Beyoncé releases disco-inspired track, Break My Soul

Beyoncé has released the first single from her forthcoming seventh solo studio album Renaissance, and it's the Beyoncé jam fans have been waiting for.

'Break My Soul' is a driving dance track co-produced by the same team who brought us 'Single Ladies', Tricky Stewart and The-Dream. Jay-Z is also on the writing credits, as are the writers of Robin S's 1993 hit 'Show Me Love,' which is prominently sampled in the song.

In an apparent slight to major streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, the song initially appeared only on Tidal – the streaming service co-owned by Beyoncé's husband, Jay-Z – three hours before its announced release time of midnight in the US, and on Vevo/YouTube an hour or so later.

Beyoncé has a history of this: her 2016 Lemonade album was available only on Tidal for three years.

READ MORE: Director's sly comment that shocked Bradley Cooper

Beyoncé announced last week that her long-expected seventh album will be arriving on July 29. Sources told Variety that the album will feature both dance and country-leaning tracks, with contributions from hit songwriter Ryan Tedder, who co-wrote her 2008 hit 'Halo' as well as hits for Adele, Taylor Swift, the Jonas Bros. and Tedder's own group, OneRepublic.

READ MORE: Fleetwood Mac star dies after health battle

Also said to be involved is Raphael Saadiq, who has crafted hits for Mary J. Blige, D'Angelo, Stevie Wonder, John Legend and Andra Day as well as his own excellent solo albums, and executive-produced A Seat at the Table, Beyoncé's sister Solange's widely praised 2016 album.

It was unclear whether the country songs will appear as a separate album, or as part of the first edition of Renaissance. Country is not new terrain for the singer: 'Daddy Lessons', from 2016's Lemonade, is heavy on twang and was even covered by the Chicks (then known as the Dixie Chicks).

Fans have already sleuthed information suggesting that the album will contain 16 tracks, and the fact that it is a multi-part release is clear from the fact that it is billed as "Act 1."

Beyoncé's website also featured pre-orders on four different boxed sets for the album, billed "Pose" 1-4 and including a CD, T-shirt and a box. However, since they all ship on the day of the album's release, it seems likely that they're just different packages for "Act 1."

READ MORE: The Logies red carpet fashion verdict is in

The singer sounded the alarm that something was coming earlier this month, when she wiped her social media accounts, which, as evidence by the lack of profile pictures, still have not been fully repopulated.

Beyoncé actually has released four albums since her blockbuster 2016 outing Lemonade, although none of them are full Beyoncé solo albums.

In 2018, she dropped Everything Is Love, a tag-team with husband Jay-Z under the name The Carters; in April of 2019, she released Homecoming, an album of her galvanizing 2018 headlining performance at Coachella, for which she was accompanied by a full marching band, then The Lion King: The Gift, a companion album to the Disney film that featured several new songs from her. A deluxe edition of that album featuring three additional tracks was released a year later.

For a daily dose of 9Honey, subscribe to our newsletter here.

------------------------------------

Title: Beyoncé releases disco-inspired track, Break My Soul
Sourced From: celebrity.nine.com.au/latest/beyonce-new-song-break-my-soul/069449b6-87ad-4048-8a57-ad7ad8fb29ea
Published Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 04:06:00 GMT