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You already know this, but I'm going to tell you anyway: there are very few things that make us human.

That is, what defines all of humanity as a whole?

What do we share in all cultures, at all times, throughout history, with a capital H?

Big questions leave one with a dumb face.

Let's go to the most basic: we

share the music, the dance and the desire to have a quiqui

.

Three interconnected universal desires, all in a row, one thing after the other, music-dance-quiqui, a chain like a string of sausages.

Don't ask me what sausages have to do with any of this, it was just an example.

Beyoncé

spent the spring of 2020 confined to one of her mansions.

That also defined all of humanity.

The confinement, not the mansions.

Being locked up for months with our families and hundreds of rolls of toilet paper did not help the mental health of those of us who populate this little blue marble that spins on its axis at a speed of 110,000 km/h around the Sun. But it also pushed us to reflect on the essential things of life.

And Beyoncé, who in 2022 has celebrated 25 years of recording career, something that by the way you can and should also reflect on because nothing lasts 25 years anymore, let alone myths, well, Beyoncé, as I say, after those long and intense 25 years from being a pluperfect goddess of pop, 25 years being the best while the rest of the stars desperately tried to differentiate themselves and pass as unique artists, she goes and makes

the best album of her life, and, uh-huh, the album of the year

:

Renaissance

, a song to existential rebirth after a season of pain and death.

Beyoncé confined (in her mansion) thinking that it was time to recover everything we had lost.

The most basic, you know: music, dancing and the desire to have a quiqui, in a chain and even in a corkscrew.

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Music is one of the great backbones of communities, it is a superglue of social glues, an atomic energy that strengthens groups and relationships, their cohesion, their identity and, not least, their desire to party, and

with the music goes the dance

, and don't be upset if you don't dance like Beyoncé because that's impossible, several Nobel Prize winners in Physics have tried to explain how the hell she does it and still haven't succeeded.

It's better to do it wrong than not to do it, and release endorphins, which are the cocaine of the brain, and let cardiovascular exercise stupefy the senses and lock that know-it-all jerk in all of us in the basement, and from there try to bring the embers closer There is only one step to the sardine, a small one for man, but a big one for humanity.

Renaissance

is literally endless

.

It ends and you play it again, and you play it a thousand times, then you get bored, you put it aside for a while, one day you play it again and a new cycle of a thousand times begins.

It's a night you never want to end.

It tastes salty, it sounds horny, it floods you with heat, it contains rhythms like whipping, it goes at a speed of 110,000 km/h and it's so sexy it's scary.

It's a delusion.

It is a release.

It's Beyoncé's great gift to the world

.

You know what it sounds like, but I'm going to tell you anyway: it's got disco, funk, house, and dance-pop from the '70s, '80s, and '90s so brilliantly updated that at its climaxes it's a rock at the top. back of the cortex, which is where consciousness resides: shut up and dance, idiot!

And on this glass nag, Beyoncé rides like a fantasy horsewoman.

When the world needed fun most, the singer-songwriter-producer shrewdly conceived, meticulously crafted, and exuberantly finished a cathedral of joy and enjoyment: academically rigor,

authority

galore, reference-packed, liberating messages, and a love of music and dancing which are a celebration in themselves.

That's it: a big, beautiful and inspiring celebration of life.

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