Beyoncé just dropped a new gay anthem!!!

“Bop”?

Stop it right now.

Anyone who calls a song a "bop" on a board for adults deserves to be drawn and quartered.

So boring

Yikes. This is boring. But I'm not really into 90s house.

It is much better than the Lion King work, however.

I'm sure the critics will call it the single best song of all time and arrived just in time to save music.

Yes. She’s channeling 90s House music.

YAAAS KWEEN!!

some bitter gays in this thread.... it's clearly a bop. this is going to kill at the club.

Yawn

[quote] some bitter gays in this thread.... it's clearly a bop. this is going to kill at the club.

We'll soon see, won't we?

R9 club hits don’t necessarily mean Billboard hit

It's fun but there needs to be a better video

R11 that’s just the lyric video. She hasn’t released a music video yet

the lyrics are stupid

This is the piano house we need to heal ourselves and our world. Thank you, QUEEN B!

Is OP Roxane Gay? This is how she speaks about Beyoncé all the time. (I'm teasing, OP)

Anyway, I was quite surprised to hear her do something like this, so it's interesting to me from that perspective. I'll probably give it a few listens, and I'm not at all a fan of hers. The bit with what sounds like a guitar sample I liked particularly.

(as an aside, here is Roxane talking about it. I'm laughing at the line: "stylistically it understands 90's House" - so Roxy is an expert here on this topic now too!)

[quote]I love Break My Soul. It’s a great great record. Stylistically it understands 90s House. Big Freedia! And plz let’s discuss Doms in the back.

Some people are upset that she didn't credit Big Freedia as a featured artist.

Another nearly 50 year old woman trying to sound like a teenager:

The entire song samples Robyn S’s “Show Me Love”.

The stupid grade school drop out bitch couldn’t even be bothered to come up with an original tune.

[quote] the lyrics are stupid

Like Beyoncé.

Bwahahaha R18! I was waiting to find out something like this - it seems right on brand for Beyoncé to do that!

R18, no it doesn't. Stop lying. Queen Bey has the utmost respect for Robyn and all house legends. But don't lie again bitch.

It's amazing how stupid songs are when you read the lyrics.

I'm sure she'll win another five or six Grammys for this boring ass song. At this point, Beyoncé fart on record for an hour and guaranteed a Grammy.

A Goddess

I like the tempo. I hope that's a sign of sexier rhythms to come in dance music generally. Sick of ice-inspired full-tilt inanity.

Good point, R25. I don't think this is the most amazing thing I've heard, but if it signified more music like this, that could be fun. It's the reason why, for all her bat-shittery, I still really loved Azealia Banks' 1991 EP.

R26 YES! It sounds so much like Anna Wintour to me!

R27, I love that song. Azealia really had a lot of promise, and she had to go and turn out to be a psycho.

R27 they actually sound nothing alike.

Queen of Mediocrity.

R29 You don't hear it? Both songs are house music with a grand gospel-like chorus.

It’s based on Robin S’s Show Me Love.

R32 no. It isn’t.

Azealia is adored by the music industry behind the scenes. Most appreciate her from afar because, obviously, they have some hesitancy with dealing with her. I could write an extensive essay about why, but I'm too tired lol. Robin S is probably SWIMMING in royalty money right now, because Charli XCX sampled Show Me Love for her latest single Used to Know Me.

I didn’t like her Lion King album but It was also an artistic album, not something she was trying to push on radio stations.

The only song I liked from it was “Brown Skin Girl”, which is a very sweet, powerful, beautiful and POSITIVE song with a very pleasant sound.

When Dua Lipa beat you to the trend, you’re a follower not a maker.

Dua Lipa didn’t use House beats.

Her first 3 albums had a lot of hit singles. After that not as many. Like every female artist.

She is very derivative. This sounds like a Janet or Ciara song to me, they were making this style of music back in the 2000s. Azealia did a similar song too, Anna Wintour. Also Kelala has this sound too. Beyonce never set trends though.

This is not a "gay anthem" lol. This is a song for the queens.

Go listen to Kelela.

