The live performance of this song is gonna give the power of her Stevie Wonder tribute performance!!!! It’s gonna be absolutely epic, Tina Turner style
Tina actually made a country album that was ignored so she knew what she was doing but country and rock has a honkey tonk influence and that’s what this sounds like the honkey tonk hole in the walls Black people(called it hole in the wall more) had down in the south as playing country and rock mainstream was forbidden to Black people, by white execs wanting to have different markets to match segregation everywhere else in society.so many would visit our clubs or tricks artists into performing for little on record and give the song rights to a white artist to promote with. There’s so much history in this album it’s amazing
@@TheMirmir07well she’s really trying to point out Black history in music so it’s not that Elvis is meant to be an influence here but so show where he got his influences from. The shookin and jivin sound here is something that can be traced back to the plantations when our ancestors played their banjo they recreated using gourds and then added the fiddle at some point with their own dances(they were the first callers for square dance too!😊) . The nod to Tina is her having even made a country album but it was ignored because like many before her once the music industry was becoming a thing, white execs decided it wasn’t for us to do country even though we brought the banjo and much of the sound so we’d get borrowed from for rock and country but either ran out through racial violence or ignored in later decades until we switched. That’s why she put so many modern Black Country artists on this album now who don’t get their due.that’s a brief overview but I really suggest exploring it. There’s actually a new book about it by a music historian chronicling Black roots in country if you Google it. The timing is perfect go go through with this album like a piece of American history tied to now 😊
This song is unbelievably catchy. It’s like someone took all of my favourite genres and blended them into one song. I also love the reference to Good Vibrations!
Tina Turner is smiling big right now, waving her magic wand all over this song. Beyoncé is giving vocals here that are out of this world, especially toward the end.
Never really listened to Beyonce and I was enjoying this album a lot and then she hit me with Ya Ya and then it was like, well shit, I guess I'm a Beyonce fan now.
This sounds like something Tina Turner, Elvis and James Brown would make. It’s so unreal. She is a true student of music, she takes what she’s learned and applies it to make it all her own. A true ARTIST
This is an album. You listen to it front to back. The “lover boy” reference is my fave part of this song. I’m so glad artists aren’t just making music for one genre anymore. I’m happy they have a voice beyond the record executives driving their image and sound. ❤
I thought the same thing they didn't think Tina Turner could top the Rock charts AND not only did she conquer THEY HAILED HER AS THE QUEEN!!! Bring it BEY!!!
You can hear & feel the Tina Turner influence all throughout YA YA😩👏🏾I know if she was here with us, she’d be proud of Beyoncé🥹 This blew up😯Shameless plug🤓 my reaction to Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” album😁: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vyDjao4GSoc.htmlsi=rO_8QlxKf1EkWhHI
I saw her in 08’ and I was mesmerized!!!! She is unlike any entertainer that we have seen. Maybe MJ. Have you seen his This is it movie? She gives that energy
@@orlock20Beyincé was her mother family surname, that turned with the time Beyoncé. Her mom married and so left behind, although she gave his daughter the name BEYONCÉ
Beyonce got me wanting music I didn’t know I needed!! Girl NEEDS to dedicate an album to this exact sound and style! Vocal upon vocal upon vocals! Damn!
Love this. So awesome when superstar artists take another path, another genre, to shine their talents and vision, rather than just repeating the same styles that have brought them to the pantheon of greatness. The great ones - John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, David Bowie, Santana - reinvent, explore, and create a-new. Brava, Beyonce!
There is a lot of elements to this song. Country, soul, jazz, & a bit of trance in there it’s a great chill song, like it’s modern day Motown vibes 🎧 🎶
Holy shit!!! I've never bothered to listen to B, but my eyes are all of a swivel...50 years from now you'll still be listenning to this one , check with me in 2074!
Say what you want about Beyonce, you have to admit that very few artists reinvent themselves ad their sound so thoroughly with each new album release, especially this last handful of years. I applaud the fresh skin and creativity.
@@sheluvharvey7758Elvis, himself, always admitted Black people were his inspiration, his roots, and with whom he felt most at home. Don’t get it twisted!
@sheluvharvey7758 That's what I was saying. I know my history, I'm born & raised in the South. I know the story of Elvis not making it in the industry until one night he watches Liberace's show, next night steals his outfit. Elvis then sneaks into a Rat Pack show watches Sammie Davis perform befriends him & steals his show style. Then he stole the song "Hound Dog" from a Wyt group who stole it from Big Mama Throton. Everything in this country for the most part is stolen from us Black folks and Indigenous persons. Sending peace & love. ✌🏾
Listen, this song is rooted in the ORIGINAL sound of Rock & Roll. That blues influenced, sweaty wall, speakeasy, chitlin circuit, dirty south, Howlin Wolf, Chuck Berry, Little Richard essence! The little harmony at 3:56 has Muddy Waters written all over it 🙌🏾 I can’t wait for Act 3 especially if it’s gonna be Rock & Roll! Show 'em how it's done Bey!
It’s 1am. I should be asleep. But I just happened to be on RU-vid when her album officially dropped. And now I’m losing my mind dancing and screaming in my bedroom. Tomorrow’s gonna be a long day😅….worth it.
The way I'm gonna be sleepy-annoyed, "hangry", and vibe on 💯, is gonna be insane when/if I wake up at 6:30 for my 8am morning shift. Ain't even got thru entire album yet. 😭
Okay, this slaps hard. Pop was holding Bey back. With talent as dexterous as this, experimentation is where you get justice for her talent. This album will be right up there with Lemonade (another dexterous album). I also like the reference to faith. Let there be more light in our music.
I couldn't agree more. I was a casual appreciator until she dropped Lemonade. That was when I said, "THERE it is." The moment she stopped caring about expectations, she began serving it up on a whole other level. CC is phenomenal. The world isn't ready if she does a rock act 3.
