Beyonce

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Beyoncé hits the dance floor with new song, 'Break My Soul,' from ... (USA TODAY)

Beyoncé is back! The Queen Bey dropped her new single, "Break My Soul," a glistening dance track, late Monday.

The announcement of “Renaissance” was delivered in typically shrewd fashion. The pulsing song is the first offering from “Renaissance,” her seventh studio album which is due July 29. A new interview with British Vogue, on which Beyoncé is the regal cover star, describes her fresh material as having “soaring vocals and fierce beats” with “music that makes you rise, that turns your mind to cultures and subcultures, music that will unite so many on the dance floor and make them fall in love.”

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How to listen to new Beyoncé song, 'Break My Soul,' tonight (Los Angeles Times)

Beyoncé will release 'Break My Soul,' the first song from her forthcoming album, 'Renaissance,' tonight. Here's how to listen.

Just the way she likes it.” A link to purchase the digital single (and have it be delivered via email) has also been posted on Beyoncé's website. I want to get up and start throwing moves.

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Beyoncé to drop new song, "Break My Soul," at midnight (CBS News)

The song, which is from her forthcoming seventh solo studio album, "Renaissance," will drop at midnight EDT.

"Renaissance" will be Beyoncé's seventh solo album. Beyoncé made the announcement by changing the bio on her social media accounts to "6. BREAK MY SOUL midnight ET," suggesting that the song will be the sixth track on the album. "Break My Soul," the first song from Beyoncé's forthcoming seventh album, "Renaissance," will drop at midnight EDT, the singer announced on social media Monday.

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Beyoncé Announces Release Of New Song, 'Break My Soul' (Music Feeds)

The first taste of her new album, 'Break My Soul' will arrive today and serve as the first new Beyoncé single since November of 2021.

The announcement of the new single was made via the singer’s social media accounts, where the bio section was replaced to read “6. BREAK MY SOUL midnight ET”. It’s since been confirmed that Beyoncé will indeed release her new song at midnight ET (equivalent to 2pm AEST), with ‘Break My Soul’ ostensibly set to serve as the sixth song on her new record. While ‘Break My Soul’ serves as Beyoncé’s first single since November’s ‘Be Alive’, some fan speculation assumed that the first taste of her new record may have arrived on Juneteenth (that is, 19th June), as her 2020 single ‘Black Parade’ did. Beyoncé is set to give fans the first taste of her forthcoming seventh album today, having announced the impending release of new single, ‘Break My Soul’.

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Beyonce goes disco: Singer releases single from first album since ... (The Sydney Morning Herald)

It's finally here –the first single from Renaissance, pop queen Beyonce's first solo album in six years, has been released today, and it's guaranteed to be ...

I feel a renaissance emerging, and I want to be part of nurturing that escape in any way possible.” The artist was pictured in futuristic outfits on a motorcycle, amongst giant bubbles and atop a disco ball. As one critic wrote, it was really “a 65-minute art piece that’s easily one of the decade’s best films”. But the prospect of a new solo album is something entirely different. The artist then later shared the words “act i … RENAISSANCE”, suggesting this will be a multi-part release. And last year she also had an original track on the Richard Williams’ biopic King Richard.

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Listen to Beyoncé's new single 'Break My Soul' (NME.com)

The first single from Beyoncé's upcoming new album 'RENAISSANCE', 'Break My Soul', has been released – listen to it here.

“Sometimes it takes a year for me to personally search through thousands of sounds to find just the right kick or snare. “I’ve been in the studio for a year and a half,” she explained. In another surprise, the lyric video for ‘Break My Soul’ has been released two hours early.

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Beyoncé returns with liberating house jam 'Break My Soul' (Los Angeles Times)

The Big Freedia-sampling track is the first single from her upcoming 'Renaissance' album, set for a July 29 release.

“Break My Soul” is Beyoncé’s first single from a solo studio album since “Lemonade” in 2016. The singer has revealed little about “Renaissance,” which is due July 29, though Variety reported last week that the LP pulls from dance music and country music and contains input from producers Ryan Tedder and Raphael Saadiq. “The queens in the front and the doms in the back,” she sings, connecting this music explicitly to its roots in Black and queer communities, “Ain’t takin’ no flicks but the whole clique snapped.”

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Beyoncé, Break My Soul, review: a Robyn S-sampling, floorfilling ... (iNews)

Beyoncé is back, with a new track that samples "Show Me Love" and seems to suggest an exciting, dance-adjacent direction for her upcoming seventh album 'act ...

