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we have to talk about Beyonce's Cowboy Carter album which dropped Friday it's already spotify's most streamed album in
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a single day in 2024 everyone has thoughts about this including really shitty takes by reviewers who don't like
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it some of them have a point it's very commercial it's a lot of fun the genres are all over the place which Beyonce
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talks about but I I'm sort of like what's the problem with a really fun album I'm fascinated by the reaction and
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then the reaction to the reaction is quite strong and it's not just the Beehive I think like there's something
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about a black woman having an opinion and something to say in a genre that is dominated by white men if you look at
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the country charts it's it's you know it's like man after man after man there was that famous quote from a country
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music executive who said that the girls are like the tomatoes on the salad you know of country music they don't eat a
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lot of salad in the country town if the meat and potatoes are are are white men then you know the idea of a woman kind
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of stepping into this space not just a woman but a black woman um and it's interesting right Beyonce is like one of
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the biggest stars in the world