BEYONCÉ PART 2: SOLO SUPERSTAR (with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
Part 2/4!
Beyoncé’s latest solo album, Renaissance, drops on July 29th so to get everyone prepared, Pop Pantheon will be releasing a series of four episodes on the work and legacy of Queen Bey, each with a different guest!
In our second installment, DJ Louie is joined by author and journalist Julianne Escobedo Shepherd to discuss the first decade of Beyoncé’s solo career. Louie and Julianne begin with Beyoncé’s first steps outside of Destiny’s Child, including her film appearances in 2001’s MTV’s Carmen: A Hip Hopera and 2002’s Austin Powers in Goldmember, as well as on record with “Work It Out” and, most importantly, her feature on future-husband Jay-Z’s smash 2002 hit “‘03 Bonnie and Clyde”. They then discuss the major themes of the first period of Beyoncé’s solo music: ecstatic monogamous love, betrayal and infidelity, wealth accumulation and imbalanced gender dynamics and how they’re all represented on Beyoncé’s first solo album, 2003’s blockbuster Dangerously in Love and amplified on her second, 2006’s funky, terse fan-favorite, B’Day. They then dig into how B’Day’s harder edge and relative commercial underperformance-- and the attention her co-star Jennifer Hudson swept up from under Beyoncé in the film adaptation of the musical Dreamgirls-- led to the more widely-appealing, if less singular, I Am… Sasha Fierce in 2008, and, after firing her father Mathew as manager, how Bey began to shape a new phase of career with 2011’s languid, lowkey 4, in which she was no longer beholden to trends or hit-chasing, expanding her impact into something much greater than conventional pop stardom and providing the platform for the thrilling audio-visual projects which would both define the next decade of her career and change the music industry forever.
Stay tuned for next week’s installment, in which we’ll dive into 2013’s BEYONCÉ the visual album, 2016’s Lemonade, 2018’s Everything is Love, 2019’s Homecoming and 2020’s Black is King!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
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| 1:42.0 | And I definitely would love to hear what everybody thinks about our |
| 1:45.5 | Beyonce series. What do you think about Beyonce? What are you excited about when it comes to |
| 1:49.6 | Renaissance? What are your favorite past Beyonce eras? What do you think she's got in store for us |
| 1:55.7 | with this era in terms of visuals, movies as their horror coming up? We're all having a lot of fun speculating and sharing and talking about Beyonce and talking |
| 2:04.9 | about other stuff as well, relevant pop topics. |
| 2:07.4 | Lizzo's album has been a hot topic of debate lately. |
| 2:09.5 | Anyway, so just get in there. |
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