Music An Italian Group Is Accused Of Doing Cocaine On Live TV During Eu... Italian rock band Måneskin, who won the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest on May 22, will be taking a drug test for allegedly doing cocaine on the show’s<doc-sep>Most of Beyoncé’s music in “Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé,” which debuted on Netflix early Thursday morning, is from the Coachella performance it documents. But for anyone who sticks around for all two hours and 17 minutes, or fast-forwards right to the end, there’s a nice surprise under the end credits: an apparently brand new cover of “Before I Let Go,” a hit for Frankie Beverly and Maze in 1981. Perhaps we should say semi-hit: “Before I Let Go” did not make the top 10 on any chart; even in the R&B format, it peaked at No. 13. But it stuck around that Beyoncé and Jay-Z were all seen doing “the electric slide” to the oldie at a family gathering, in a video that Tina Knowles Lawson briefly put on her Instagram page and then took down in December 2017. That wasn’t Beyoncé’s first connection to the tune. All the way back in 1997, Destiny’s Child recorded a version of the song that was never released, although it came to be widely bootlegged years later, after the group had broken up. When word began to leak that “Before I Let Go” was featured in the new film, some wondered if it was the Destiny’s Child version, finally unvaulted. That’s not the case: it features the unmistakable marching-band accompaniment found in the live performances in “Homecoming,” transposed to the studio. The song appears as the second-to-last track on “Homecoming: The Live Album,” which was released on streaming services at the same time as the documentary. Related:<doc-sep>Just try not to dance along to “Before I Let Go,” the new song on Beyoncé’s surprise album, Homecoming: The Live Album, which dropped on Wednesday. Beyoncé fans were ready for the star to drop her Netflix documentary, Homecoming, on Wednesday, but an accompanying surprise album of last year’s iconic Coachella performance? The Beyhive wasn’t ready. On “Before I Let Go,” a studio-recorded piece that uses the same marching band accompaniment found on the rest of the live album, Beyoncé’s legendary tone is backed by trumpets and a drum beat that makes it rather difficult to not bop to the rhythm. “Before I Let Go” is actually a cover of a 1981 single by Maze and Frankie Beverly. The groovy, up-tempo R&B and soul love song is also the backdrop for the closing credits of Homecoming, which is now available for streaming on Netflix. It’s also not the first time the star has sung the Maze and Frankie Beverly song. Destiny’s Child once covered the song in an unreleased recording, Variety reports. Listen to the full recording, and the rest of the 40-song live album, here. Sign up for our Entertainment Newsletter. Subscribe to More to the Story to get the context you need for the pop culture you love. Please enter a valid email address. * The request timed out and you did not successfully sign up. Please attempt to sign up again. Sign Up Now An unexpected error has occurred with your sign up. Please try again later. Check the box if you do not wish to receive promotional offers via email from TIME. You can unsubscribe at any time. By signing up you are agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Thank you! For your security, we've sent a confirmation email to the address you entered. Click the link to confirm your subscription and begin receiving our newsletters. If you don't get the confirmation within 10 minutes, please check your spam folder. Write to Rachel E. Greenspan at rachel.greenspan@time.com.<doc-sep>Beyoncé stopped the world once again with the release of her Netflix documentary and surprise companion album, which both arrived on Wednesday. Homecoming: The Live Album contains 38 live cuts from her historic Coachella performance plus two bonus tracks including a cover of Maze featuring Frankie Beverly’s “Before I Let Go,” which plays during the closing credits to Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé. The latter, a remake of the 1981 single, was produced by Tay Keith (Travis Scott, Drake) and features the HBCU-styled marching band sound that inspired her Beychella set, mixed with Bey’s powerhouse vocals, and an interpolation of Cameo’s ’80s hit “Candy.” Queen Bey even adds her own original lyrics to the summer-ready jam. “I pull up to Coachella / And boost with the ghost fellas,” she sings over drums and horns. “I brought the squad with me / Black on black bandanas / D’USSÉ and champagne / I did the damn thing.” Prior to Beyoncé, Destiny’s Child recorded their own cover of “Before I Let Go” in 1997, but it was never officially released. Homecoming: The Live Album also features an alternate studio version of the chopped-and-screwed “I Been On.”<doc-sep>
Beyoncé surprise-released a new song, “Before I Let Go,” that serves as both the closing credits song to her new Netflix documentary/concert film Homecoming and a studio bonus track to her unannounced companion LP Homecoming: The Live Album. “Before I Let Go,” a cover of the 1981 single by Maze, boasts a shuffling drum groove buoyed by delightful horn stabs that pop up around Beyoncé’s powerhouse vocals. The track is primarily a high-energy love track — “You know, I thank God sun rises and shines on you/You know there’s nothing, nothing, nothing I would not do/Before I let you go” — though the song closes with Beyoncé cheekily flexing about her legendary Coachella performance. As Variety noted, Destiny’s Child recorded their own version of “Before I Let Go” but it remains unreleased. Homecoming: The Live Album also features a studio version of the Beychella song “I Been On.” While Beyoncé’s Homecoming concert film was slated to arrive on Netflix today, April 17th, the pop star had given no indication that she would also release the accompanying live album and “Before I Let Go.” The live album, also titled Homecoming, is split into 40 tracks and captures the same Coachella set, including solo hits, her reunion with Destiny’s Child, various interludes and a version of the hymn, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which features her daughter Blue Ivy. Beyoncé’s Homecoming bundle marks her first major solo release since 2016’s Lemonade. Last year, she and husband Jay-Z released the collaborative album, Everything Is Love.