the thing about cowboy carter is that every day i have a different favorite song. like five days ago was leviis jeans. four days ago riverdance. three days ago was bodyguard. two days ago was flamenco. yesterday was tyrant and today is hands in heaven.
they're all too good, i will never have a definitive top 10 listðŸ˜
I love you albums where the last song references the first song, I love you albums with interludes and intentional sequencing, I love you albums that are made to be a cohesive body of work and not a collection of singles made to go viral. I love you, Cowboy Carter.
The thing about country music is that it’s probably the widest genre and almost every attempt to define it can be countered with examples of people and songs who don’t fit that definition but are accepted in the genre, so for anyone to say that Beyonce has no place in country is nothing but a display of the one overarching rule of country music that is pretty hard to deny: that it is by and large a genre for and by white men, which tolerates white women as long as they don’t make too many waves, and excludes everyone else.