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The way I had no idea that's what Post Malone sounds like :bibliahh:

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3 minutes ago, MrPiggyMoka said:

The second listen is much better I must say for me as well, what is this witchcraft?

Right?

I'm on the 3rd now and yeahhh this is such a grower. 

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Just now, Park Jinyoung said:

The way I had no idea that's what Post Malone sounds like :bibliahh:

He doesn't usually sound like that (I think)

Beyonce bringing out the good vocals in everyone :deadbanana2:

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4 minutes ago, Joaco95 said:

"My process is that I typically have to experiment,” Beyoncé says. "I enjoy being open to have the freedom to get all aspects of things I love out and so I worked on many songs. I recorded probably 100 songs. Once that is done, I am able to put the puzzle together and realize the consistencies and the common themes, and then create a solid body of work.”

The album is an experiment indeed. Each song is its own version of a reimagined Western film. She took inspiration from films like "Five Fingers For Marseilles,” "Urban Cowboy,” "The Hateful Eight, "Space Cowboys,” "The Harder They Fall" and "Killers of the Flower Moon,” often having the films playing on a screen during the recording process. Some aspects of the percussion were inspired by the 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ soundtrack, where it was more Bluegrass.

"This album took over five years,” she says. "It's been really great to have the time and the grace to be able to take my time with it. I was initially going to put COWBOY CARTER out first, but with the pandemic, there was too much heaviness in the world. We wanted to dance. We deserved to dance. But I had to trust God's timing.”

 

https://www.justjared.com/2024/03/29/beyonce-talks-cowboy-carter-album-in-press-release-new-details-inspiration-revealed/

Stevie Wonder is a musician on the album?!

 

:WAP:

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YA YA is making me move as crazy in my room :WAP:

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And the musical alliance here includes contributions from an impressive list of artists as vocalists, musicians, and orators, including Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Linda Martell, Stevie Wonder, Chuck Berry, Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, Jon Batiste, Rhiannon Giddens, Nile Rodgers, Robert Randolph, Gary Clark, Jr., Willie Jones, Brittney Spencer, Shaboozey, Reyna Roberts, Tanner Adell and Tiera Kennedy.

https://www.justjared.com/2024/03/29/beyonce-talks-cowboy-carter-album-in-press-release-new-details-inspiration-revealed/

 

Stevie Wonder and Chuck Berry in the credits?!

 

That is WILD!

 

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2 minutes ago, Park Jinyoung said:

I'm a chronic full album listener idk what you guys are talking about I'm gonna be eating these interludes UP every time

lol right? these kids got short attention spans because the interludes are not even long. I could see if they were random and had nothing to do with the album but that's not the case. idk, maybe I'm used to it as a Janet fan lol. 27 tracks clocking in at 1 hour and 19 minutes is not that long to me. It's longer than normal but not unbearable, especially with an album with as many twists and turns as CC. Keeps things interesting enough that you don't even feel the time moving. 

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5 hours ago, chaklux said:

Beyoncé covering it exactly like the original would have been problematic. Many people can get away with singing the original lyrics, but not Beyoncé's whose entire brand is about feminism and girl power. A lot of critics and even some GPs will drag her for it. The whole attention would have been too much distraction for the album. Most discourse and debates will focus on Jolene rather than the entire Cowboy Carter. So what she did is better, honestly.

I don't understand your point - sorry? How would it have been problematic or anti-feminist?

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7 minutes ago, Park Jinyoung said:

I'm a chronic full album listener idk what you guys are talking about I'm gonna be eating these interludes UP every time

exactly, you get it.

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Protector is just so beautiful.

So beautifully written too :weeps: 

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36 minutes ago, SchmoodRing said:

Is she not gonna clocked for being tone deaf or this only applies to everyone else?

Nope. They said "not even God can sink this ship." Well, God did.

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OH LOUISIANA deserves to be a full song.

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Another very strong album from Bey. It's no Renaissance but still very good. My top 5:

 

1. Bodyguard 
2. Ya Ya 
3. Tyrant 
4. Alligator Tears 
5. II Most Wanted

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Just remembered that today is a holiday, and the stores are all closed. :monkey: Now I have to wait until tomorrow.

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I guess I'm gonna be the last stan to listen to this album :eli:

 

Reading y'alls comments has skyrocketed my expectations. I don't know if I'm being revisionist but I don't recall Ren's initial reaction being  this effusive :eek: :eek: .

 

I gather it's more akin to Lemonade than Ren in its genre-busting audaciousness :jonny5:
 

These are the times I wish I still drove, sounds like a perfect album to bump with real speakers. At least that's an experience I can savour on my next trip home. 
 

I can't wait to experience and share my first reaction with yall. :heart:

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on my second listen and American Requiem is SUCH a powerful opener omg

 

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5 hours ago, chaklux said:

Beyoncé covering it exactly like the original would have been problematic. Many people can get away with singing the original lyrics, but not Beyoncé's whose entire brand is about feminism and girl power. A lot of critics and even some GPs will drag her for it. The whole attention would have been too much distraction for the album. Most discourse and debates will focus on Jolene rather than the entire Cowboy Carter. So what she did is better, honestly.

I'm sorry but the new lyrics are way more anti-feminist :skull: it will make the 'stay away from my man!’ girlies happy tho. But threatening a woman over your own disloyal man is… very 2000s let's just say that

But being obsessed with her husband has been her brand for 20 years now so it makes sense for her

 

That doesn't mean I'm not currently blasting it and singing along tho

 

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Oh Bodyguard, you're pretty good.

 

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14 minutes ago, Joaco95 said:

"My process is that I typically have to experiment,” Beyoncé says. "I enjoy being open to have the freedom to get all aspects of things I love out and so I worked on many songs. I recorded probably 100 songs. Once that is done, I am able to put the puzzle together and realize the consistencies and the common themes, and then create a solid body of work.”

The album is an experiment indeed. Each song is its own version of a reimagined Western film. She took inspiration from films like "Five Fingers For Marseilles,” "Urban Cowboy,” "The Hateful Eight, "Space Cowboys,” "The Harder They Fall" and "Killers of the Flower Moon,” often having the films playing on a screen during the recording process. Some aspects of the percussion were inspired by the 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ soundtrack, where it was more Bluegrass.

"This album took over five years,” she says. "It's been really great to have the time and the grace to be able to take my time with it. I was initially going to put COWBOY CARTER out first, but with the pandemic, there was too much heaviness in the world. We wanted to dance. We deserved to dance. But I had to trust God's timing.”

 

https://www.justjared.com/2024/03/29/beyonce-talks-cowboy-carter-album-in-press-release-new-details-inspiration-revealed/

this is so fascinating omg imagine a full length documentary regarding the production of all three acts at the end :jonny5:

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I could be your bodyguard 

 

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42 minutes ago, SchmoodRing said:

Is she not gonna clocked for being tone deaf or this only applies to everyone else?

It's the way no one cares. Please stfu.

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DAUGHTER was definitely conceived when she saw Killers of the Flower Moon 

 

Lily Gladstone's character fits the entire revenge arc alongside the 'everyone around me failed me, mostly the ones closest to me'

 

you can FEEL the pain... oh wow

 

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21 minutes ago, OnMyCoolJ said:

The way 4 lost its the vocal album title tonight. :giraffe:
 

 

lol one thing yoncé gon always make sure she do with each passing record is progress or outdo some aspect of her artistry. 

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the bridge of DAUGHTER is truly heavenly like i am ascending 

 

 

 

 

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