Summer Renaissance

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Donna Summer’s 1977 hit “I Feel Love” is the inspiration for the final track on Beyoncé’s new album, “Renaissance.” Summer became the queen of disco in the ’70s, but her catalog goes much further than that. You can hear her legacy in decades of electronic and R&B. “She is an architect of the pop culture we experience today,” J says. In this episode, J and Wesley revisit her 1982 album, “Donna Summer” — and explore why, out of all of her music, this self-titled album is the most distinctly Donna.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, just wanted to say that we're about to have conversation about one of our
0:06.4	favorite artists down the summer.
0:09.3	But there's also a little Michael Jackson in it and we just wanted to let you know that
0:13.0	in case it's something you don't want to deal with today.
0:15.5	As always, take care of yourself first and we will see you on the other side.
0:31.4	One of the many visceral pleasures, the lights of the new Beyonce album, Renaissance, is that
0:40.8	it brought us our dearly departed Donna Summer back into the public consciousness.
0:49.5	Yes!
0:50.5	Yes!
0:51.5	Oh yes!
0:52.5	This is Summer Renaissance and it is the interpolation of Donna Summer's I Feel Love.
1:05.6	Yes.
1:06.6	It's like an express train to bliss.
1:15.5	I mean, this is the thing about Beyonce.
1:18.2	I mean, she loves to give flowers and the song and the entire album is an honoring of Donna
1:26.0	Summer.
1:27.4	It's like flowing curly hair, glittering sequins, something fur or something opulent.
1:34.6	Yes.
1:35.6	Look at the visuals that accompany her music.
1:39.0	You know, that imagery has become a backbone of contemporary culture.
1:44.4	I mean, if you think about it, she is an architect of the pop culture we experience today.
1:50.1	Yes.
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