Beyonce's Renaissance

I just listened to samples from Beyonce's Renaissance album out of curiosity.

Just samples, mind you. Bits. Highlights.

WOW.

That coming out in today's mainstream English-language scene, not from Bollywood or Korea, is like hearing Sgt. Pepper's in the middle of a endless run of nursery rhymes.

This has all the sophistocation, all the complexity and nuance that have ben missing, that the mainstream English-language music scene has been absolutely starved of since Adele was no longer new.

This is sophistocation on the line of something Cher released 20 years ago, when she was creating her finest works.

When she was creating the Pet Sounds of modern dance music, 2001's Living Proof.

Which I bought when it came out because it looked like something beautiful and sophistocated.

Which it was.

Wow.

And I heard this level of complexity, this level of sophistocation, in 30-second samples.

I have recently decided to take seriously my newfound role as a music, film and literary critic here on my website.

And so I thought that I should mention this.

All the sophistocation, all the complexity we have been missing in the English-language mainstream music scene, both British and American, for many years.

Wow!

God loves you!

Sincerely,

David S. Annderson

P.S. this is one of the few things from the American or British mainstream music scene that I have actively sought to listen to, even as samples. (I've heard plenty of it in the background.) And it is quite the spectacular exception! Beyonce definitely belongs alongside Billie Eilish as a big exception in today's English-language mainstream music scene! They haven't brought her down!