New Beyoncé song ‘Break My Soul’ is a dance anthem for survivors

In the end, Beyoncé is again.

And as with all the things she does, Queen Bey calculated the proper second to launch “Break My Soul,” the primary single from her upcoming seventh studio album, “Renaissance.” Forgoing the same old Friday drop day for brand new music, the 40-year-old famous person determined to launch “Break My Soul” at midnight Monday on the noticed Juneteenth vacation, setting off the week main as much as the large New York Satisfaction weekend.

And in a single twirling twist, “Break My Soul” is a dance anthem for anybody  — whether or not they’re from the BIPOC neighborhood or the LGBTQ one — who has ever felt damaged down by society however but nonetheless is a survivor.

“I’m in search of motivation/I’m in search of a brand new basis, yeah/And I’m on that new vibration/I’m constructing my very own basis, yeah,” she sings over a home groove that samples Robyn S.’s 1993 hit “Present Me Love.”

It’s a extra pop-friendly flip from Beyoncé after the edgier affair of her critically-acclaimed final studio album, 2016’s “Lemonade.” In reality, “Break My Soul” recollects the dance-floor diva on songs similar to “Candy Goals” and the criminally neglected “Blow.”

However the track — which reunites Beyoncé with producing companions Christopher “Tough” Stewart and The Dream and likewise contains a co-writing credit score from her husband Jay-Z — does have one factor in widespread together with her 2016 hit “Formation”:  It additionally contains queer artist Huge Freedia, the Queen of Bounce from New Orleans.

Beyoncé samples the 1993 Robin S. hit “Present Me Love” on her new single “Break My Soul.”

Beyoncé’s seventh studio album, “Renaissance,” is due July 29.

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“Launch your anger/Launch your thoughts/Launch your job/Launch the tide/Launch your commerce/Launch the stress/Launch your love/Neglect the remainder,” Huge Freedia spits.

And it gained’t be arduous to “launch your wiggle” with “Break My Soul,” which — after Drake’s home album “Truthfully, Nevermind” dropped on Friday — alerts that music’s largest stars are taking all of it the way in which to the golf equipment for the primary actual summer season we’ve had since COVID spoiled the get together in 2020.