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The world stops with a Beyonc\xe9 drop.\xa0On Monday, June 20th, our prayers were answered with \u201cBreak My Soul,\u201d the lead single off of her upcoming album, Renaissance. The song draws from several places of inspiration: lyrically, it\u2019s a cathartic dance-floor ode to liberation, soundtracking the current cultural moment that some have called the \u201cGreat Resignation.\u201d\xa0Sonically, though, \u201cBreak My Soul\u201d is Beyonc\xe9\u2019s foray into house music \u2013 a genre that the chair of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Jason King, summarizes as \u201ca highly rhythmic dance music created by mostly Black and brown artists in the late 1970s and early 1980s,\u201d propelled by a fanbase of queer and trans communities of color.\xa0There\u2019s been an undeniable buzz that Beyonc\xe9 is \u201cbringing house music back.\u201d And from Charli XCX to Drake, it does feel like house music is currently having a moment in mainstream pop music, paralleling the original rise of the subculture from the ruins of disco. But the genre \u201chas always been here,\u201d in King\u2019s words, and has decades of history. In this episode of Switched On Pop, we unpack house music \u2013 and how Beyonc\xe9\u2019s \u201cBreak My Soul\u201d fits into the genre.\xa0\xa0\n\n\nSongs Discussed\n\nBeyonc\xe9 - \u201cBREAK MY SOUL\u201d\nBeyonc\xe9 - \u201cSingle Ladies (Put a Ring on It)\u201d\nDrake - \u201cFalling Back\u201d\nThelma Houston - \u201cDon\u2019t Leave Me This Way\u201d\nRobin S - \u201cShow Me Love\u201d\nBob Sinclair, Steve Edwards - \u201cWorld Hold On (Children of the sky)\u201d\nKaty Perry, Nicki Minaj - \u201cSwish Swish\u201d\nCharli XCX - \u201cUsed To Know Me\u201d\nLivin\u2019 Joy - \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Movin\u2019\u201d\nMr. Fingers - \u201cCan You Feel It\u201d\nMadonna - \u201cVogue\u201d\nBlack Box - \u201cRide on Time\u201d\nCeCe Peniston - \u201cFinally\u201d\nAqua - \u201cBarbie Girl\u201d\nBig Freedia - \u201cExplode\u201d\nBeyonc\xe9 - \u201cFormation\u201d\nDrake - \u201cNice For What\u201d\nDaft Punk, Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers - \u201cGet Lucky\u201d\nDestiny\u2019s Child - \u201cSay My Name - Maurice\u2019s Last Days Of Disco Millennium Mix\u201d\nBeyonc\xe8 - \u201cFIND YOUR WAY BACK\u201d\nMadonna - \u201cDeeper and Deeper\u201d\nJanet Jackson - \u201cTogether Again\u201d\nC & C Music Factory - \u201cGonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)\u201d\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices