After five weeks of movie posts, I’m ready to get back to music. It turns out a lot of new songs have been released over the past couple of months, and I’ll dedicate the next two weeks to catching up with some of them.

I have to start with Beyoncé, who used a Super Bowl Verizon ad to announce her upcoming album. Act II (full title to come) is a follow-up to 2022’s Act I: Renaissance, and the second installment of a planned trilogy. While Renaissance paid tribute to the Black Queer house and disco music of the 70s, this one is a country album, paying tribute to the “overlooked history of the American Black cowboy.”

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