Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "BEYONCE - COWBOY CARTER ALBUM REVIEW"

Episode Date: April 11, 2024

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticNotorious Mass Effect - Deep Dive into Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter"Analytic Dreamz analyzes the cultural impact and music industry disruption caused by Beyoncé's genre-bending album "Cowboy Carter".This segment dives into:Record-breaking streams on Spotify and Amazon MusicChart-topping success on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chartGenre-fusion and collaborations with Country Music legendsBeyoncé's exploration of Country Music's history and desire for inclusivityJoin the conversation about "Cowboy Carter" and its influence on music genres and cultural boundaries.Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Beyonce has taken over the country music genre. So Beyonce just put out an album titled Cowboy Carter. Now, of course, this is my review, but not only is a review, I call myself analytic dreams, and best believe me, we are going to be getting into these dreamlike numbers because this was. probably one of the best albums I've heard in a long time. It reminded me of the weekend's Starboy the way he completely changed his artist's direction in a way they ended up being a staple in the artist's discography. Because of course, everybody remembers Starboy for the unique sound that he was starting to transform into that he finally perfected in Starboy.

Obviously, with this country inspired album, Cowboy Carter, this is technically the first time that she fully went country, quote unquote, as far as like mixing elements of country, elements of R&B and hip hop into a complete album. And let me tell you, it's probably one of the better albums you're ever going to listen to in life. As far as sonically, it's amazing. As far as the cohesion, it makes sense from listening to track one to the last track. Because, you know, some people like to skip around. But to me, the best albums are the ones that tells a story from track one to the last track.

I don't like albums. I'm not going to say I don't like. But I can't put albums on the same level of an album that actually. has a story. So a playlist type album that may have hits but comes across like a playlist is not going to be higher on the list to me than an album that tells a story from track one to the last track and it's a streamlined story. It's not jumping around as far as like the whole overarching picture they're trying to get you to see. Now I may seem dramatic in the way that I'm covering this album but there's a reason why what three months in and even spotify themselves had to come out

and talk about this album saying that biances cowboy carter became spotify's most streamed album in a single day of 2024 and this is also the first time a country album has held this title as far as this specific year now you're probably thinking to yourself well i'm Obviously, we're only three months, technically four months in like a couple of days in of 2024. So that could change, right? Well, what's not going to change is Cowboy Carter becoming the first album to surpass 500,000 total units in the U.S. by the end of his first week sales of release. So even with that, right, Beyonce, with Cowboy Carter, has.

all tracks charting in the top 100. All 27 tracks are charting in the top 100 for Cowboy Carter. If we're talking about the most successful track, of course, is still the Texas Hold'em track, which Beyonce obviously put out as a single along with 16 carriages. And then the next best performing track from Beyonce is that number, trying to find it it's pretty easy to tell but sometimes uh had it go a little bit down hold a second okay well that is not exactly what i was going for so let me see i don't think i

have the updated numbers what in the world don't you love when you just look up numbers specifically and then it's not exactly what you was looking for all right hold up well forget all that let's get into the actual predictions i'm trying to see if we can find it oh okay so i guess they haven't counted it yet so we actually don't know how many or like i don't have the specific numbers yet but i'm pretty sure all of her tracks from the album is in the top 100 because of course you know i don't spread fake news around here so if i can't find it then of course we're just not going to talk about it yeah we don't have the specific individual tracks but what we do know is it's definitely going to surpass 500,000 total units in the U.S. by the end of its first week.

That's probably why I don't have the actual individual numbers yet since the album technically just came out. But, you know, the sources that I use and cross-reference, like they give me a good picturing, picture in the world, they give me a good picture on how the sales are going to look. So currently, with the album just coming out, I only have the overall numbers. I don't really have specifics yet. But 500,000 total units in the U.S. by the end of his first week.

And the reason why I keep competing, keep repeating that is because the last time Beyonce had over 500,000 was back in 2016. Do you all know what came out back in 2016? Of course you do. If you're part of the Beehive. The controversial, the anti-JZ album Lemonade came out and it basically sold six hundred and fifty three copies first week so of course that was the last time biance made a significant splash as far as her discography is considered because if you really look at the totality

of things really the seven projects we have to look at as far as first week sales because that's how many biancé is put out from the beginning of her artistry to now as far as way back in with when did she start 2001 two thousand two thousand two 2002 but basically her album in 2003 didn't sell over 500,000 but B day did with 541,000 first week that came out 2006 that album was the the standout as far as sales is considered so statistically speaking that was a standout in the breakout album for Beyonce back in 2006 so then you have to skip a couple albums because it was nowhere near the B day album which sold around

541,000 mind you. And so she comes back again blowing that number out of the water in 2013 Beyonce album, where it had 617 first week sales and obviously became her most successful album. So now she broke her, what seemed like her limit with the Beyonce album back in 2013. And the reason why these first week sales are so important is because Beyonce isn't an artist that people are going to listen to after the first. fact the first week sales are an indication of the amount of anticipation and hype that you've built with your audience that are willing to listen to your album as soon as it comes out because that's a

pretty good indication on what the projection is going to be going down the road because if your first week sales are at a certain number well there's no way to go but down so the first week sales a good indication of how well the album's probably going to perform when it comes to the grand scheme of things and especially it's great it's a great litmus scale as far as comparing her to her peers so back in 2013 is when biont's really put up those numbers as far as breaking her uh ceiling that was around 300 to 400 000 which is still phenomenal we're comparing biance to herself that's what we're doing right now not to any other artists because you know that would be unfair unless we're talking about drake see i had to throw it in there my fault my fault so anyway let's get back into it so

