time she drops she changes the world as her music causes such a dramatic cultural shift! She is not the queen, she is god. She is the creator of music. No one can deny that fact.
“Every time she drops she changes the world as her music causes such a dramatic cultural shift! She is not the queen, she is god.” that confirms what I said before, I’m never tired to be right. This woman is brainwashing everyone.
One persons throwaway lighthearted comment confirms your crackpot theories on mass brainwashing? Clearly you skipped school when they were teaching about methodologies and appropriate sample sizes?
Just stop. 😩
You clearly don’t have the necessary cells connexion in your brain to understand much more than what you can think. I ain’t gonna stop nothing because a dumbo told me to, are you gonna lose any sleep?
The ones that gave this review are the ones that define the official critics of the albums that will be read by the population. You see? You are too d*mb to understand more than what you little brain can think but it’s no surprise.
Really B? We waited years for this s***!
Yes we did and after listening to this album 💿 Beyoncé shut it down and put on her big girl draws ( she was on her grown sh*t)
Normani pls come out of hiding and SAVE US 🥺
That ugly ass m o n k e y can’t save nobody not even herself 🤣😂🤣🤳🏽💅🏾
“On review agreggator Any Decent Music, the album has a rating of 8.2 out of 10. Writing for The Line of Best Fit, David Cobbald described Renaissance as one of Beyoncé’s best albums to-date, noting that it is a departure from her previous efforts. Cobbald praised the album for celebrating “underappreciated architects” of disco, house and funk music, with tracks conveying a “sense of progressive, rule-breaking and time-colliding music”. Similarly, Kate Solomon of i dubbed Beyoncé “a master of musical curation”, with the album acting as a “dazzling tribute to underground and underappreciated black culture.”
WHAT DID I TELL YOU ALL EARLIER, AGAIN?
a “dazzling tribute to underground and underappreciated black culture.” as I said, the goal was there and I was right, I knew it because it was OBVIOUS in the intention by the title of the trilogy and the black major theme on 3 albums.
“On review agreggator Any Decent Music, the album has a rating of 8.2 out of 10. Writing for The Line of Best Fit, David Cobbald described Renaissance as one of Beyoncé’s best albums to-date, noting that it is a departure from her previous efforts. Cobbald praised the album for celebrating “underappreciated architects” of disco, house and funk music, with tracks conveying a “sense of progressive, rule-breaking and time-colliding music”. Similarly, Kate Solomon of i dubbed Beyoncé “a master of musical curation”, with the album acting as a “dazzling tribute to underground and underappreciated black culture.”
WHAT DID I SAY EARLIER ABOUT THE REDEFINING BLACK MUSIC INTENT?
I KNOW 💅 THE WAS OBVIOUS
Why do my comments disappear?
Coz yo comments are s h I t t y as your stupid ass💅🏾 🤣😂🤣😂 TGJ hate you! Nooooooooooooo cry bout it
Why are you hating on me? Are you jealous or envious about something? Guess what, my comments are still there and I keep on writing so what’s up hater?
“On review agreggator Any Decent Music, the album has a rating of 8.2 out of 10. Writing for The Line of Best Fit, David Cobbald described Renaissance as one of Beyoncé’s best albums to-date, noting that it is a departure from her previous efforts. Cobbald praised the album for celebrating “underappreciated architects” of disco, house and funk music, with tracks conveying a “sense of progressive, rule-breaking and time-colliding music”. Similarly, Kate Solomon of i dubbed Beyoncé “a master of musical curation”, with the album acting as a “dazzling tribute to underground and underappreciated black culture.”
WHAT DID I SAY EARLIER ABOUT THE REDEFINING BLACK MUSIC INTENT?
I KNOW 💅 IT WAS OBVIOUS
“Cobbald praised the album for celebrating “underappreciated architects” of disco, house and funk music, with tracks conveying a “sense of progressive, rule-breaking and time-colliding music”. Similarly, Kate Solomon of i dubbed Beyoncé “a master of musical curation”, with the album acting as a “dazzling tribute to underground and underappreciated black culture.”
