Beyonce shared her thoughts on her new album Cowboy Carter on Friday morning.
The Texas-born star said her first country album is the best she’s ever made.
“The nice thing about making music is that there are no rules,” Beyoncé said. ‘The more I saw the world evolve, the more I felt a deeper connection with purity.’
The mother of three added that with artificial intelligence and digital filters and programming, she wanted to “go back to real instruments, and I used very old instruments.
‘I didn’t want certain layers of instruments like strings, especially guitars, and organs to be perfectly in tune with each other.’
She added that she wanted some songs to be “raw” and that she was “leaning towards folk.”
The star ended with: “All the sounds were so organic and human, everyday things like the wind, snaps and even the sounds of birds and chickens, the sounds of nature,” she said.
Beyonce shared her thoughts on her new album Cowboy Carter on Friday morning. The Texas-born star said her first country album is the best she’s ever made
“The nice thing about making music is that there are no rules,” Beyoncé said. ‘The more I saw the world evolve, the more I felt a deeper connection with purity’
The mother of three added that with artificial intelligence and digital filters and programming, she wanted to “go back to real instruments, and I used very old instruments”
The press release reveals the inspiration behind the album and how each “song is its own version of a reimagined Western film.”
Some of the films that have inspired include The Hateful Eight, Space Cowboys, The Harder They Fall and the recent Oscar-nominated film Killers of the Flower Moon.
The album is considered “a declarative frequency and academic shift as the world prepares for a new shift that redefines and rebuilds what Country and Americana is, and who gets to be involved.”
Beyoncé’s eighth studio album landed on the US charts in nine different genres, including Pop, Hot AC, Country, Rhythmic, Urban and R&B, and made history when Beyoncé became the first black female artist to reach No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and No. 1 on the Hot 100 Chart with a country song.
It also topped the UK charts for four weeks.
The album is about genres, all of them, while being deeply rooted in Country.
‘I didn’t want certain layers of instruments like strings, especially guitars, and organs to be perfectly in tune with each other.’ She added that she wanted some songs to be “raw” and that she was “leaning towards folk.”
The star ended with: “All the sounds were so organic and human, everyday things like the wind, snaps and even the sounds of birds and chickens, the sounds of nature,” she said
‘This is the work of an artist who thrives in her freedom to grow, expand and create without limits. It makes no excuses or asks permission to elevate, amplify and redefine the sounds of music while dismantling the accepted false norms about Americana culture. It pays tribute to the past and honors musical pioneers in country, rock, classical and opera,” the press release said.
The album is a cornucopia of sounds that Beyoncé loves and listened to growing up, between visits and eventually performances at the Houston Rodeo – Country, original Rhythm & Blues, Blues, Zydeco and Black Folk, were added.
‘The album wraps itself in pure instrumentation in a festive authentic gumbo of sounds including the accordion, harmonica, washboard, acoustic guitar, bass ukulele, pedal steel guitar, a Vibra-Slap, the mandolin, violin, Hammond B3 organ, tack piano and banjo. There’s also a lot of hand clapping, horseshoe steps, boot steps on hardwood floors and yes, that’s Beyoncé’s nails as percussion,” the release added.
