BEYONCE Cowboy Carter Album REVIEW! | The SuperJersh Show [#48]
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Great video! Keep up the hard work. I'd love to see you guys review more of Beyoncé's self-titled or Act One to round it out.
Ok I’d put this at around a 9 too. Although it’s lengthy with all those interludes and such, compared to RENAISSANCE I think this seems a bit more instant and accessible. I’d say most of RENAISSANCE is a bit more experimental, theres only a handful of it’s 16 tracks I would say are a bit more radio friendly compared to COWBOY CARTER (plus theres only maybe one song I’d call an interlude on that), however this one also has a few of those songs flowing into each other towards that last act that sound a bit more mixed like RIIVERDANCE and II HANDS II HEAVEN that a are a bit like the run like a DJ set on RENAISSANCE.
Maybe there was room for some tracklisting tweaks or maybe some trims, but All in all I think it did pretty well. Theres also the bit of a catch 22 IMO that while yes, part of the backstory behind exploring country and Beyonce doing some more traditional sounds then also some more experimental stuff putting a bit of her spin on it and having some fun with it, was the previous ‘Country’ song on LEMONADE getting some side eye at the CMA’s, OTOH some takes I’ve read talk about how how those few repeated references to genres (double up with Spaghetti and also Linda Martell), Dolly’s intro saying how the Becky story is similar to Jolene, etc may have also come across as perhaps over-explaining instead of just putting it out there, 'were doing country... yes, and...?' and let the music speak for itself IYKWIM.
But then you might get some if you said having Jolene be reinterpreted is redundant, Becky was dealt with on LEMONADE its a bit of a rehash, as ‘well hang on, why CANT she cover/reinterpret Jolene?’ and the gatekeeping goes the other way kinda thing. There was even spec that she mightn’t have any collabs with white country artists at all, but then again that goes against that theme of inclusion for all that you guys put forward, and how its making a point and telling a story but also not doing it in a divisive way. YMMV. Anyways sound wise I really liked Bodyguard, that beat reminds me of something cant quite name atm, My top 3 would be interchangeable atm I think. Texas is catchy AF and Ya Ya brings a lot of things together.
Post Malone has a cool pop singing voice in some of his songs, you should check out ‘Circles’, ‘Sunflower’, ‘I Like You’ (with Doja Cat) or last years ‘Chemical’. I thought the groove of Tyrant and lyrics might lend itself to maybe a mechanical bull type visual (if they eventually materialise once Act III comes). Some of those that mixed a bit with Pop or R&B maybe reminiscent of Madonna with songs like ‘Don’t Tell Me’ on MUSIC (2000) which had country aesthetics visually too. Also suggestions for some other ones where Pop artists do a ‘country pop’ direction on a song or an album backdrop, like say both from 2018 JT’s MAN OF THE WOODS or Kylie Minogue’s GOLDEN (just had its 6th anniversary this weekend) for some more recent examples. My ranking for the moment below.
This album is meant to serve as a musical education of the African Americans historic place w/in Country music, which would sound like Irish Folk (great in It's own right, mind you) if it weren't for the Blues & Gospel of the enslaved Africans. This includes the BANJO, which was created by enslaved Africans in the Caribbean then, later brought to The States.
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.
Fun Fact...
This album was actually Act i, initially, and Renaissance was meant as Act ii.
In lieu of the pandemic, Bey decided to hold off on putting this one out.
Once the shutdowns ended and we were able to get "back outside" she and her team decided that RENAISSANCE should go out first - because it was what the world needed. Dance, free expression, fun and partying.
So this county genre-blend album has just been sitting for a few years and was supposed to be the FIRST album release, which is WILD when you consider it.
Yeah I read that too. Also with the special limited edition cover and vinyls missing 5 songs from the full version newstory atm, apparently a working title for this Act was BEYINCE, which is apparently her mother's maiden surname but they misspelled it as BEYONCE on Tina's birth certificate a bit like Oprah and thus Beyonce's name is that way. Also some people have posted that AMEN segues well into IM THAT GIRL (opening track on RENAISSANCE). It does seem like an ambitious project, sitting on all this stuff and still the rumours that the visuals are all interconnected so she might release them at the end of ACT III (which yes, is rumoured to be centred around Rock music). Rumours are that the base ideas may have been there for some time but she's been also refining them as we go through release phase, like for instance Miley's addition to II MOST WANTED is speculated to only have been recorded after the Grammy's this year.
Daughter is about Jolene. It's saying hell has no fiery as a woman scorn 😊
For me it feels like this is Beyonce’s OK Computer/Kid A moment. A beautiful blending of genres and influences, while also taking risks by taking an artistic left turn.
Absolutely love it.
Jersh. Thank you for your explanation on the double entendres lol lolllll
No. Hands. 🤠😂
All I could think of was "SURFBOARDT" in that moment lol, which whenever you guys get to doing SELF TITLED (2013) will become clear! haha. He has heard of Becky with the good hair though, thats from 'Sorry' on LEMONADE (He's also reacted to Formation, Hold Up, and Don't Hurt Yourself from previously). Another song from Lemonade that is relevant to the backstory of Cowboy Carter is 'Daddy Lessons' which she performed at the CMA's in 2016 and got a similar gatekeeping reception that the country radio initially gave Texas Hold'em and 16 Carriages this year.
I’d like to c this live album performed live on tour or even better, set to a live/broadway musical or something -that would be cool.
We definitely talk about the live performance possibilities, thx for watching/listening! :)