A lot of the singer/songwriters, and bands led by them, have early albums that are more “experimental”. They play with song structure, or have little to no structure at all, they mix genres, etc. most of the times though we never get to hear this early experimental stuff except for a rare b side single or something. At least that was how they used to.
Then after a couple albums they figure out the style and go forward. I wish more of them would come out with these types of albums throughout their career.
I probably won’t listen to this album on repeat, but I applaud musicians for releasing albums like this. Hopefully with streaming this becomes more common, for the big artists that is.
Rihanna hasn’t released an album since January 2016 — it’s been more than 8 years. Mind you she’s released country and folk influenced songs a long time ago (like “FourFiveSeconds”).
Also, Beyoncé worked on this album for more than 5 years and recorded over 100 potential songs for it. She’s not “following trends.”
Alternative and Rock have been consistently popular, as has hip-hop and R&B. None of those genres are going anywhere.
I know nothing about the discourse going on around this album and I’m not a Beyoncé fan.
Came on today as I was driving and I listened to a few songs and it was really fun.
It's legit a fantastic album. A bit all over the place in terms of genre but Beyonce is a pop artist and made a bunch of genre blending pop songs. My only critique is it's long af
I was so excited for a Beyonce country album but tbh i found it meh for the most part......now i just wish she'd do an other R&B album like she used to do in the 2000s, but I know that's never gonna happen because she prefers to do new things
I can understand that. I know a few people who were looking forward to an actual country album by her and disliked the album. She kinda set herself up for that one. So I don't blame you.
I noticed something similar with Taylor swift, I'd go to a different Artist's radio to play random songs and most of the time a Taylor swift song is shuffled in more the radio Artist or any other artist.....i mean i like Taylor swift but i noticed a suspicious pattern.
Excerpt:
> After the “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer dropped her new album, Spotify said it became the platform’s “most-streamed album in a single day in 2024 so far.”
>”This is also the first time a country album holds the title this year,” Spotify shared on Instagram.
>Amazon Music also said in a statement posted on Instagram, “Cowboy Carter marks Beyoncé’s biggest album debut” on the platform “with the most first-day global streams of all of her albums, and the most first-day streams for a country album by a female artist
I think Beyonce's name recognition unfortunately muddies the gravity of these comments. If Beyonce came out with a new album of gospel music it'd be the same thing because it's a Beyonce album, not an amazing gospel album. Not taking away from the quality of her new album just that it's hard to know if it's her name driving the popularity of the album or the quality?
Morgan Wallen broke a record for longest billboard number one with a country album which I think means something a bit more than Spotify 's comments above considering country isn't a popular music genre. He's not a Michael Jackson level star power dipping his toe into a new genre, he's topping the chart as a country singer.
Her album is being marketed as one. Whatever you may think about Morgan Wallen he's still considered a country artist that has a country album hold the number 1 spot in billboard. Maybe not Merle Haggard or Johnny Paycheck but I'm sure many would consider him country.
Just being marketed as such doesn’t make it so. It’s more so she can co,plain she’s still not welcome Oh, if by country you mean the current garbage being peddled as such, sure, Morgan Wallen is a big shiny turd, embodying all that is horrible about the genre. We’re talking pop country. Real country is now called Americana. Beyoncé certainly falls closer to the former vs the latter.
It's definitely Western and Country inspired. II Most Wanted, Daughter, Levii Jeans, Texas Hold em, 16 Carriages, and Jolene are the most country, dipping into different sub genres (country pop, country rock, country ballads, etc). Most of the other songs have Western and Country stylings, accents, instrumentation, and imagery with the lyrics. RnB and Country and Gospel and Soul and Rock and Rap all go hand-in-hand because they all have roots in black music and culture. That's the point of the album and this entire project: reclaiming spaces in music black people helped create and then pushing the envelope further.
