Guys I dunno maybe act i prepared my ear for this but after the album I was like yeah this is definitely her best album and we have a few general public bangers as well
It's so interesting hearing these reactions. Just for fun and Levi's jeans were literally some of my top tracks from first listen. 2 most wanted had to grow on me
1) Bodyguard she gets upset about someone looking at her man 2)Jolene she warns the woman and tells her don’t try it. 3)Daughter this is what happens when the woman didn’t get the message.
This whole album is in response to how she was treated at CMA. American Requiem is telling them about themselves. She researched and it took over 5 years for her to develop this album. The album is full of history and reclaiming music that black people/ slaves started, but were kicked out of once it became popular. Beyoncé uses her albums to tell a story. It’s like watching a movie. You wouldn’t want to come in 1/4 of the way through, leave and then come back to watch the end or have people to tell you the best part and then go in just to watch that part of the movie. It’s weird, because I didn’t realize that until I watched someone react to her entire Lemonade album recently. Having said all that, let me give you an overview of the movie that is Cowboy Carter: This whole album is in response to how she was treated at CMA. American Requiem is telling them about themselves. She researched and it took over 5 years for her to develop this album. The album is full of history and reclaiming music that black people/ slaves started, but were kicked out of once it became popular. Blackbird was written by Paul McCartny to give black women/girls hope during the Civil Rights movement . He saw how they were being treated. That’s why all the singers on the song are black women. The others are four black female country singers. Let’s just point out that Country radio has an issue with playing black artists so Beyoncé told everyone about her new venture during the Super Bowl then dropped two country songs. The Bey Hive activated and most country stations played her music. But to top it off, her album is presented as it’s own radio station with country legends presenting her music. This Album was meant to be Act I. This was Beyoncé’s response to how she was treated at the CMA. The requiem funeral procession was trying to let us know that Country Music was rooted and started by blacks. If you look into the history, it started by people putting on black face for minstrel music making fun of the slaves with their banjos. Then people who are credited with starting country, came to black street artists to learn their craft. Once it became big, black people were pushed aside and they started gate keeping the genre. Same thing happened with rock & roll, jazz, blues, and many of the genres that are considered to have been started in America. Thus, Beyoncé is reclaiming all of the music that we’ve been kicked out of that we helped create. It’s why this album delves into all those genres and ends with her buckin breaking down walls and asking if we can hear her now. Then she says that we are the ones who have to clean ourselves of our father’s sins to end the funeral procession .
No disrespect love you guys 🫶🏽 but you gotta remember This is the point . Everybody is giving their opinion on how she should do her music, how this should go here , that should go there etc… that’s her whole point, music is music just bc other ppl Would put a song here or there or sing it this way or that way don’t mean everyone should or has to … she said this is a “ Beyonce album “ Beyonce will make an album her way… I love how she’s mixing all genres of music in no certain order bc who said there was one? I like how when listening to the album you don’t know what you’re gonna get I mean she got Mz Doll P on Tyrant lol and she made this album when she was 38 she’s 42…. She said “ I’m a singer so I’m gonna sing .. if I make a album that relates to someone great but that don’t mean that’s all I can do” she also stated She was gonna put this out first before Renaissance, but she changed her mind and made Renaissance act I and then decided to do this as act ii … I’m a 🐝 fan since day 1 & in anybody eyes who don’t like her they will always find a reason not to .. “ her lipstick ugly, that’s why she can’t sing ” yea uh huh the lipstick 💄 the ppl who Can’t stand her the most be the main ones keeping up with everything she do 😂
I’m with him, I don’t think she’ll get AOTY. They want her humbled. This is like how the Oscars didn’t accept John Wayne, because he played in Westerns. They didn’t give John Wayne an Oscar until it was a consolation prize, because he was old. Again I feel like these Three Acts are her swan song and that she’s retiring after the 3rd Act.
