album Beyoncé - 'COWBOY CARTER'

[satellites.™]

Damn this album ages WELL for me, American Requiim is soooooooooooo good!

[Lose My Breath]

5 minutes ago, satellites.™ said:

Damn this album ages WELL for me, American Requiim is soooooooooooo good!

Me too, it just gets better

[Mariah4life]

Listening to a certain leak made me realize how superior and incredible this album is. 

[PartyFavor]

Not even to sh** on tay because she's incredibly talented. But this was definitely 100x more interesting and dynamic than TTPD. 
 

Its disappointing because we have been blessed with so much GREAT music this year.

[Blue Rose]

48 minutes ago, ImpressMeMuch said:

any chance of a gaga collab has fully left the building right

It's in the deluxe coming soon 

[Lose My Breath]

So Andrew posted a pic of him in what I'm 99% sure is Pioneertown, which is an "old west" style small town that is used often as a filming location for things.  It's also just a touristy area with a really great restaurant (pappy and harriets).  I'm wondering if they're filming something though

 

 

 

https://visitpioneertown.com/filming-%26-permits

[Jon Snow]

I came here to check if people are talking about it and of course they are 

[Lose My Breath]

1 minute ago, Jon Snow said:

I came here to check if people are talking about it and of course they are 

The soon to be released album? lol

[Jon Snow]

3 minutes ago, Lose My Breath said:

The soon to be released album? lol

[Shelter]

Remains AOTY

 

[ket]

Still mad that we didn't get renaissance visuals.

[Mariah4life]

I miss the old days when album releases were eventful. Interviews, early morning live performance, music awards, MVs. 

[Born to Run]

AOTY Grammy is on lock, I fear

 

[Negiiiii]

5 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

AOTY Grammy is on lock, I fear

 

Came back and **** up the studio

[BnPac]

11 hours ago, Lose My Breath said:

Spaghetti is coming for Ya Ya on TikTok.  Is it Brazil? 

Great that I am not the only who vibes with this song. 

[Cbreezy]

57 minutes ago, Mariah4life said:

I miss the old days when album releases were eventful. Interviews, early morning live performance, music awards, MVs. 

I really do too. 

 

It's such a hard concept to properly relay to people without sounding moany, dated, and lodged in a time of the past lol. Especially as someone who actively enjoys aspects of what's happening in music NOW.

 

All at once I love somee of what the digital/social media era has brought in (more voice for the consumer, direct connection to artists, sometimes more interesting creative when it comes to marketing e.g. surprise drops, visual albums etc). 

 

But besides that, like you said, this new era of music...especially as a Bey fan...literally means getting less and forcing oneself to be fine with it. The albums themselves are an abundance of brilliance, but everything around it is minimal to the point that we are forced to cling to crumbs as promo. The DC/DIL-4 era lover in me is gagging at how an "appearance" week of release, cliquebait clips, IG posts, and a scrapbook like beencountry.com is what we stans are now subject to as "content" and almost have to force ourselves to be excited by it all. 

 

As a fan with one foot in the past and one foot in the now, it's hard to wrap one's head/acceptance around her approach to her current eras when knowing how much of a standard-bearer she was for promo back in the day. Release weeks were a clean sweep of all the morning shows, GMA Summer Concert Series, Oprah/Tyra performances, commercials ahoy, new video drops. So much...content. And content, performances, interviews etc that we still talk about now. Even her more renegade eras like ST and Lemonade still gave us...more.

 

I actively love Bey's modern ability to gag us and I know the art of pulling that off IS surprise/delayed gratification. Also, as she gets older, so do we. So, I'm also very understanding of most artists' desire to work smarter rather than harder (especially in this pivot to a touring-led market where the release of music by and large is simply a vehicle to get to the real money maker: touring).

 

That said, I guess my little/long piggy-back point from your post is that it's objectively and admittedly less fun being a Bey stan these days. At a literal level. I don't need her to revert to the promo practices of the old days (as times have moved on), but being fed compelling content (of any kind) regularly during an album cycle...some of which actually doesn't even require her physical presence...would make stanning her a much more engaging process. Releasing great albums but juxtaposing them with a bare-bones experience content-wise has been...frustrating as a fan. It's even more grating for me, because I all at once enjoy the regality, deity, and effortlessly cool positioning she has in Pop culture and I **KNOW** a lot of that comes from taking on this laid-back, laissez-faire and almost indie-like approach and swooping in with occasional big moments (see: the visuals). Still, I think there is a very easy and happy medium where she can retain her "cool" while drumming up the content. At least during an album cycle. 

