The highly anticipated album arrived Friday.
The long-awaited 27-track project arrived Friday. "I think people are going to be surprised because I don’t think this music is what everyone expects," she said. "But it’s the best music I’ve ever made."to have topped both the Hot Country Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since the lists began in 1958, according to
The lead track, released along with "16 Carriages" on Feb. 11, also spent four weeks at the top of the U.K. music charts. Beyoncé said, "The joy of creating music is that there are no rules. The more I see the world evolving the more I felt a deeper connection to purity. With artificial intelligence and digital filters and programming, I wanted to go back to real instruments, and I used very old ones."She added, "I didn’t want some layers of instruments like strings, especially guitars, and organs perfectly in tune. I kept some songs raw and leaned into folk.
"I was initially going to put 'Cowboy Carter' out first," she said, "but with the pandemic, there was too much heaviness in the world. We wanted to dance. We deserved to dance. But I had to trust God’s timing."
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