[quote]Some people are upset that she didn't credit Big Freedia as a featured artist.

It is kind of silly, given that Freedia has collaborated with Drake, Kesha, Gaga, RuPaul and a lot of others. If you want her on the song, give her credit.

Beyonce is infamous for copying other people's sound. Her team makes her untouchable. I don't get how Justin Timberlake and Jennifer Lopez get dragged for being copycats and overly reliant on producers but Beyonce is untouchable.

R43 you just described GaGa

R44 She's included too and Taylor Swift as well. At least Katy Perry and Rihanna don't pretend to be anything else but fun pop stars. Beyonce, Taylor and Gaga all have this pretentious "artiste" persona. And a massive cult of fans who worship the ground they walk on and the media kisses their asses for some reason. They can fart into a microphone and still get nominated for Grammys

Sub bottom anthem - Break My Hole - get those coins Queen B

Beyonce rarely acknowledges her gay fanbase. She only said something a few years ago with Jay-Z to honor them in like 2019 or something but back in the 2000s when she was at her peak, she said nothing to vocally support gays nor showed interest in gay rights. And no, having gay backup dancers, wearing drag queen wig and stilettos and hiring Frank Ocean for a song doesn't really count. What's her excuse? Mary J Blige, Toni Braxton, Mo'Nique, Janet, Nicki and Ciara have called out homophobia and/or supported gays in public.

R47 how many of the young pop stars did back then? Madonna was so massive to us for a reason. Most of them ignored us. GaGa did it starting in 2009. Before her almost none of them did. So it’s kind of stupid to hold it against one.

[quote] Beyoncé just dropped a new gay anthem!!!

Giraffe just dropped some new gobbets of excrement.

This is an eternal BOP

R48 Beyonce's debut album was huge and she was pretty untouchable after that. Also, gays and black women were her main audience after 2010 or so when she stopped getting hits. She amassed a huge Twitter following called the Beyhive which was mostly gays. The fact it took her until the late 2010s or so to make an announcement of support for the gay community seems a bit dirty. I don't really hate her for it but it just shows she doesn't give a shit about anyone but herself and that's why I don't understand gays who worship these straight female celebrities who use gays for sales. Madonna did break grounds for supporting gays back in the 80s and Gaga while becoming derivative and boring deserves her gay icon status for making her support clear from her debut and onward.

I kept thinking "when is this bitch gonna shut up so I can hear the Robin S jam that's playing in the background??"

R52 lmao no.

The awesome original...

I can't wait for Solange to drop a higher-quality album. She always delivers after her big sister's albums in order to not compete.

When, oh when, will the seacow be eaten by a shark?

Omg they don’t even sound that much alike.

See below

Every day is Bayeteenth in Baye's boring self-glorifying fat-ass universe.

R58 Lol

[quote]Break My Soul is stolen from a 1993 disco hit by Robin S called “Show Me Love,” written by Fred McFarlane and Allen George,

Fixed.

Madonna did it so much better. She was 47 when she released Confession on a Dance floor and it was a huge success worldwide. Beyonce seems too old to pull it off, even though she's only 40. Madonna was certainly in better physical shape at 47 than Beyonce at 40.

I just noticed that Madonna has never shown any interest in Beyonce and vice-versa. Do they dislike each other?

They’re different types of dance music.

Garbage. Boring and generic.

Beyonce is too low-energy now. All of her danceable tracks are from when she was energetic and passionate. Now she is a robot and sounds emotionless on her newest songs. This new song was so boring I could not finish.

Back when she gave a shit...

[quote] I just noticed that Madonna has never shown any interest in Beyonce and vice-versa. Do they dislike each other?

Beyonce took a lot from Madonna. The high-budget music videos, feminism, pageantry and religious/goddess persona. Madonna gets compared to Michael Jackson but I don't see it nor do I see Janet. I see a mix of Diana Ross, Tina Turner, Madonna and Grace Jones. Madonna can't sing but she accomplished a shit ton on her own while Beyonce had tons of help.

*Beyonce gets compared to

Robin S getting that MOOLAH this year!!! Did Beyonce copy Charli?

