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Kelis put Beyoncé and Pharrell Williams on blast Thursday for sampling one of the singer's songs without her permission or even advance notice.

“It’s called thievery because ... the definition of collaboration, it means that we are working together,” she added. “My mind is blown too because the level of disrespect and utter ignorance of all 3 parties involved is astounding,” she wrote in the comments of the fan account’s post. “The reality is, all of this female empowerment, it only counts if you really do it,” she said. He does this all the time, it’s very petty,” she said, while insisting that she is not jealous of Beyoncé. “If you’re really living it and walking the walk. I have the right to be frustrated,” she said in the first video, just hours before Beyoncé's new album is set to be released.

More than six years after the lauded visual album Lemonade, Beyoncé returns, evolves and responds to a very different world.

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Act i: Renaissance, her first new solo album in six years, follows the culture-defining Lemonade (2016). That record, with its accompanying visual essay, gave ...

With beats that thump and skitter through musical styles, looping and twirling from disco to house, she harks back to the skeezy days of Studio 54, to the dank of a Shoreditch basement and everywhere in between. She sings about the fragments that make up a life, of sex, of love, of going out and letting off steam with friends, of understanding your history and living your truth. I love myself goddamn.” There’s an air of abandon throughout Renaissance, a sense that there’s no time for perfectionism when you’re sweating on the dancefloor, flinging yourself about without a thought for who might be watching. But these do not detract from this dazzling tribute to underground and underappreciated black cultures, this endless party with its effusive reminder that you are allowed to enjoy yourself. Renaissance, by contrast, is a relentless celebration of club culture, full of aphorisms that celebrate personal power and joy. Act i: Renaissance, her first new solo album in six years, follows the culture-defining Lemonade (2016). That record, with its accompanying visual essay, gave voice to her rage over a cheating husband and reclaimed genres assimilated by white artists, from rock’n’roll to bluegrass and country.

The US artist's new album Renaissance, released at midnight on Friday 29 July, includes a song titled “Energy” that samples Kelis's 2000 track “Get Along With ...

“The reality is, all of this female empowerment, it only counts if you really do it. “The issue is that not only are we female artists, okay, Black female artists in an industry [where] there’s not that many of us. He does this all the time, it’s very petty. “Pharrell knows better,” she said of her former collaborator. “I heard about this the same way everyone else did. It’s fine, I don’t care about that,” she said.

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Their last album, Dancing With The Devil, was released in 2021 and peaked at number two in the UK charts. The album’s new lead single, Skin Of My Teeth, was released in May, with a second, Substance, launcing in July. This new song – From the D 2 the LBC – will feature on the greatest hits collection, as well as other hits since his previous hits compilation album released in 2005. But with Lizzo being the legend she is, an absolute army of fans behind her, and her album currently at number two in the US charts – it’s not over yet. Having burst onto the scene in 2019 with breakthrough album Cuz I Love You, Lizzo completely took over the airwaves in the summer of 2019 with Truth Hurts, and has since become one of the most recognisable artists of the 21st century. But Beyoncé isn’t the only megastar with an album coming out in the next few weeks, and there’ll be a battle to see who wins the top spot in the charts.

It is the 40-year-old pop superstar's first offering in six years, following the critically acclaimed Lemonade in 2016. The sprawling 16-track album ...

She added: "To all my fans: I hope it inspires you to release the wiggle. "We are going to take our time and enjoy the music. A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving. I love you." "This three act project was recorded over three years during the pandemic.

Posting as it was officially released, Beyoncé wrote: “So the album leaked and you all actually waited until the proper release time so you can all enjoy it ...

She added: “To all my fans: I hope it inspires you to release the wiggle. A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving. “Mama, I luhhhh you. “We are going to take our time and enjoy the music. “This three act project was recorded over three years during the pandemic.

R&B singer Kelis accused Beyonce of 'theft' for allegedly using a sample of a track off her 1999 debut album, Kaleidoscope, on her new album without ...

