The song marks her first original solo release sinceRenaissance on July 29, 2022.[1] The album was accompanied by the 2023Renaissance World Tour, which was later brought to screen asRenaissance: A Film by Beyoncé on December 1, 2023.[2] Soon after its release, speculation arose that there might be a new song playing throughout the credits for the movie, which would turn out to be "My House".[3] The track was surprise-released the day after.[4] In an interview withThe Hollywood Reporter, producer and long-time collaboratorThe-Dream suggested the song was conceived as a way to mark the tailend of theRenaissance rollout: "How do we wrap [it] up in a way without also trying to compete with it or make something that's light-Renaissance, becauseRenaissance is a special thing?"[5]
The "infectious" and "energetic"rap[6] track was co-written and co-produced by The-Dream.[7] Driven by "triumphant horns", "My House" sees the singer go into "full rap mode" and "scorching bars" as she "turns up the heat".[8] The song features "bold,brassy tones" highlighted by a prominent "crackingtrap beat".[9]
Alexis Petridis ofThe Guardian gave the song four out of five stars, describing it "genuinely unexpected and thrilling". Petridis wrote that its sound moves away from the sounds ofRenaissance to "Houston hip-hop andabstractelectronica", even if it "proves to be episodic in structure" without a chorus. At the end the critic stressed that "Beyoncé currently occupies a realm in which she does whatever she wants, something the powerful, uncommercial 'My House' serves to underline", something that "from anyone else,Taylor Swift for example, it would count as an unexpectedly leftfield preconception-baiting gesture".[10]
Mary Siroky ofConsequence wrote that Beyoncé "peels back some of thedance andhouse elements" to sounds incorporated inHomecoming: The Live Album, with a "truly wild beat" similar to "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" and "tonal swings" of the voice.[11] Hattie Lindert ofPitchfork also compared the song to "a star athlete’s celebration pose after a godlike game [...] begin[ning] as a nasty step team stomp that evokes the unified roar of 2018'sHomecoming before switch[ing] to a boiling house cut where she calls for a self-love revolution."[12] Ludovic Hunter-Tilney of theFinancial Times described the song as "an enjoyably bombastic stomper" in which listeners "surrender to Beyoncé's powerful singing."[13]
