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