Americans celebrating the Fourth of July woke up on Saturday to some big news: new music by Beyoncé.
The superstar singer has released a single titled “Morning Dew (Donk),” her first song since 2024 album “Act II: Cowboy Carter.”
The song “kick-starts the 60-day countdown to her upcoming birthday, and the re-release of B’DAY, her groundbreaking sophomore album released two decades ago on September 4, 2006,” according to a press release.
The Beyhive, as Beyoncé’s fanbase is known, has been eagerly awaiting her “Act III” project, long believed to be a rock tribute just as 2022’s “Act One: Renaissance” paid tribute to disco, club, house and funk, while 2024’s “Act Two: Cowboy Carter” was her love letter to country music, Southern music and her Texas roots.
Beyoncé releases her new song Morning Dew (Donk) on the 4th of July
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Beyoncé dropped hints to spark speculation.
She dressed up as rock/funk icon Bette Davis for Halloween 2024, took part in Levi’s “Denim Cowboy” campaign last year that ended with her riding a motorcycle and posted a series of photos in April of herself wearing a purple outfit that many fans took as a nod to the late rock singer Prince, who died in April 2016.
The song “Morning Dew (Donk)” would likely reinforce the theory, as Beyoncé’s opening lines in Prince’s legendary 1984 film “Purple Rain” led to a hit song and soundtrack of the same name.
The new song, written by Beyoncé, Pharrell Williams, The-Dream and Darius Dixon, and produced by Beyoncé and Pharrell Williams, will be included on the 20th anniversary edition of “B’Day.”
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