{"id":614184,"date":"2026-09-04T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/614184\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T11:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:18:11","slug":"beyonce-marks-45th-birthday-and-remastered-album-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/614184\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonce marks 45th birthday and remastered album release"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Beyonce<\/p>\n

Beyonce marks 45th birthday and remastered album release\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beyonce will be celebrating her birthday and the remastered release of her coming-of-age second album B\u2019DAY.<\/p>\n

B\u2019DAY, released in 2006, was Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s first visual album, with short films that explored the making of a relationship in full. <\/p>\n

It was a conceptual project, exploring themes of finding one\u2019s confidence, liberation, audacity and compatibility.<\/p>\n

The album, featuring popular singles Green Light, Get Me Bodied and Upgrade U was augmented by Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s insistence on live instrumentation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted the album to be big, percussive, hard, up-tempo, and energized,\u202fand it was important to me that we used live instrumentation,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

Beyonce continued, \u201cHip-hop was taking over at the time, but I was fighting to preserve the bridges, melodies, and harmonies that have always been at the heart of R&B.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal was to blend those two worlds through the art of sampling. I loved the minimalism of a beautiful vocal arrangement over a simple drum loop or a classic guitar like \u2018Irreplaceable\u2019\u2026but only if that 808 was banging underneath,\u201d she added of her album B-DAY.<\/p>\n

In preparing for this milestone release, Beyonce once again went back to the boards and worked on remastering songs. <\/p>\n

The videos, originally captured on 35mm are now remastered and re-coloured and finished in 4k, including D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu featuring JAY-Z, and directed by Sophie Muller, which was also released today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beyonce marks 45th birthday and remastered album release\u00a0 Beyonce will be celebrating her birthday and the remastered release…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-614184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}