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How Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Challenges Us To Reclaim Our History

Why the rejected will always be respected.

2 min readMar 31, 2024
Via Vogue

It was only a few years ago in 2016, when Beyoncé’s performance of Daddy Lessons, at the CMA’s sent some prejudiced onlookers into a spiral. Saying she didn’t belong in country, and that she was supposedly appropriating the genre. But now in 2024, Beyoncé has taken back her power and shut those up who doubted her presence in the genre, and created the beautiful and tear-jerking album that is Cowboy Carter.

Beyoncé is no stranger to exploring and embedding her talents into a multitude of genres. So delving into the Country space shouldn’t bat any eyes. Especially given that she is a Houston native and has been Country all her life, Cowboy Carter should come as no surprise.

And strictly labelling her 8th studio album as just a country album would not bring doing her any justice. As the Queen said herself, this is not a country album it’s a Beyoncé album. And that is exactly what this album is. A 27 track journey of Beyoncé’s vocal abilities, her talents as a storyteller and a stellar producer.

The album features tracks with Banjo tunes, Zydeco, rap, and Italian Opera singing that transcended my ears upon my listen. Her versatility and determination to never put herself into a box is exactly…

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Petiri Ira
Petiri Ira

Written by Petiri Ira

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