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Beyonce's Country Album · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American mamas, Dear Mama's, is Beyonce's new album
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  really a country album? Well, let's ask our American mama's Alma Mama joining
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  us now our American mamas, Terryndeville and Kimberly Burlison. Beyonce has a new
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  album out, Cowboy Album. A whole bunch of country music songs on there,
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  and she does duets with Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus and a bunch of
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  other folks. I have not listened to the whole album. I have listened
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  to large sections of it. Is this a country album? It's the number
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  one It's the number one country album in the country. She's the first black
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  woman in the history of the world to have the number one country album.
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  I don't believe that. So I saw ABC it posted yesterday it said Beyonce
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  becomes first black woman to lead Billboard's top country album in sixty year history.
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  And then I went to all the comments, this is ABC. So ABC,
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  you know, I kind of they're the other side. I left they
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  are so I look at the comments. I mean every I'd say ninety five
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  percent of the comments were like this is bull fake ratings to build hype,
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  fake hype to sell records. This is no country music. Fans don't approve.
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  And I have a little inside scoop on the album just because we know
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  somebody that sung on the album. Oh and so she herself has said it
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  isn't doing as well with country fans as they thought it would. So I'm
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  like, what's the truth, what's the truth? Okay, so it because
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  I've listened to the songs, I don't think there's a single song on there
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  I would have categorized as a country song. She does, She does a
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  remake of Jolene, the quot essential Dolly Parton song, right, and is
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  there anybody in country music bigger than Dolly Parton? And yet the remake it
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  sounds like a top forty remake of it rather than a country Well not only
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  that, Stephen, but she changes the entire message. The reason that Jolene
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  was so that you know that we could all kind of relate to it was
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  because the main character of this song was vulnerable. The main character was like,
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  please don't take that man. Well, you listen to Beyonce's version of
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  it, and she's like, oh, will cut you take him? And
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  see what happens to your life, and so it like completely reimagines the song
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  and you don't relate to it. It's kind of like that whole you know,
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  Billy Bad a woman who's gonna just you know, take you to town
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  if you do. And then she did the remake of the Paul McCartney I
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  think Blackbird. Oh yeah, yeah yeah, and so it's like, yeah,
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  she readd it, but here's what I think. But again that's that
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  wasn't a country song when it came out. No, no, no,
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  no, I mean she put the little twang they you know, how you
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  can make songs sound country just by adding a fiddle or something like that.
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  Yeah, she's like that, but it really is about the production company and
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  who they choose to promote. It's kind of like, do you a'all remember
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  Garth Brooks? Was that Chris Gaines? He lost like one hundreds something pounds
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  and then his music company tried to pull one over on us, and they
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  were and they let these songs out. It was skinny Skinny, anorexic version
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  of him, of Garth Brooks, and his name was you know, Chris
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  Gaines is a goth looking Yeah, and it didn't work because it's not believable,
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  right, same thing with Beyonce, you can she's a phenomenal singer.
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  No one's discounting that she's amazing, But when you put her in a genre
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  just so you can say, this is the first black woman, we recognize
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  what's happening. We're not stupid, You're so right. I do think this
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  was a challenge for her. It's just a challenge to get on this particular
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  because I don't think that she cares about country music or country music fans.
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  She said she grew up in She grew up in Houston. She used to
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  go to the Houston Rodeo, biggest rodeo in the world, right, Houston
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  Rodeo. And for something to be said for that, Darth Brooks would play
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  there, Dolly Parton play the Houston Rodeos, where anybody who has anything to
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  do with country music, you play the Houston Rodeo. And she grew up
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  in Houston and watched some of that. So maybe there is maybe she does.
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  Maybe, but usually she's at the top of her game right now,
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  at the top. She's a Taylor Swift, you know, right there at
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  the top. Because usually, you know, whenever mainstream singers come over to
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  the countryside. It's usually when there's been a lax in their career. They
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  need something they need like a boost, and the country music fans are very
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  loving, very supportive. And so that's why Darius Rucker. I was singing
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  to Darius because he was with Hooty and the Blowfish and they kind of had
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  their run and they were very successful. Even when he was on Hoodie and
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  the Blowfish, he was the country boy in that band. He loved Yeah,
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  he loved singing those country songs. He had a cowboy hat. He
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  grew up in the South. He grew up in the rural part of the
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  South with boots, and he made the transition to country music and it worked
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  just fine. And you know, he had a number one album, And
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  Darius Rucker happens to be black, but it was one hundred percent buy in
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  from the country music fans. I agree, it's all about the fans.
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  It's the same with Jelly Roll. I don't see him as a country music
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  singer at all. He's like R and B. But it's interesting because he
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  is attatched himself, jumps across authentic in the country for a and so so
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  I think Beyonce, the songs you know you can redo. I don't know
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  another artist that could come up from nothing and redo these particular songs and make
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  it. You have to have the production company behind you promoting you. Well,
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  she had to have Dolly. Yes, Dolly had to be okay with
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  that. So that's kind of interesting. That is interesting. So Dolly had
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  to be okay with this. But look, Dolly just had her album rock
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  Star. Yeah she did, and I would argue that's some of her best
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  work. Yes, yeah, So even though Dolly's been country forever, she
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  was actually able to make an album that seemed legitimate in the genre that it
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  was, even though it wasn't. She wrote those songs. That is Dolly.
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  She didn't remake anybody. She wrote those songs, and she's saying,
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  you know, Dolly is She's a legend. She's a living legend. And
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  so I feel like that it comes across authentically again, and that's why we
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  buy into it. If you like descar America mam was a question, Go
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  the MoMA's button turning out of I can't believe for listen. Thank you so
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  much, thank you