bianca set her new career record as far as first week sales with 617 000 and then 2016 which you know i've already talked about the anti j z album it isn't isn't beef a wonderful thing when it comes to streams I mean, just look at the track that's literally running the charts currently that's literally based off beef. Like there's no other way to say it. The track that's based off beef is the most popular track in the world, which is Kendrick and Metro and Futures track like that, which is literally the number one song in the world. 90.3 million streams, 76.8 million people pay for this track. which doesn't happen people don't pay for hip hop tracks people just stream it and then that's it but they're getting streams along with actual hard not hard copy but like actual purchases on

digital platforms such as like iTunes and stuff so they can have it forever and people usually just stream the track so anyways beef is the reason why a lot of these sales are like the way it is So like that by Kendrick, Metro Booman, and Future, using that vehicle of drama going at the biggest rapper ever has resulted in them having the biggest track ever as far as streaming wise. And of course, that's a callback because we're going to get back to Beyonce in a second. But now we're talking about numbers. So we're saying why these numbers are so significant and why drama attributes to it. Because now, my whole take about going at Drake as a bad marketing strategy does not look good in light of like that being at the top. But my rebuttal to that, of course, is because I still stand on it.

Going at Drake is not a good marketing strategy because best believe me, the only reason like that is the most successful track for future Metro booming and Kendrick ever. like out of their prestigious iconic career this is the most successful statistically speaking this is the most successful track they've ever had in their career why do you think that is and do you think they'll ever be able to replicate that of course not so that's why i say going at drake is not a good marketing strategy because of the longevity i would rather have 50 to 60 top 20 hits then one out the park hit that resulted in me losing a lot of top 10 hits simply because I wanted to beef with the biggest rapper in my current genre. So anyways, that's why I say that. But anyways, getting back into Beyonce and why I talked about that went on that whole tangent.

The reason why I said that is because drama filled this album lemonade like no other, which put up again, once again, Beyonce had been putting out music. music since 2002 and she put up another career high and first week sales and 653,000 first week copies. So Lemonade back in 2016 debuted on the billboard charts with first week sales of 653,000 copies. So that is the career high for Beyonce that was put up back in 2016. The reason why I say we're comparing Beyonce to herself because those type of numbers are unheard of you really don't get across that threshold of first week sales unless you are a drake adele taylor swift or maybe a a ariana whenever she was in her prime but oh and definitely

i would say the weekend but the weekend's more of a longevity type artist like his first week sales his drop off is is less than most of his peers so as far as the highs the first week sales he doesn't really have that as far as when you compare him to a Beyonce and a Drake. And I know a lot of people are going to come at me like, what you mean? The weekend sells so much. That that was the case. He wouldn't have got beat out in first week sales when he was competing with Gunna. Yes, the weekend was competing with a rapper like Gunna in first week sales.

Granted, the Gunna album was fantastic, but nonetheless, the weekend was competing with Gunna and first week sales. and Gunna ended up winning and he put up like 300 some thousand. So of course that's a big number. But you're not in the same tier group as Beyonce, Drake, Adele, and Taylor Swift when it comes to first week sales. So, but you still, you know, longevity-wise,

you still put up similar numbers. Because, of course, I think he's like a top Spotify streamed artist. So, you know, people obviously continue to listen to him. So anyways, getting back into this album. Oh, that's what I was saying. Okay, so the trilogy, right? There was Renaissance, Cowboy Carter,

and then there's a third trilogy, rumored to be like a Beyonce and Jay-Z collaborative album. Renaissance, back in 2022, sold $332,000 first week units, significant drop-off from lemonade. Why? Simply because of drama. After drama with lemonade, people could care less, and not care less as far as, it's still Beyonce,

But comparing her to her past self, people cared less for that release than they did for Renaissance, which showed in the actual numbers in $332,000 being significantly lower than the $653,000 put up by 2016 lemonade. So to bring it full circle, that is why when we talk about Cowboy Carter having, and this is at the bare minimum, having surpassed $500,000 first week sales in the U.S., that means it's a, huge accomplishment by Beyonce because she does not put up 500 to 600,000 first week units often. She has seven albums we can look back on and only two of them, three of them have surpassed that mark. B-Day back in 2006, Beyonce back in 2013, and Lemonade back in 2016. So with this album making another significant push in first week sales,

Cowboy Carter to me. And granted, I was born in 2000, so don't kill me, Beyonce fans. But it's my favorite Beyonce album from start to finish. This album is so amazing that I would not be surprised in the slightest if she actually ends up winning album of the year at Grammy's. That's how great this album is. Like as far as sonically, she sounds amazing. she's performing everything at the umpteenth degree because if you don't know she has a plethora of

writers which is used against her because a lot of fans say oh she can't write a hit to save a life but if you can perform it like biance can then why don't you do it why wouldn't every prestigious writer who's been writing for bionc for biont forever why wouldn't they do it themselves if it was so easy you know and obviously it's not easy biontie performs it in a way that that sonically vocal inflection is just through it. It's just out of this world and through the roof to the point where you realize that Beyonce is her. You know how people would be like, I'm him. Beyonce is her.