Ummm Madonna has acknowledged Bey many times over the years

And Bey has shown love to Madonna and named her as one of her biggest inspirations

Beyawnce makes terrible music that only the mentally ill like the OP enjoy.

Madonna actually seems to praise most people. If she doesn't like them, she usually just says nothing like with Janet. The only person she seems to have hated from what I know is Lady Gaga. Madonna's comments on Whitney were taken out of context, definitely was jealousy of success but it seems more critique towards a double standard.

Madonna loves those who came after her and were super successful and acknowledge her as an inspiration, like Britney or Beyoncé.

GaGa stole a lot from Madonna but never credited her.

Well Madonna never credited those she stole from either.

Madonna hopped on trends and definitely took from lesser known acts. I think she got away with it because she had no competition for a while and who could challenge her. Michael Jackson had similar to peerlessness which nobody could point out his snatching songs. Madonna's Confessions was clearly derivative of Kylie Minogue but Kylie was a two-hit wonder in America, so not competition. I think when Hard Candy came out, it was such a blatant copy of Nelly Furtado, Britney and Timberlake's albums with the same producer that it woke the public up.

I think people just struggled with the fact a 50 year old was making music like she was 25 still r75

Stealing from lesser known acts isn’t the same as stealing from one of the biggest pop stars ever. GaGa even made a sex book.

I liked “Jealous” from her Beyoncé album a lot. She looked so beautiful around that time too.

Just like all aging divas who feel like their audience is shrinking, she's looking to exploit the gay club scene. This is rather soon for Beyonce, though.

It’s like Show Me Love but repetitive and not catchy with crappy vocals

It's like someone took a great track and ruined it with some dumb lyrics repeated by a robot.

Her song “Blow” was very Prince-inspired. I actually think she should do an album that sounds like this.

Beyonce does a lot different sounds but she fails to explore anything. The most experimental album she had was "4" and that wasn't as successful. Which was a shame because she showed her most artistic growth with this album.

She actually seemed most proud of “4” out of all her albums. She treated it like her baby. But it didn’t perform as well as her previous 3.

She should be proud. She put a lot of effort into B'Day and 4 and neither really matched her team's expectations. I think she loves funk and soul music and seems most comfortable with it. Unfortunately, she's too self-conscious to take too many risks and follow her gut. That is my biggest issue is she's too conservative about her image and maintaining her stature. Too many Grammy-bait projects and lack of soul or emotional attachment. When she is given freedom, she shines. Like pre-freed Britney, she is just drugged out and takes a lot of orders.

Her first and third albums are my fav of hers.

It's a very basic House-influenced bop, but I was hoping for something meatier from her. As for R&B and hip-hop House crossovers, Azealia Banks' decade+ work in this sound is hard to beat.

This one, too...

R85 Those were good too. Dangerously in Love actually aged well compared to other mid-2000s pop albums.

Her Dreamgirls costar could actually pull off House vocals

2003 was mid-00s?

2000-2002 (early 2000s) bubblegum pop, pop punk, gangsta rap, nu-metal

2003-2006 (mid-2000s) hip-hop pop, post-punk, reggae, crunk, go-go

2007-2009 (late 2000s) alternative hip-hop, indie rock, electropop, alternative R&B

2003 is pretty early

Madge loves Queen Bey. There would be no Sasha Fierce if not for Madge.

Her 2nd and 6 albums are hers and amongst the greatest albums of all time.

R73, Gaga has repeatedly said she loved and was inspired by Madonna. Gaga and Madonna were close at the very beginning of Gaga's rise. But then Gaga did Madonna a little too well. Plus, she could actually sing and play instruments. Which drove Madonna insane. Then the hatred began. But I think they're all buddy buddy again.

[quote]it's clearly a bop.

You're clearly a 'tard.

The fact that you would come here and disrespect not only Queen Bey but also another poster reveals your successes in life.

When I started going to techno clubs in the early 90s, Show Me Love was sampled everywhere.

In the 2000s when I listened to my millennial niece's playlist, Show Me Love kept turning up.

