As promised, Beyoncé has launched the brand new tune “Break My Soul.” The observe options two outstanding samples: a modified synth melody from Robin S.’ traditional home hit “Present Me Love” and a vocal lifted from Large Freedia’s “Explode,” from the 2014 LP Simply Be Free: “Launch ya anger/Launch ya thoughts/Launch ya job/Launch the time/Launch ya commerce/Launch ya stress/Launch the love/Overlook the remainder.” Take heed to “Break My Soul” beneath.
“Break My Soul” is Beyoncé’s first piece of music for the reason that announcement of her new album Renaissance. It’s additionally her first authentic tune since she launched “Be Alive” final yr. The observe was produced by Beyoncé, The-Dream, Difficult Stewart, BlaqNmilD, and Jay-Z. Large Freedia, Allen George and Fred McFarlane—who wrote “Present Me Love”—are listed as co-writers. Renaissance is out July 29.
Followers started to take a position that Beyoncé was as much as one thing when she cleared out her social media profile pictures earlier this month. The file is seemingly subtitled “Act I.” In keeping with an unverified tweet from the fan account Beyoncé Legion, Renaissance is a 16-song album. Shortly after saying the album, Beyoncé appeared in a British Vogue cowl story that included allusions to new music.
Renaissance will mark Beyoncé’s first solo studio album since Lemonade. Since sharing that LP in April 2016, she has collaborated together with her husband Jay-Z on All the things Is Love and launched Homecoming: The Reside Album, capturing her iconic 2018 Coachella efficiency. She additionally launched The Lion King: The Present in 2019. (Beyoncé voiced the character Nala within the remake of The Lion King.) The soundtrack album featured contributions from a star-studded solid together with Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Infantile Gambino, Pharrell Williams, Tierra Whack, 070 Shake, Main Lazer, and Child Keem. She curated and oversaw The Present, too, calling it “a love letter to Africa.”
In 2020, Beyoncé issued the tune “Black Parade,” in addition to her visible album Black Is King. The next yr, Beyoncé took residence the Grammy Award for Greatest R&B Efficiency for “Black Parade.” On the similar ceremony, she additionally gained Greatest Rap Efficiency and Greatest Rap Tune (for “Savage”), in addition to Greatest Music Video (for “Brown Pores and skin Lady”).
Beyoncé obtained a nod for Greatest Authentic Tune on the 2022 Oscars, for “Be Alive.” The tune was written for the film King Richard, which follows the younger Williams sisters as they’re coached by their father, Richard Williams. The Academy Awards aired an unique efficiency of the observe, taped per week earlier on the Tragniew Park tennis courts in Compton, California—the identical place Venus and Serena Williams ran drills as kids. The Williams siblings launched the video, which featured appearances from Beyoncé’s daughter Blue Ivy and a troupe of dancers.