So anyways, Calvert Cardi, Cardi, what in the world? Cowboy Carter has 27 tracks and we're going to get to all of them because I ain't going to lie. this is a episode based off of the Beyonce country takeover. I mean, literally this whole episode is titled, Beyonce's Country Revolution, A New Era. So best believe we're going to spend some time on this album

because this album, out of all the albums, definitely deserves it as far as just having to track by track breakdown. Now, obviously, I'm not going to be going super in detail to the point where I'm analyzing every single verse. But I will be giving my over, my overall thoughts on every single track on this album because I'm not used to playing a Beyonce

album like I've like I've been like listening to an album is one thing but going back to it time and time again even when you know you're in the gym and maybe you want to listen to some future or some or some or some who else drop or some 21 Savage but I'm putting on Beyonce and tyrant and listening to that hard beat while I work out. You know, it's like certain stuff that's on here that has cowboy infused elements, but still Aidaway's hitting back to the hip hop roots. It's blended in a way like no other which made it such a unique listen for me, which is why I say is one of my favorite albums of all time that I've ever listened to.

So anyways, so as far as effort, you can definitely tell it was put forth. in this album because this is just fantastic i mean listen to the last track going back into uh cohesion aspect of it listening to the last track which is uh amen blend perfectly into american recrium it's like oh this is this is another level of attention to detail like obviously people end the album how they want but but blending it in a way to where it calls back to the first track and then it's basically a never ending loop of greatness I can't give enough praises to this album. So anyways, before I get into the album review,

obviously, let's talk about, you know, the elephant in the room. Beyonce is making country music. I don't know if y'all know this, but Beyonce is of the African-American descent. And what does that mean? Well, the country space is not going to welcome her in the way that we would hope because of her being black. And it's just simple as that.

So throughout her marketing and promotion, she definitely had a lot of the pivotal people in that community give her a co-sign to where it made it easier. It made the medicine go down easier because it made people come around to the fact that, yeah, maybe black people did have a hand in country being what it is today. And maybe we shouldn't be as gatekeeping to the black people versus. white people you know what i mean it's almost one of those things where you know maybe racism isn't okay you know what i mean maybe i shouldn't just judge him off the skin of the color or off the color of the skin you know what i mean maybe i should just actually judge the music itself without just being so uh defensive into what bianca is contributed to the to the country genre because that specific point i just made is literally why biancé is out of

here paying homage to artists like dolly parton willie nelson also having a mightly cyrus on her album like it's so many things that that shows that she's not just being disrespectful she's paying respects to the greats in that genre based off of the fact that the country i'm not going to say everybody in country it's just racist because obviously i know people that's heavily in the country and they're pretty cool you know what i'm saying like that's just my personal life experience But as far as the totality of things, through research, through people coming back and the friends I've had that've had, you know, racist encounters with that specific setting. Let's just put it like that. I would say that it's much needed growth.

It's much needed growth as far as the inclusion of black people. And not only black people, but, you know, specifically the women, the black women into that country genre. because sometimes they will let men, you know, they'll be more inclusive to men than women sometimes. And that's just in general in life. So with this being the first woman to top both the hot country songs and hot R&B and hip-hop song charts since the inception back in 1958, obviously the sales are cemented forever.

and life. So let's just focus on the quality aspect and how I think Beyonce uniting people through this country music, country infuse hip hop music, I think will help contribute to both to both genres throughout history instead of just trying to, instead of not welcoming Beyonce. So hopefully that makes sense. But yeah, that was just a little, uh, to the to the country fans out there because i know they probably you know i mean can't wait to

call this album trash or whatever but anyways and that's not for everybody obviously that's to you know if the shoe fits then you know what they say you know what i mean um bioncé cowboy carter track one american recramed straight classic not going to lie to you it's probably one of the best starts to an album i've ever heard like you press play and it's like jumps out at you as far as the quality and the attention to detail. I mean, I'm talking about the harmonies, the way that she's going along with certain country infused beats. It's set up in a way to let you know that this is not just no half, you know what, attempt at making a country album. She did a due diligence, did a lot of research as far as what make country music great and has implemented that

into her own album and i'm not going to jump around but even to to piggyback off of that that's the reason why the jolline track is so significant because of the homage to uh dolly parton's jolline track so anyways american recrium significant start classic intro to her album blackbird tanner adele brittney spencer t aera kennedy and reyna robbers i honestly don't know too much about those artist but what i do know it's blackbird is fire and i really enjoy the track it's not too much i can go into detail on it's one of those tracks to where i really enjoyed you're going to hear me repeat this a lot but as far as the vocal inflection and sonically it's just 10 out of 10 like the performative aspect of this album is going to be through the roof so blackbird completely phenomenal and i really

enjoyed that track and just a great follow-up to the intro and of course we have 16 carriages i've already covered this track in the past as far as you know it being a single a two-pack single along with uh texas holdom so when it first came out that was my favorite so 16 carriages was my favorite out of the texas holdom two-pack but obviously they chose texas hold them you know as far as they I mean, like, the people as Texas Holden is still, like, towards the top of the charts. And I think last time I looked at it was like number eight. So, you know, there's that as far as how Texas Holden was impacting the charts. And then when you look at it, I wonder if I can find it off of, yeah, and when you look at it in the USA, yeah, the album's, it's hard to look at the stats now because the album just came out.