It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving,' she stated Sometimes it takes a year for me to personally search through thousands of sounds to find just the right kick or snare,' she said. It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving,' she stated. Ha! And to feel as unique, strong, and sexy as you are.' Wow: She continued: 'I heard about this the same way everyone else did. She continued: 'I heard about this the same way everyone else did.

The artist's first record since Lemonade has been met with a blockbuster response – and a spot of controversy.

In a Guardian interview from 2020, Kelis claimed she was “blatantly lied to and tricked” by her early collaborators the Neptunes and, as a result, “made nothing from sales of her first two albums”. In a Vulture interview earlier this year, Hugo brushed off the comments: “I heard about her sentiment toward that. House musician Robin S, whose track Show Me Love is sampled in Beyoncé’s Break My Soul, has said she was also unaware of the usage before the single’s release – though she received the news more positively. “I appreciate you for calling out anyone that was trying to sneak into the club early.” “I can’t thank y’all enough for your love and protection,” she said. A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. A place to scream, release, feel freedom.”

The superstar's first studio album in six years is indebted to house music and New Orleans bounce, keenly reclaiming gentrified genres.

‘Renaissance’ does precisely what it says on the tin; the revival of Black classics, and she makes sure a lot of love goes into that. The finest arrives on ‘Moves’ where an icon ( Grace Jones) meets a newcomer ( Tems); here, a bassline synonymous with afro-centric music encourages everyone to join the as a bolshy Jones says she’ll “bruk a bitch, bruk up / Fumble like we ’bout to come up”. Then, it’s Tems’ turn to shine with her brief interlude asking: “Who this girl in the back of the room? ‘Renaissance’, her seventh studio album, marks the sound of an artist refreshed: this is her most relentlessly upbeat and fun record yet, one where she explores love, friendship and relationships across 16 spellbinding tracks.

Released on Friday (29 July) at midnight, Renaissance is Beyoncé's first solo album since 2016's Lemonade. The Grammy winner and cultural phenomenon shared the ...

She also released The Lion King: The Gift to accompany the Disney film which included several of her songs. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “I hope it inspires you to release the wiggle. “I heard about this the same way everyone else did. Then in April 2019, she released Homecoming, turning her 2018 headlining performance at Coachella into an album. LGBTQI rights are human rights.”

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I feel a renaissance emerging, and I want to be part of nurturing that escape in any way possible." Ha! And to feel as unique, strong, and sexy as you are." "It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving.

She boosted black culture on her companion album to Disney's Lion King remake, and gave too much information about her shaky marriage to Jay-Z on her Lemonade ...

Even the song America Has a Problem turns out to be a sex song named after the Kilo Ali track it samples, rather than a comment on her country. Renaissance has 16 songs but it sounds like 40 as it leaps suddenly between passages - some of which are futuristic and experimental, as on the surprise link-up with London hyperpop producer AG Cook, All Up In Your Mind, and some that simply float joyfully back to Seventies disco, as on the “Honey” half of Pure/Honey. On the evidence presented by her first solo album for six years, she meant that she was abdicating any responsibility for using pop music to make grand pronouncements.

Beyoncé has spoken out on the reported 'leak' of her new Renaissance album in a moving message to fans, thanking the Beyhive for waiting.

I hope it inspires you to release the wiggle. Ha! And to feel as unique, strong, and sexy as you are.’ A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving,’ she wrote on Instagram. I hope you find joy in this music. ‘We are going to take our time and Enjoy the music.

Beyoncé has celebrated the release of her seventh album, 'RENAISSANCE', with the song-by-song premiere of lyric videos for each track.

‘RENAISSANCE’ was first announced on June 16, with ‘BREAK MY SOUL’ landing as its first and only single a few days later. Ha! And to feel as unique, strong, and sexy as you are.” That list may not be fully accurate, however, as Kelis has claimed she was sampled on a track without permission. It was a beautiful journey of exploration.” Each of the album’s 16 songs will receive its own video, premiered in order of their appearance on the tracklisting with a two-minute countdown between them. Take a look at the video for ‘I’M THAT GIRL’ below, and keep an eye on Beyoncé’s YouTube channel here for the remaining handful.

