Beyoncé has confirmed that new music is arriving soon after revealing that she has been in the studio over the last 18 months.
Queen B spoke to Harper’s Bazaar as the publication’s latest cover star she’s excited for what she has in store after the pandemic having spent a year and a half working on her upcoming music.
“With all the isolation and injustice over the past year, I think we are all ready to escape, travel, love, and laugh again. I feel a renaissance emerging, and I want to be part of nurturing that escape in any way possible,” she said as quoted by Hypebeast.
“I’ve been in the studio for a year and a half. Sometimes it takes a year for me to personally search through thousands of sounds to find just the right kick or snare. One chorus can have up to 200 stacked harmonies. Still, there’s nothing like the amount of love, passion, and healing that I feel in the recording studio. After 31 years, it feels just as exciting as it did when I was nine years old. Yes, the music is coming!”
Beyoncé continued, saying that she is keen to “[creating] businesses outside of music” ahead of turning 40 in September. “I want to show that you can have fun and have purpose, be respectful and speak your mind. You can be both elegant and a provocateur. You can be curvy and still be a fashion icon. I wish this freedom for every person. I have paid my dues and followed every rule for decades, so now I can break the rules that need to be broken. My wish for the future is to continue to do everything everyone thinks I can’t do.”
Beyoncé’s last solo album came in 2016 with Lemonade. In this time, she worked on the soundtrack for The Lion King: The Gift, her live album HOMECOMING and Everything Is Love with husband Jay-Z as The Carters.