But yeah, so I think it'll be even higher simply for the fact that the album came out because now a lot of people are going to be re-listening to Texas Hold'em and it'll probably even jump even higher as far as the top, the top eight is concerned. Because of course, let me see, they say, Yaya is one of the more performing tracks off of the album. Beyonce and Molly Cyrus' second most wanted is aiming for a top ten to be a debut. debut so yeah yeah um second most won it texas holdum is going to keep rising so that's already three tracks in the top 10 which is crazy for for one album what else and then they said levi jeans is going to enter the top 10 basically this album's going to take over the only thing that's going to stop them from getting that number one i think is the track um which is why i even brought it up in the first place the track like that

with Kendrick Lamar Metro Boom in the future. Because in this capsule of time, if this was released any other point in history, I'm not going to say any other point, but as far as before or if it was before this track, it would have had a number one, right? I think at some point maybe it will top like that, but I think it just came way too soon

as far as it came right out on the heels of like that. And like that, it's still in its prime. I mean, to this day, I'll play like that. Like, it's the whole album. Like, I listen to that five times in a row and still not be tired of it. Like that is really, you know, no pun intended, but it's like that. Like, it's really one of the greatest hip-hop tracks ever.

Especially the way the beat comes, okay, let me, you know, it's about Beyonce. But anyway, so all of the tracks from that album is going to chart. And it's probably going to be one of those where it's like streamlined. Like, she's probably going to take up the whole top 25. I kid you not. because i think i think some of these are just interludes so it's not it's technically not 27 tracks i think it's like 24 because it's like is one the smoke hour i think that's that the inner i think that's the uh i'm trying to think i think okay yeah so smoke hour is the interlude

smoke hour two is another interlude and then the lindale martin showed is another interlude and then the Lendale Martin showed is another interview. So yeah, it's 24 tracks. So I would say the top 24, but you never know what 16 carriages. Like, I think it's one of those to where it's going to obviously rise, but I don't know if it would be able to crack the top 25 again when I'm specifically talking about 16 carriages. But it just might because it's at number three.

and I think that's for a reason. So people listen to that track when they're listening to the, when they're concise, what's the word? Sequentially, I forget how to say it. When they're listening to the album in the sequence that it was dropped, you know, 16 carriages is number three, so they won't skip past that. But anyways, I do see her taking up to top 24 though, definitely. So I can see one of those things, especially with the album being projected to be 500,000

first week. like top 24 I can see completely being taken up by Beyonce album because of course like that by Metro Boom and Kendrick and future you know it's going to stay at number one so anyways um what else what else so yeah I like that track if that wasn't you know if that wasn't apparent uh track number four protector by Beyonce and rumy carter this is one of my standouts of the album um I would have to get at the end I mean you have to excuse me you know it's 24 tracks i don't remember all of my top five list just yet but i do think this is one of my more uh liked tracks off of the album just for the fact that the the overall

story and overall message is just something that you know is just timeless and the way that she performed it is just um great in the way that she infused such a timeless message uh message along with a country beat you know because it's one thing to to sing over a country beat and is another thing to have vocal inflection reminiscent of premier cowboy not cowboy country artist so country artist vocal inflection is very um unique so with the benson boone with uh what's his name i totally forgot his name who's a guy who's saying the n-word every three seconds but he's white let me see you think because he did like two collabs with little dirk that he can say the n-word where is he at uh morgan wallin

that's who it is that's what i was talking about okay so uh morgan wallin is the guy who also has a pretty distinct you know i mean it's a lot of country artists that had that distinct vocal inflection if y'all know if y'all ever listen to country you know what i'm saying like singers versus country singers you can tell which ones are really into that you know country twang you know for lack of a better term so anyways i like the way that biance is able to uh that into her performance and her vocal inflection in a way that makes it more authentic country music anyways um protectors is one of my standouts my rose i really don't have too much of an indel a in-depth dive as far as this track i just i would say it's a solid track what else

track number six is just an interlude by uh willie nelson you know smoke hour you know what i'm same. Track number seven, Texas Hold'em, obviously one of the best better performing tracks for Beyonce currently in the past two to three years. It's been at the top 10, you know,

been on the charts for about like seven, eight weeks, I believe, at this point, and it's easily been in the top 10. So, and it peaked at number one. So the staying power is ridiculous. And so it will only probably go up from there. As far as the track itself, phenomenal. I just,

I still to this day, I prefer 16 carriages. But, you know, hey, teach his own. So track number eight, bodyguard. That's, um, I don't really have an in-depth dive on that one. I think that track is pretty solid. What else? Track number nine, Dolly P. Okay, is this another interlude or is this the actual track?

I totally forgot, but actually, hold on. I'm going to mute it. I'm going to listen to it right quick. Because I have the album right here. I'm trying to make sure. Yeah, it was just, uh, oh yeah it was a lead-up it so it's another interlude so it's really only 23 tracks on here another interlude to joan because i was thinking about i was like i don't remember that being a

a song i forgot i could listen to this and just mute the player so yeah i'm gonna listen to these because obviously i can't play the music on here but i'm gonna listen to these if i like forget because this hey i ain't gonna lie y'all got to forgive me 23 tracks it just came out you know i mean it's it's a lot so i've been listening to it a lot but still it's still a lot to remember but um yeah dolly peter was an interlude to get you into jolline and that in my opinion is what the album took off of me because i was like to take a flip like joan which everybody knows that you know it was originally a dolly parton uh track which actually let me look it up because i want people to realize

how big this track was because i don't think i really need to tell y'all but you know just to put in actual perspective you know got to look at the an analytics you know what I'm saying because I think it's a great universal litmus scale to let you know just how impactful this track was so anyways um released back in 2019 and it sold over 935,000 digital copies let me repeat that 935,000 digital copies 6.635,000 digital copies 6.6.6 68 million streams since because it wasn't released back in 2019. It's talking about the numbers since 2019. So obviously, they're probably even more today.