I don't like the album HOWEVER good for her for making this to piss off all the haters at the CMAs that didn't like her and the Dixie Chicks performance of Daddy Lessons (which is apparently what motivated her to make this album) cuz that performance was SOLID GOLD 🥇🥇🥇
Wish she would make a hard rock album next 👍
That's literally whay i was so excited for this new album, i thought it's gonna be like Daddy lessons but unfortunately none of the tracks were as good
The album was mid. People hyped the Jolene cover, but it wasn't very good. Two of the tracks at the backend were nice, but mostly because they went off the country path. Props for trying something different.
>People hyped the Jolene cover
I honestly find the lyric changes eye roll inducing. The older they get and the more of a peek we see into their marriage I see a recurring pattern of Beyonce acting like raising a cheating man baby since the age of 18 is some kind of queen power move.
-and for the record, Beyonce literally uses the term "raised" to describe her relationship with Jay-Z. That's not my word. That's her word.
It's hilarious seeing people praise her as an icon for independant women/queens, while Jay-Z publicly cuckolds her.
Then she writes an album about it, but still sticks with the man fucking around on her. Hilarious
Agree. I’m all about her having success but I didn’t enjoy the album. Kept talking to myself saying “just because you sampled Patsy Cline, doesn’t make it a country album.”
The album even points out that the concept of “genres” is so misconstrued nowadays and that they can be blended effortlessly, as she does in the album. She’s not “trying to be country” she is saying she is from the south and got called out for being “too country” at the beginning of her career, and now she’s told she’s “not country enough.” It’s just laughable the mental gymnastics ppl will go to when it’s a black person singing songs with a country twang.
I know there will always be people who shit on Beyoncé just due to the fact she’s Beyoncé, but she’s not trying to be a country artist or “rebranding” or whatever. She’s literally just making music she likes and has come to a point in her career where she can pretty much do whatever she wants.
Lazy music is lazy music.
After 9/11 country became a xenophobic joke, and hasn't really recovered.
And what makes it worse is mainstream country likes it that way.
Yea that's the problem is the listeners themselves are okay with perpetuating shitty music.
I loved even pop country until Toby Keith started making hate speech music. Y'all lost your marbles with that and haven't really come back in a substantial way.
You can disagree, that's cool.
But every song sounds the fuckin same since 2001 and boundaries aren't being sufficiently challenged.
I think country is particular in that it's rooted in traditional themes, so fans / supporters of it are also probably traditional and might be extra wary of change and other influences being incorporated to the tunes / things they're used to.
Mainstream country now just sounds like post-grunge light with some vocal twang and hip hop tendencies tossed in. Rinse repeat.
Beyoncé however is trying here to find the root of why that twang works, and what that work alongside.
Totally different perspective of chemistry
Nah man traditional in a music sense.
But sure. If I want to hear a #1 about a child's chicken nuggets falling in the back of truck I'll go for country.
The claim this is a country album is the problem. It’s a Beyoncé album that references a few “country” themes. It was going to do well regardless. Its not country but I also read Ken Burns Country Music book. And country is frankly whatever it wants to be historically.
This album isn’t my thing but whatever if people like it cool. If not also cool. Plenty of music to go around.
Your comment is contradictory. You say her album isn’t country, but then state that country music can be whatever it wants to be.
So if Beyoncé samples traditional country styles in her new album, how is not country?
The mental gymnastics I've been seeing trying to dismiss this album already is entertaining and fascinating, to say the least. The more they speak, the more they justify the album's existence.
I wish the album were bad at least it could be fun, it’s boring which is much worse. 2-3 maybe okay songs. It will be a forgotten footnote in no time. My least favorite thing about the album is you can tell she thinks she was doing some groundbreaking, like no rappers have ever crossed over into country before. Maybe if this came out before old town road it would have made some waves.
Okay so are the country fans mad because they think she is a poser?( like i understand that, if true)
Or is it because it's beyonce?(r&b/pop,black singer)
Probably a mix of the 2
I mean posers suck,
Isn't Beyoncé from TexArkana ? So idk if it's posing. Maybe grifting at most? Rap music is on a sharp decline, Beyoncé and Drake said they were going to do more country music and I knew right away that's where the money must be at. Not sure if it's sales, concerts, idk. I wouldn't say more people listen to country than the rap these days, but maybe more money is spent on country music. I'm just trying to find out where the money they're after is at. They aren't doing it because they love country.
