Turns out country music isn’t the only sound you’ll hear at the Beyoncé rodeo. The singer’s new album, “Cowboy Carter,” dropped Friday at midnight, and it’s a big one: 27 tracks, more than 79 minutes, tons of guest stars and even Beatles and Dolly Parton covers. The record, teased with two new twangy singles after the Super Bowl, was hyped as the R&B and pop star’s first “country” full-length. It ain’t, she would later clarify: “This is a ‘Beyoncé’ album.” Undoubtedly.
” after the Super Bowl, multiple Black singer-songwriters in Nashville reported that they have received a boost in streams and social media followers due to Beyoncé’s influence. Beyoncé came through with the answer in the second track, a cover of the Beatles ballad “Blackbird” that features four up-and-coming Black country singers: Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy and Reyna Roberts.
Beyonce accepts the award for best dance/electronic music album for"Renaissance" at the 65th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 5, 2023, in Los Angeles. When, in the great tradition of country music, Beyoncé covers others’ songs, she makes them into her own image, sometimes too obviously. “Blackbiird” doubles down on McCartney’s ode to the civil rights struggle, turning the leading lights of Black girl country — Spencer, Roberts and Kennedy — into Destiny’s Children .
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