Beyonce - Cowboy Carter FIRST REACTION
WillTalksMusic
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Full uncut reaction VOD on Patreon! I listened to this the night the album released, sorry it took so long to put this one out.
My first YouTube album reaction :) I'll be doing a lot more of these
Unfortunately, I lost like 5 minutes of footage on this one. The end of Ya Ya to the beginning of Riverdance has been lost in time. I loved that whole section and the transitions, the guitar part at the end of Ya Ya is killer, loved the thundercat style Bassline on Desert Eagle, and the dance influences on Riverdance shocked me but thought it was a cool little callback to Renaissance.
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How country used to be:
Folk story telling:
1. Acoustic Country
2. Outlaw Western Country
Modern country:
3. Pop Country
Future Country:
4. Bey Country (genreless fusions)
Acoustic country:
2. Blackbird - Paul McCartney wrote it for black women during civil rights movement
3. 16 Carriages - tells the story of her childhood sacrifice
4. Protector - dedicated to her daughter
5. My Rose - dedicated to her son
6. Smoke Hour with Willie Nelson introduces the “Outlaw Western Country” portion of the album and begins to shape almost like a movie.
7. Texas Hold Em - meets a man and tells him to lay his guard down and be vulnerable
8. Bodyguard - she reveals her possessiveness over him
9. Dolly P - Dolly Parton actually requested Beyoncé cover this 2 years prior to the album coming out
10. Jolene - Beyoncé reveals her indignation over a woman trying to mess with her happy marriage and family
11. Daughter - she fantasizes over the murder of Jolene and then begins mourning in a haunting Italian Opera
12. Spaghetti - a social criticism towards American nationalists who used to call Spaghetti westerns made in Italy, unAmerican despite them hiring American actors, so she surprises everyone with a country accent rap song as a way to say, this is still country….
13. Alligator Tears - calls out peoples fake criticism and victimization.
14. Smoke Hour 2
Introduces the Modern Pop Country part of the album
15. Just For Fun
16. 2 Most Wanted
17. LEVII JEANS
18. Flamenco
19. The Linda Martell Show - forewarns us that Beyoncé is warmed up and about to start doing what she does best, which is genre bending to perfection to create unique art. Let’s us know the rest of the album is for fun.
20. Yaya - displays historic successful fusion of genres that created rock
21. Oh Louisiana - Let’s us know that her Louisiana roots are what educate her musical choices
Experimental Genre bending:
22. Desert Eagle
23. Riverdance
24. 2 Hands 2 Heaven
25. Tyrant - this song has double and triple meanings!
26. Sweet / Honey / Buckin
27. AMEN - a masterful close and social criticism that ties right back to the first song ❤️
MASTERPIECE!!!
Yes, the banjo wasn't created by the Appalachians but by Africans.
I could also go into the Black artists that many of the earlier big name white country artists learned from then portrayed as their style....
as it was with Elvis and Black artists like Roy Hamilton, Big Mama Thornton, Chuck Berry and Sister Rosetta Tharpe - The Godmother of Rock & Roll), but it would take awhile. ;) Beyonce adds a bit of those artists work into this album as well.
Her last few projects have been a meld of grand musical production, a mosaic of Black History and how the two interconnect.
It appears that Beyonce is in a period of the Reclamation and Rejoicing of African American Culture, trying to correct the record due to the erasure and gate keeping whilst also trying to push The Culture forward in Unity, Knowledge and Beautiful Experiences and Conversations. 😎
It's what she's become known for.
The Superficial and surface level won't fully appreciate this album over the more curious and expansive minded.
Beyonce - Cowboy Carter FIRST REACTION
WillTalksMusic
15,278 views
Full uncut reaction VOD on Patreon! I listened to this the night the album released, sorry it took so long to put this one out.
My first YouTube album reaction :) I'll be doing a lot more of these
Unfortunately, I lost like 5 minutes of footage on this one. The end of Ya Ya to the beginning of Riverdance has been lost in time. I loved that whole section and the transitions, the guitar part at the end of Ya Ya is killer, loved the thundercat style Bassline on Desert Eagle, and the dance influences on Riverdance shocked me but thought it was a cool little callback to Renaissance.
PATREON: Patreon: willtalksmusic
TWITCH: Twitch: willtalksmusic
TWITTER: Twitter: willtalksmusic
INSTAGRAM: Instagram: willtalksmusic
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the concept of a woman’s drunken night spent listening to a radio station is SO well executed. she goes from lamenting about america’s horrid past, to reminiscing on her childhood, to struggling as a parent, to imagining her mother’s heartache and seeking revenge, to getting high and experiencing a bad trip, to falling in love and losing it then finding it again, imagining herself in a movie, coming down, picking herself up and leaving the bar.
all of this executed while also paying homage to americana/folk and country’s black roots, weaving together interpolations and samples from a whole host of other collaborators.
she really is a master of her craft AND a student of the past, always paying homage to those who came before her in order to push culture and art FORWARD.
34 years in this business and she ain’t slowing down yet. a LEGEND.
many laymans will continue to appear foolish due to their lack of comprehension regarding this album and indeed her career as a whole.