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BEYONCÉ ACT II COWBOY CARTER (29 MARS 2024) : TEXAS HOLD EM/16 CARRIAGES

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Glory

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il y a 21 minutes, M𝔲𝔰𝔥𝔲 a dit :

 

C'est clair surtout sur BLACKBIIRD, on dirait presque une de leurs chansons.


je pensait surtout à American requiem qui fait crossover the Beatles/Queen.

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Babylon106

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Il y a 3 heures, Cunt a dit :

Rencontre avec les fans au Japon !

 

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Elle est Japon pour promouvoir l’album? 

Ca serait un miracle! Ca fait genre 15ans qu elle y a pas mis les pieds.

Daignerait elle faire un promo tour a l ancienne? 🫢

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EIGHTH STUDIO ALBUM, FROM THE WORLD'S MOST INNOVATIVE ARTIST ARRIVES AFTER A MONUMENTAL TWO-SONG RELEASE AS A NO HOLDS BARRED MULTI-GENRE NOD TO AMERICANA COUNTRY CULTURE

 

THE HISTORY-MAKING "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" LANDED ACROSS NINE DIFFERENT GENRES ON US MUSIC CHARTS AND AT #1 IN VARIOUS INTERNATIONAL TERRITORIES, MAKING BEYONCÉ THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE ARTIST TO REACH #1 ON THE HOT COUNTRY SONGS CHART AND ON THE HOT 100 CHART WITH A COUNTRY SONG.

 

COWBOY CARTER IS AVAILABLE NOW

 

LOS ANGELES, March 29, 2024. Beyoncé's eighth studio album is available worldwide now. act ii COWBOY CARTER arrives today following the successful release of two lead singles, "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" and "16 CARRIAGES" on February 11, Superbowl Sunday.

 
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"TEXAS HOLD 'EM" landed across nine different genres on US music charts including Pop, Hot AC, Country, Rhythmic, Urban, and R&B, and making history with Beyoncé becoming the first Black female artist to reach No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and No. 1 on the Hot 100 Chart with a Country song. It also spent four weeks at the top of the UK music charts.

 

COWBOY CARTER, executive produced by Beyoncé, is about genres, all of them, while deeply rooted in Country. This is the work of an artist who thrives in her freedom to grow, expand, and create limitlessly. It makes no apologies, and seeks no permission in elevating, amplifying, and redefining the sounds of music, while dismantling accepted false norms about Americana culture. It pays homage to the past, honoring musical pioneers in Country, Rock, Classical, and Opera.

 

The album is a cornucopia of sounds that Beyoncé loves, and grew up listening to, between visits and eventually performances at the Houston Rodeo – Country, original Rhythm & Blues, Blues, Zydeco, and Black Folk. The album wraps itself in pure instrumentation in a celebratory authentic gumbo of sounds using among others, the accordion, harmonica, washboard, acoustic guitar, bass ukulele, pedal steel guitar, a Vibra-Slap, the mandolin, fiddle, Hammond B3 organ, tack piano, and the banjo. There's also plenty of handclaps, horseshoe steps, boot stomps on hardwood floors and yes, those are Beyoncé's nails as percussion.

 

"The joy of creating music is that there are no rules," says Beyoncé. "The more I see the world evolving the more I felt a deeper connection to purity. With artificial intelligence and digital filters and programming, I wanted to go back to real instruments, and I used very old ones. I didn't want some layers of instruments like strings, especially guitars, and organs perfectly in tune. I kept some songs raw and leaned into folk. All the sounds were so organic and human, everyday things like the wind, snaps and even the sound of birds and chickens, the sounds of nature."

 

And the inspiration further takes into account Southern and Western culture beyond music, the Rodeo, Western films, and the stories of the original cowboys of the West. It was at the Rodeo where she first saw diversity and camaraderie among people who love Country music and an Americana lifestyle, steeped in community, culinary offerings, grills, and Western gear. And it was for everyone. Among the crowds were Black, Hispanic and Native American Cowboys, who made their valuable, authentic allowances to the culture. Their stories are synonymous with American history.

 

The music is wrapped around an outpouring of passionate, bold storytelling that captivates the listener with Beyoncé's familiar, powerful voice at the center.  Her vocals shine a blinding light on a narrative steeped in truth-telling, revealing hidden histories, and reveling in all the magic you seek when you take an intentional journey back to your roots. Beyoncé is a student of history, and she continues the American music masterclass that started with act i RENAISSANCE in 2022, that was a deep dive into dance music and its creators, and the celebration of those who lived in joy despite being made to feel like outliers.

 

On COWBOY CARTER the work of an artist who created on her own terms, in the absence of rules, persists boldly.  The songs caress, cradle, and encourage the listener's curiosity through 27 gifts of revolutionary surprises, erasing the limitations placed on genre-based music.  As a producer, Beyoncé explores and experiments with chord and key changes effortlessly mixing genres, bending, and blending the unexpected to break down every wall of musical confinement. It is a rare body of work that could so seamlessly hosts remakes of classics like "BLACKBIIRD" by The Beatles and "JOLENE" by Dolly Parton with sonically diverse creations like "SWEET HONEY BUCKIN," "RIIVER DANCE" and "II MOST WANTED."

