BEYONCÉ'S RENAISSANCE (with The New Yorker's Doreen St. Félix)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Beyoncé’s seventh studio album and her first in over six years, Renaissance, is finally upon us!
For the fourth and final episode of our series on Queen B, DJ Louie is joined by The New Yorker’s Doreen St. Félix to discuss the new record. Louie and Doreen share gut-check reactions, break down Renaissance's themes of bacchanalia and sexual freak-dom and how they register through Beyoncé’s signature meticulousness, its lush, dynamic sonic palette which runs the gamut from house to disco to afrobeat, this weekend’s controversy with Kelis and whether an artist of B’s stature’s can celebrate other artists and sub-cultures- like ballroom- without subsuming them, and why this may be a superlative pandemic record, a manifestation of Beyoncé’s delayed adolescence and of a superstar’s fantasy of what life is like for people who, unlike her, can actually go to a club.
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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. |
| 0:18.7 | This is your host, DJ Louis XIV. |
| 0:21.0 | And this is part four. |
| 0:24.0 | Four, as Beyonce would say, that is her favorite number. |
| 0:28.1 | And I guess that's our lucky number because it's the last episode in our Beyonce series that has been going on for a month. |
| 0:35.4 | If you're not sick of listening to me talk about Vyazze, |
| 0:38.1 | I hope that you can give me one more hour before you lose your patience. |
| 0:43.0 | So this episode obviously is going to be about Renaissance, |
| 0:45.7 | but I'm going to get to that in one second. |
| 0:47.7 | Before I do, I want to say some housekeeping things as usual, |
| 0:51.8 | which is please come out to gorgeous gorgeous a week from tomorrow. |
| 0:56.3 | It's Friday, August 12th at resident in downtown Los Angeles. I'll be DJing all night. I'll be playing |
| 1:01.6 | Renaissance songs all night, you know, as many as I can get in there, really. And tickets are cheap. |
| 1:06.8 | The link is in the show notes of this episode and I will post it on social media as well. |
| 1:11.3 | So I hope to see you guys at Gorgeous and come holler at me if you come. |
| 1:16.2 | Also, please don't forget to rate review Pop Pantheon wherever you listen to podcast next week. |
| 1:20.4 | I'll be getting back to reading some of my favorites. |
| 1:22.2 | There have been some freaking doozies lately. |
| 1:24.0 | So get ready for that. |
| 1:25.4 | I'm sure everyone will get a good laugh out of some of these reviews. |
| 1:28.7 | Follow us on social media, DJ, L-O-U-I-E-X-I-E on both Twitter and Instagram and the podcast at |
| 1:34.1 | Pop Pantheon Pod on Instagram in particular. And get in the Discord because I know I've been |
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