“Sometimes a visual can be a distraction from the quality of the voice and the music.”

The music is so rich in history and instrumentation.

It takes months to digest, research, and understand.

Beyoncé accepts the Innovator Award at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards held at the Dolby Theatre on April 1, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

Beyoncé at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards.Michael Buckner/Billboard via Getty

The music needed space to breathe on its own.

Sometimes a visual can be a distraction from the quality of the voice and the music.

The music is enough, she continued.

Beyoncé performs onstage during the RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR at PGE Narodowy on June 27, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland.

Beyoncé performs onstage during the Renaissance World Tour.Kevin Mazur/WireImage

The fans from all over the world became the visual.

We all got the visual on tour.

We then got more visuals from my film.

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“I know you hear me,” appeared onscreen during opening night of the world tour.

“You’ve asked for the visuals.

You’ve called for the queen.

But a queen moves at her own pace.

Beyonce launched her Renaissance World Tour in May 2023, nearly a year after the titular record debuted.

As for the albums themselves, they were not held back by the lack of visuals.

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I retired from the formula of the pop star a very long time ago, she said.

Good music and strong messages will never retire.

From the start of my career and on every album, I have always mixed genres.

I have favorite artists from every genre you could think about.

I believe genres are traps that box us in and separate us.

Ive experienced this for 25 years in the music industry.

Black artists, and other artists of color, have been creating and mastering multiple genres, since forever.