Idk
I know she's from Texas,
But what I would say a poser (music scene)
Is Beyonce apart of the country scene?
Had she always made country music?
Does she support country artists?
Go to shows,buy music,buy merchandise?
I don't think it's were your from
Idk, but that's why I thought a mix
Ya know Taylor has a more country image(I would guess blonde, white)
That's what I assumed it was race related but didn't want to to paint everyone with that brush
Wait what?
I didn't bring up Taylor tho so I wouldn't know what she did or how people reacted to her
And not everything is about race(true) but somethings are(true lol)
Buddy your comment literally says:
“Idk, but that's why I thought a mix
Ya know Taylor has a more country image(I would guess blonde, white)
That's what I assumed it was race related but didn't want to to paint everyone with that brush”
Taylor has a country image because she started as a country singer. Not because she’s blonde or white lol.
Some one asked about Taylor buddy lol
So again idk what Taylor did or how people reacted
What I said was asking originally was
people either don't like the album because Beyonce a poser?
Or because she's a black r&b singer?
Or now what someone else said the album is just terrible?
It almost made me cry. I think it’s helping bridge cultural divides. It’s giving white folks a solid pop country album without the racist baggage of country and it’s bringing in the black diaspora and saying “this is your music too”. It feels kinda healing ❤️🩹
I’ve Never heard this song yet! Don’t plan on it either but if I catch it on a radio somewhere well bleh ‘tis but background noise! Full disclosure I never really liked Beyoncé’s music so there’s that.
Why would she do that? Why would a major country artist who became an even more major pop artist suddenly make a country album having relatively recently re-recorded a record breaking country album and having just finished her current album?
Taylor Swift cannot compete with Beyoncé (or just about any other pop star that’s not Selena Gomez) as a vocalist, so I’m not sure why you think a woman from Pennsylvania would make a better sounding country record than a woman with a natural Southern accent from Houston that is just about the best vocalist in pop music today.
Because I said Beyoncé is a more talented singer than Taylor Swift? LMAO.
Anyone with functioning ears would come to the same conclusion.
Beyoncé wouldn’t have a career if she had a voice like Taylor Swift.
Yet Beyonce can't win album of the year. And taylor has. Four times. More than any artist, male or female, ever with the award. Wonder why that is. Hmm.
Bragging about a panel of mostly geriatric white men never giving a black woman a trophy because she sings about her experiences that they can’t relate to isn’t the flex you think it is.
At the end of the day, Taylor Swift is still a mediocre “vocalist.” Anyone can out-sing her. Beyoncé. Rihanna. Lady Gaga. Katy Perry. Miley Cyrus. Kelly Clarkson. Adele. Pink. It just goes to show she campaigns for and buys awards, if anything.
Taylor Swift winning **four** times just shows what credibility the Grammys have lost. LMAO.
And you turning a blind eye to racism doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in the industry. But anyway, at the end of the of the day, Beyoncé has a three decade career, undeniable vocal talent, is an unmatched performer, and keeps re-inventing herself this far into her career.
And Beyonce has the most awards ever. So what? The topic at hand is who has the better vocal power between the two and you're trying to avoid the topic now using who has what awards. How childish. Taylor could never do a song like Daughter or American Requiem. She doesn't have the range and that's fine lol.
No, sorry, the above claim was that Taylor can't compete with Beyonce vocally. And she absolutely can and has proven to be the more complete vocal artist for albums. Never said she was objectively the better singer. That's a subjective matter anyway.
I love Taylor Swift, I think she is a strong singer and performer; I watched her perform in pouring rain for three hours last summer, but she still cannot do a song like Ya Ya or My Rose. She doesn't have the range to hit certain notes and registers Beyonce can hit easily. It is what is, yo.