[Crayzik]

Ain't no top feel the wind on my skin

 

[Shelter]

@TayDuaStan is mad we like CC 

[Misguided Ghost]

Listening to this and Renaissance back to back is an experience.

[cuteboyzay]

EVERYTIME I open up TikTok and want to record a video, it immediately starts playing "YA YA" . Y'all that's a GOOD A** SIGN! TikTok only does that when a song is going viral or about to become very viral on TikTok! 
 

It did that for Texas Hold Em, We Can't Be Friends, and Carnival. Y'allll, I think "Ya Ya" may have its MOMENTTT! 

Edited April 18 by cuteboyzay

[Doogle]

55 minutes ago, Shelter said:

@TayDuaStan is mad we like CC 

The way they said in the TTPD thread that album was a lot better than this and Eternal Sunshine  stanning numbers really affects your mental health 

[Johnny Jacobs]

Not this bich singing opera in daughter 

 

I hate her

[Shelter]

12 minutes ago, Doogle said:

The way they said in the TTPD thread that album was a lot better than this and Eternal Sunshine  stanning numbers really affects your mental health 

It's how they cope. It's not even near Taylor's best 

[Comedor]

I'm stallion running, no candle in the wind, you will never see me coming or going but you know whenever I'm here. 
 

[Bey'Knight]

3 hours ago, Cbreezy said:

I really do too. 

 

It's such a hard concept to properly relay to people without sounding moany, dated, and lodged in a time of the past lol. Especially as someone who actively enjoys aspects of what's happening in music NOW.

 

All at once I love somee of what the digital/social media era has brought in (more voice for the consumer, direct connection to artists, sometimes more interesting creative when it comes to marketing e.g. surprise drops, visual albums etc). 

 

But besides that, like you said, this new era of music...especially as a Bey fan...literally means getting less and forcing oneself to be fine with it. The albums themselves are an abundance of brilliance, but everything around it is minimal to the point that we are forced to cling to crumbs as promo. The DC/DIL-4 era lover in me is gagging at how an "appearance" week of release, cliquebait clips, IG posts, and a scrapbook like beencountry.com is what we stans are now subject to as "content" and almost have to force ourselves to be excited by it all. 

 

As a fan with one foot in the past and one foot in the now, it's hard to wrap one's head/acceptance around her approach to her current eras when knowing how much of a standard-bearer she was for promo back in the day. Release weeks were a clean sweep of all the morning shows, GMA Summer Concert Series, Oprah/Tyra performances, commercials ahoy, new video drops. So much...content. And content, performances, interviews etc that we still talk about now. Even her more renegade eras like ST and Lemonade still gave us...more.

 

I actively love Bey's modern ability to gag us and I know the art of pulling that off IS surprise/delayed gratification. Also, as she gets older, so do we. So, I'm also very understanding of most artists' desire to work smarter rather than harder (especially in this pivot to a touring-led market where the release of music by and large is simply a vehicle to get to the real money maker: touring).

 

That said, I guess my little/long piggy-back point from your post is that it's objectively and admittedly less fun being a Bey stan these days. At a literal level. I don't need her to revert to the promo practices of the old days (as times have moved on), but being fed compelling content (of any kind) regularly during an album cycle...some of which actually doesn't even require her physical presence...would make stanning her a much more engaging process. Releasing great albums but juxtaposing them with a bare-bones experience content-wise has been...frustrating as a fan. It's even more grating for me, because I all at once enjoy the regality, deity, and effortlessly cool positioning she has in Pop culture and I **KNOW** a lot of that comes from taking on this laid-back, laissez-faire and almost indie-like approach and swooping in with occasional big moments (see: the visuals). Still, I think there is a very easy and happy medium where she can retain her "cool" while drumming up the content. At least during an album cycle. 

I know we clown her for lack of promo n there's no excuse for the absence of visuals but the arduous promo of yesteryears is not something only Bey sidesteps.
 

Taylor's gonna have the biggest album of the year and you won't see her hitting any of those spots either.  Ari only did SNL n one Interview. Dua's doing a bit more. In general, no established MPG is getting up at 4AM to perform on a tv show anymore.

 

Not to shame her but Pink hit the promo circuit hard for Trustfall and it didn't move the needle one bit. Millennials have their minds made up and Gen-Z dont look to Television to tell them what to listen to. If you miss it purely for the content, i think BTS look would be more effective.

 

Only few hosts have interesting questions for musicians these days. They're either spousing ass-kissing platitudes (the kiwi guy, Zach Sang) or playing for laughs n soundbites (most talkshow hosts). If it's for actual promo, there are proven strategic means of achieving that these day without the artist being in people's faces at all. Parkwood is still very much lacking there.