Beyonce‘s seventh solo studio album, ‘Renaissance,’ continues to prove itself the gift that keeps on giving.
Released in July to historic measure, the set has since been marked a standout among the year’s releases commercially and critically – an eminence that was reiterated last month when the Recording Academy announced the diva led the nominations tally for the 2023 GRAMMYs.
Further proof of the laud the LP is courting comes thanks to year-end lists from some of the industry’s biggest publications and tastemakers.
After ‘TIME‘ magazine named the opus the best female album of the year (as we reported here), ‘Rolling Stone’ agreed – naming it the best album of the year overall in its ‘100 Best Albums of 2022’ list published Thursday (December 1).
Besting some of the year’s top sellers (Taylor Swift‘s ‘Midnights,’ Harry Styles’ ‘Harry’s House,’ Bad Bunny‘s ‘Un Verano Sin Ti,’ and more, ‘RS’ branded Bey’s latest LP as “the musical highlight of the year.”
“The album finds her unabashedly celebrating Black pleasure in all its multitudes and illustrates that theme with dozens of sampled voices and sounds, esteemed guests (Grace Jones!), and echoes to global club styles past and present,” the mag said before referring to ‘Renaissance’ as ‘her thrilling best.’
They weren’t the only ones singing the Queen’s praises, however.
On Sunday (December 4), the LA Times took to press to reveal its 20 best albums of 2022. Atop the list was none other than Beyonce.
Calling the ‘Break My Soul’-led project a “loving tribute to dance music’s Black and queer pioneers,” the LA Times placed ‘Renaissance’ in front of some of 2022’s most acclaimed sets including Bunny’s, Swift’s, Styles’, Wizkid‘s ‘More Love, Less Ego,’ Kendrick Lamar‘s ‘Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,’ The Weeknd‘s ‘Dawn FM,’ and more.
What’s more, they also listed ‘Break’ as the year’s best song.
Incoming haters in 5, 4, 3, 2……
And all she did was an Instagram post. The General Public and fans did the rest…. Also before y’all start with the overused “overrated” comments… at this point how is she overrated? Taylor is the one overrated
Don’t forget baby killer
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Lol this hilarious wasn’t even ground breaking of an album. Beyonce just copied and paste from other songs and the them of the album. I’ve heard better.
You must be fun at parties.
Overrated
Too bad the best of her career is copy and pasting from other artists. It’s not original.
And Kelly Rowland a lesbo. Know Beyonce a thief and baby killer
I agree with this. The songs on there give meaning like “you wont break my soul” i mean, who tf cant relate to that?? Its literally uplifting and a bop at the same time. On the contrary songs like “anti-hero” are just bland, colorless dumb and give less meaning to reality
Y’all soooo “HEATED” in these comments. Y’all ever notice the ones that always hate be knowing every song, every single, every album sale, every track that was sampled…. It’s astonishing for them to know so much but hate her just as equal. Keep watching and checking haters you’re part of the reason she keeps winning! 😂😂😂😂
Bro you can be sure I don’t know one of them because I simply don’t care about her music. The woman is to overrated her fanbase will hype her but outside of them there are a lot of people who simply don’t care 😂😂😂😂😂
Yet you’re on her post and commenting. Make it make sense!!
ROLLING STONE Apparently Cares.🤭
Look at this blindsided people ohhh mannnn you really thinks she is just sooo famous because of her talent……ohhh pray to god and ask him to open your eyes this world is evil and have more spirits than you could imagine 😉
Again paid for,on repeat
In terms of buzz and mass appeal, Renaissance gets the nod. But Mr. Morale was the more lyrically and sonically exciting release. I was in the clubs when all the songs B sampled were “hot” so there wasn’t much “newness” IMO. But, she will most likely win big come actual award season…
Bull
The album was alright. It had a few standouts but the rest was forgettable for me. Anything Beyonce does will be worshipped at this point. She didn’t even bother promoting the album.
GOSH SHE IS OVERRATED . I JUST CANT . I ONLY ENJOYED BREAK MY SOUL AND ALIEN SUPERSTAR . ELSE IS RUBBISH AND NON CREATIVE