The Beyoncé he visited at home was relaxed, in a hoodie eating dinner with her family, and understatedly playing him this gargantuan new music from a laptop. It sees Beyoncé, always pushing and striving forwards, continuing to embrace and explore new sounds, this time in the form of dance music – not that she’ll have any problems handling the genre, as someone who has been getting people on their feet for decades. It seems, then, that Bey season is officially upon us.

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Beyoncé drops song, "Break My Soul" (CBS News)

It's from her forthcoming seventh solo studio album, "Renaissance."

"Renaissance" will be Beyoncé's seventh solo album. Beyoncé made the announcement by changing the bio on her social media accounts to "6. BREAK MY SOUL midnight ET," suggesting that the song will be the sixth track on the album. "Break My Soul," the first song from Beyoncé's forthcoming seventh album, "Renaissance," has dropped.

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The Beyaissance Is Near: The Album's First Song 'Break My Soul' Is ... (ELLE Australia)

Beyoncé is truly a renaissance woman, literally and lyrically. And now that her first single from *Renaissance* has been released, titled "Break My Soul", ...

The track itself is already a bop—see for yourself, below—and is bound to be all over TikTok in a matter of hours. While Bey always has some cards up her sleeve, fans have begun anticipating and theorising what the new album might sound like. Beyoncé is truly a renaissance woman, literally and lyrically.

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Beyoncé's 'Break My Soul' is Our Dance Floor Anthem for the Post ... (Rolling Stone)

(Her 2016 magnum opus Lemonade drew praise for its inventive fusion of hip-hop, R&B, blues and indie rock, while 2013's Beyoncé, famously found the singer ...

(Her 2016 magnum opus Lemonade drew praise for its inventive fusion of hip-hop, R&B, blues and indie rock, while 2013’s Beyoncé, famously found the singer flirting with trip hop and experimental pop.) Over a pulsating house beat accentuated by looping piano progressions, Yoncé celebrates the joys of living with reckless abandon (“I just fell in love, and I just quit my job”) and the thrill of returning to a new normal after three years of a stir-crazy existence (“I’ma let down my hair ’cause I lost my mind”). While it’s difficult to not examine the song through COVID-colored glasses, it’s undeniable Beyoncé is acknowledging the shared experiences of the pandemic as she playfully quips “we back outside” before giving a shout-out to the continued importance of wearing a mask. (Her 2016 magnum opus Lemonade drew praise for its inventive fusion of hip-hop, R&B, blues and indie rock, while 2013’s Beyoncé, famously found the singer flirting with trip hop and experimental pop.) Over a pulsating house beat accentuated by looping piano progressions, Yoncé celebrates the joys of living with reckless abandon (“I just fell in love, and I just quit my job”) and the thrill of returning to a new normal after three years of a stir-crazy existence (“I’ma let down my hair ’cause I lost my mind”). While it’s difficult to not examine the song through COVID-colored glasses, it’s undeniable Beyoncé is acknowledging the shared experiences of the pandemic as she playfully quips “we back outside” before giving a shout-out to the continued importance of wearing a mask. In fact, “Break My Soul” is loaded with inspirational aphorisms: “If you don’t seek it, you won’t see it”; “If you don’t think it, you won’t be it”; “Tryin’ to fake it, never makes it.” It’s easy to dismiss these affirmations as overly sentimental platitudes.

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Beyoncé, Drake and the revival of 90s house music (BBC News)

Weirdly, Break My Soul neither samples nor quotes their song. It simply uses the same bass sound, a preset on the infamous Korg M1 keyboard. But Beyoncé has ...

"I feel a renaissance emerging, and I want to be part of nurturing that escape in any way possible." Over time time, things started to change, but in the beginning, it was not so easy. The music's origins in black and queer spaces has often been overlooked. "That rush to orgasm was clear in its ebbs, flows and jump cuts between dark chords and uplifting piano breaks. Like Lady Gaga and Dua Lipa before them, Drake and Beyoncé are eulogising the redemptive power of dance in an unrecognisable world. It was not so accepting. It’s culture a shift house music ,soulful house & dance 💃🏽 🕺🏾 is the wave now hate it or love. Nobody wants you in their club. Now that— THE LOVE KING (@Raheem_DeVaughn) @beyoncejust dropped her new single watch how folks give the new @Drakealbum another listen. But Beyoncé has always been careful to acknowledge the black creators who have influenced her. It simply uses the same bass sound, a preset on the infamous Korg M1 keyboard. "I just quit my job...

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The story behind the unlikely UK club classic sampled on Beyoncé's ... (British GQ)

That sample you recognise in Break My Soul is Robin S.'s “Show Me Love” – a '90s house track steeped in carefree nostalgia already used by Jason Derulo and ...