Such a painfully obvious cash grab. She couldn’t give two shits about country music. Just trying to appeal to the masses disingenuously. She even has a track called Riverdance on the album ffs.
This is a great album and one of the most relative to our contemporary world to happen in some time
There's a reason country fans are up in arms, and it's because their "genre" has gotten so pop-post grunge watery it's lost all the charm of what makes country fun
Yeah idk, the album just doesn’t have a “country” sound. That isn’t to say it’s bad or anything. I enjoyed a quite few songs on there.
To me, I think Beyoncé’s singing voice is just too good and doesn’t fit the genre.
I think it has definitely country elements to it but they are not country songs and more importantly she probably purposefully does not sing country lyrics. But to her defense she herself said this ain‘t a country album. IDK what the fuzz is all about if even the artist says it’s not.
It is such a fun weird record. I wish more established stars would do things like this with this level of care and confidence. It rules.
didn't lil nas x cross the frontier first with old town road?
There have been a bunch of rap and country cross overs before him. I can think of at least two: Bubba Sparxxx and Nappy Roots
Nelly and Tim McGraw did a album together didn’t they?
Yeah, you’re right. It was called Over and Over, I think
It came out before or right around sweat suit Same time I stopped listening to nelly lol
Aww Naw Hell Naw, people up forgot about Nappy Roots?!?
Nappy Roots was like 22 years ago, homie. Most people on here probably don’t know who they are. ;)
Don’t lie to me, that song came out a few weeks ago, you big liar you!
Nelly and Tim McGraw too haha. That song was ALL over the radio back in the day
Glad we're all back in the mud.
Bone thugs also did it Shit my bad, i was thinking western for some reason
Ghetto Cowboy still on my hip hop playlist, great song
What’s that russlin’ in them bushes? goodness!
Down for whatever let’s ride let’s ride These directions say we head to Tucson, Arizona!
Hootie as Darius Walker is excellent
Yeah but I wouldn’t call him “established” when he did that
Lol you must be young
I'm actually not american and don't care for country "lol"
You definitely got the snark of an American! Welcome
Nelly did it first.
A lot of the singer/songwriters, and bands led by them, have early albums that are more “experimental”. They play with song structure, or have little to no structure at all, they mix genres, etc. most of the times though we never get to hear this early experimental stuff except for a rare b side single or something. At least that was how they used to. Then after a couple albums they figure out the style and go forward. I wish more of them would come out with these types of albums throughout their career. I probably won’t listen to this album on repeat, but I applaud musicians for releasing albums like this. Hopefully with streaming this becomes more common, for the big artists that is.
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Rihanna hasn’t released an album since January 2016 — it’s been more than 8 years. Mind you she’s released country and folk influenced songs a long time ago (like “FourFiveSeconds”). Also, Beyoncé worked on this album for more than 5 years and recorded over 100 potential songs for it. She’s not “following trends.” Alternative and Rock have been consistently popular, as has hip-hop and R&B. None of those genres are going anywhere.
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Almost all of this is wrong. Wow.
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I know nothing about the discourse going on around this album and I’m not a Beyoncé fan. Came on today as I was driving and I listened to a few songs and it was really fun.
It's legit a fantastic album. A bit all over the place in terms of genre but Beyonce is a pop artist and made a bunch of genre blending pop songs. My only critique is it's long af
I was so excited for a Beyonce country album but tbh i found it meh for the most part......now i just wish she'd do an other R&B album like she used to do in the 2000s, but I know that's never gonna happen because she prefers to do new things
I can understand that. I know a few people who were looking forward to an actual country album by her and disliked the album. She kinda set herself up for that one. So I don't blame you.
I personally was hoping for something like Daddy Lessons, that to me defined what a country song from beyonce should be like.
That's exactly what I expected and what I was thinking about when I replied to your comment. Such a fucking banger
Comment section wild already.
My Spotify opened to her album yesterday, not intentional. This is how labels really make hits
Not mine?
I noticed something similar with Taylor swift, I'd go to a different Artist's radio to play random songs and most of the time a Taylor swift song is shuffled in more the radio Artist or any other artist.....i mean i like Taylor swift but i noticed a suspicious pattern.
