The star’s exhilarating seventh album Renaissance is self-indulgent, self-confident, and unapologetically obsessed with self-love.
. This is just a small sampling of the queer artists, producers, performers, and personalities who played at least a small part in the creation of. For her seventh solo studio album , the artist born Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter took sonic and thematic inspiration from her late
“Uncle Johnny,” her gay “godmother” who helped raise her and played a pivotal role in her style evolution before dying due to AIDS-related complications when the singer was only 17. The result is the chanteuse’s most daring and experimental album to date, a seamless, pulsing record of floor-ready club music that also doubles as a celebratory ode to the under-discussed history of queer nightlife throughout the past several decades.
Of course, the idea of pop-stars looking to queer nightlife for musical inspiration isn’t exactly novel. From Diana Ross’ “I”m Coming Out” to Madonna’s “Vogue,” there’s a long history of female pop singers catering to the sounds of the dancefloor — a trend that, at least in part, echoes the invisible connection these same stars share with queer men. But Beyoncé has never been one to follow a traditional pop-star script; she typically zigs when her contemporaries choose to zag.
makes its inspirations clear.
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