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Rolling Stone Music Now

Beyoncé's Studio Secrets: Inside the Making of Her Best Songs

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone | Cumulus Podcast Network

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

41K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Legendary producers Rodney Jerkins and Scott Storch share behind-the-scenes tales of classic Beyoncé hits, from "Deja Vu" to "Baby Boy" to Destiny's Child's "Say My Name" and more. Plus, Mankaprr Conteh breaks down Rolling Stone's new list of Beyoncé's 70 best songs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

0:04.8

Today's episode is all about Beyonce.

0:07.1

Her new album, Renaissance, just came out, but we're looking back today.

0:10.8

Rolling Stone just did a list of her top 70 songs of all time and to talk about that I have

0:16.1

our own Monkapur-Kante and to talk about making some of the top songs on our list I have two

0:21.2

legendary producers joining us

0:22.8

Rodney Jerkins and Scott Storks they worked on songs including Deja vu

0:27.1

baby boy me myself and I and more but first up here's Monkapur to talk about

0:32.1

putting this list together.

0:33.4

You won't break my soul.

0:37.8

You won't break my soul.

0:41.1

I listen to every Beyonce album including Above and Beyonce the remixes and

0:46.0

also consulted with a really really talented pool of freelance writers consulted

0:51.5

with our of course incredibly knowledgeable and

0:54.5

talented staff and together we all came up with a ranking that we think is

1:00.2

pretty pretty sturdy. And I think one sign of that is that people love to find reasons

1:04.6

to tear apart these lists, and they're really

1:06.6

struggling to do so this time around.

1:08.2

So congratulations on that.

1:09.6

One thing I really love about this list

1:11.4

is the number one, which is De Deja Vu and we're hearing Rodney

1:14.6

Jerkins, its producer, talk about that on this podcast, but it really is a

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