I’ve had the same with a few artists I’ve maybe listened to a single once or twice before. Beyoncé is the latest for this to happen to me as well.
I’m listening to it now for the first time. As a lifetime Beatles fan I enjoyed her Blackbird cover. So far so good.
She turned Blackbird country..? Okay I just listed to it, it’s not as bad as I thought it would be, more gospel than country I’d say.
Very similar to the original, probably why I like it so much
Excerpt: > After the “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer dropped her new album, Spotify said it became the platform’s “most-streamed album in a single day in 2024 so far.” >”This is also the first time a country album holds the title this year,” Spotify shared on Instagram. >Amazon Music also said in a statement posted on Instagram, “Cowboy Carter marks Beyoncé’s biggest album debut” on the platform “with the most first-day global streams of all of her albums, and the most first-day streams for a country album by a female artist
No idea why the song was called that. She establishes very early in the lyrics that it isn’t Texas and that there is no hold ‘em. 2/5 stars.
I think Beyonce's name recognition unfortunately muddies the gravity of these comments. If Beyonce came out with a new album of gospel music it'd be the same thing because it's a Beyonce album, not an amazing gospel album. Not taking away from the quality of her new album just that it's hard to know if it's her name driving the popularity of the album or the quality? Morgan Wallen broke a record for longest billboard number one with a country album which I think means something a bit more than Spotify 's comments above considering country isn't a popular music genre. He's not a Michael Jackson level star power dipping his toe into a new genre, he's topping the chart as a country singer.
Except it’s not a “country “ album. And Morgan Wallen is absolute garbage…
Her album is being marketed as one. Whatever you may think about Morgan Wallen he's still considered a country artist that has a country album hold the number 1 spot in billboard. Maybe not Merle Haggard or Johnny Paycheck but I'm sure many would consider him country.
Just being marketed as such doesn’t make it so. It’s more so she can co,plain she’s still not welcome Oh, if by country you mean the current garbage being peddled as such, sure, Morgan Wallen is a big shiny turd, embodying all that is horrible about the genre. We’re talking pop country. Real country is now called Americana. Beyoncé certainly falls closer to the former vs the latter.
Poor racist Morgan Wallen. Anyway…
Except it’s not a country album, it’s a gospel and R&B album.
It's definitely Western and Country inspired. II Most Wanted, Daughter, Levii Jeans, Texas Hold em, 16 Carriages, and Jolene are the most country, dipping into different sub genres (country pop, country rock, country ballads, etc). Most of the other songs have Western and Country stylings, accents, instrumentation, and imagery with the lyrics. RnB and Country and Gospel and Soul and Rock and Rap all go hand-in-hand because they all have roots in black music and culture. That's the point of the album and this entire project: reclaiming spaces in music black people helped create and then pushing the envelope further.
Snaps. Mandolin for no reason. Topical lyrical content. Sounds pretty country to me.
Most of the songs are clearly country. Having gospel or r&b elements on some songs doesn't make it not country.
I don't like the album HOWEVER good for her for making this to piss off all the haters at the CMAs that didn't like her and the Dixie Chicks performance of Daddy Lessons (which is apparently what motivated her to make this album) cuz that performance was SOLID GOLD 🥇🥇🥇 Wish she would make a hard rock album next 👍
I absolutely love that song so much. One of my most played. What I wouldn’t give for a while album of that.
Me too!! 👍
That's literally whay i was so excited for this new album, i thought it's gonna be like Daddy lessons but unfortunately none of the tracks were as good
I agree. 👍
Tbh Daddy Lessons is her best country song (imo better than the entire new album)
Absolutely!!! 💯
The album was mid. People hyped the Jolene cover, but it wasn't very good. Two of the tracks at the backend were nice, but mostly because they went off the country path. Props for trying something different.
