Paul McCartney has kind words for Beyoncé's new version of 'Blackbird', which McCartney wrote and recorded with The Beatles in 1968.
I am so happy with @beyonce’s version of my song ‘ Blackbird ’. I think she does a magnificent version of it and it reinforces the civil rights message that inspired me to write the song in the first place," McCartney wrote on Instagram Thursday. "I think Beyoncé has done a fab version and would urge anyone who has not heard it yet to check it out. You are going to love it!"
McCartney went on to note he spoke to Beyoncé about the song during a conversation via FaceTime. He said she thanked him for writing it and allowing her to cover it. "I told her the pleasure was all mine and I thought she had done a killer version of the song," McCartney wrote. "When I saw the footage on the television in the early 60s of the black girls being turned away from school, I found it shocking and I can’t believe that still in these days there are places where this kind of thing is happening right now. Anything my song and Beyoncé’s fabulous version can do to ease racial tension would be a great thing and makes me very proud.
As a Black woman reclaiming country music, she stands in opposition to stereotypical associations of the genre with whiteness.
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