Megan Brownell social media editor
During the excitement of the superbowl on Feb. 11, Beyonce excited fans everywhere by announcing her new album in a commercial, which will be part two to her Renaissance album coming out on March 29. The first part of Renaissance came out on July 29, 2022. The album instantly shot up to number one on the billboard charts, and stayed there for two weeks.
One of the songs, ‘Break My Soul’ hit the top ten chart, starting at number six when it first came out, and shooting up to number one in the whole albums first week.
Beyonce did release one single before the album, which was ‘Break My Soul’. I enjoyed this song, it had great lyrics and was super fun and upbeat. For me, it gave me classic Beyonce vibes, one of those songs that comes on at a party that is just iconic, and the whole group gets bumping to it.
To open the album, Beyonce put ‘I’m That Girl’ as track one. I thought this was a very good album opening track. The second the song starts it has this quick beat repeating ‘these mother****ers ain’t stopping me’ ,which for me instantly told me this album was going to be great. It made it instantly want to jam out, and showed me how fun the song was.
Moving down to track three, ‘Alien Superstar’. I enjoyed this song, it kind of had a different funky beat, but I liked it. I found it fun to want to dance and jam out too, and adding to it Beyonce’s voice sounds amazing in the chorus.
Moving down the tracklist, a lot of her songs are fun danceable ones. Each one is unique in their own way, having different sorts of lyrics while providing its very own fun beat. Each one made me want to start dancing, and I very much enjoyed some of the funkier beats.
Out of all of these fun songs, I think my favorite would have to be ‘America has a problem’. On her world tour, this song’s opening has an iconic moment, starting with an interesting beat, repeating the title before breaking into a beat with a fun dance break from the queen bee. What I enjoy is that even when Beyonce starts singing, that beat continues and it makes me want to dance through the whole three minutes.
To end the album, Beyonce chose ‘Summer Renaissance’. This song showed the same fun, different beat, kind of like a song that you will hear at the beginning of a movie. I am not sure how much of a fan I am that it is the closing track, I do like how it is similar to all of the songs, but when it ends it shocks me that it’s the end of the whole album.
Overall, I enjoyed this album. This was my first listen and I am honestly surprised I hadn’t listened to it yet. It was fun, every song made me want to dance and Beyonce sounded incredible in every song. I give it a 9/10, and will be excited to continue listening to it and really enjoy the songs.