“As expensive, production-wise, as “Renaissance” sounds, Beyoncé's singing here transcends any price tag,” writes Wesley Morris.
Beyonce performs at the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on March 27, 2022, in Los Angeles.
What a good time this thing is. All 16 songs hail from someplace with a dance floor — nightclubs, strip clubs, ballrooms, basements, Tatooine. Most of them are steeped in or conducted entirely with Black queer bravado. And on nearly every one, Beyoncé sounds like she’s experiencing something personally new and privately glorious: unmitigated ecstasy. It takes different forms: bliss, obviously; but a sexy sternness, too.
It takes a minute for all the rapture on “Renaissance” to kick in. First comes a mission statement wherein Beyoncé warns that love is her drug. Then it’s on to “Cozy,” an in-the-making anthem about Black femmes luxuriating in their skin. This one has a bottom as heavy as a cast-iron skillet and a bounce the Richter scale couldn’t ignore. “Cozy” is about comfort but sounds like an oncoming army.
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