“Show Me Love” has been sampled by the likes of Jason Derulo, and by Charlie XCX earlier this year, and search results for bootleg remixes on YouTube go on for page after page. It's actually a sample from Robin S.'s '90s club classic “Show Me Love", a retro floor-filler that has been a staple of wedding DJs, Ibiza beach parties and UK club dance floors for decades. “Crazy in Love” used The Chi-Lites “Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So)” after producer Rich Harrison came across it in a stack of records, while “Freedom” sampled “Let Me Try” by Kaleidoscope to give the track more of a militant feel.

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Beyoncé drops 'Break My Soul' and it's the dance track you need ... (CNN)

It also reunites Queen Bey with bounce music legend Big Freedia, who appeared on Beyoncé's hit 2016 song “Formation.” “It feels surreal to be on the track with ...

Someone please catch me." "Imma let down my hair/'Cause I lost my mind," she sings. In 2020, Beyoncé' released the single "Black Parade" in honor of Junteenth.

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Beyoncé: Break My Soul review – house anthem doesn't break the ... (The Guardian)

First single from forthcoming album Renaissance preaches freedom but gets stuck in some familiar musical tropes.

It’s obviously going to be a huge hit, but it also isn’t a Single Ladies or Run the World or Crazy in Love, the kind of Beyoncé single that stops you in your tracks: it feels like it’s following a musical trend rather than setting one. In Britain at least, we’ve heard a lot of pop singles that sound like one or both of them in the last decade. Even if you’ve never heard of a Korg M1 synthesiser, you’ve heard that sound: it’s the basis of the 1993 Stonebridge remix of Robin S’s Show Me Love and MK’s 1992 remix – or “Dub of Doom” of the Nightcrawlers’ Push the Feeling On, two of the most influential house tracks in recent pop history.

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Beyoncé Break My Soul: New Beyoncé song lyrics, meaning and ... (The Scotsman)

The Queen Bey has dropped a new track, and it is what the kids call a bop. Break My Soul is the first single released from Beyoncé's new album Renaissance.

YOU WON’T BREAK MY SOUL YOU WON’T BREAK MY SOUL Work by nine, then off past five.”

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Beyonce releases new single from upcoming album (wflx)

The song was released Monday night initially only on Tidal, Variety said, the streaming service co-owned by her husband Jay-Z.

Since “Lemonade,” Beyonce has released a collaboration with Jay-Z, a live album, a “Lion King” soundtrack and had a song featured on the fil, “King Richard.” The new album is expected to be a followup to 2016′s hit album “Lemonade.” The single is expected to be featured on an upcoming album, “Renaissance,” which Billboard said will be released July 29.

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Beyoncé's 'Break My Soul' wants you to move your body (The Washington Post)

Try not to think of this song as a hype morsel, or a discourse starter, or an aesthetic foreshadowing. It's true, Beyoncé has a blockbuster album, “Renaissance, ...

If you’re not dancing yet, go back to the beginning of this paragraph and try again. If you care about music, Beyoncé has already signed a lease somewhere inside your brain that lasts for the rest of your life. Try not to think of this song as a hype morsel, or a discourse starter, or an aesthetic foreshadowing.

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Big Freedia Featured on New Beyoncé Single 'Break My Soul' (My New Orleans)

NEW ORLEANS (press release) – You Already Know! Big Freedia – the Queen of Bounce – is excited to announce that she lends her vocals and distinct New ...

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Beyonce's 'Break My Soul' is a sign the Great Resignation 'has ... (CNBC)

Beyonce released a new single, "Break My Soul," on Monday. The song taps into the worker malaise that led a record number of Americans to quit their jobs.

The U.S. central bank is forecasting a slight increase in unemployment as a result of its policy. You heard the woman." The torrid pace continued into 2022. It's the first song from her seventh studio album, Renaissance, set to drop on July 29. "The overarching story of the last two years is more [one] of workers finding more opportunities and seizing them rather than due to burnout and abandoning work at large," Bunker said. Low pay and a lack of opportunity for advancement tied as the primary motivations for workers to leave a job in 2021, followed by feeling disrespected at work, according to Pew Research Center. Nearly a third of them struggle to get necessary work done, 27% feel less loyalty to their organization, 28% feel more lonely or isolated, and 55% wonder if their pay is high enough, according to the survey, published in October. The overarching story of the last two years is more [one] of workers finding more opportunities and seizing them rather than due to burnout and abandoning work at large.Nick Bunkereconomist at Indeed In the past, burned-out workers may not have felt they had the power to quit a job and readily find a new one, he added. Many fans called out allusions to the Great Resignation on social media Tuesday. "An hour into the work day and I see why Beyonce told me to quit my job," one wrote on Twitter. "Beyonce telling me to quit my full time job and become a full time streamer and like ... I might ... just do it ...??" another tweeted. Beyonce's track "is one instance of a broader public awareness or discussion about people quitting their jobs, which is reflective of what's happening in the labor market and society," Bunker said. - Beyonce released a new single, "Break My Soul," on Monday. The song talks about quitting a job and worker burnout, alluding to the pandemic era's Great Resignation labor trend.