More than six years after the lauded visual album Lemonade, Beyoncé returns, evolves and responds to a very different world.

"A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. She addressed the leak, and the backlash from patient fans it received on social media, in a post just ahead of the album's actual release, writing: "I appreciate you for calling out anyone that was trying to sneak into the club early ... we are going to take our time and enjoy the music." Ha! And to feel as unique, strong, and sexy as you are." "My intention was to create a safe place, a place without judgment," Beyoncé's statement on her website reads. On her website, Beyoncé wrote of Renaissance, "This three act project was recorded over three years during the pandemic. Beyoncé's long-awaited and highly anticipated seventh studio album, Renaissance, is now available for the world to hear.

In a catch-all spirit of musical modernism, trap, house, glitchtronica, disco, ragga, South African gqom and future funk are all lobbed into a heady mix, ...

“America Has a Problem” pretty much dodges America’s many problems, taking its title from a Kilo Ali track about the drug trade but using it as an unopinionated metaphor for sex: “I’m supplying my man, I’m in demand soon as I land.” Likewise, the James Brown-sampling, deviant gospel of “Church Girl” hints at themes of religious suppression, control and irrepressible individuality, but buries them beneath a song essentially about dropping everything and partying away the heartache. Renaissance – the first of a trilogy of as-yet-undefined projects that helped Beyoncé “feel free and adventurous” during the pandemic, we’re told – is a continuation record of sorts. still a 10”) that nods to traumas past, but in the style of muted future R&B. There’s a wariness and restraint to the celebrations here. On tracks such as “Heated”, featuring a writing credit for Drake, high-living consumerism is flouted as flagrantly and tiresomely as ever, while the world burns. Opener “I’m That Girl” finds Beyoncé reviving her pre-affair mentality: she doesn’t need drugs, she’s “tweaking” on love – but to the sound of glitchy, hallucinogenic ambient dance. Jay’s 2017 response, 4:44, acted as a bow-scraping mea culpa, paving the way for a joint tour and surprise album Everything is Love – a renewal of vows that smacked heavily of the scowling, post-scandal “I’m standing by him” press interview.

The album is the 40-year-old's first in six years, after she released Lemonade in 2016. In a statement posted to her website, the singer paid tribute to her ...

Of course, Beyoncé ended the dedication with a note for the Beyhive: “To all of my fans: I hope you find joy in this music. Ha! And to feel as unique, strong, and sexy as you are. I hope it inspires you to release the wiggle. “Creating this album allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world,” the “Break My Soul” singer continued. “And a special thanks to my beautiful husband and muse, who held me down during those late nights in the studio.” Sir is fast asleep in the middle while Blue Ivy sleeps next to her younger siblings.

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Writing about the album on her website Beyoncé said: “This three act project was recorded over three years during the pandemic. A source for The Sun said that they were already looking for venues in the UK for a tour to promote her seventh album. In a post on social media the singer thanked fans for their “love and protection” and called out anyone “that was trying to sneak into the club early.” The last time Beyoncé performed solo in the UK was for her Formation World Tour, which coincided with the release of her album Lemonade. A time to be still but also a time I found to be the most creative.” The singer announced her new album was dropping in a Tweet on Tidal, the streaming service owned by her husband Jay-Z.

We review Beyonce's new album Renaissance - and it's definitely worthy of 5 stars. Grace Jones, sick beats and more.