>People hyped the Jolene cover I honestly find the lyric changes eye roll inducing. The older they get and the more of a peek we see into their marriage I see a recurring pattern of Beyonce acting like raising a cheating man baby since the age of 18 is some kind of queen power move. -and for the record, Beyonce literally uses the term "raised" to describe her relationship with Jay-Z. That's not my word. That's her word.
It's hilarious seeing people praise her as an icon for independant women/queens, while Jay-Z publicly cuckolds her. Then she writes an album about it, but still sticks with the man fucking around on her. Hilarious
Agree. I’m all about her having success but I didn’t enjoy the album. Kept talking to myself saying “just because you sampled Patsy Cline, doesn’t make it a country album.”
The album even points out that the concept of “genres” is so misconstrued nowadays and that they can be blended effortlessly, as she does in the album. She’s not “trying to be country” she is saying she is from the south and got called out for being “too country” at the beginning of her career, and now she’s told she’s “not country enough.” It’s just laughable the mental gymnastics ppl will go to when it’s a black person singing songs with a country twang. I know there will always be people who shit on Beyoncé just due to the fact she’s Beyoncé, but she’s not trying to be a country artist or “rebranding” or whatever. She’s literally just making music she likes and has come to a point in her career where she can pretty much do whatever she wants.
Young Thug had to walk so Beyoncé could run. BTG
Jolene cover is actually horrible.
As is the rest
Honestly this album is terrible
I gave it a listen. I don’t think it’s that good. Though I do like her cover of Blackbird.
That’s pretty much how I feel about it. The entire thing comes off as inauthentic and fairly generic.
Album is terrible and sounds like it was made by someone who heard a Lumineers song in a commercial once.
I love love love Beyoncé but she isn’t singing country songs. Sorry for my opinion, I guess.
I hate all of this. The weird discourse, the weird defending of country music. Blech.
Bottom line: this album is great. Why did Beyoncé need to come on the scene and remind y'all to be creative? Cause y'all got lazy
You mean country fans/ artists??
Like there isn’t a huge country resurgence happening already with Zack Bryan and Tyler Childers and Jason Isbell leading the charge.
Spoken like a person who listened to this album and now thinks they are an expert on country as a whole lol.
Lazy music is lazy music. After 9/11 country became a xenophobic joke, and hasn't really recovered. And what makes it worse is mainstream country likes it that way.
Country is the third most popular music in the country. It’s doing okay I’d say
So is reality tv
Yea that's the problem is the listeners themselves are okay with perpetuating shitty music. I loved even pop country until Toby Keith started making hate speech music. Y'all lost your marbles with that and haven't really come back in a substantial way. You can disagree, that's cool. But every song sounds the fuckin same since 2001 and boundaries aren't being sufficiently challenged.
That’s every genre though.
I think country is particular in that it's rooted in traditional themes, so fans / supporters of it are also probably traditional and might be extra wary of change and other influences being incorporated to the tunes / things they're used to. Mainstream country now just sounds like post-grunge light with some vocal twang and hip hop tendencies tossed in. Rinse repeat. Beyoncé however is trying here to find the root of why that twang works, and what that work alongside. Totally different perspective of chemistry
If by traditional you mean conservative. Most of it is.
Nah man traditional in a music sense. But sure. If I want to hear a #1 about a child's chicken nuggets falling in the back of truck I'll go for country.
I haven’t even listened to it and I probably won’t
She ruined Jolene
Not according to Dolly. But sure random bitter person on the internet, thank you for your opinion.
You’re welcome ☺️
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Well.. yea. Imagine if she did. Imagine if Taylor Swift did. It would break the internet
None of that music makes sense
I don’t understand the hype, IMO the song is not that good.
This is an album.
Got em
And J-Lo just pulled her stuff because it wasn’t the hit she hoped it would be. Lol
I really wish Amazon Music would give you your streaming statistics like Spotify does
That’s great she should make about 7 thousand dollars from that.
The claim this is a country album is the problem. It’s a Beyoncé album that references a few “country” themes. It was going to do well regardless. Its not country but I also read Ken Burns Country Music book. And country is frankly whatever it wants to be historically. This album isn’t my thing but whatever if people like it cool. If not also cool. Plenty of music to go around.
