Her seventh album’s quaint grandeur feels stunningly cutting-edge But since her eponymous 2013 album, Beyoncé’s career trajectory has gone in something like the opposite direction: She leveled up from her early conciliatory yet impeccable overtures to the mainstream — found on 2006’s B’Day and 2008’s I Am … Sasha Fierce — and began releasing adventurous projects whose rollouts were more inventive than […]

Awe has always seemed like the only appropriate response to Beyoncé, a star who makes even the best of the rest look a bit amateur. She tells us over and over again that she’s number one (she woke up like this, she’s flawless, fresher than you, she slays every day) – and we sing along […]