Beyoncé said of her new record ‘Cowboy Carter’, this “ain’t a Country album. This is a ‘Beyoncé’ album”. In fact, it manages to be both, says André-Naquian Wheeler in a review for Vogue.
For decades, Beyoncé has made genre hopping a hallmark of her career. The Houston-born singer’s music has embraced everything from reggaeton to EDM to rock . A single album, or even song, can crisscross sounds with reckless abandon. Yet with her latest album, Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé breaks from her usual pattern – slightly – and homes in on a pretty specific theme: making the genre of country music, in particular, fit her, not the other way around.
But Beyoncé’s more familiar hip-hop- and pop-leaning sensibilities are in evidence, too, making for a sprawling and ambitious album that touches on everything from adultery to familial roots to outlaw lovebirds. And yet, amazingly, it all fits together. Among the record’s most poignant through lines is a searching interiority – particularly on tracks such as “Just for Fun,” “16 Carriages,” and “Oh Louisiana.
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