By: Natasha Archary
Somizi may have just angered local “Bee-Hive” by criticising Beyoncé’s new single, Break My Soul. While many South Africans were applauding the US singer for channeling SA’s late music icon, Brenda Fassie on the track, Somizi wasn’t feeling it.
Like many fans, Somizi was one of the first to listen to the track and shared that he was left somewhat underwhelmed by it.
The Idols SA judge shared a scathing critic of the track and updated his opinion a few days later when he shared it still hasn’t grown on him.
If you manage to ignore the first 3 minutes of Somizi’s video of him talking about a soft drink, he eventually get into the first single from Bey’s new album Renaissance.
“When I listen to something, I don’t just listen like a fan would. I listen with my artistic ear and for the musicality and the technicalities of a track. I’m a huge Beyoncé fan but Break My Soul just isn’t much of a great song.”
Somizi criticised Beyoncé’s new single
The SA personality said the track had very prominent local 90’s vibes to it, sounding very similar to music by Arthur Mafokate to him.
Like other Beyoncé tracks that he didn’t initially like, Somizi decided to give the track time to grow on him. He shared another video 4-days later but it seems his opinion still hadn’t changed much.
While the beat of the track offers a cool vibe that one can jive to, the lyrics don’t exactly invoke the deep and soul-stirring emotions that Bey usually traps us with.
The track seemingly was inspired by Covid-19 and being confined in unhealthy working conditions, feeling unfulfilled by life.
Lyrics are relatively uninspired and the Brown Skin Girl hitmaker’s delivery is pretty one dimensional.
Somizi thinks he’ll change his mind once the video for the single is released.