To listen to this intro is to hear God. No, scratch that – to listen to any given section of this song is to hear God. Yes, this is it, folks – this is the one! Soon we’re back in the ballroom in the early hours of the morning, and this is Renaissance at its sexiest; packed with lyrics that will accompany many a thirst trap all summer long. But Virgo’s Groove is the perfect antidote to that: at over six minutes long(!), it’s in no hurry whatsoever, and not a bar is wasted. It’s perhaps the most chilled-out moment of the record so far, and even this is impossible not to bop along with. Listen out here for a gorgeous tribute to Beyoncé’s late Uncle Johnny, one of the main inspirations behind this whole project. The vibe of the production is absolutely sublime here – Beyonce sounds like an angel in her upper register, cooing over sumptuous percussion, a sunny guitar and an irresistible bassline. There was a lot riding on this track when it dropped as the lead single, and whew boy, did it deliver. Part interlude, part song in its own right, it’s a sub-two-minute treat that perfectly girds your loins for the almighty smash hit that’s to follow. Trans icon (and beloved Drag Race guest judge) Ts Madison is among the samples on this; a track that finds defiance in the face of hardship. Refreshing and intoxicating like a divine cocktail, it will – I suspect – only get better and better with every listen. Though sonically it may be more restrained than what’s to come, I’m That Girl is a mission statement; a declaration of the confidence and empowerment we’ll be served over the course of the next hour (‘It’s not the diamonds, it’s not the pearls… I’m just that girl’). And the way everything drops out on ‘let it begin’ as we head into the final minute?

The Lemonade hitmaker thanked adoring fans for their “love and protection” and called out "anyone that was trying to sneak into the club early” as she ...

I hope it inspires you to release the wiggle. A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. This is a celebration for you.” Posting a day before its release, she said: “'This three act project was recorded over three years during the pandemic. I love you deep.” Thank you for your unwavering support.

Beyonce, seen here performing in 2016, just dropped her new album. (CNN) You should know by now that a Beyoncé album release is ...

Witnessing his battle with HIV was one of the most painful experiences I've ever lived." "I appreciate you for calling out anyone that was trying to sneak into the club early," she wrote. "He was brave and unapologetic during a time when this country wasn't as accepting. This is a celebration for you." So much to digest, so much to dissect and so much to dance to. "I've never seen anything like it.

Kelis has taken aim at Pharrell Williams as she claims a song sample featuring on Beyoncé's new album was 'theft'.

The Bounce singer claimed that, when she was signed with Pharrell in the past, he had ‘writing credits on ‘all [her] singles… ‘I heard about this the same way everyone else did. Kelis has spoken out against Pharrell and Chad previously, when in 2020 she claimed she didn’t make any money from er first two albums and was ‘blatantly lied to and tricked.’ Kelis hit out at Pharrell, saying he ‘knows better’ and the use of her track in the sample is ‘a direct hit at me.’ However she said she and Beyonce have ‘met each other, we know each other’ and said she could have got in ‘contact’ before sampling the song. Milkshake singer Kelis has claimed that a sample of one of her tracks was used on the album without her permission, and she only found out about the ‘collaboration’ at the same time the public did.

The pop star's seventh solo album is “Act I” of work born during the pandemic, a time she “found to be the most creative,” she said in a statement.

“He was my godmother and the first person to expose me to a lot of the music and culture that serve as an inspiration for this album,” she wrote. The performance was later turned into a Netflix special and an album, both titled “Homecoming.” In an explanatory statement posted to Instagram last month that Beyoncé expanded on her website on Thursday, she said “Renaissance” was part of a “three act project” she recorded during the pandemic. A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. She announced the album more than a month ahead of time, did an interview with British Vogue, put out the single “Break My Soul,” revealed a track list and finally began posting on TikTok. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” she added, thanking her followers “for your love and protection.”

Beyonce has revealed that her seventh studio album, Renaissance, is actually part of a three-act project. The Crazy in Love singer left fans in a frenzy ...

Ha! And to feel as unique, strong, and sexy as you are. ‘To all my fans: I hope you find joy in this music,’ she gushed, ‘I hope it inspires you to release the wiggle. Creating this album allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world.’ She continued: ‘It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving. ‘A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. This is a celebration for you,’ she continued.

Beyoncé's first solo album since Lemonade in 2016 takes the US superstar in a new direction. Renaissance adds dance music to her usual palette of R&B, soul, ...

With the launch of her seventh studio album, fans are hopeful Beyoncé will announce a world tour (Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella).

