Cowboy Carter reaction thread

I’m listening to it right now. So far it’s really good.

The Gen Z song titles are really off-putting.

|| HANDS || HEAVEN

SWEET ⭐️ HONEY ⭐️ BUCKIN

I love it.

The first song is atrocious.

The Yassss Kweens would ferociously clack their circuit fans if she put a mic in the toilet bowl and recorded herself farting.

16 Carriages is good.

She did horrible on her Jolene “cover”.

I like Bodyguard and Sweet ★ Honey ★ Buckin'

She has become a talker like Lorde instead of a singer. Bad.

Most of the songs have that Ketamine tempo so popular with Gen Z.

More pointless interludes than a Janet Jackson album.

Just moaning, screaming and talking. No singing heard yet.

FLOP.

Jolene is great.

Jolene cover should have been so easy but she fucked it up

R14 is deaf.

Bodyguard is probably the best song on the album.

YA YA is a lot of fun

Piece of shit

I am not a Beyonce fan. At all. But I *almost* liked the songs I listened to: Bodyguard, the Miley Cyrus one, and one other (can't remember what it was called.)

They sound a bit like Taylor Swift songs, tbh. Simple and clean and very Americana. Nothing special. But I don't hate them.

Doesn’t even sound like her, probably isn’t.

I was hoping I would like her cover of Jolene better.

She just obliterated Blackbird. It's one of the best songs ever written and she turned it into an embarrassing over-produced mess.

Overhyped, as usual.

Love the hologram duet with Patsy Cline!

Sounds and smells like a shart in a Louis Vuitton dressing room. Cowboy? Not so much.

This is so boring. She's not a true artist. She has her devotees, but I'll never understand how she gets actual acclaim. Lana Del Rey is light years ahead of her.

The song with Miley isn’t bad.

That was the one I liked too, R28

R29 I was also underwhelmed by Blackbird.

Ok YA YA slaps hard.

From what I’ve heard this album is better than Renaissance.

R31 is it a bop? Does it slap?

R33 I’ve been mixed on Beyoncé’s recent albums but I can confirm it is indeed a bop.

I like the Devil Went Down to Georgia cover.

The reviews are like Get Out, a bunch of white journalists & critics pissing their pants to criticize anything because they’re scared they’ll lose their jobs.

I'm curious. Beyonce and JZ had the kids at the Superbowl, Blue Ivy, and Rumi. the two girls. But Rumi is a twin, and her brother is no where to be seen. So I Went to Beyonce's instagram, and of course it is 99% Beyonce posing, but there were a couple pics with the family, and only one included their son. Fans on Instagram are asking where he is and of course they say nothing.

R37 he has Autism.

I like it.

[quote]Ok YA YA slaps hard.

I like the "These Boots are Made for Walkin" and "Good Vibrations" samples, the rest seems gimmicky to me. Actually, the samples seem gimmicky too but at least they're tuneful.

I have found the entire album an irritating exercise of constant posturing and navel-gazing. The Hood Rat Dollywood Barbie shtick wears thin very quickly and all that's left is an extremely uneven album that is undeservingly overhyped. The majority of "Country" songs are light, MOR rock tunes that sound like they've been taken from the mid-70s (Bodyguard, Flamenco, Levi's Jeans), while the "fusion" numbers are hideous: Desert Eagle, Sweet Honey Buckin', Tyrant, 2 Hands 2 Heaven and Riverdance all sound like the dull, beat-driven hip hop/R&B from any of her previous 3 albums, adorned with a few banjo and acoustic guitar flourishes to make them "Country". Still, they're all substandard.

Ya Ya is ridiculous - a chaotic rock song in which she lazily pretends to be socially conscious, in spite of the fact that she grew up in the upper middle class economic bracket (certainly not the socio-cultural one), and has gone on to become fabulously wealthy. How can we take seriously the haphazardly written lyrics, when this is a woman whose greatest struggle in life has been having to decide whether she wears Balenciaga or Christian Dior for a red carpet event?

Her covers of Jolene and Blackbird are horrendous, and I wonder why she has felt the need to ruin Jolene by changing the lyrics and adopting a sassy Mammy attitude while singing it, on top of adding unnecessary percussion that distorts the song's rhythm. Blackbird is treated with a little bit more care, but she sucks all the life out of it and turns it into a stripped down R&B ballad that is simply soporific.

