BREAK MY SOUL (THE QUEENS REMIX) - Beyoncé & Madonna

[Prayer 14,276]

4 minutes ago, moloko said:

i thought it would be like 1 million 💀💀☠️

Based on what?

350k for a song that didn't even had the help of Release Radar or New Music Friday playlists is quite good.

[moloko 2,666]

3 minutes ago, Prayer said:

Based on what?

350k for a song that didn't even had the help of Release Radar or New Music Friday playlists is quite good.

idk based on the hype from everyone.😄

[SalvoPK 117]

for the casual listener it was practically hidden and difficult to access it... the release date they entered dates back to 07/26, I think it's a tactic implemented by Beyoncé's team to make REN appear as the latest release on her Spotify page, they did it also with the EP of the other BMS remixes

[cosmic_system 3,151]

The Madonna/Maverick vinyl animation is now on Spotify

[Prayer 14,276]

29 minutes ago, SalvoPK said:

for the casual listener it was practically hidden and difficult to access it... the release date they entered dates back to 07/26, I think it's a tactic implemented by Beyoncé's team to make REN appear as the latest release on her Spotify page, they did it also with the EP of the other BMS remixes

The release has been a little bit shady - as most things with B, honestly. Release on a Friday evening, instead of the regular midnight release, so it didn't make the most important playlists: Release Radar and New Music Friday. No big release is out that way, ever. Looks like she wants all the help she can get for the main version of "Break My Soul" BUT without overshadowing that version. She does want a US #1 for herself, not for herself AND Madonna. If this remix outsells (in pure sales and streams) the main version and the song gets to #1, it will be credited to both of them, but that's never gonna happen if it's not properly promoted, like it's been the case. But a nearly whole week of digital sales and streams will definitely boost the main version.

Also, why only B is on the cover? Why Madonna's vocals are reduced to the bare minimum?

She seems to be playing dirty with everything.

If this was a schedule conflict with Madonna's own "MATERIAL GWORRLLLLLLLL!" release, I'm sure both teams could have found a solution, moving "Material" to next week, for instance (still a free Friday spot left before the release of "Finally Enough Love"). But this planning looks suspicious.

 

[cosmic_system 3,151]

There’s nothing suspicious about it. I believe it was a last minute decision to record the mashup since there’s a clear Kelis shade in the lyrics. 
The remix’s idea came from a Tik Tok mash up (the guy who did it is credited) from last week. 

[DaddyZ 1,566]

The conspiracy gene is heavy in some of y’all. 🤣

[Prayer 14,276]

2 minutes ago, DaddyZ said:

The conspiracy gene is heavy in some of y’all. 🤣

I love a good old pop conspiracy, sorry. 

[lightyears1981 46]

I'm not one to normally put much up here which is why you won't see me often but I do enjoy listening to others opinions but I also like people's inputs and I have to agree with some people here that it is not well mixed and that it does sound like a fan just did it within a couple hours. Yeah you have some additional things but I feel like been done I wasn't really involved. It feels like it was done quickly prior and we're going to just gave her thumbs up because it's Beyonce. Yeah I guess you can say that the two now have worked together in some way, shape, or form, but overall it's just kind of lazily done. If I want to hear them work together I actually want to hear Madonna do some lyrics that are new and a hell of a lot more singing than what we got here because it just sounds like what happened, which was actually done well, mind you, but the same idea that Kylie had done with can't get you out of my head mixed with you spin me round. I mean it never felt like she worked with dead or alive. It just was a remix mashup of the two.

[RUADJAI 14,905]

Queen Mother Madonna, Aaliyah... Maybe Beyoncé is confirming that Madonna shot down Aaliyah's plane in 2001. I think so. There's no other explanation. 

[cosmic_system 3,151]

 

54 minutes ago, RUADJAI said:

Queen Mother Madonna, Aaliyah... Maybe Beyoncé is confirming that Madonna shot down Aaliyah's plane in 2001. I think so. There's no other explanation. 

She says Queen Mother Madonna I love ya.

[Fabiolous 5,488]

9 hours ago, Sultrysully said:

Maybe a 51st number 1 dance song????

The dance song chart doesn't exist anymore. No one can get a #1 dance song anymore

[cosmic_system 3,151]

1 hour ago, lightyears1981 said:

I'm not one to normally put much up here which is why you won't see me often but I do enjoy listening to others opinions but I also like people's inputs and I have to agree with some people here that it is not well mixed and that it does sound like a fan just did it within a couple hours. Yeah you have some additional things but I feel like been done I wasn't really involved. It feels like it was done quickly prior and we're going to just gave her thumbs up because it's Beyonce. Yeah I guess you can say that the two now have worked together in some way, shape, or form, but overall it's just kind of lazily done. If I want to hear them work together I actually want to hear Madonna do some lyrics that are new and a hell of a lot more singing than what we got here because it just sounds like what happened, which was actually done well, mind you, but the same idea that Kylie had done with can't get you out of my head mixed with you spin me round. I mean it never felt like she worked with dead or alive. It just was a remix mashup of the two.

The song sampled on the Cant’t Get You Out Of  My Head remix was Blue Monday by New Order. 
Another thing, you all should stop with the “it’s badly mixed”. It’s not. It us an underground vibe, like it’s a live mash up. Beyoncé knows what’s she’s doing. It’s not very different for what Madonna did with her vocals on Erotica, she didn’t want to sounds perfect but raw and unpolished. 