 

"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 body of work undulates from singing cowboy and Blaxploitation to Spaghetti westerns and fantasy with Beyoncé weaving between personal experiences, honoring Black history, to exaggerated character building. The limited-edition vinyl depicts a microphone in the shape of a gun ala Thelma and Louise running from the law, but the gun is invisible, hyper exaggerated reality.

 

The character, Cowboy Carter was birth from these experiences and inspired by the original Black cowboys of the American West. The word cowboy itself was used in a derogatory way to describe the former slaves as "boys," who were the most skilled and had the hardest jobs of handling horses and cattle, alike. In destroying the negative connotation, what remains is the strength and resiliency of these men who were the true definition of Western fortitude.

 

While RENAISSANCE was a stated rebirth after the Pandemic, COWBOY CARTER is a declarative frequency and academic shift, as the world prepares to shift again, that redefines and rebuilds what is Country and Americana, and who gets to be included. The album opens with "AMERIICAN REQUIEM," a hymn-like alarm that incinerates old ideas about art and the people who create it.  

 

Beyoncé ensconced herself with a stellar group of collaborators, including The-Dream, Pharrell, NO I.D., Raphael Saadiq, Ryan Tedder, Ryan Beatty, Swizz Beatz, Khirye Tyler, Derek Dixie, Ink, Nova Wav, Mamii, Cam, Tyler Johnson, Dave Hamelin, and Shawn "JAY-Z" Carter to find the secret gems in each song. The process, sometimes years in the making, often meant combining pieces of different recordings, changing the instrumentation here, adding a snare there, to land at the perfect spot in the right time.

 

"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."

 

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, Mylie 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.

 

COWBOY CARTER is the musical concoction you did not expect from the world's most innovative artist and producer, who has made it the norm to push the boundaries in delivering art that challenges the senses. It's about culture, legacy, and a critical addition to the American songbook from the most important and creative talent in a Century.

 

"I think people are going to be surprised because I don't think this music is what everyone expects," Beyoncé says, "but it's the best music I've ever made."

 

COWBOY CARTER is available now.

 

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#TEXASHOLDEM
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COWBOY CARTER TRACK LIST: 

 

  1. AMERIICAN REQUIEM
  2. BLACKBIIRD
  3. 16 CARRIAGES
  4. PROTECTOR
  5. MY ROSE
  6. SMOKE HOUR ★ WILLIE NELSON
  7. TEXAS HOLD 'EM
  8. BODYGUARD
  9. DOLLY P
  10. JOLENE
  11. DAUGHTER
  12. SPAGHETTII
  13. ALLIIGATOR TEARS
  14. SMOKE HOUR II
  15. JUST FOR FUN
  16. II MOST WANTED
  17. LEVII'S JEANS
  18. FLAMENCO
  19. The LINDA MARTELL SHOW
  20. YA YA
  21. OH LOUISIANA
  22. DESERT EAGLE
  23. RIIVER DANCE
  24. II HANDS II HEAVEN
  25. TYRANT
  26. SWEET ★ HONEY ★ BUCKIIN'
  27. AMEN
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LeXav

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À chaud : l'album est beaucoup trop long, trop complexe, trop conceptuel. 


Difficile à diriger pour l'instant.

 

C'est la première fois que je ressents ça sur un album de Beyoncé. 

 

Je m'attendais à un album beaucoup plus léger, plus simple et musicalement plus dynamique. Les visuels m'évoquaient ça.

 

Contrairement à Renaissance, je pense que le grand public aura du mal à suivre. 

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Kinderfeld

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il y a 2 minutes, LeXav a dit :

 

 

Contrairement à Renaissance, je pense que le grand public aura du mal à suivre. 

 

Je suis pas si sur de ça. Renaissance était très bitchy rap par moment, celui là est plus mélodieux avec des vraies instruments, elle peut convaincre un autre public. En plus, sa voix déchire vraiment et elle surprend dans ce nouveau style, ça peut faire un effet de surprise au prochain grammy. 

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angedorbes

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OMG cet album! Hyper dense mais effectivement il n'appelle qu'aux visuels et probablement sous forme de film.

À chaud, je suis fan de son choix de proposer énormément de guitare voix, quand on a une voix comme la sienne on n'a pas besoin de vocodage. 

Les influences de Queen, Fleetwood mac, Dolly p et Beatles entre autres sont dingues sur un album de Beyoncé, elle va dérouter du monde avec cet album et je le trouve plus profond que Renaissance.

En tubes évidents, Most wanted absolument magnifique duo j'ai eu la larme dès le départ. Bodyguard, évidemment groovy et percutant et probablement Tyrant très entêtant. 

Pour le coup, je suis complètement saisi par les ballades country , sa voix est toujours aussi belle et encore on n'a pas eu de live.

Hâte de voir les chiffres de ce projet

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