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Beyonce dropped Renaissance comeback title in our laps year ago and we had no clue-Mel Evans-Entertainment – Metro
Well don’t we feel silly.
Award winner Beyonce has had her designer goods stolen (Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Beyonce, the sneaky queen, dropped the title of her comeback Renaissance right in our laps last year and we were none the wiser.
Well don’t we feel like a pack of idiots.
This morning the music legend, who recently removed her profile pictures from her social media, announced her comeback project which is landing on July 29.
Bey announced ‘Act I’ of Renaissance, so it very well could be a project in more than one part, with music platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, and YouTube, sharing the news with an image reading: ‘Act i, Renaissance’.
And yes, yes, yes that is all well and good but did you realise Beyonce totally gave us all the information we needed to know, bar the specific release date, in August 2021?
She was quizzed on potential new music in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, giving us the long-awaited confirmation tunes were coming.
But she also managed to drop in the R-word without any fanfare whatsoever. Because, who was to know, eh?
Queen Bey told the magazine: ‘With all the isolation and injustice over the past year, I think we are all ready to escape, travel, love, and laugh again.
Classic Bey, always one step ahead (Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella)
Our ears are ready (Picture: ABC / Backgrid)
‘I feel a renaissance emerging, and I want to be part of nurturing that escape in any way possible.’
She added: ‘I’ve been in the studio for a year and a half. Sometimes it takes a year for me to personally search through thousands of sounds to find just the right kick or snare. One chorus can have up to 200 stacked harmonies.
‘Still, there’s nothing like the amount of love, passion, and healing that I feel in the recording studio. After 31 years, it feels just as exciting as it did when I was nine years old. Yes, the music is coming!’
Oh, you better bet the music is coming.
The details of Renaissance have not been announced just yet – but fans are sure to assume it’s her highly anticipated seventh album, which has been in the works for more than a year. It will be her first album release in six years.
And we got the inside scoop on what may be to come, with sources telling Metro.co.uk Bey wrote the ‘dramatic’ new album about ‘finding peace in marriage with Jay Z and the world’.
They added: ‘She played some of the new records for some friends and the consensus is that it’s her happiest body of work to date.’
Beyonce released her last album, Lemonade, in April 2016 and it proved to be her most experimental record yet drawing on a variety of sounds including rock, pop, R&B and reggae. It featured hit songs such as Formation, Hold Up and Sorry, themes including Black excellence and husband Jay Z’s infidelity.
This month, Beyonce fans have been keeping their eyes peeled for clues about her new music.
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The Beyhive’s antennae were raised when the singer removed the profile pictures from all her social media channels, fuelling speculation they will be replaced by new promo photos related to the album.
This is not a drill, people!
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