Sources tell Variety that the album will feature both dance and country-leaning tracks, the source says, with contributions from hit songwriter Ryan Tedder, who co-wrote her 2008 hit “Halo” as well as hits for Adele, Taylor Swift, the Jonas Bros. Beyonce has a history of this: Her 2016 “Lemonade” album was available only on Tidal for three years, a move that likely cost her millions in streaming royalties.īeyonce announced early Thursday that the long-expected album will be arriving on July 29. In an apparent slight to major streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, the song initially appeared only on Tidal - the streaming service co-owned by Beyonce’s husband, Jay-Z - three hours before its announced release time of midnight ET, and on Vevo/YouTube an hour or so later.

It’s filled with dancefloor-friendly lines like: “Motivation/ I’m looking for a new foundation/ I’m on that new vibration/ I’m building my own foundation” and a repeated exhortation of “Everybody.” The queen’s in the front and the Dom’s in the backĪin’t taking no flicks but the whole clique snapped.” “I’mma let down my hair ’cause I lost my mindīey is back and I’m sleeping real good at night For her part, Bey is on message with both her return and the disco theme of the song: The title is flipped by saying “You won’t break my soul,” and a statement of intent follows: Stream Break My Soul – the newly released and the fifth best ranked Beyoncé lead singles – here. Rolling Stone ranked it as the 73rd greatest song of all time, but The Tab ranked it as the best of all the Beyoncé lead singles AND the best Bey song ever. It is resilient and celebratory in equal measure. It’s become a Black Lives Matter anthem – and it stands head and shoulders above the rest of Beyoncé’s impeccable catalogue as the most definitive song in her catalogue, a track that defines everything she stands for as an artist. Its lyrics are quoted daily, and the namedropping of Red Lobster caused their sales to go up by 33 per cent. It is a song which is equal parts celebration and protest, and it’s a celebration of Southern Black culture that has impacted the world in endless ways. If Crazy in Love changed the music industry forever, Formation changed the world.

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