Beyoncé’s “Renaissance”: How Queen B Reinvented Herself

“It has mainly become a record that you don’t have to think about too much,” says Radio 1 presenter and Beyoncé fan Ilse Liebens. “She made the record during the pandemic and the premise was: we have to get out of this misery, I have to give people some perspective. It really is a ‘come to the dance floor and let’s have fun’ album. And that appeals to everyone because who doesn’t want that?”

There is no common thread, as with “Lemonade”, this time. “That was really a concept record: about racism, about feminism, about the infidelity of her husband Jay-Z. This is a completely different feeling.”

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