Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE (Discussion Thread)

[Cladyclad]

Hitboy produced Thique, even tho he did some tracks for her before definitely him doing those Nas albums got him placement on here.

Lol no

 

[I'm Blackman]

Definitely some power bottom barn burners for the limp wrist nation on this shyt but like stated it has little replay value for us cis hetero males.

This is what I'm hearing. It's an album for gays...I'll pass.

 

[I'm Blackman]

Damn, that’s kind of low, no?

It's a drop from lemonade:

"In the United States, Lemonade debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with 653,000 album-equivalent units, out of which 485,000 were pure album sales. This made the highest opening-week sales for a female act of the year. "

 

[King]

beyonce too rich she out of touch wit the people this shyt sound She throwin these buzz/popular words into her songs making her sound even more

“drop it like a thottie” just retire already.

Facts, this shyt was so contrived and fake that is came off blander than flat Diet Pepsi

Needs to retire and stop hogging the spotlight, she can’t trying to appropriate all these identities like Drake.

 

[jensyao]

why does this look like some william cooper 'behold a pale horse' symbolizing death type shyt? too much pagan imagery, whatever she's going for

 

[Destined-2-Shine_HNIC]

Damn, that’s kind of low, no?

Its a different game. Everybody numbers been low. The fascination with sales numbers is played.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Damn, that’s kind of low, no?

She only has older black female fans

 

[Ziggiy]

Damn, that’s kind of low, no?

Thats in line with pretty much the other top dogs this year, its actually on the higher end. If she clears 300K then thats a huge W. Only pop artist who cleared more than that this year is Harry Styles

 

[Solo_87]

It's a drop from lemonade:

"In the United States, Lemonade debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with 653,000 album-equivalent units, out of which 485,000 were pure album sales. This made the highest opening-week sales for a female act of the year. "

Damn

But Summer Walker Still Over It (2021) broke streaming records for a rnb artist and only did 166k

Lizzo had a top 5 hit and album (2022) did only 77k first week

Not bad for a black female artist 20 years in

 

[FluffyEyes]

She literally states it’s a ballroom LGBT dance record.. I don’t think thecoli is exactly the demo she’s catering to on this one lol

It's literally dedicated to her dead, gay uncle. Ppl who want R&B like vocals have songs like Plastic Off The Sofa, Virgo's Groove and Cuff It. The rest of the album is literally homage to black LGBTQ culture.

 

[FluffyEyes]

Needs to retire and stop hogging the spotlight, she can’t trying to appropriate all these identities like Drake.

I don't understand why people say this. Who is she hogging the spotlight from?? There are multiple newer artists doing extremely well out here. She ain't stopping them.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

I’m not mad at it. Beyoncé is at the point where she can experiment with music now.. My only thing is if these people are gong to do this kind of music, I think they need to holla at whoever produced Azealia Banks music. Man if Beyoncé had one like this.

shyt would be outta here! Again, good for Bey though. Man I’m about to hear this album all weekend lol.

She can rap and the beat is on point.

Azealia should definitely be a biggest star than she is.

 

[King]

I don't understand why people say this. Who is she hogging the spotlight from?? There are multiple newer artists doing extremely well out here. She ain't stopping them.

By her very existence she is. Do you not understand how the music industry works?

You think all of her production is her own? You think she doesn’t have entire teams of artists working for her?

 

[Piff Perkins]

Damn, that’s kind of low, no?

Lack of physical sales starting to really impact the major releases. Drake can prob still do 500k first week with a regular Drake album but I doubt any other black artist is doing. Especially with the obsession with not having physical copies to avoid leaks. Flip Adele and Taylor Swift got vinyl ready on day one.

Year ago if you told me that Kendrick and Beyonce would either come in right below 300k (295k for Kdot) or barely get above 300k I would have laughed in your face.

 

[NYtymes]

Lack of physical sales starting to really impact the major releases. Drake can prob still do 500k first week with a regular Drake album but I doubt any other black artist is doing. Especially with the obsession with not having physical copies to avoid leaks. Flip Adele and Taylor Swift got vinyl ready on day one.

Year ago if you told me that Kendrick and Beyonce would either come in right below 300k (295k for Kdot) or barely get above 300k I would have laughed in your face.

There is physicals out now, I saw them in Target yesterday