But even when the official charts started back in 2005, it amassed 255,000 downloads and 6.68 million streams. I love how they differentiate downloads between streams because a lot of people think downloads is the same as a stream. and as a podcast podcaster, I ain't going to lie, that's infuriating because downloads is a specific person. Streams is just one person playing in how many times they want to play it. You know what I'm saying? Anyways, the single was certified platinum back in May 24th, 2023 by the RIAA certification, which is the Recording Industry Association of America, three times platinum for 3 million certified units. Because if you don't know, when you pass a certain market,

then you got to get certified. Like it's not just, they don't just send you a plaque after you pass it. Like you have to go through a whole process of getting it certified. But then you just got to know that these numbers have changed probably grew massively in 2024.

But I just brought those numbers up to let you know that the track that she's sampling was already successful in its own right. And the reason I say that is because Beyonce's version of Jolene is great homage to, the actual quality of that original track. Obviously, I'm not going to compare it to, but let's just say,

Beyonce had a very unique flip on the way she approached the track. Because I believe Dolly Parton's version is more of a passive aggressive, not passive aggressive, it's more of a passive, you know, non-confrontational approach to letting somebody know to stop messing with your man. And for Beyonce, let's just say there's this movie. I think it was Beyonce and Idris Elba. Hold on, let me go. I am DB because I know, no disrespect to Beyonce,

but I know she's not in a lot of movies that I remember. But I do remember this one specific movie. And I love how people kept bringing it up. Because this is what it reminded me of. It was a movie, which to this day, I think is like super iconic. It's just, it's one of those type movies where Yeah, back in 2009, okay, it was obsessed with, and it had the Idris Elba in it. Like, it's one of those.

I ain't allowed to you. If you're with your girl and it's just, oh, actually, no, it's not. Forget I said that. If you with somebody listening to this, hey, tell them I was joking. There's no movie that exists like that. But whenever she stopped listening, you know, I'm going to make sure. All right, she stopped listening. All right, cool.

So basically, whenever you're alone, you know what I'm saying? because it's not one of a couple movies because then they're going to be thinking why you're showing me this for you trying to you're trying to uh hint at something you got something to tell me like you don't want them problems but anyways obsessed where bioncet and itris elba that movie reminded me of this track and i don't know why because i think it's just one of those to where when twitter had certain scenes from that movie i really looked at it and i was like you know what that actually makes sense because the whole confrontation I'm not gonna I'm not gonna spoil it of course because there was no girl named Jolene in the movie it's just it's just a great callback to the type of energy

this track brings and it's specifically replicated in her scene towards the end of that movie let me just leave it at that I'm not going to spoil it for y'all anyways Joan Lien was fire let's just put it like that track number 11 daughter this is another one of my standout

because of the message. I really like when people put their life perspectives into the music, because I feel like it makes it more everlasting. Because whether you want to realize it or not, music has way more lasting power than a human lifespan could ever have. So your music should be a reflection of your life so that if you, you know, God forbid if you ever pass away, people could listen to your music and try to get some type of glimpse into your overall perception of life because not every single track is going to be you self-reflecting like sometimes you just want to you know make a track say i don't message you you know shout out to big sean or make a track like um girl better have my money like riana like even though somebody may feel like that at

times you know it's just a random track just to get off emotions right but you know the tracks with your life experience is put into it like to refer to big sean again like one man changed the world one of my favorite tracks of all time this track daughter which has a great message in itself Kendrick lamar towards the end of mr morral and the big steppers whenever he was talking about father his father issues and stuff those type of tracks are significant into letting people into your life perception and that is why i think it stands above the rest to me when it comes to quality So anyways, obviously those probably not the performative tracks that statistically are superior because, you know, people prefer certain things when it comes to replayability. And self-reflection sometimes isn't one of them.

But to me, personally, I really hold those in a high regard as it gives me a nice, it's like reading a book. It gives me a, it gives me your perception on life through your creative instrument, if that makes sense. So anyways, let's keep going. Track number 12. Now this is where it gets spicy. Spaghetti is one of those to where the people who hold against the fact that, basically the people who hold against Beyonce, the fact that she uses writers,

I think spaghetti is why it shouldn't be such a pivotal point in the Beyonce naysayers. Because the performative aspect, it's such a integral part in rapping that even though somebody writes down some words on a paper to make them come a light, to make them

come to life, you have to say them in a specific way, in a specific fashion for inflections and certain things you want to emphasize and breath control. All of that comes back into the form which you call rapping.

So, with Beyonce off of spaghetti, I think that the way that she was getting off her bars and getting off her adlips, because I'm pretty sure the adlips at the beginning of spaghetti needed some work before they came across as authentic. Because it sounds a little janky at first when you listen to it. It's like, why is she doing that? But then when you get into the flow, it's like, oh, okay, she was like literally getting ready to give some bars. I mean, she said that's a snap of my fingers on Thanos, and then that's the adlet I'm talking about. But then she gets into her verse, right? I ain't, wait, hold up.

