The world has been able to release a collective breath after Beyoncé finally announced that she will be delivering some new music. After a long seven years since "Lemonade", Queen Bey's highly anticipated seventh studio album will be called "Renaissance" and due out on July 29th. And everyone has seemed to have all lost their minds two days ago when the first single, "Break My Soul" was dropped. It had been rumored that this collection would be built around dance music and that appears to be the case with this song taking us back to the sounds of '90's house.
With the "Queen of Bounce", Big Freedia making an appearance to shout their trademark demands and smooth production by Tricky Stewart and The Dream with them using a sample of Robin S.'s classic jam, "Show Me Love", "Break My Soul" is an uplifting anthem about changing a bad situation and not allowing that to crush your spirit. Beyoncé delivers a blistering performance with soaring vocals and even doing some rapping. Yet I think the frenzied excitement over the song has much more to do with the return of Beyoncé than the innovation of the actual track. It coasts too much on familiar house-music tropes and if Beyoncé wasn't the voice behind it, I seriously don't think many would be paying as much attention to the track. In a recent interview with British Vogue, Beyoncé has stated that this upcoming album will be "her most ambitious musical project to date". Time will tell how truly grand this project will actually be but I freely admit I'm really looking forward to hearing "Renaissance".
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