In a statement on her website, ahead of the new album’s release, Beyoncé wrote: ‘This three-act project was recorded over three years during the pandemic. Here’s to hoping that Beyonce is leading this renaissance for us all to enjoy in the form of a world tour in 2023. A time to be still but also a time I found to be the most creative.’ Before any new music was on the horizon, Beyoncé hinted that a period of ‘renaissance’ (teasing the new album name) was about to happen in an interview in 2021. They teased: ‘She is planning to spend a lot of time performing and promoting it in the UK, so there will be unique surprises in store for the British fans.’ The Crazy in Love singer has also revealed this is part of a three-act project, so perhaps all of the parts will need to be released before we begin to hope for a live performance of the dance tracks.

Beyoncé's Renaissance drops today and the singer has shared new album art that features stunning images of her in a series of flaming-hot outfits.

It is a chance again to be listeners and not viewers, while taking in every gem of the pristine production." Not only is she impossible glamorous, but each image shows her command over her clothes and her artistic style. We don't call her Queen Bey for nothing.

It's a simple enough equation: Beyoncé. Horses. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—one riding a white horse, one a red one, one a black one, and one a pale one ...

The cover of this month’s British Vogue is a striking shot of Beyoncé riding a red one. The cover of Renaissance is a striking shot of a mostly nude, be-heeled Beyoncé on top of a silver horse. There has to be some kind of magic associated with it, or the Illuminati.’ But really, it’s because she works really hard, she’s really serious about her craft, she takes her time, and she surrounds herself with people that she trusts that are also very talented.” She’s not really one of us. “She’s so good at what she does, she has so much influence and power, everything she does is so exquisite,” Shodiya says. Newsweek explains the rest: “In July 2020, Beyoncé sat atop a white horse in the Black Is King movie and in August 2022 she posed with a black horse for Harper’s Bazaar.” It’s a simple enough equation: Beyoncé. Horses. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—one riding a white horse, one a red one, one a black one, and one a pale one.

Vogue looks at all the fashion in Renaissance, Beyoncé's seventh studio album. From Mugler and Schiaparelli moulded bustiers to body armour by Nusi Quero, ...

“A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. “My intention was to create a safe place, a place without judgement,” she told her fans of letting go and having fun. Shout outs to the classics: Chanel and Tiffany & Co. (“Heated”), and brands of the moment, from Balenciaga and Bottega to Telfar (“Summer Renaissance”), show Queen Bey is very much across the industry’s happenings, but it’s the artwork that reflects the messaging of the music.

A roundup of the songwriters who collaborated with Bey on 'Renaissance' -- and the songs that are sampled or interpolated on the album. By Joe Lynch ...