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Beyoncé's 'Break My Soul' is Our Dance Floor Anthem for the Post ... (Rolling Stone)

(Her 2016 magnum opus Lemonade drew praise for its inventive fusion of hip-hop, R&B, blues and indie rock, while 2013's Beyoncé, famously found the singer ...

(Her 2016 magnum opus Lemonade drew praise for its inventive fusion of hip-hop, R&B, blues and indie rock, while 2013’s Beyoncé, famously found the singer flirting with trip hop and experimental pop.) Over a pulsating house beat accentuated by looping piano progressions, Yoncé celebrates the joys of living with reckless abandon (“I just fell in love, and I just quit my job”) and the thrill of returning to a new normal after three years of a stir-crazy existence (“I’ma let down my hair ’cause I lost my mind”). While it’s difficult to not examine the song through COVID-colored glasses, it’s undeniable Beyoncé is acknowledging the shared experiences of the pandemic as she playfully quips “we back outside” before giving a shout-out to the continued importance of wearing a mask. (Her 2016 magnum opus Lemonade drew praise for its inventive fusion of hip-hop, R&B, blues and indie rock, while 2013’s Beyoncé, famously found the singer flirting with trip hop and experimental pop.) Over a pulsating house beat accentuated by looping piano progressions, Yoncé celebrates the joys of living with reckless abandon (“I just fell in love, and I just quit my job”) and the thrill of returning to a new normal after three years of a stir-crazy existence (“I’ma let down my hair ’cause I lost my mind”). While it’s difficult to not examine the song through COVID-colored glasses, it’s undeniable Beyoncé is acknowledging the shared experiences of the pandemic as she playfully quips “we back outside” before giving a shout-out to the continued importance of wearing a mask. In fact, “Break My Soul” is loaded with inspirational aphorisms: “If you don’t seek it, you won’t see it”; “If you don’t think it, you won’t be it”; “Tryin’ to fake it, never makes it.” It’s easy to dismiss these affirmations as overly sentimental platitudes.

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Beyoncé channels 90s house sound on 'Break My Soul' (Dancing Astronaut)

As prominent artists continue to try out new genres and sounds, Beyoncé channels 90s house music sound for 'Break My Soul.'

Stream “Break My Soul” below. The latest pop star to dabble in house music is 28-time Grammy Award winner, Beyoncé. Following in the recent footsteps of Drake‘s heavily house-inflected Honestly Nevermind, Beyoncé is reminding the masses that house music’s origins started with black artists. “Break My Soul” is Beyoncé’s first single of 2022 and is a preview of her forthcoming album, Renaissance. While the Houston-native icon has not shared if the album as a whole will take on a house music framework, word has already surfaced that Honey Dijon plays a critical role in the oncoming record’s production, signaling to a house-fueled affair from Queen Bey.

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Imagine waking up to find out you're on Beyoncé's new single (ABC News)

Nineties pop icon Robin S. opens up about her involvement in 'Break My Soul'

"'Show Me Love' is going to be 30 years old in 2023," she says. I don't know where they got that from, but they don't want to allow you to do that." "For the most part, no one really wanted to hear anything else that I was capable of doing," she says. "We're supposed to grow off of each other. "When I'm touring and I talk to people, I let them know, 'You're gonna hear some different things, it's still me, and I still love you. "I mean, that's what music is all about. These days she has taken it upon herself to show the world the breadth of her talents. While Robin S. made her mark in the world of dance music, she wasn't afforded the same opportunities to develop. "I'm very proud of her," she says. "That right there is what it's all about. It kept pinging, pinging, pinging, pinging, pinging." The industry was always a man's world and certain women had to give in or sell their souls in order to make it.

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Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, and the work ethic vibe shift. (Mamamia)

Beyonce is back with 'Break My Soul', her first new music in six years. The dance/house song is being embraced as a Great Resignation anthem.

And she's doing it again in 2022, releasing 'Break My Soul' as the world grapples with all the consequences of the pandemic. She did it in 2016, when she aligned herself with the Black Lives Matter movement during her Super Bowl appearance, and later surprise dropped concept album Lemonade, which explored generational and racial trauma, reclaimed genres like rock and country, and was hailed as an "evolutionary work of Black feminism". She did it in 2013, when her inclusion of a speech from Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in the middle of 'Flawless' became a watershed moment for feminism in pop, celebrity and culture, more broadly.

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