New Music: Beyoncé – ‘Start Over’ + Should Bey Brace For Album To Bomb?

For day seven on the “countdown” to 4, Beyoncé releases new single ‘Start Over’, which according to the NY Post Page Six, is exactly what Bey’s record label, Columbia, wants her to do.

  “They’re very nervous about Beyoncé’s new record,” an industry insider told us. “It doesn’t have the hit songs that her fans are used to. They asked her to make changes, but she said no”.

Read on for more details and listen to new single, ironically titled, ‘Start Over’ after the jump.

Word has it, Bey’s record label isn’t feeling her new album and are so scared it’s going to flop, that they want to throw together a Destiny’s Child reunion album to balance out how badly they believe Bey’s going to bomb.

“Bracing for the worst, Columbia suits are strategizing in case of slower sales and have had “quiet discussions” about the reunion of Destiny’s Child”.

“Beyoncé’s career has stalled a bit,” a source told us. “Columbia seems to think they can get some mileage out of a comeback record with all of the girls.” Another source tells us Destiny’s Child could start recording together as early as October, with a suggested album title “Family Reunion.”

I doubt that the “children of destiny” will be reuniting anytime… One source said, about Kelly Rowland, “She has her own solo career now, why would she want to be singing back up for Beyoncé?” Good question.

A rep for Columbia Records says,  “All I know is that the record came in . . . Nothing was ever discussed to change it.” Beyoncé’s rep said, “All of this is completely untrue. All of it.” Rowland’s rep didn’t get back to us.

Listen, this era has been less than stellar for Bey, but I don’t think the album will flop. It’s actually a fairly decent record. However, it does lack the magic & appeal that we’re used to getting with the Beyoncé experience. Well, time will tell… “Men lie, Women lie, Numbers don’t”.

So, do you think there’s a bomb threat for Bey’s new album?

Listen to Beyoncé’s ‘Start Over’ 

Today’s Beyoncé quotable: