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Today I’m reacting to Beyoncé’s new album “Cowboy Carter”!! Act II of Renaissance!
0:00 intro
2:42 Review Tracklist
3:33 American Requiem
10:43 Blackbird
13:49 16 Carriages
17:55 Protector
21:16 My Rose
22:55 Smoke Hour X Willie Nelson
23:34 Texas Hold ‘Em
26:40 Bodyguard
29:13 Dolly P
29:32 Jolene
34:02 Daughter
37:18 Spaghetti
40:19 Alligator Tears
43:10 Smoke Hour II
44:28 Just For Fun
48:12 II Most Wanted
51:55 LEVII’S JEANS
54:21 FLAMENCO
57:01 The Linda Martell Show
57:25 YA YA
1:01:55 Oh Louisiana
1:02:29 Desert Eagle
1:03:42 Riverdance
1:06:14 II Hands II Heaven
1:10:16 Tyrant
1:12:22 Sweet x Honey x Buckin’
1:15:25 Amen
1:17:56 Final Thoughts, Favorite Tracks
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Warning: I talk A LOT in the beginning!!😂😭 I’m so sorry😭 If you made it all the way through to the end of the video, you’re a LEGEND! 🫶🏾🫶🏾Speaking of legends, this was my first time listening to a Beyonce album and man…was it an experience🙌🏾! Let me know if you guys want more Beyonce stuff in the near future!! I hope y’all enjoy the video!!❤️❤️
This by far is the best reaction review of the album. I mean a real breakdown of the album. I mean getting into the lyrics. A lot of people didn't get into the lyrics but you did a great job of it. And you know a lot of the other reactions were ooh and on. You had a lot of that but you also broke it down perfectly. Thank you!
Do Renaissance and do lemonade!
Sis you are so behind I’m so excited for you to deep dive into Beyoncé
What a great reaction
In American Requiem, the house she may be referring to is they had a big house which they had to move out of, and they moved to an apartment. Her father quit his corporate job to manage Beyonce and her group. In 16 Carriages, she mentioned watching her mother crying, and her father lying….her father cheated, and fathered 2 children from 2 different women…
great reaction🎉
can i just say ur becoming one of my fav reactors for music <3
WHAT
You NEED to react to the Lemonade film and album
One thing about Beyonce is that she creates a true EXPERIENCE with her albums
I love your reaction do more bey😊
FINALLY SOMEONE WHOS THINKS GENIUS HER LYRICS IN JOLENE – MOST OF THE REACTORS DIDNT KNOW THE LYRICS OF THE ORIGINAL JOLENEEEEEEEE ❤🎉
I love your reactions so much 😭😭😭
WELCOME to the hive 😂🐝
you NEED to listen to LEMONADE
PLEASE REACT TO A MELANIE MARTINEZ ALBUM
I HAVE SO MANY ARTISTS I COULD SUGGEST FOR YOU ONCE YOU DO EVERYTHING YOU WANNA DO
In American Requiem she is addressing the hate and intolerance she has experienced from when she performed at the CMA’s. They were outright racist to her. You’re right in your assessment of her rejection and mistreatment she received.
Not to diminish Bey’s songwriting capabilities, however keep in mind, she works many talented writers and has frequently taken sole songwriting credit for songs she didn’t write herself. Tiffany Red (industry writer) has a whole thing with Parkwood right now about them not paying writers fairly for their work. All allegedly, of course
A few additions to your spot on analysis of American Requiem:
Pretty house we never settled in can also be referring to the US which was founded and started with this idea of freedom and liberty but hasn’t materialized so far.
Cleansing my father’s sins can also refer to how her father was previously her manager and she conformed to the standards presented to generations before. As well as in more general terms of the history of country music (and the US, of course lol)
Can you hear me or do you fear me? Do you even hear my art, my story, my pain? Do you see me as human or are you just so afraid of my existence that the parts you fear become all I am?