She was, yeah, she was revving up for this, right? When she gets into, they call me the captain, the catwalk assassin. When they know what's slapping, then here come the yapping, all of this snitching, all of this expeditive, because it's PG podcast. Just a fishing expedition, dumb admission, in the kitchen, cooking up them chickens, extra leg, but I ain't even trying to kick it. Conti, country, petty, petty, petty, all the same to me, plain James Spaghetti. No sauce, no sauce, too soft, too soft. They salty, they shooting like curry. one hand on my holster and passed it to hova thought it was sweet when they was walking in the back door of the kitchen past the dirty dishes now we're on the mission tried to turn me to the opposition i'm appalled about the proposition y'all been played by the plagiaristic ain't gonna give no clout addiction my attention i ain't no regular singer now come get every

everything you came for. The performance, the performance aspect of that track is way better than the, the way I just read it off. But of course, you have to listen to it to get that type of comparison. Like if you listen to the track and if you go back to me reading off the lyrics, obviously you can tell why I started off the fact, I started off the review of this specific track saying that the naysayers to Beyonce that say that she don't write her music, they have to uh they have to uh stay back you know i mean because the performative aspect is a huge pivotal part in why i think this track works so anyways that's why that's why i brought that uh that's i brought that up so spaghetti is also one of my standouts well i'm at three standouts at

this point at the end obviously i'm going to give out my um top three top four but for right now we're just going to get into the rest of the album okay so Where are we at? I didn't lost my place. This album's long, y'all, but it's actually pretty, it's pretty fire. I ain't going to lie. It's a lot of different genre blending tactics used to keep you on your feet as far as the entire listen. Okay, so alligator tears.

That is one of those. Let's see if I can find this. Oh, here we go. Okay, so alligator tears by. Beyonce more of a slow down track uh she's just getting off her vocals you know what I mean just showcasing why she's one of the greatest singers ever so that track is pretty solid track number 14 it's an interlude so you know it's good you know it's a smoke hour it gets it gets back into the country roots of the twang having really Willie Nelson being the narrator of it so

anyways track 15 just for fun um I would say that's more of a slow down track I'm not gonna say that's one of my favorites it's it's okay you know I mean it's it's one of those where it's okay probably one of my more uh skippable tracks off an album even though there's really no skips on this album like this whole album is a vibe but as far as just for fun like if I'm in the gym I'll probably name more of a upbeat track which we're gonna get to those in the second next track number 16 most wanted by Beyonce and Miley Cyrus who would of thunk, a collaboration between Molly Cyrus and Beyonce is what the world needed. Because this, back and forth, I want to just call it a duet.

It's simply amazing. Easily, the standout on the track, the standout on the album for me, probably top three, because putting Molly Cyrus on the album seems like a pander move to the country society. But after listening to the track in the way they bounced off of each other and sonically how it complimented one another with Miley Cyrus, I'm not going to say, forgive me for using this term because it's not raspy, but it's a more country twang type of feel to Miley Cyrus in the way she sings. And then Beyonce comes with the more like elegant vocals. to compliment that and i'm definitely not calling molly cyrus voice raspy it's hard to quantify it's

almost like when somebody uses autotune but for molly cyrus her country twang is like the auto tune i don't know if that makes sense i'm sorry i don't know how to quantify it but molly cyrus has a nice bag that she gets into vocally that i don't think a lot of people can replicate because of her authentic uh upbringing in the country uh roots that that makes sense. So that duet was perfect and made so much sense being on this album.

So definitely, easily my top three track off of this album. Okay. And back to back, oh, that's crazy. So honestly, that's probably my favorite run then. Most wanted into Levi Jeans. It's probably my favorite run on this entire album because Levi Jeans

is one of those where Beyonce and Post Malone, two ginormous iconic names that you will look at you would think they will have all the pressure in the world to put out a smash hit whenever they eventually collaborate and for levi jeans let me tell you that there's no need to worry the first biance and post malone collab has been confirmed a hit as listening to it the subject matter the tonality of biance going first and then post malone collab coming in like one third of the track and then I'm both playing off each other towards the

end and then the last 20 seconds is what made me realize that post Malone brought his A game because obviously throughout the verse you know they're giving their sentiments about Levi jeans you know a lot of double double triple entendres as far as what that means and then towards the end post Malone gets on his whole solo basically and he gets on this singing verse where he's just coming forth with so much emotion in his second verse, I would say. It's like towards the last 20 seconds of the track. Hold on. Let me see.

Let me play this and see. Yeah, like, so three minutes and 42nd minute mark of Levi jeans is when Post Malone gets into like a bag. That was like, oh, he brought his A game. I ain't never heard Post Malone try to hit that key, try to hit that note before. So he definitely knew who he was collaborating with on this. track it definitely brought his A game to the point where this is definitely top two for me Levi jeans is easily top two but again number one in a second it's kind of coming into a clear picture because I'm going into that whole album once again 23 24 tracks it's hard to remember

every single track as far as my as far as my um hierarchy when it just came out but it's it's It's coming into clear. It's being more clear as I finished my review. So anyway, Levi Jeans definitely top two as far as the albums is concerned. Just for the fact that I like the blending of performances of Post Malone and Beyonce. Track 18. How you said this? Flaminoico?

I don't know. More of a slow down track. I don't really have nothing to say about that. the lindel delinda martin martel show i can't read um i think that's an interlude is this an interlude yeah okay so there's four interludes yeah so there's technically 23 tracks because there's four interludes so anyways um and then if you get into um the singles does there's uh let's see there's actually 21 new offerings as far as as complete songs. So 21 complete songs from Beyonce is really not that much. Like you look at

27 anything like goodness gracious who's listening to all that but if you think of the fact that there's four interludes and then there's two singles that was already or there's two tracks that was already out as singles really you have only 21 complete songs off of this album which I think is a you know not overdoing it but definitely not a sub-service as far as a bionc a project is concerned so anyways because some people may be like oh that's too much which 21 tracks for some people may still be too much but we're talking about one of the greatest to ever do it like obviously if it's this long is that long for a reason so anyways um yeah yeah track number 20 yaya this is the one that's performing on the tracks currently and a lot

of people are liking this um i think it's because of the performative aspect that could the what's it called the potential of performing this is through the roof listening to yaya you can already picture bisona on the grand stage with her backup dancers and the crowd going wild to this track this probably is the best performative track on this album which is why it's probably doing well sales uh well statistically speaking is probably attributed towards the performative aspect of this track so that's why i think yaya's doing so well as far as when it comes to streams because the the potential to have such a grandiose type of performance with this track is just through the roof so you know Anyways, track number 21.