[kesiak 3,032]

Taking something so celebratory and instantly iconic and turning it into a shitstorm. I mean, it's a talent. 

[Roy 7,611]

8 minutes ago, Fabiolous said:

The dance song chart doesn't exist anymore. No one can get a #1 dance song anymore

Wait, what? 😲

[Fabiolous 5,488]

28 minutes ago, Roy said:

Wait, what? 😲

Like I said. It's been suspended since March 2020. Madonna managed to get her 50 #1 just in time before it was shut down

[Roy 7,611]

4 minutes ago, Fabiolous said:

Like I said. It's been suspended since March 2020. Madonna managed to get her 50 #1 just in time before it was shut down

Damn, just in time.

Is there a reason why? Is it something to do with COVID?

[GregVsMatt 3,695]

3 hours ago, Prayer said:

The release has been a little bit shady - as most things with B, honestly. Release on a Friday evening, instead of the regular midnight release, so it didn't make the most important playlists: Release Radar and New Music Friday. No big release is out that way, ever. Looks like she wants all the help she can get for the main version of "Break My Soul" BUT without overshadowing that version. She does want a US #1 for herself, not for herself AND Madonna. If this remix outsells (in pure sales and streams) the main version and the song gets to #1, it will be credited to both of them, but that's never gonna happen if it's not properly promoted, like it's been the case. But a nearly whole week of digital sales and streams will definitely boost the main version.

Also, why only B is on the cover? Why Madonna's vocals are reduced to the bare minimum?

She seems to be playing dirty with everything.

If this was a schedule conflict with Madonna's own "MATERIAL GWORRLLLLLLLL!" release, I'm sure both teams could have found a solution, moving "Material" to next week, for instance (still a free Friday spot left before the release of "Finally Enough Love"). But this planning looks suspicious.

 

Madonna has approved everything - provided the stems etc there is no conspiracy - you can watch Madonna lip syncing to it ion TikTok now 

[RUADJAI 14,905]

1 hour ago, cosmic_system said:

 

She says Queen Mother Madonna I love ya.

I was joking above, but I really do not hear “I love ya”.  

[gafuller 1,653]

31 minutes ago, RUADJAI said:

I was joking above, but I really do not hear “I love ya”.  

I hear Aaliyah but I love yah makes more sense because that pause before she actually starts listing the names.

 

[Fabiolous 5,488]

2 hours ago, Roy said:

Damn, just in time.

Is there a reason why? Is it something to do with COVID?

The dance chart was about the most played remixes in clubs. When clubs closed, it was shut down. Clubs have reopened but the chart was never brought back. I'm guessing it won't be back as long as the pandemic continues, just in case clubs close down again

[Roy 7,611]

9 minutes ago, Fabiolous said:

The dance chart was about the most played remixes in clubs. When clubs closed, it was shut down. Clubs have reopened but the chart was never brought back. I'm guessing it won't be back as long as the pandemic continues, just in case clubs close down again

Damn... that sucks. :(

But luckily, Madonna got her 50th with IDSIF in time before COVID hit.

[DaddyZ 1,566]

2 hours ago, gafuller said:

I hear Aaliyah but I love yah makes more sense because that pause before she actually starts listing the names.

 

I Luh Ya

?

 

 

[Prayer 14,276]

6 hours ago, GregVsMatt said:

Madonna has approved everything - provided the stems etc there is no conspiracy - you can watch Madonna lip syncing to it ion TikTok now 

The conspiracy wasn’t about Madonna not approving it, of course it’s official and has mom’s blessing. It was about how maybe B is using M’s name and the hype of both of them together but only to her own advantage.

Not to mention the smart and subtle movement of positioning herself as “queen” too at the same level of Madonna, with no one even noticing the movement at first and her using the double entendre of all the “queens” and the houses referenced in the remix too so it can been seen as “all the queens”.

But the first thing everyone sees is: Beyoncé & Madonna - The Queens Remix. So the message that sticks is: Beyoncé & Madonna are The Queens. Both queens but only one queen, Beyoncé, on the cover of the single. 

No other female pop artist in 30 years had the audacity before to put herself at the same level of Madonna, let alone saying it proudly to the whole world. Beyoncé is really smart doing it, no doubt about it. Kudos.

[theglamorous 4,087]

58 minutes ago, Prayer said:

The conspiracy wasn’t about Madonna not approving it, of course it’s official and has mom’s blessing. It was about how maybe B is using M’s name and the hype of both of them together but only to her own advantage.

Not to mention the smart and subtle movement of positioning herself as “queen” too at the same level of Madonna, with no one even noticing the movement at first and her using the double entendre of all the “queens” and the houses referenced in the remix too so it can been seen as “all the queens”.

But the first thing everyone sees is: Beyoncé & Madonna - The Queens Remix. So the message that sticks is: Beyoncé & Madonna are The Queens. Both queens but only one queen on the cover of the single. 

No other female pop artist in 30 years had the audacity before to put herself at the same level of Madonna, let alone saying it proudly to the whole world. Beyoncé is really smart doing it, no doubt about it. Kudos.

Beyonce is the Queen, Madonna is the Queen Mother