Beyoncé’s 'Renaissance,' a love letter to Black queer innovators, comes at a precarious moment in history. Read CraigSJ's review
Photo: Mason Poole Nile Rodgers got a million-dollar inkling in 1979 when he stepped into the bathroom at the Gilded Grape, the legendary mob-owned drag bar on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan beloved by a colorful cast of regulars that included Andy Warhol. The bathroom, Rodgers would later recall in his 2011 autobiography Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny, was packed with Diana Ross impersonators.
The new album — a mélange of energetic dance music and explicit nods to Black queer creative traditions — attempts to unite people by contrasting their struggles and interests the same way the disco divas’ tales of heartbreak and euphoria could inspire both innovators and tastemakers in the arts and stiffs who simply saw Saturday Night Fever and came home craving more hedonism and hissing hi-hats.
Renaissance feels like a guided tour of Black dance-music history, particularly in “Pure/Honey” and “Alien Superstar,” where Beyoncé presides over productions juxtaposing the plastic sheen of ’80s radio pop, the brash beats and braggadocious commentation of ballroom competitions, and the rhythmic gymnastics of New York rap.
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