Beyonce teams with Atlanta’s Mike Will Made It for new ‘Formation’ song
BY MELISSA RUGGIERI
Sasha Fierce is back with “Formation.”
The surprise new track from Beyonce, co-written by Mississippi’s Rae Sremmurd – who live in Atlanta — and produced by formidable Atlanta producer Mike Will Made It with his trademark sideways squiggles of sound, is a catchy mix of Southern swamp and sharp Beyonce attitude.
Sounding determined on lyrics such as, “They never take the country out me…I got hot sauce in my bag, swag,” “I go hard, get what’s mine,” and “I just might be a black Bill Gates in the making,” there is no questioning Beyonce’s steely attitude.
Now we wonder – will she perform the song – which samples New Orleans mainstay Big Freedia – on Sunday night’s Super Bowl halftime show?
Check out the video (and consider this your obligatory language warning).
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[…] incorporated Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” and gave way to a dancing Beyonce with her newly dropped single, “Formation” (and no surprise that a Beyonce tour was announced just after the halftime show […]
[…] incorporated Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” and gave way to a dancing Beyonce with her newly dropped single, “Formation” (and no surprise that a Beyonce tour was announced just after the halftime show […]
[…] Saturday, Beyonce dropped the surprise single “Formation” (produced by Atlanta’s Mike Will Made It) to preface her Super Bowl appearance and tour […]
[…] Saturday, Beyonce dropped the surprise single “Formation” (produced by Atlanta’s Mike Will Made It) to preface her Super Bowl appearance and tour […]
[…] The song, a tribute to Bey’s Southern roots and African-American life, was co-written by Rae S… […]
[…] is going full Dirty South with the release of her “Formation” single, co-written by local residents Rae Sremmurd and produced by Atlanta’s Mike Will Made […]
[…] is going full Dirty South with the release of her “Formation” single, co-written by local residents Rae Sremmurd and produced by Atlanta’s Mike Will Made […]