WHAT DID I SAY EARLIER ABOUT THE REDEFINING BLACK MUSIC INTENT?
I KNOW 💅 THE WAS OBVIOUS
Reviewers are paid to kiss ass. They say the same ish about each album she releases.
I’m That H O E is my jam💅🏾💋💯
Alien superstar, Cuff it, energy, plastic off the sofa, Virgo’s groove, move, summer resistance are bopsssssss💅🏾 Diva is twerking my bubble b*** off with church gurl 💯🤳🏽💋
Who cares? You’re a toxic person, nobody asks for your opinion.
Awwww somebody is salty coz whoever’s comments got deleted by TGJ😂🤣😂🤣 Diva is a Diva, you are nobody’s nobody 💅🏾 Stay pressed!
Are you d*mb or is it natural? I said my comments are still there, it was a bug from my connexion. You are the one that has a problem with me, what is it? Tell me what are you jealous/envious about? You are pressed, you are the one attacking me, what’s the deal? You can’t play with me, you don’t have the level.
so here’s my final opinion:
its not bad, its decent at best. Decent because its entertaining and fun, but not more.
this is barely music, and at this stage she is a marketing executive who can sing a note. she knows when to throw a word like c*** or karen at the perfect moment to keep you from hitting the next button. she’s suceeding at keeping you hooked. that’s what this album achieves, just keeping you hypnotised by those bouncy beats and imagining what dirty/ratchet lyric she will throw next, barely creating any real musical moments. it fails terribly at being a REAL experimental album, because even though she’s experimenting I’m not convinced she’s entirely anti-establishment and fully committed to the underground sonic space. it still sounds very mainstream, and she could at least have tried to make it believable. the hype continues, the fake praises continue, her career will exist for another 5 years but she’s not reaching new heights anymore. 6.5/10
The album is pure 🗑🗑🗑🗑 it’s repetitive, the beats sound the same, too much profanity. It is all over the place. They hyping it up because it’s Beyoncé and THEY KNOW this album is hot garbage.🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️ They will shove it down everyone’s throat and use payola to get it to the top of the charts, they will use payola to get it more Grammy’s like the others. It needs to be thrown in the nearest dumbster.
The album sounds like a midlife crisis and a coded call for help. As usual, it is an empty, self praising, unintelligent, uninspired body of work. Naturally, her loyals will say “how genius and iconic” it is. But they have said this about literally every single forgettable album she has put out since the first. Which was her only reasonably good album. It is safe to say at this point, not to expect quality or anything of substance from her. And even at that, not to anticipate anything innovative. Just stolen samples of the ones who can do it better. This is her legacy, this is her brand.
Beyonces voice shines most on R&B records. I miss her romantic, vulernable, s*** music. I get she’s trying new things after being around for 25 years but this kind of experimental funk/dance/house sound doesn’t really suit her no shade…
Mostly Trash album! 🗑🗑🗑🗑🗑🗑 Listened from start to finish. And probably won’t listen again! I did like a few of the songs, Virgo’s Groove, Cuff it, Heated and Cozy! This album will be forgotten in a month!
Beyonce depends on hype and industry ass kissing. Renaissance isn’t the banger she thought it would be. But people are gonna force themselves to like it just because it’s Beyonce. Her music hasn’t been hitting for a while now!!
Tbh it sounds like something solange crazy ass would make… and tbemh solange woulda done a better job at it lmao
There’s a reason why her biggest selling album was released almost 20 years ago & only sold 5 million lol.
