Upon releasing Renaissance in 2022, Beyoncé let it be known that it was the first of a three-part musical reclamation series. The first album celebrated the Black, queer origins of dance music, fusing disco and house into a celebratory LP dedicated to her Uncle Johnny, who helped make some of her earliest stage costumes. Act II was Cowboy Carter , a country and Americana opus that was born out of the backlash she received in 2016 for performing her Lemonade -era country song “Daddy Lessons” with fellow Texan singers the Chicks at the CMAs.

For the last three years, fans have surmised that one of the albums would be rock. Beyoncé has a long history with the genre and its often erased and less financially successful Black roots have been reclaimed by her before , on Lemonade t

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