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LOS ANGELES Nothin really ends / For things to stay the same they have to change again, Beyonc sings on Act ll: Cowboy Carter, the opening lines of the opening track, Ameriican Requim.ge..
In the days leading up to Cowboy Carter, the pop superstar said this aint a Country album but a Beyonc album positioning herself in opposition to country music's rigid power structures and emphasizing her ability to work with the style with her latest genre-defying opus..
Country veterans, too, appear: Willie Nelson is a rough-around-the-edges radio DJ on the fictional station KNTRY the resulting effect is an alternative America where terrestrial country radio does not overwhelming prefer playing white performers; snippets of Sister Rosetta Tharpe's Down by the River Side, Chuck Berrys Maybellene and Roy Hamiltons 1957 Dont Let Go bled into Nelsons smoky voice..
If listeners position Act ll: Cowboy Carter next to Act l: Renaissance, they might view the record as a continued dialogue in the Beyonc mythos: Lemonade established Beyoncs dedication to Black empowerment..
Effortlessly and momentously Cowboy Carter weaves canonized classics into the same breath as Beyonc's country music evolutions and Black music history preservations..
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