, the first single by a Black woman to ever top Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart – laid her cards down. Like most great art, it seems the impetus for the album was spite. Pure, glorious spite., saying her new project “was born out of an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed… and it was very clear that I wasn’t.
At 27 tracks and 79 minutes, the album’s sprawling. But as Beyonce stated, “This ain’t a country album; this is a Beyonce album.” There are tracks that straddle the genre’s conventions – the infectious, a cute tune with Post Malone, is that ubiquitous country signifier, a chugging song about being some lover’s blue jeans.. Knowing what we know of her husband Jay-Z’s infidelities , the cover’s loaded; Beyonce sings it with venom and freestyle energy.
That’s the surprise of this album, just how playful it is. You can sense Beyonce’s glee in trampling all over the sensibilities of country cronies clinging with cold hands to their closed-off traditions, plus the idea of genre conventions altogether. If we assumedwas Beyonce clamouring for the country establishment’s acceptance, we were wronger than roadkill.
Sparser tracks like single 16 Carriages tap into country’s love of powerhouse vocals and offer Beyonce space to emote.
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