Are we prepped and ready for a new Summer of Love? The titanic market leaders of international pop music definitely seem to think so. Two weeks ago, Drake released his impromptu album, Honestly, Nevermind, with a distinguishing new musical twist: his familiarly laconic, ice cool delivery accompanied by a fresh sound-bed of banging, four-to-the-floor, arms-in-the-air house music.
Three whole days passed before Beyoncé dropped ‘Break My Soul’, the introductory cut from her long-anticipated new record, Renaissance, sounding like it was crafted from sessions with Crystal Waters at the peak of 1991. After seals of approval from the two big guns, 1990s house is officially, forthwith, the sound of summer 2022.