Now Beyoncé. It's a good enough song, but any of the great house songs of the 90s is better. Her lyrics/vocals add nothing.

[quote]no. It isn’t.

Well, the songwriters of "Show Me Love" are credited as songwriters of "Break My Soul" so...

[quote]It's a good enough song, but any of the great house songs of the 90s is better.

Very true. What happened to me today was I heard this Beyoncé song, thought: "Oh, this reminds me how much I like House music" and I subsequently spent the day listening to the really excellent stuff, rather than revisiting her song again.

All these weirdos on Twitter getting so excited about "Queen Bey telling us to quit our jobs!" Really? So multi-millionaire Beyoncé suggests you quit your jobs and you think that's a great idea? Is she going to be paying your bills?

There was a really funny tweet that I can't find now of some girl desperately trying to make an argument about how "vital" it was for Beyoncé to sample other songs, as a show of, I dunno, strength or something? It was hilarious because you could tell the girl was trying to convince herself that Beyoncé was a much more thoughtful musician than she deep down knew the reality was.

I have no idea why Roxane Gay, who is nearly 50, is constantly writing about Beyoncé on Twitter like she's a 14 year old girl. And this "Queen Bey" shit people indulge in is so ridiculous.

I liked this one fine on first listen but second time around was better. It's a groove.

Madonna and GaGa were not close

I stopped listening after 30 seconds, ffw 2 minutes and it was still boring!

Meh

Robin S bassline (good), Big Freedia backing (good), and some generic lead voice shrieking simplistic nonsense.

R102 how many times are you gonna comment?

R99,

r102 I didn't listen longer than 30 seconds either. I do like some of Beyonce's music, this was not good. I'd rather just listen to Robin S or Cece Peniston and call it a day!

I also don't like that Beyonce and Drake are pandering to the gays during Pride month with these house samples on their singles. If you're going to sample please let it be good. Janet Jackson always hit it out the park when she did this stuff, they need to take notes

People who worship celebrities don't use critical thinking. Religions don't like blasphemy. So Beyhive will praise everything Beyonce does and attack her critics. Stans are no different than hardcore Catholics and Muslims. They even enact cyber terrorism by doxxing folks and threatening them.

R107, Bitch stfu before yo shit gets pushed in. And I apologize to the poster who informed us this is indeed a Robin sample. That camp wasn't initially listed among songwriters.

R108 Isn't it time for bed? You sound like a 10-year-old trying to talk tough. Speak to me like an adult if you want to continue.

R109, Fuck off bitch. I know voodoo curses. Can't you see I'm in one of my manic phases. Yousa bitch and so is yo aunt.

R110 Yousa a retard and if you sound angry, uneducated and petty. Voodoo for evil and petty purposes will result in evil things happening back at you. Also it's a religion, so why do you worship an idol and not God or the ancestors instead?

R111, I'm sorry. Please forgive my sins. I just want to be happy again.

I didn't realize Jar Jar Binks was such a Beyonce fan.

Yes!!! The gays love this!!!

The lyrics are cringeworthy.

She’s so derivative.

That's the perfect word to describe Beyoncé, R116!

This song grew on me.

My only complaint is it was released too late. Should’ve came out at the beginning of June and had a music video out in June too.

That's the same bar repeated over and over again.

It’s a fat flop. Kate Bush is squashing it. The real song of the summer is Running up the Hill.

This Pitchfork review is the most ridiculous thing I've read in awhile. Talk about earnest!

[quote]"Break My Soul” is Beyoncé as an SSRI, her attempt to assuage widespread depression and crushing stress, while acknowledging the predicament in which many of her non-zillionaire listeners find themselves.

I've listened to this song a few times since it's been released and still can't remember the tune.

‘Pure/Honey’ seems to be a Fave among the Gay crowd on Instagram, going by how often snippets of the song are used for their short vids

^ Apparently already a Future Ballroom Vogue Classic

This is arguably the most genuine ‘gay/queer’track on the album

Oops pls ignore r126. It’s for another thread sorry