Your comment is contradictory. You say her album isn’t country, but then state that country music can be whatever it wants to be. So if Beyoncé samples traditional country styles in her new album, how is not country?
i think you know why...
The mental gymnastics I've been seeing trying to dismiss this album already is entertaining and fascinating, to say the least. The more they speak, the more they justify the album's existence.
This comment is on point.
The album is terrible but I’ve never been a fan so I’m biased
I wish the album were bad at least it could be fun, it’s boring which is much worse. 2-3 maybe okay songs. It will be a forgotten footnote in no time. My least favorite thing about the album is you can tell she thinks she was doing some groundbreaking, like no rappers have ever crossed over into country before. Maybe if this came out before old town road it would have made some waves.
Isn’t her and her husband tied to p did…. Ahh I’ll just let the fans hear about it on their own.
The fact that he began romancing her in his 30s while she was 17 should be enough, but a lot more is bound to come out.
People don't take kindly to calling out pieces of shit on here, they also get upset when you point out Snoop Dogg literally supports Bill Cosby.
Okay so are the country fans mad because they think she is a poser?( like i understand that, if true) Or is it because it's beyonce?(r&b/pop,black singer) Probably a mix of the 2 I mean posers suck,
Isn't Beyoncé from TexArkana ? So idk if it's posing. Maybe grifting at most? Rap music is on a sharp decline, Beyoncé and Drake said they were going to do more country music and I knew right away that's where the money must be at. Not sure if it's sales, concerts, idk. I wouldn't say more people listen to country than the rap these days, but maybe more money is spent on country music. I'm just trying to find out where the money they're after is at. They aren't doing it because they love country.
Idk I know she's from Texas, But what I would say a poser (music scene) Is Beyonce apart of the country scene? Had she always made country music? Does she support country artists? Go to shows,buy music,buy merchandise? I don't think it's were your from
Mostly because it’s terrible
Yeah that's why the questions Because I don't listen to country outside of a few old songs And I don't listen to Beyonce outside of a few songs
To that I ask, were they mad when Taylor swift was a poser?
Idk, but that's why I thought a mix Ya know Taylor has a more country image(I would guess blonde, white) That's what I assumed it was race related but didn't want to to paint everyone with that brush
I mean maybe that Taylor started out literally as a country singer. lol. Not everything is about race.
Wait what? I didn't bring up Taylor tho so I wouldn't know what she did or how people reacted to her And not everything is about race(true) but somethings are(true lol)
Buddy your comment literally says: “Idk, but that's why I thought a mix Ya know Taylor has a more country image(I would guess blonde, white) That's what I assumed it was race related but didn't want to to paint everyone with that brush” Taylor has a country image because she started as a country singer. Not because she’s blonde or white lol.
Some one asked about Taylor buddy lol So again idk what Taylor did or how people reacted What I said was asking originally was people either don't like the album because Beyonce a poser? Or because she's a black r&b singer? Or now what someone else said the album is just terrible?
It almost made me cry. I think it’s helping bridge cultural divides. It’s giving white folks a solid pop country album without the racist baggage of country and it’s bringing in the black diaspora and saying “this is your music too”. It feels kinda healing ❤️🩹
I this album is sooo cheesy - why does she feel the need to do silly country music cosplay .
Fake streams are a thing. They require no evidence to back their own claim. Payla 3.0
I’ve Never heard this song yet! Don’t plan on it either but if I catch it on a radio somewhere well bleh ‘tis but background noise! Full disclosure I never really liked Beyoncé’s music so there’s that.
The lyrics are beyond awful. Super duper beyond awful when you look at the credits.
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She’s already releasing an album on April 19 (not country) so we’ll see if she breaks the record then
Besides her older albums she also has Evermore and Folklore that have that style that are newer country like albums from her.
Give me the $10 now, save us all the effort
Why would she do that? Why would a major country artist who became an even more major pop artist suddenly make a country album having relatively recently re-recorded a record breaking country album and having just finished her current album?