No voice , no song that will ever be a classic, trying to compete with mediocrity, all those years she could have gone back to study and grow. This shows how uneducated and boring she truly is! No class
So glad I downloaded it illegally and sent out the link to as many people as possible so they don’t have to stream that disgrace to humanity she calls music
I haven’t listened to it yet but Lol at the ones claiming that Renaissuance is the worse album when its receiving CRITICAL ACCLAIM by ACTUAL critics that know how to rate albums based on WHAT IT IS and not what you WANT it to be. 😂 Its Yonce’s 2nd most highest rated album according to METACRITIC (After only Lemonade). It received a score of 88 so far. 😂
So WHAT! The critics always kiss her ass. In the end the general publics reception is what really matters.
Wrong, The Critics all but TRASHED IASF & DIL.
The critics seem to disagree with you however since it got a overall score of 88.
Tho I haven’t listened to ACT 1 I’m perfectly aware that this is exactly what Beys lengthy career needs… A risky experimental spontaneous innovative unapolegetic ‘chromatica on hydrolics’ type album that literally says “F you” to everyone that doesn’t like it. 😂
Clearly Yonce is tired of being Pretty and the Hive is here for it. 🐝
Act 2 & Act 3 will have you even more Upset (Hopefully) All Acts are going Platinum Regardless. So why Complain? 😂
Wow 2 albums were trashed by critics over 10 years ago😱 Ever since 2013 critics have been kissing Beyonces ass. She could fart on a track and they’ll call it groundbreaking. The general public and consumers opinions matter most. Stay mad fatty.
Lol do you want to go to general public on METACRITIC because there it got a 9.7 out of 10 with wellover 1,000 reviews already. 😂 This album was meant to be FUN idk why you expected some soulful masterpiece on a Pop/House/Disco dance album. 😂
I never once said my expectations of the album. I had none actually 🤣🤣🤣 I haven’t cared for a Beyonce album in years 😘
Got a feeling Bey’s payback-cheating 👀☕
Just finished listening to renaissance. It definitely far exceeded my expectations. Its easily a 80 out of 100 at the lowest. IMO its Silk Sonic meets Survivor meets Lion King the Gift meets Dreamgirls meets the lyrics of Self Titled with a hint of Chromatica and MJs first Album. This album will definitely attract new fans. Beys team is Brilliant. This Album already appeals to a HUGE Audience and this is just Act 1. Best part is every album tracks is easily better than BMS and flooded with singles that would rip holes through the entire B’day album.
One of my favorite Beyoncé songs of all-time that seems to never get a mention is Work It Out. “See ya gotta work it out! A brother gotta work it out! Ohhhhhh! Chad blow your horn now! Come on, CHAD, blow your horn now!” lmaoooooooooo 🤣
This comparison with Crayonland by Fadga makes no sense whatsoever. If anything RENAISSANCE brought to Pop what Artpop promised to but couldn’t – carefree and experimental Pop excellence
I wish you would pin more albums. Not just the ones that you stan. Girls need love too.
Chris rock thew his career away for making fun of people with alopecia.
Crackney through her career AND voice away by smoking crack. She could never be Beyoncé 💋
*threw
GO FEED YOUR CRACK DAUGHTER.
YOU didn’t even come up with the name CRACKNEY.
I did for Mariah BIPOLAR CRACKNEY. 💋
No, I came up with the name Crackney Höeston, dumbass. Because she was.
Baby I know the Queen scalped you bald with this great album but stay on topic please 😅
No, you just a deadbeat mother….
I came up with the name MARIAH CRACKNEY and Ho.riah. Carey.
YOU a BIPOLAR THIEF ON REPEAT
Drugged up rambling lunatic. Just like your dead fave.
I’m by no means a stan. However, this album slaps overall. I enjoyed the majority of it. Some of it is ratchet and should have left unreleased. But 90% of it is solid. I truly don’t understand all the hatred. She tried something new and it’s refreshing. It’s sensual and inviting.
I LOVE them all😘🤗😇
BETCHA YOU’LL HAVE FAITH🙏🏾🙌🏾🙇🏾🙌🏾🙏🏾 I feel like falling IN LOVE; WE GONE CUFF UP TONIGHT💃🏾🐝👸🏽BaeBEY👸🏽🐝💃🏾