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Monsieur Adi’s Amazonian Beyoncé Remix

July 22, 2013 0 Comments

I’m not the biggest Beyoncé fan, so I haven’t been the least bit stressed that she’s yet to deliver a proper single in 2020. There’s been the confounding half-trap-influenced “Bow Down/I Been On,” a strangely narcotized cover of Amy Winehouse’s “Back To Black” with Andre 3000 for The Great Gatsby, the Sia-penned “Rise Up” from the animated film Epic (an album-only purchase, that one), and snippets of possible singles “Grown Woman” and “Standing On The Sun” featured in a pair of television commercials for Pepsi and H&M, respectively.

On the Timbaland-produced “Grown Woman,” Beyoncé asserts, “I can do whatever I want.” That certainly seems to be her approach to delivering new music, with some fans understandably befuddled by such impertinence.

Now it looks like Team B may be ready to go with “Grown Woman,” after all. An official remix by Monsieur Adi premiered at the tail end of last week, with the Parisian producer extraordinaire giving “Grown Woman” an appropriately Amazonian makeover.

Freemasons are, of course, the platinum standard for bettering Beyoncé (listen to their remixes for “Déjà Vu,” “Ring The Alarm,” “Beautiful Liar,” and “Green Light” for inarguable evidence). But Monsieur Adi’s robo-disco remix of “Grown Woman” is on par with the Brighton duo’s best, even as his hip-shaking coda signals a different approach.

Where do we sign to make Monsieur Adi’s “Grown Woman” revamp the official single version (if there is, in fact, a single)?