O Louisiana is, it's more of a slower track. So I would say, and once again, I'm playing the track so I can, you know, refresh my mind on how it goes. But more of a slower track to get you into the next track. So I'm not going to put too much credence on it, but it's not bad. You know, it's definitely not bad. But anyways, track number 22, Desert Eagle. I would say

that's also showcasing Beyonce is just extraordinary vocal ability and you just have to listen to the album to just know what I'm talking about because it's literally like I always say that Ariana is probably the best singer I've ever heard like in life and I would say the weekend is probably the best like male singer I've heard

obviously you know somebody's going to come out to cut like what about Tank? What about what's his name? I forget his name But anyways, you know, that's the point, right? You know, it's so many people that may be better at a talent aspect. But as far as the totality of things and replayability is involved, it's not all about sales. But if you can captivate the masses along with talent, then, you know, I'm going to be swung as far as who I think is the better all time. So that's why I say Ariana and the weekend.

It's probably the best voices, you know, as far as the two, as far as the. respective people are concerned in their peer group so anyways almost put aidan ross anyways um what else river dance track 23 so let me tell you some i ain't even got to play this to remember what this is this is uh definitely in my top five and for the simple fact that y'all remember how i talked about yaya in the performative aspect River dance is probably up there as far as the next track, as far as having the highest potential on just setting the crowd off and making them go crazy.

Because Beyonce knew what she was doing, making this track River Dance. Now, this is the PG podcast, you know, so a lot of things can't be explained as far as what I mean by that statement. But let's just say, River Dance is going to promote, a lot of actions from significant others. So that's what we're going to leave it at.

All right, so track number 27, two hands to heaven. So I forget how this track went. How did this track go? Oh, this track is. Okay, so this is one of those where the harmonies really showcases its highest, like the highest level

of vocal harmony, I think, is displayed in this track. I really like the vibe it sets. It's not for every setting, I would say, but as far as the vocal ability is on display again, but now it's accompanied by a lot of different background harmonies. And it reminded me of what the weekend does sometimes when he's going into his retrospective bag,

when it's like they let the beat fade out, and the background vocals kind of just accompanied the main vocals in a way that it's like a huge harmony. throughout the rest of the track making it a total vibe for people who don't really make music or really going to detail with music like that that was probably super confusing all you need to know is that there's multiple vocal tracks with biancé on two hands to heaven and the harmonies on it is amazing tremendous and that's basically what i'm trying to explain so anyways um yeah track 25 isn't it funny that we're almost at the

end of the track and I still haven't said which track is my favorite off of this entire album. It's because it's this one right here. Track 25, Tyrant by Beyonce and Dolly Parton. I even know she was attributed to this album. Oh, because she was talking on it. Because I was, I was thinking, I was like, why is Dolly Parton so a part of this album and she's never like, I don't think she ever performs, if I'm not mistaken. I don't think she ever performs any other tracks.

It's just like a, it's like Killer Cam for Jay Cole off of the office. off season like killer cam was hyping up j cole to perform that's kind of what dolly parton is doing mostly on this album so anyways uh tyrant by far is my favorite track on off the off of the album and you want to know why d a got that dope and metro booming needs to have a versus like they need to have a versus which obviously you know metro probably smoke him you know no disrespect no disrespect to DA. But I'm just saying some more of respect has to be put on this man's ability to make a fire beat.

Because the way he flipped the country elements into a hip-hop infused 808 sounding type beat is what every person when they type in country hip-hop type beat, this is what they imagine. This type of beat being such hard-hitting while also a callback to the country genre roots as far as the infused instrument uh the infused instrumentation that leads itself into the one of the greatest beats i've heard this year because i don't want to go too far because i'll have to listen again and again obviously it just came out but tyrant that beat by far to me is my favorite from biancy because it's like a perfect blend of country hip hop and performed by bianca while also

Just having an overall message of just Beyonce being her, which I mean, technically she is. I mean, she's not called the queen for no reason. Tyrant to me is the ultimate depiction of what a Beyonce smash should sound like. And that is why to me, Tyrant is my favorite track off of the album. Okay, track number 26. Sweet Honey Buckin by Beyonce and Shibuzi. Now, I don't know if I forgot to talk about that. this man because shibuzzi's on one of the yeah shibuzzi's on spaghetti i totally forgot to talk about him

i got into biance and totally forgot to talk about shibuzzi well anyways i'm gonna do it now so track number 26 uh sweet honey bucking has shibuzzi and then track 12 spaghetti has shibuzzi as well basically this is a guy to where he made his rounds off of being famous through clips trying to find a specific clip once again analytic dreams video to see the well analytic dreams video on spotify to see the video along with the audio but anyways here is this man and this is who i'm talking about this guy right here so i forget which freestyle it was it was a specific freestyle i don't know if he posted it i don't think he's posted it anyways there's a specific freestyle he went viral for but this is what he looks like right

right and everybody probably remembers him or no uh what's the word people probably know who i'm talking about now based off of my uh based off of me showing his instagram because he went viral for some clip for him free it wasn't freestyle it was like he was singing some type of country song and people just thought he was going to start rapping because of his appearance you know and um yeah he's been doing it for a while he's He's been doing this since like 20. Hold on. Let me not just guess.