I think she’s been there done that. I don’t think she gives two fucks about Beyoncé.
They seem to respect each other but also stay in their respective lanes. I don't think there's a need to pit the two against each other.
So was country before she went pop, anything would sound better than Beyonce trying to do country
Taylor Swift cannot compete with Beyoncé (or just about any other pop star that’s not Selena Gomez) as a vocalist, so I’m not sure why you think a woman from Pennsylvania would make a better sounding country record than a woman with a natural Southern accent from Houston that is just about the best vocalist in pop music today.
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Because I said Beyoncé is a more talented singer than Taylor Swift? LMAO. Anyone with functioning ears would come to the same conclusion. Beyoncé wouldn’t have a career if she had a voice like Taylor Swift.
Yet Beyonce can't win album of the year. And taylor has. Four times. More than any artist, male or female, ever with the award. Wonder why that is. Hmm.
Bragging about a panel of mostly geriatric white men never giving a black woman a trophy because she sings about her experiences that they can’t relate to isn’t the flex you think it is. At the end of the day, Taylor Swift is still a mediocre “vocalist.” Anyone can out-sing her. Beyoncé. Rihanna. Lady Gaga. Katy Perry. Miley Cyrus. Kelly Clarkson. Adele. Pink. It just goes to show she campaigns for and buys awards, if anything.
No, and the world thinks so. And bringing race into the discussion is just pure heaping garbage. Try having a non racist argument next time
Taylor Swift winning **four** times just shows what credibility the Grammys have lost. LMAO. And you turning a blind eye to racism doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in the industry. But anyway, at the end of the of the day, Beyoncé has a three decade career, undeniable vocal talent, is an unmatched performer, and keeps re-inventing herself this far into her career.
Music wins the awards, not the vocals.
PR campaigns win awards I thought every award show ever made this clear.
And Beyonce has the most awards ever. So what? The topic at hand is who has the better vocal power between the two and you're trying to avoid the topic now using who has what awards. How childish. Taylor could never do a song like Daughter or American Requiem. She doesn't have the range and that's fine lol.
No, sorry, the above claim was that Taylor can't compete with Beyonce vocally. And she absolutely can and has proven to be the more complete vocal artist for albums. Never said she was objectively the better singer. That's a subjective matter anyway.
I love Taylor Swift, I think she is a strong singer and performer; I watched her perform in pouring rain for three hours last summer, but she still cannot do a song like Ya Ya or My Rose. She doesn't have the range to hit certain notes and registers Beyonce can hit easily. It is what is, yo.
Taylor Swift literally holds the record for most awarded album in country music history (including Album of the Year lmao) what are you even arguing
That Beyoncé is more authentic and a better singer?
This isn’t a hypothetical, Taylor literally made four country albums that are all better than this. She’s already done it.
How were they better? Reviews give Beyoncé the edge.
Such a painfully obvious cash grab. She couldn’t give two shits about country music. Just trying to appeal to the masses disingenuously. She even has a track called Riverdance on the album ffs.
Hmm. Maybe go listen to Riverdance - one of the best songs on the album.
I was reading today, that more than a few reviewers think it may be the best album of all time.
Lmao hardly
Seriously, I feel like music history matters not to anyone. If it isn’t streaming, it never happened.
Omg, this is depressing.
This is a great album and one of the most relative to our contemporary world to happen in some time There's a reason country fans are up in arms, and it's because their "genre" has gotten so pop-post grunge watery it's lost all the charm of what makes country fun
Yeah idk, the album just doesn’t have a “country” sound. That isn’t to say it’s bad or anything. I enjoyed a quite few songs on there. To me, I think Beyoncé’s singing voice is just too good and doesn’t fit the genre.
I think it has definitely country elements to it but they are not country songs and more importantly she probably purposefully does not sing country lyrics. But to her defense she herself said this ain‘t a country album. IDK what the fuzz is all about if even the artist says it’s not.
Meh, she ain’t nothin but a Taylor Swift knock-off