WRITTEN BY BEYONCÉ, DENISIA “@BLU_JUNE” ANDREWS FOR @NOVAWAV, BRITTANY “@CHI_CONEY” CONEY FOR @NOVAWAV, TERIUS “THE-DREAM” GESTEELDE-DIAMANT, LEVEN KALI, MIKE DEAN, ATIA BOGGS P/K/A INK, LEVAR COPPIN, SALIOU DIAGNE , RICKY LAWSON, DONNA SUMMER, GIORGIO MORODER, PETER BELLOTTE CONTAINS SAMPLE OF “COCAINE” WRITTEN BY TINO SANTRON MCINTOSH AND KILO AND PERFORMED BY KILO ALI. PUBLISHED BY OLIK MUSIC (BMI), SANTRON PUBLISHING (BMI) Renaissance was preceded by “Break My Soul,” a house-indebted anthem of resilience featuring frequent collaborator Big Freedia, which hit No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. WRITTEN BY BEYONCÉ, MICHAEL TUCKER, DARIUS DIXSON, MICHAEL POLLACK, DENISIA “@BLU_JUNE” ANDREWS FOR @NOVAWAV, BRITTANY “@CHI_CONEY” CONEY FOR @NOVAWAV, TERIUS “THE-DREAM” GESTEELDE-DIAMANT, RAPHAEL SAADIQ, MOI RENEE, ERIC SNEAD, JEREL BLACK, MICHAEL D COX , KEVIN MARQUIS BELLMON, ANDREW RICHARDSON, COUNT MAURICE "Thique" CONTAINS AN INTERPOLATION OF “OOO LA LA LA” WRITTEN BY MARY CHRISTINE BROCKERT, ALLEN HENRY MCGRIER AND PERFORMED BY TEENA MARIE. PUBLISHED BY MC NELLA MUSIC (ASCAP), MIDNIGHT MAGNET MUSIC PUBLISHING (ASCAP). CONTAINS AN INTERPOLATION OF “MILKSHAKE” WRITTEN BY PHARRELL WILLIAMS, CHAD HUGO AND PERFORMED BY KELIS. PUBLISHED BY WATERS OF NAZARETH PUBLISHING (GMR), EMI POP MUSIC PUBLISHING (GMR) AND UNIVERSAL MUSIC – CAREERS (BMI). CONTAINS A SAMPLE OF “EXPLODE” WRITTEN BY ADAM JAMES PIGOTT, FREEDIE ROSS AND PERFORMED BY BIG FREEDIA. PUBLISHED BY ADAM JAMES PIGOTT PUBLISHING DESIGNEE (BMI) AND GIRL DOWN (BMI). CONTAINS ELEMENTS OF “SHOW ME LOVE” WRITTEN BY GEORGE ALLEN, FRED CRAIG MCFARLANE AND PERFORMED BY ROBIN S. PUBLISHED BY EMI BLACKWOOD MUSIC INC (BMI) AND SONG A TRON MUSIC (BMI). CONTAINS A SAMPLE OF “EXPLODE” WRITTEN BY ADAM JAMES PIGOTT, FREEDIE ROSS AND PERFORMED BY BIG FREEDIA. PUBLISHED BY ADAM JAMES PIGOTT PUBLISHING DESIGNEE (BMI) AND GIRL DOWN (BMI). "Heated" Check out our ranking of the Renaissance tracks here and see which songwriters Beyoncé collaborated with on each of the 16 songs on Renaissance below. WRITTEN BY BEYONCÉ, RICHARD ISONG, ARIOWA IROSOGIE, DENISIA “@BLU_JUNE” ANDREWS FOR @NOVAWAV, BRITTANY “@CHI_CONEY” CONEY FOR @NOVAWAV, TEMILADE OPENIYI, RONALD BANFUL WRITTEN BY BEYONCÉ, DENISIA “@BLU_JUNE” ANDREWS FOR @NOVAWAV, BRITTANY “@CHI_CONEY” CONEY FOR @NOVAWAV, MORTEN RISTORP, RAPHAEL SAADIQ, TERIUS “THE-DREAM” GESTEELDE-DIAMANT, MARY CHRISTINE BROCKERT, ALLEN HENRY MC GRIER, NILE RODGERS "Cozy"

Beyonce's long-awaited seventh studio album titled Renaissance was released at midnight on Friday, much to the joy of her fans. The superstar took to her ...

The song also happens to be the longest one - lasting over six minutes - and fans have commented on Beyonce's impressive vocal runs throughout as well as the saucy lyrics, with Twitter user @LordeCali writing, 'The runs and riffs on Virgo’s Groove are some of the most beautiful, intricate and unique ones I’ve ever heard. The six years since her last effort have well and truly been worth the wait. It doesn’t seem like a bad way of dealing with the age of anxiety.' Her sense of freedom throughout is palpable, and an infectious spur to action.' I've never seen anything like it,' she wrote, adding that it 'means the world' to her that her fans waited. But these do not detract from this dazzling tribute to underground and underappreciated black cultures, this endless party with its effusive reminder that you are allowed to enjoy yourself.' 'We are going to take our time and enjoy the music. 'This is a vast superclub of an album. But for all its inventiveness, its flavours exist within fairly narrow parameters. The singer looks nothing less than sensational in a dress from Gucci’s spring/summer 2022 collection. 'I can't thank y'all enough for your love and protection. Talk about making a statement!

Kelis accused Beyoncé and songwriter-producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of “thievery” late Thursday after discovering a track on Beyoncé's highly ...