Looka there: her use of a common “country” phrase, with her natural country accent, which I believe also ties into the hear/fear me line: do you hear this country accent? Is this country enough or you too scared to acknowledge/admit it
Someone at the CMAs in the audience shouted “Get that black bih off the stage” when she finished her performance
Your the only one that caught the lead into Dolly P and Jolene from bodyguard
React to her album THE GIFT for lyricism
Yes!!! You have to feel this album not just listen!! I loved your analysis
I also wanted to add to the discussion about American Requiem. This is the meaning I drew from the lyrics: When she said, "hello my old my old friend, You change your name, but not the ways you play pretend," I kinda thought she was talking about the way racism has changed over time, it just has a new face. Racism existed and the beginning and it continues now. For example, the way she was treated at the CMA's and throughout her career. I saw a creator on tiktok point out that the beginning chords are from Tchaikovsky's Overture 1812, which has become a symbolic song played on Independence Day. She is taking an American "anthem" and turning it into a funeral or remembrance of the freedom that was promised but never came for many ("a pretty house we never settled in") because, like her rejection as a Black woman at the CMA's, many people were "rejected" and not granted citizenship or rights when our country began (you can also see this same mentality in the way people said she wasn't a "real American" or that she hated America around this time). In fact, Black people were specifically and emphatically rejected from the benefits of citizenship (we were not invited into the "pretty house"). And, who made it that way? The Founding Fathers (cleanse me of my Father's sins i.e., the legacy of racism, the fact that all these groups of people weren't even considered citizens at the beginning and didn't have rights, etc.). She is shedding light on this history, the rejection, and asking if people will stand for something or if they will be fair-weather friends? We are mourning the America that could have been and could still be if we really try.
That's what I got out of the song and it makes me cry every timeeee, but I could be wrong!
Some really excellent historians on YouTube have done deep dives into all of the references to American history sprinkled throughout this album, and there are many.
listen to Lemonade, its a whole experience and journey
Love love love the reaction
Beyoncé’s singles are typically fun, but one thing about her is that the singles are never her best songs. She’s an album girlie. The other songs on her albums are bangers. Her singles give you a taste, but her albums as a whole are amazing. To me 16 carriages and Texas Hold ‘em sound better when you listen to the entire album, than when you listen to them as singles.
I guess you did not listen to any song on Lemonade🍋??
On 16 Carriages she say "imma cook, clean but I won't fold" so take note of the hardwork she has been doing on stage since childhood so she will drop music, perform but will never fail based on her experience. Even on Survivor she said "Even in more years to come I'm still gon'be here" and now rush straight to the last line of 16 Carriages "Still see your faces when you close your eyes" keeping the context of CMA and racism she experiences in mind she said I stil see your faces closing your eyes while I'm on stage singing, you clearly feeling my music but still say the opposite. It's not the first time she says such a thing, even on "Heated" from Renaissance "Monday I'm overrated, Tuesday on my dick"
1st time watching one of your videos. This project has a lot of meaning and references that Black people are intrinsic to the foundation of most popular music in the US and Beyonce is educating, honoring and spotlighting past and current Black country artists. It’s really a special project.
Girl u good just look up some of her songs 😂😂😂😂😂😂
You got it spot on for the first song 😊 you put them pieces right together 😊
To be honest we haven't heard her like this either 😅😅and blackbird is a cover song written by a white man for a black women he was dating at the time 😊
Girl yo reaction too bodyguard 😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤
Blackbird was written by Paul McCartney from the Beetles. It was written to represent black women during the civil rights movement. It’s been covered tons of times. Her cover is important because she is singing with other black female country singers.
(gonna use my own comment to comment for each song lolol) But for the tweet you reference, in an IG post caption Beyonce does say that that experience led her to making this album but also someone who was in the audience that night said that a woman sitting in front of him said "get that black b*tch off the stage" when Beyonce came out with The Chicks. So i can only imagine the energy she was performing in. Also thinking about the history of music in the US and racism (the album referencing the Chitlin Circuit) not just in the music industry, that song is an ode to the death of the American dream and how that dream wasn't truly meant for black americans.
Please watch the Lemonade visual album!
Loved this reaction 🫶🏾❤️
I think American Requiem is an ode to the soul of country music, digging up what’s been buried(black artist in country)The Big ideas. And ending the album reclaiming the genre, saying the old ideas now are buried where the big ones were🤎
Blackbird was written by Paul McCartney from the Beatles about the struggles of black women in the 60s civil rights movement. It been covered many times but it fit this theme so well