Queen B topped the charts with her song Break My Soul taken from his latest album. A first since Single Ladies in 2008.
American superstar Beyoncé rocketed to the top of the US charts with a track from the album Renaissance , a first for the artist in nearly 15 years. It’s his single Break My Soul which climbed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts on Monday. Single Ladies had done just as well at the end of 2008. The disc Renaissance released on July 29 also topped the Billboard album chart. Second best result of the year, behind Harry Styles and his Harry’s House.
This new triumph of the soon to be 41-year-old artist was slightly tarnished by a controversy last week on social networks: Beyoncé will have to re-record the title Heated after criticism of a slang word considered an insult to people with motor disabilities. “Queen” Beyoncé sings there “Spazzin’ on that ass, spazzin’ on that ass”.
The term ‘spaz’ in English, derived from the adjective ‘spastic’ (‘spastic’), may be used to make fun of people with cerebral palsy and may be loosely associated with the terms ‘cretin’, “disturbed” or even “bumbling”. In the United States, the word “spaz” is infrequent and seems rather to describe someone who is deemed “out of control” or who acts “erratically”.
Musical event of the summer, Beyoncé released her seventh solo album six years after Lemonade, which became a classic. Fans (270 million subscribers on Instagram) found their “Queen B” in full “Renaissance”, in this album of 16 songs intended for a world which starts to party again after the pandemic.