“Show Me Love” is credited to Allen George and Fred McFarlane — who, similar to the situation with Williams and Hugo, earned writing credits on the Beyoncé track. “I also know the things that were stolen. “I also know the lies that were told,” she continued. But early on in her career, she struck a deal with Williams and Hugo that she now considers to be unfair. Neither Beyoncé nor Williams and Hugo were any under legal obligation to contact Kelis before drawing from “Milkshake,” Bennett said, as Williams and Hugo, who produced the 2003 single as the Neptunes, were also the only songwriters listed on it. A common industry model, called out in recent years by Taylor Swift, is for the record label to own the masters and the songwriters the musical work.

The 40-year-old superstar singer was seen in black lingerie - a lace bodysuit, corset, and stockings that look like a garter belt with thigh high stockings ...

A time to be still, but also a time I found to be the most creative. 'It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving. The 40-year-old superstar was seen in black lingerie - a lace bodysuit, corset, and stockings that look like a garter belt with thigh high stockings - with a black hat on She was also seen walking up the steps, revealing her ample derriere as she held onto a leather jacket. Creating this album allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world.' From custom Alaia catsuits to 3D printed Luis De Javier corsets, Beyonce's stylist Marni Senofonte knocked it out the park.

It's not a collab it's theft,” Kelis wrote on Instagram.

“I thought it was a beautiful and pure, creative safe space, but it ended up not being that at all.” “And it just so happens that I was thrown in this.” I usually hire business folks to help out with that kind of stuff.” And he never wrote a song, a lyric a day in his life,” she claimed. “It’s real cute and fun to sing all these girls’ songs — come on now. “The reality is, all of this female empowerment, it only counts if you really do it — if you’re really living it and walking the walk,” she said. This is a direct hit at me [and] he does this stuff all the time,” she said. “Someone has to talk about it and bring it up,” she said. “I heard about this the same way everyone else did,” she continued. “It’s fine, I don’t care about that.” I also know the lies that were told. “I know what I own and what I don’t own.

Beyoncé herself might admit that her seventh solo album, Renaissance, is a mess. Conventional songwriting rules, polite-taste paradigms, and the best ...

“No one else in this world can think like me,” she says, a brag that is true for all of us, whether we embrace it or not, as we cut a trail in this world. Somehow she has found a way to make messages of individual empowerment, which can be so trite in pop, jolt again. Conflict arises only in flickering mentions of haters and “Karens” who have “turned into terrorists.” Some boasts are corny; some are instant classics; many are both. On the opener, “I’m That Girl,” fragmented noises cut in and out, accelerating and decelerating in frequency, as if controlled by someone revving an engine. Instead, she has re-cemented her status as one of America’s edgiest superstars, a sorcerer of synthesis and excess. The pulsing beat of Renaissance almost never pauses, though it does morph—from the pistonlike pumping of house and techno to the snapping and swaying of Afrobeats to the tick-tick-boom of various dance- rap styles that serve the almighty twerk.

Beyoncé dons a custom 3D printed “Toro” corset from Spanish designer Luis De Javier while ascending a disco ball staircase. Beyonce Renaissance Album.

Other images feature horses (of the live and glass varieties) and more naturalistic shots of the “Halo” singer. Another song making noise, for a different reason, is “Energy,” which samples Kelis’ 2003 hit “Milkshake” without her permission (despite a songwriting credit). It’s hard not to fall crazy in love with her envelope-pushing cowgirl-chic, futuristic and high-fashion get-ups.

Beyoncé has released her seventh studio album titled Renaissance and fans can expect even more music from the singer.

“We are going to take our time and enjoy the music. She added: “To all my fans: I hope it inspires you to release the wiggle. A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving. “Mama, I luhhhh you. “This three act project was recorded over three years during the pandemic.

Probably not, but tell that to the conspiracy theorists.