I can see why the caricaturesque Texas Hold' Em has been chosen as the first single, as it at least affects to be a Country song. The rest is rather flimsy and I have particularly hated Oh Louisiana, which sounds like it was recorded by that insufferable Crazy Frog character.

Honestly, I will never understand how someone who is clearly a good singer and has all the best resources at her disposal, keeps producing such awful material.

She needs to sit down with David Foster, or better yet go out to Malibu and stay with them for a couple months, and record an album of standards and ballads. This trash can music is not working.

^^said no one ever.

I hate her voice unless it's blended with other voices in a high energy anthem like Put A Ring On It or the Charlie's Angels theme song.

R43 except I just did. And you brainwashed yasss kweens would eat it up.

What’s so stupid is if she had just made some traditional three chord country and exercised some restraint she would have knocked it out of the park, but these songs sound ugly, the melodies are horrible.

R41 FTW! I agree with everything you said and IMO it applies to more than just this one album.

Luckily this abortion will be forgotten by the time the Grammys come around again

Halo is a great song.

I don't hate her voice, but it's just not that distinctive. I think she needs gimmicks and themes and big production numbers to hide the fact that her voice is kind of average.

Her best performance

Beyonce and Taylor Swift are a lot alike.

Beyonce’s voice is only unique because of all the tricks she does, trilling etc. if she sang straight it’s very average

She doesn't have the voice to sing standards. Anyway, it doesn't matter what the public thinks of the album. We'll be TOLD by every media outlet everywhere that we are just darn lucky to be living in a time when we can soak up such genius.

Beyoncé told us, in the most Sasha Fierce terms, “This ain’t a country album. It’s a Beyoncé album.”

She wasn’t playing.

She blasted past the detractors to become the first Black woman to top Billboard's Hot Country Songs with “Texas Hold ‘Em,” a gliding banjo-tinged single that factored in the requisite touchstones of whiskey, dive bars and crickets chirping in the background.

“Cowboy Carter,” however, is more than a genre-trapping production. It’s a deep stylistic smorgasbord that gets scattershot in the final third of the album’s 27 tracks (several of them interludes) with trap beats and fiddles vying for the front row.

All the asslickers are at it again ✊🏾🕍

BODYGUARD is the only track I listens to completion.

She’s so frustrating.

*listened

LMAO

R47 - no one wants to hear anything from David Foster except an ancient fag like you.

Ridiculous. Music is dead. Critics are bought and paid for.

R60 you’re not completely wrong, because tasteless hood rat trash like you would rather hear screeching and screaming with the sound of metal trash can lids being slammed together than music with a correct rhythm. Don’t forget to throw in some “shit” and “bitches” for good measure.

[quote]Beyoncé revives a dying genre on instantly timeless country album

Country music is dying?

R60, ?????

R52 Taylor tries to be sexy and Beyonce just is.

R62 - and who do you think listens to Beyonce, asshole?

I don't listen to Beyonce but I must say I liked Single Ladies (Put a ring on it). Catchy.

R66 I probably shouldn’t honestly answer that querstion.

I’d rather listen to a construction crew’s buzz saw than this shit

Apropos of nothing in particular:

"New research has revealed that pop music lyrics really have been dumbed down over the last 40 years.

The words in English-language tracks have become ‘simpler’ and ‘more repetitive’ since 1980, say scientists."

People on here throwing out hood rat, do you ancient bitches even know what a hood rat is or are you pulling this from your memories of listening to Don Imus or Rush Limbaugh?

More like Billy Carter.

All I know is that any time I turn on a radio, whether tuned to pop, rock, or country, there's more than a 50% chance that it will be playing that Texas Hold 'Em song and ruin my mood.

R56 it’s nauseating. Her ass gets eaten more than anyone with maybe the exception of Taylor Swift.

Ok… She has a song on the album called “My Rosebud”. WTF! Guess her asshole is all stretched out and prolapsed.

RIIVERDANCE - the chorus has lyrics like “Bounce on that shit, no hands” it will appeal to all of her stans.

Prediction from me:

Several weeks at number one on the billboard 200 album chart

Album of the year at the next Grammy awards

It will be on every music critics year end list for favorite album. ESPECIALLY everyone working at Rolling Stone.

All to my chagrin

R61 did they shoot the cover photos at Dolly’s Dixieland Stampede in Branson, MO before it closed??

Who listens to music on a fucking radio. When I'm driving I have my playlist on. I listen to what I want to listen to. YOu must be ancient.

R78 sounds like an idiot