COWBOY CARTER - Beyoncé ★ Swifties React

I HAVE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT CHATS AND REACTS REACTING TO MOTHER YONCÉ!!! IT WAS SOMETHING I DIDN'T KNOW I WANTED AND NEEDED!!!!

Cowboy Carter is Act II in Beyoncé’s 3-Act project. The first Act is Renaissance which was released in 2022. That’s why all the i’s are doubled in the tracklist. This album has been ready for years actually! It was supposed to be released as Act I but when the pandemic was happening she decided to released Renaissance first as she thought that people needed to dance. :)

Skipping the opera section of Daughter is a crime just so you know.

i’m soooo happy you guys went into this project with such an open mind! even when you didn’t fully understand a song or the concept of it, you did your research to get it right. from a beyonce fan, THANK YOU! i will go into taylor’s project with the same mindset and am looking forward to it

“I raised this man, i raised his kids” is makes me scream everytime lol. WHAT A LINE

I’m calling it. This is AOTY because of its artistry, excellence, and cultural significance.

I'm Brazilian and I'm very proud to say that Beyoncé sampled a Brazilian funk in the song spaghetti!! The Perfect Combo

the way you guys said she gave lioness energy when she made the lion king soundtrack and she voiced nala… IM UNWELL

Beyonce previously went into country with her song “Daddy’s Lessons” on her Lemonade album. When she performed the song at the CMA’s she gave the awards show its highest 15 minutes section in CMA’s ever history. Unfortunately, the country field isn’t fond of black artists going into the genre because Beyonce was faced with tons of racist comments and CMA’s deleted the video of her performance. She recently came out and admitted to how uncomfortable her and her team felt while performing for the performance. That’s one of the reasons why she created this album and also she grew up listening to country music since her grandfather was a huge country listener. Fun fact about the horse of the album cover is a Lipizzan horse, that breed of horse are born black or gray but as they mature they turn white. It’s super symbolic to the history of country music. Also, Linda Martell who is apart of two tracks was first commercially successful black female artist in the country music field, Linda Martell. Her song "Color Him Father" was the highest-charting country single by a black female artist on the US Country chart for 55 years. Unfortunately, she only had the chance to make one album before being blackballed from country music Also, Cowboy Carter was supposed to be the first album of the trilogy but Beyoncé felt like it’ll be too deep and depressing to educate people on the history of country music since the pandemic just ended, she wanted people to have fun and be free with the Renaissance album! That album was so spectacular and masterpiece! It was my most streamed album of 2022 and 2023 lol

the two i’s are symbolic of this being act 2 of her 3 part album

1. American Requiem - lays the cards out on the table about the history of the country, bad ideas, good ideas, judgments. The racist judgment against her that no matter how skilled and qualified she is they will never accept her. Acoustic country: 2. Blackbird - Paul McCartney wrote it for black women during civil rights movement 3. 16 Carriages - tells the story of her childhood sacrifice 4. Protector - dedicated to her daughter 5. My Rose - dedicated to her son 6. Smoke Hour with Willie Nelson introduces the “Outlaw Western Country” portion of the album and begins to shape almost like a movie. 7. Texas Hold Em - meets a man and tells him to lay his guard down and be vulnerable 8. Bodyguard - she reveals her possessiveness over him 9. Dolly P - Dolly Parton actually requested Beyoncé cover this 2 years prior to the album coming out 10. Jolene - Beyoncé reveals her indignation over a woman trying to mess with her happy marriage and family 11. Daughter - she fantasizes over the murder of Jolene and then begins mourning in a haunting Italian Opera 12. Spaghetti - a social criticism towards American nationalists who used to call Spaghetti westerns made in Italy, unAmerican despite them hiring American actors, so she surprises everyone with a country accent rap song as a way to say, this is still country…. 13. Alligator Tears - calls out peoples fake criticism and victimization. 14. Smoke Hour 2 Introduces the Modern Pop Country part of the album 15. Just For Fun 16. 2 Most Wanted 17. LEVII JEANS 18. Flamenco 19. The Linda Martell Show - forewarns us that Beyoncé is warmed up and about to start doing what she does best, which is genre bending to perfection to create unique art. Let’s us know the rest of the album is for fun. 20. Yaya - displays historic successful fusion of genres that created rock 21. Oh Louisiana - Let’s us know that her Louisiana roots are what educate her musical choices Experimental Genre bending: 22. Desert Eagle 23. Riverdance 24. 2 Hands 2 Heaven 25. Tyrant 26. Sweet / Honey / Buckin 27. AMEN - a masterful close and social criticism that ties right back to the first song ❤️ MASTERPIECE!!!

Buckin is a type of majorette dancing, which is a part of black southern culture

This is the Swiftie energy I live for. Two badass babes loving music from ALL of our musical Queens 👑

Renaissance was House and Cowboy Carter is country, so people are speculating that Act III will be rock, thus encompassing genres where the Black community have a deep history with but are often excluded from. But that's still just speculation, we don't know what she'll do for act III but it's exciting!!

The title of this album is interesting because Carter refers not only to Beyonce's last name, but also to Carter Family, a group considered as having made country music famous in the 1930s, while they stole the spotlight from black people

taylor and beyoncé are my girls so this is EVERYTHINGGG

16 carriages always makes me tear up. It's honestly a perfect song for me I can't get over it

Post Malone being featured in both queens' albums is a total blessing fr. I can't think of any unproblematic male artists to achieve this rare collaboration!❤❤

the lore of this album runs so deep it’ll be studied in universities for years just like self-titled, lemonade and renaissance have been. the concept of a woman’s drunken night spent listening to a radio station is SO well executed. she goes from lamenting about america’s horrid past, to reminiscing on her childhood, to struggling as a parent, to imagining her mother’s heartache and seeking revenge, to getting high and experiencing a bad trip, to falling in love and losing it then finding it again, imagining herself in a movie, coming down, picking herself up and leaving the bar. all of this executed while also paying homage to americana/folk and country’s black roots, weaving together interpolations and samples from a whole host of other collaborators. she really is a master of her craft AND a student of the past, always paying homage to those who came before her in order to push culture and art FORWARD. 34 years in this business and she ain’t slowing down yet. a LEGEND. many laymans will continue to appear foolish due to their lack of comprehension regarding this album and indeed her career as a whole.

Beyoncé said in an interview that some of the songs are inspired by the story of western movies (Killers of the flower moon for example, II MOST WANTED is most likely inspired by Thelma and Louise) so not every song is from her perspective. Also fans have theorized that some songs are from her mother Tina's pov because she's from Louisiana (she sings that in Jolene) and since Renaissance was a tribute to her uncle Johnny this could be dedicated to Tina, who even said this was her favourite album from her daughter ❤