Renaissance!

Beyonce releases new album.

Long awaited album from Beyonce Knowles is officially out. The Queen of Pop, Queen Bey releases her album Renaissance on Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records. It attracted a bit of controversy.

We'll explain it in the next posting.

The album is the first solo effort from Queen Bey in six years. The last album was Lemonade.

Now Beyonce is expected to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Music Top 200 albums.

The album has a upbeat, disco, dance and R&B style.

This is her seventh album. Bey spent a little over a year to record it. She stated that she had frustrations with social injustice, the pandemic, the political climate and social media. She felt that this album is to give people a feel to "escape, travel, love and laugh again." 

She titled it renaissance to give a feeling that she wants "to be a part of nurturing that escape in any way possible."

In June she started teasing a release and give the public her first single, "Break My Soul."

The album is executive produced by Beyonce, Terius Nash (The-Dream) and Tricky Stewart.

The album has production from Beyonce, The-Dream, Mike Dean, Symbolyc One, Duran, Stuart White, Honey Dijon, Luke Solomon, Chris Penny, Nova Wav, Rissi, Raphael Saadiq, Skrillex, Al Cres, Beam, Tricky Stewart, Jens Christian Isaken, No I.D. White, Kali, Syd, P2J, GuiltyBeatz, MeLo-X, Neenyo, Sevn Thomas, Boi-1da, Cadenza, Harry Edwards, Hit-Boy, LilJuMadeDaBeat, Ink, BAH, BloodPop, A.G. Cook, Aossey and Sol Was.

The album has features from Beam, Grace Jones and Tems. 

Beyonce dedicated the album to her husband, Shawn Corey Carter known as Jay-Z, her children and Uncle Jonny, a gay man who battled HIV, who she says was "the first person to expose [her] to a lot of the music and culture that serve as inspiration for this album."