Beyoncé maintains her position that the music speaks for itself and has decided not to make official music videos for her two #1 albums, Renaissance and Cowboy Carter. In a recent cover article for
GQ, the singer discusses her contentious choice and explains why, after the release of her most recent albums, she opted not to follow the conventional music video release strategy.
“I thought it was important that the world can focus on the voice during a time when all we see is visuals,” she writes. The history and instruments of the song are quite extensive.
It takes months to comprehend, investigate, and absorb. The music itself needs room to breathe.” The Cutest Hat Looks of Beyoncé
Beyoncé claims that she didn’t want a visual to detract from the “quality” of her work, particularly as it took more than four years to put together one album.
