Does Beyoncé have a full album somewhere on the cutting room floor? According to The-Dream, the answer is yes. In an official annotation of the track "End of Time," Bey's frequent producer revealed that she has a full record's worth of material from her 4 era that has never seen the light of day, and it was all inspired by Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.
In the official Genius description of "End of Time," The-Dream reveals the Beyoncé album that could have been.
"We did a whole Fela album that didn't go up. It was right before we did 4. We did a whole different sounding thing, about 20 songs. She said she wanted to do something that sounds like Fela. That's why there's so much of that sound in the 'End of Time,'" The-Dream wrote about the song's sound, which includes raucous tribal drums and chant-like singing from Beyoncé.
The tribal leanings of Beyoncé's scrapped Afrobeat album also help to explain "Grown Woman," which had been floating around for a long time before finally appearing on her surprise 2013 album.
That's not all The-Dream had to say about Beyoncé's creative process. Though she only releases one new album roughly every three years, he said she's almost always working on new music, sometimes multiple different albums at once.
"There's always multiple albums being made. Most of the time we're just being creative, period. We're talking about B, somebody who sings all day long and somebody who writes all day long," he wrote. "There's probably a hundred records just sitting around."
Soo... can you just release them all?
[h/t ONTD]
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