BEYONCE'S RENAISSANCE (with The New Yorker's Doreen St. Felix)
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Beyonc\\xe9\\u2019s seventh studio album and her first in over six years, Renaissance, is finally upon us!
For the fourth and final episode of our series on Queen B, DJ Louie is joined by The New Yorker\\u2019s Doreen St. F\\xe9lix to discuss the new record. Louie and Doreen share gut-check reactions, break down Renaissance\'s themes of bacchanalia and sexual freak-dom and how they register through Beyonc\\xe9\\u2019s signature meticulousness, its lush, dynamic sonic palette which runs the gamut from house to disco to afrobeat, this weekend\\u2019s controversy with Kelis and whether an artist of B\\u2019s stature\\u2019s can celebrate other artists and sub-cultures- like ballroom- without subsuming them, and why this may be a superlative pandemic record, a manifestation of Beyonc\\xe9\\u2019s delayed adolescence and of a superstar\\u2019s fantasy of what life is like for people who, unlike her, can actually go to a club.
Read Louie\'s review of Renaissance\\xa0in Buzzfeed\\xa0
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