Beyonce goes country! Superstar's fans deem Cowboy Carter 'album of the year' ... trends now
Beyonce thrilled her fans with the release of her first country album, Cowboy Carter, on Friday.
The superstar, 42, entered her country era with her eighth record, which features a 27-long tracklist and is 80 minutes long, with fans calling it the 'album of the year' minutes after its release.
The record features a modern take on Dolly Parton's, 78, classic 1973 hit 'Jolene', where Beyonce warns, 'I'm warning you: don't come for my man.'
Miley Cyrus, 31, is also among the big names lending her vocals to Beyonce's new album, on the track II Most Wanted.
Aside from Dolly, there are also spoken word interludes by country legend Willie Nelson, 90. They are among a slew of music stars appearing in the album.
Beyonce, 42, thrilled her fans with the release of her first country album, Cowboy Carter, on Friday
Dolly and Willie serve as DJ's on Country Carter's abstract KNTRY radio station. They introduce several tracks on the album.
Beyonce's new version of Jolene is as a continuation to Lemonade‘s 'Sorry,' where she sings about a 'Becky with the good hair.'
On track nine, Dolly starts off by asking, 'You know that hussy with the good hair you sing about?'
'Reminded me of someone I knew back when, except she has flaming locks of auburn hair. Bless her heart! Just a hair of a different color, but it hurts just the same.'
Meanwhile Beyonce twists the lyrics from the original as she sings: 'You're beautiful beyond compare/ takes more than beauty to take up the stares to come between a family and a happy man.'
'Jolene, I'm a woman too/The games you play are nothing new/ So you don’t want no heat with me, Jolene.'
'Been deep in love for 20 years/I raised that man, I raised his kids/ I know my man better than he knows himself,' Beyonce goes on.
'I can easily understand why you're attracted to my man, but you don't want the smoke/So shoot your shot with someone else/You heard me!'
The superstar, 42, entered her country era with her eighth record, which features a 27-long tracklist and is 80 minutes long, with fans calling it the 'album of the year' minutes after its release
The record features a modern take on Dolly Parton's, 78, classic 1973 hit 'Jolene', where Beyonce warns, 'I'm warning you: don't come for my man'; Parton seen in 2023
Beyonce's new version of Jolene is as a continuation to Lemonade‘s 'Sorry,' where she sings about a 'Becky with the good hair'
On track nine, Dolly starts off by asking, 'You know that hussy with the good hair you sing about? Reminded me of someone I knew back when'
Miley Cyrus is among the big names lending her vocals to Beyonce's album; Cyrus pictured last month
The track seems to continue on from where Beyonce left off on her track 'Sorry' from 2016’s Lemonade, in which she sings to a woman that’s been sleeping with her husband.
Though she's never confirmed the lyrics are about her husband Jay-Z, it's been long-speculated that the song is about a supposed affair.
'He only want me when I’m not on there/He better call Becky with the good hair,' she sings.
Post Malone, 28, is another big name appearing on the album - he also lends his voice to the track Levii's Jeans.
She has also collaborated with Linda Martell, the first Black female solo artist to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, as well as Black country musicians Willie Jones, Rhiannon Giddens, and Tanner Adell.
The songstress will also be covering the classic Beatles track Blackbird. An interpolation of the Beach Boys song Good Vibrations also appears in her track Ya Ya.
Thrilled fans took online following the album's release with praise for the superstar. Many already claimed the record was the 'album of the year' minutes after it
