Mounted on the back of a silver horse - or perhaps a hologram or some kind of spectral figure -, half-naked and with a Pre-Raphaelite mane whose end is impossible to appreciate.
This is how Beyoncé appears in the first promotional image she has released of
Renaissance
(Renaissance, in French), which will be her seventh studio album, which will hit markets around the world on July 29 and for which she is setting expectations very tall.
The 40-year-old singer announced the release of the album, its name and its release date (logical data, but not always disclosed at the same time) on June 16 through some
stories
in your account .
from Instagram.
The Texan singer hasn't released new music for six years.
Also then it was learned that it would have different deliveries, the first being at the end of July.
In addition, it will have 16 songs inspired and composed since 2020.
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The fact that the composition of these songs took place in 2020, the year in which the pandemic broke out, has marked the lyrics and the music.
Beyoncé herself has explained it in the text that accompanies this new photograph (and that in the first half hour posted on Instagram she has achieved almost 400,000
likes
).
“Creating this album allowed me to have a place to dream and to find an escape route during a terrifying moment for the entire world”, wrote the pop diva, winner of 28 Grammy Awards, the maximum number of these awards ever achieved by an artist, whether male or female.
“It allowed me to feel free and adventurous at a time when practically nothing was moving.
My intention was to create a safe place, a place where there were no judgments.
A place free of perfectionism and where you won't think too much.
A place to scream, let go, feel free.
It has been a wonderful journey of exploration.
I hope you find joy in this music.
I hope it inspires you to let loose and wiggle.
oh!
And to feel all the unique, strong and sexy that you are”.
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This is how 'Break My Soul' sounds, the new Beyoncé
Just a week after announcing the release of the album, he presented a new song,
Break my soul
.
For the song, with rap and
house
music rhythms , but where the singer's voice prevails, he has collaborated with Terius
The Dream
Nash and Christopher
Tricky
Stewart, with whom he already worked on the successful
Single Ladies
and also creators
of Rihanna 's
Umbrella
. , or
Baby
, one of Justin Bieber's first hits.
In these six years Beyoncé has not been on any break despite not releasing a solo album: she has toured twice with Jay Z, her husband, with whom she has three children, and released an album with him (they called themselves by his last name, The Cartes) called
Everything Is Love.
In 2019 she provided the voice and soundtrack for
The Lion King
and in 2021 she sang the main theme of
The Williams Method
, the film for which she won the Oscar for Best Actor Will Smith.
Beyoncé gave an interview to the July issue of the British edition of
Vogue
, in which she appeared on a horse, as in this promotional image of her new album.
Already there she told that the creation process had been long.
But, before, she had made a small reference to this next album, a year ago.
“I feel like there's a renaissance coming up, and I want to be a part of fueling that escapism in any way I can.
I've been in the studio for a year and a half”, advanced the interpreter – giving a hint of the title – in an interview with
Harper's Bazaar
in August 2021, where he explained that the world was ready to "escape, travel, love and laugh again".