“The United States is definitely an empire and it’s definitely time,” she said. @ jvanmaraj2: “Beyoncé riding the four horses of the apocalypse, we are about to be slayed.” @ jestom: “love Beyoncé as horsewoman of the apocalypse. The cover of this month’s British Vogue is a striking shot of Beyoncé riding a red one. There has to be some kind of magic associated with it, or the Illuminati.’ But really, it’s because she works really hard, she’s really serious about her craft, she takes her time, and she surrounds herself with people that she trusts that are also very talented.” The cover of Renaissance is a striking shot of a mostly nude, be-heeled Beyoncé on top of a silver horse. This also feels like a dramatic spin on the old trope of asking your favorite celebrity to kill you.

Queen Bey has officially entered her gay era. Her sixth studio album Renaissance, led by the Big Freedia-assisted banger Break My Soul, has been lauded as ...

Although Jones hasn’t openly identified as queer, she’s garnered a passionate LGBTQ+ following due to her androgynous and gender-bending aesthetic, paving the way for many artists to fall outside of the binary in the process. Hailed as the anthem of the Great Resignation thanks to lyrics such as, “I just fell in love and I just quit my job, I’m gonna find new drive” – very queer! From samples of underground drag icons to production by the music industry’s most revered queer creatives, the album is queer euphoria from start to finish.

If the music is an homage to uninhibited movement, the still images are steeped in fashion history, high maintenance glamour and perfectionism.

But there’s no denying that these pictures also express a delight in the male gaze — as well as the female gaze, the non-gendered gaze and the gaze of anyone who’d like to look. The clothes tell the chaotic story of an era in pop culture when people were determined to have a good time. The dancing endured in the face of the AIDS epidemic, homophobia, economic peril and dire crime statistics. And after years of track pants and yoga pants and dressing only from the waist up, she also presents her audience with fashion that is turned out, spit polished, cinched up and exhausting. The world has borne witness to the seventh coming of Beyoncé in the form of her studio album “Renaissance.” The 16 tracks are an expression of her moods and desires during the height of the pandemic when she decided to record music that allowed her to dream and to escape, as she wrote on her website. Back then, the pleasure bubbled up despite — and perhaps because of — dire circumstances. The posture makes one think of the fashion photography of Helmut Newton and Jean-Paul Goude. There are spangled ones and molded ones and one that is really just a bit of silver chain and rhinestones. Beyoncé sits atop it wearing chains and spikes and wielding a white hat; it calls to mind the pop culture moment from 1978 when Bianca Jagger rode a white horse into Studio 54 and helped cement the night club’s reputation as the era’s non plus ultra location for decadence and debauchery. There’s more Alaïa on display in the form of a custom acid-green lace dress with Mongolian lamb trim. She doesn’t communicate that much in a glance that’s caught in the click of a shutter. Photographs on her social media aim to evoke those emotions in concrete terms — in the form of bodysuits, disco balls, hologram horses and bedazzled saddles.

Ignore the leaks — Beyonce's seventh studio album “Renaissance” has officially arrived. As hinted, it's an all-encompassing album for the dance floor, ...

More than 20 years later, Beyoncé's version remixes it with an eerie bassline that keeps that same emotion, comparing her addictiveness to that of the powder with lines like “I’ma make you go weak for me / Make you wait a whole week for me / I see you watching, fiending / I know you want it, scheming.” Beyoncé travels across the realm of Black music on “Renaissance,” as she’s done throughout her catalog. As a whole, the song turns the church on its head, opening with traditional gospel before trapping out the drums to let herself go, “Church girls acting loose, bad girls acting snotty,” she sings on the chorus while instructing you to drop it low and dance as you please. “And a special thanks to my beautiful husband and muse, who held me down during those late nights in the studio.” Beyoncé has shown love to her children across her catalog, but on track two of “Renaissance,” she honors her own body for bringing them into the world. She credited him for exposing her to the sounds that inspired “Renaissance.”

The singer took issue with Beyoncé's interpolation of her 2003 hit Milkshake, which was written by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of The Neptunes.

In a later video, she added: “It’s not a collaboration. “The issue is that not only are we female artists, okay? “Nothing is ever as it seems, some of the people in this business have no soul or integrity and they have everyone fooled.”