Let me look it up. So basically Shabuzi has been doing this for a minute, which makes me, you know, just be so understanding to Little Knaz X because, man, that man can't catch a break. I mean, imagine popping off with a certain sound that somebody started before you. And then you falling off. in that person who started before you. Now he's getting his claim to fame.

That's basically what's happening with Shibuzi. As he started way back in 2014, obviously we know when Lil Nas X got popping. But now he's making way more waves in the music industry as not only the Beyonce handout as far as two features on her album, but he had a track off of the Spider-Verse album, which obviously Metro was producing

with the track Start a Riot, Wait, was it that specific track? This was from, no, this was from the first track. Oh, that's interesting. Okay, so it wasn't Metro. This was from the first Spider-Verse track, and he was a part of that one on Starter Riot. He was with Duckworth.

But anyways, since that, he's been making his waves and obviously been keeping his name afloat enough to end up on Beyonce's country-inspired album, not once, but twice. So his contributions to this album was significant. Every time he came on, he really delivered his verse in an exceptional way. And I think he did an amazing job on making his presence be felt on this album. And making it makes sense to Beyonce fans because people are probably going to be like, why is he on this album?

Then they're going to listen to his verse and be like, oh, that's why he's on this album. Okay. Track number 27, Amen. Now, this is what I was hinting to at the beginning of the album, how, well, no, at the beginning of my album review, how A man was more of a, a conclusion to the actual album by Beyonce into going into American Requiem. So it was a conclusion, and then it was a transition into the first track. So it was like a never-ending loop of this classic album, which is Cowboy Carter. So that's why I'm a label Amen as the perfect conclusion to the album while also setting it up in a way to make the first track seamless in a way that you can just have this album on an absolute loop if you wanted to. Now for me personally, I listen to an album from start to finish like two to three times and then after that I just listened to it on Shuffle.

So I caught it the second time as far as the last album leading up into the first track because, you know, after the last, I didn't really notice it the first time. I mean, the first time you listen to her album, you don't catch everything. But I just love the cohesion aspect and also the finality of A man being one of those to where it lets you know that the grandiose album, which is Cowboy Card, it has came to an end and it leaves you off with some nice vocals from Beyonce, of course. So, I mean, in all actuality, my top five when it comes to this album currently, because remember, the album just came out like, what, two, three days ago, my actual top five currently would be,

should I start with number one or number five? Let's just start with number one. Number one will be tyrant, which is track 25. second would be Levi jeans by Beyonce and Post Malone which is track 17 number three will be most wanted by Beyonce and Molly Cyrus number four will probably be man that's hard to make a top five would probably be River Dance track 23 and then number five yeah this I ain't gonna lie this is this kind of hard

I would have to say spaghetti Number five would have to be spaghetti track number 12 So yeah As you can tell That's why I kept You know Saying that

My whole oldest one My standouts I had to wait till I get to the end Because that's how I knew How to put it in perspective So You know a lot of

I forget what the word is But basically you know I had a lot of preface You know I had to preface it with wait till I get to the end of the album because it could completely change. I mean, it's 23 tracks. It's hard to remember all of them. But after, you know, reviewing track by track, I remember my top five now.

And obviously it could change easily. I mean, the album just came out. But one thing is for certain. Tyrant does have one of the best beats this year and last year that I've heard. It's definitely not better than like that. Like, obviously, you know, we can't be crazy now. Like that by Kendrick Future and Metro is the reason why that beat went to Kendrick. but tyrant is one of those beats where you listen to and it's just you make the um you make the scrunched up face

you know what i mean like it's it's a very hard beat and it comes on very uh it you know when they say it comes on it definitely comes on so anyways no ditty you know what i'm saying but anyways um that is my review of the biontay cowboy carter album at the end of the day y'all have listened to it yourselves so you will be able to give me a nice review because you've been listening it to you've been listening to it longer so hopefully by this time you can tell me maybe your favorite track your top three because at this point in time 500,000 at least sales for the first week I know everybody has probably listened to it in their mom so it's definitely going to be a candidate for album of the year for the Grammys I think it's going to win I don't think people realize how good

this album was going to be until it finally was out even me i was like biances making a country album like i mean it's probably gonna be solid like you know what i mean so i didn't have too high of expectations really when this album came out drake drake was supposedly supposed to be on like uh bfb the pacman's album and giving him a verse so i thought he was about to respond to kendrick so that's what i was waiting for and apparently it was just an old verse so he didn't clear it for Pac-Man because of the whole Kendrick situation so he didn't clear it and it ended up

not happening. So now I was like, well, let me listen to the Beyonce album, you know, it's like one of those where I was excited for it but you know, I didn't want to have too high of expectations because once again, I ain't know what to expect and boy, let me tell you, I don't even care if you come with the highest

expectations you ever have for Beyonce. This album is one of one. One of those to where years, decades down the line, we're going to be looking back on Calibway Carter being one of the most pivotal albums ever in the music industry. Anyways, click my link to your bio. Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about Beyonce's country inspired album, Calboy Carter?

And after weeks of listening to it, well, a week, three, four days of listening to it, what is your top three favorite tracks from Beyonce's country and inspired album, Cowboy Carter.