Beyonce goes cowboycore with new album heavy on Texas roots

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Beyonce has been a showbiz fixture for nearly three decades, shapeshifting from girl group lead and pop empress to Hollywood actor and business mogul.

In this file photo taken on August 28, 2016 Beyonce attends the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York. – After releasing her much-anticipated album “Renaissance,” Beyonce has scored the number one spot on the top US songs chart for the first time in well over a decade. Her lead single “Break My Soul” is the 40-year-old’s first solo song to hit the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 since 2008’s “Single Ladies,” the industry tracker said on August 8, 2022.

A Texan raised by a mother from Louisiana and father from Alabama, the singer — who has repeatedly rewritten music’s marketing playbook — has made clear she will fully celebrate her roots on her new project. “act ii is a result of challenging myself, and taking my time to bend and blend genres together to create this body of work.”Lil Nas X — the overnight sensation whose infectious, record-breaking “Old Town Road” paired banjo twangs with thumping bass — was scrapped from Billboard’s country chart, triggering criticism he was dubbed hip-hop because he is Black.

“Yet it still provoked this huge reckoning, once again, where you had people saying, ‘Oh, she can’t be country,'” he said, describing the reaction as an old refrain in Nashville “used as a mechanism of policing the borders around the music.” Hughes said she clearly made efforts to understand the history of that scene, and her choice of collaborators for Act II shows a similar sensibility.

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