A Jorts Renaissance Is Upon Us

Beyoncé is back on top of the album charts, thanks to Renaissance.

Beyonce‘s new album Renaissance has been in stores for more than a week and it officially has topped the charts for the first week of release!

Renaissance (★★★★☆), an album that, at its core, captures the physicality of the dancefloor and everything that goes along with it.Its story should sound familiar by now: amid the uncertainty of a global pandemic and the claustrophobia of quarantines and lockdowns, an artist longs for the freedom, expression, and human connection of the club and puts out an album inspired by dance music.Although the COVID dance album has become something of a meta-genre at this point, Beyoncé’s take on it is, unsurprisingly, a standout.Renaissance is undeniably a fun dancefloor fantasy, but it works as well as it does because it is made from a place of intimate familiarity with its genre.

Beyoncé claims her fourth solo UK Number 1 album with RENAISSANCE this week, marking her first chart-topper in six years. 

Thania Garcia Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” is expected to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (knocking out Bad Bunny’s seven-week stint with “Un Verano Sin Ti”), marking one of the biggest opening weeks of the year. Should it enter atop the chart, “Renaissance” will be the first album recorded by a woman in 2022 to land at No.

Fire broke out at Italy’s historic Cinecittà Studios on Monday afternoon (August 1), destroying part of an old set depicting Renaissance Florence, which was in the process of being dismantled, and disrupted Netflix film Old Guard 2.  

Proving once and for all that you just can't keep a good big pop girl down, Beyoncé's potential dominance of the Official Charts this week continues as we can announce that RENAISSANCE album track CUFF IT is officially the UK's Number 1 Trending Song. 

William Earl Beyoncé’s new album “Renaissance” is a fast-paced soundtrack for the dance floor, filled with brilliant lyrics which can be funny, sexy, emotional and empowering — sometimes all in the same song.There are many layers and cultural touchstones woven throughout “Renaissance,” including revisiting and expanding upon her 2013 self-titled record, which pushed the love and marriage themes of “4” forward by embracing the sexiness of being a devoted wife. While 2016’s “Lemonade” took a detour into her examination of pain due to infidelity, it’s clear that her marriage to Jay-Z is strong.

Ellise Shafer Two years ago, songwriting and producing duo Nova Wav first chatted with Beyoncé over pizza about what would become her seventh full-length album: “Renaissance.”Released on Friday, the 16-track record is filled to the brim with infectious, danceable tracks, and Nova Wav — made up of Brittany “Chi” Coney and Denisia “Blu June” Andrews — are honored to have a hand in eight of the songs. The duo, who has produced and written for Jay-Z, Rihanna, Ariana Grande, Kehlani, DJ Khaled, H.E.R., Jazmine Sullivan and more, first met Beyoncé in 2014.

As Beyoncé’s highly-anticipated new album "Renaissance" was released, some tracks seemingly addressed her husband Jay-Z’s cheating scandal and his infamous elevator fight with her sister Solange.  The "Break My Soul" singer, 40, whose 16-track album was reportedly leaked two days early, got candid in her seventh studio album and appeared to reference Jay-Z’s infidelity with the lyrics "nobody’s perfect" and that the couple doesn’t "need the world’s acceptance." The record was officially released Friday. In the track "Plastic Off the Sofa," Beyoncé sings: "We don't need the world's acceptance.They're too hard on me, they're too hard on you, boy." The infamous elevator scandal also appeared in another single, "Cozy," as Beyoncé mused, "She’s a god, she’s a hero, she survived all she been through, confident and she lethal.

Ethan Shanfeld New York City nightlife and drag queen legend Kevin Aviance didn’t know Beyoncé sampled his song “C—y” on her new album “Renaissance” until a friend reached out to him late Thursday night.“She sent me the track and the credits and said, ‘What is this?’” Aviance told me Friday afternoon. “And then my phone was blowing up.

housed-up first single “Break My Soul.”If anything, Beyoncé has been reborn as a gay black man — or even a trans woman — on “Renaissance,” embracing the sounds of the underground that those communities have fiercely used as a means of empowering club catharsis. In this way, it’s even more like her answer to Madonna’s “Erotica” than her surprise self-titled set was in 2013.After Beyoncé clears her throat with the eerie electro-soul of opener “I’m That Chick” — and, um, of course, she is! — the album really kicks into full effect with “Cozy,” on which the empowering lyrics of Destiny’s Child hits such as “Independent Women Pt.

Beyoncé's  is upon us! After plenty of anticipation and an internet leak, Bey's seventh studio album is finally here, and it's filled with plenty of dance-heavy bangers to get us through the summer.Complete with 16 tracks,  includes the already released hit single, «Break My Soul», as well as songs like «Cuff It,» «Alien Superstar» and more.On Thursday, night, in time with the release, she took to Instagram to address the early album leak and to thank her fans for waiting for the official release.«So, the album leaked and you all actually waited until the proper release time so you all can enjoy it together,» she wrote. «I've never seen anything like it. I can't thank yall enough for your love and protection.

Kelis is not happy with Beyoncé after the 40-year-old singer allegedly sampled Kelis' song «Get Along With You» on her upcoming album, .After an an internet leak of the album made its rounds online Wednesday, a Kelis fan page claimed that one of the 16 tracks on the album, «Energy,» samples the song off Kelis' 1999 album,  Kelis commented, saying that she was not made aware that «Get Along With You» was going be used on the project.While the full credits for «Energy» have not yet been revealed, the composers reportedly credited on the track include Pharrell Williams and Chad, presumably Williams’ Neptunes bandmate Chad Hugo, who along with Rob Walker and the Neptunes, are listed as the producers for «Get Along With You.» Hugo and Williams are also listed as lyricists of «Get Along With You» while Kelis meanwhile is not listed as a producer, composer or lyricist on the track.Kelis shared her stance about the alleged sample via her company's page, Bounty & Full, by commenting on the fan account's post on Instagram.«My mind is blown too because the level of disrespect and utter ignorance of all 3 parties involved is astounding,» Kelis wrote. «I heard about this the same way everyone else did.